# Keir Starmer tries to lead the UK **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 6, 2024, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keir-starmer-tries-to-lead-the-uk/1003805 "2024-07-06T06:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 331
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keir-starmer-tries-to-lead-the-uk/1003805/331 "2025-11-15T00:11:21Z")
And [this is what I wrote in 2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liz-truss-tries-to-lead-the-uk-and-resigns-as-of-2022-10-20/970992/20) in reaction to the exact Centrist brainrot thinking that’s lead us to here. > [@Liz Truss tries to lead the UK {and resigns as of 2022-10-20}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liz-truss-tries-to-lead-the-uk-and-resigns-as-of-2022-10-20/970992/20): > > > [@Liz Truss tries to lead the UK {and resigns as of 2022-10-20}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liz-truss-tries-to-lead-the-uk-and-resigns-as-of-2022-10-20/970992/18): > > > > Starmer would be very unwise to announce any great policies until a general election is certain. The Conservatives are nothing if not agile and they will claim any popular policy as their own. Labour are no doubt having their own internal conversation about what it takes to get elected. > > What a depressing view of politics. The tactics of any political party is to shift the focus of the conversation onto topics that divide your opposition and unify your base. There are plenty of areas where Labour could present a positive vision of the world that affirms core values of the left while highlighting the hypocrisy of the right. That they’re not doing it isn’t some canny political strategy, it’s incompetence mixed with cowardice. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keir-starmer-tries-to-lead-the-uk/1003805)._