//Extraordinary to see Kier (I used to be DPP) Starmer fire one of his shadow front bench team for briefly attending a picket line. //
Not really. Starmer is not a man of principle. Starmer is for Starmer. He knows these strikes aren't supported by the majority of the country so in an effort to portray himself as a robust and determined leader, he's making what he thinks are the right noises for the public ear. With the mess the Conservatives have made in stupidly ousting Boris and presenting the membership with a choice between two self-serving wet weeks in his stead, Labour should have an open goal but Starmer is unpopular and ineffectual and if he's booted out we may rest assured that his replacement will be just as impotent as he is. Like the Conservatives, there is not a leader among them, but whether that saves Starmer's bacon remains to be seen. I have heard murmurings for the return of Corbyn. Well, 'they' do say that desperate times call for desperate measures and nothing would be more desperate than that!