The other aspect of Labour's last 48 hours is that it suggests their 2028/29 manifesto will not include a pinking/removal of those red lines on UK-EU relations.
As with voters, it'll probably take a new generation of 'untainted' politicians who weren't even able to vote in 2016.
If you thought the PM’s speech was punchy, his foreword to the immigration white paper says high net migration has done “incalculable damage” to the country.
That is a serious shift in tone for a Labour government/party.
May 14, 2025 05:37I find it infinitely frustrating that for at least another 18 months we’ll keep hearing variations of “short term pain for long term gain” & “he has no choice”
I’m afraid this is who they really are. We can’t keep shrugging because we think they’re secretly Rejoining (they’re not)
Very true
Faisal Islam at the other place has a different view on that
I wonder how many people who put their X against a Labour candidate last July thought this is what they would get? Not very democratic is it (I lost faith on our “democratic” system years ago.)
I felt at the time it would take 20 years to get anything like close to membership. 11 years to go…
Doesn’t the foreward actually say that the Tory policy of lying about getting migration down, and failing to properly plan for higher levels of migration, has caused “incalculable damage”?
Which is true isn’t it?
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The way they're going, it won't matter what they put in their manifesto.
Labour have been playing their ‘long game’ of trying to string along two sets of voters with diametrically opposed voters. In the last few days they’ve make it clear who are their priority.
Brexit, and the xenophobia that fuels, it destroyed the Tories. It is now destroying Labour.
Grim but likely assessment.
However, Starmer an arch pragmatist - if growth doesn't come & Trump becomes even more toxic then may be political space to do so.
Problem is with current trajectory - missing open goals to attack brexit & Farage & Trump - longer that goes on the harder it is to change
