Steven Green
Husband, proud father and grandfather. Irish EU citizen (and British). ex-Labour. Chartered engineer. Auditor. IT analyst.
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- I left Labour when Starmer showed his true colours.
- 🥀 Of the almost 200 council seats Labour lost to other parties, Reform picked up just over 150
- Misleading headline. They key question is how many Labour voters changed to Reform? Answer - very few. Labour votes leaked to the LibDems and Greens because Starmer is chasing Reform voters he will never get to vote for him.
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- I used to do lots of writing and slogan creation for Labour. It was always carefully reviewed to remove unintended nuance or possible misinterpretation. Starmer is also a KC - long trained in the skills of message making. At best, Labour liked the idea that some people would see a link to Powell.
- Why Starmer’s “island of strangers” remark owed more to Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone than Enoch Powell. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
- The local racists were debating this very question in the pub last night. Though they expressed a clear preference for bonding with Farage.
- The LibDem spokesperson on Europe used the Opposition debate today to explicitly rule out trying to rejoin the EU at the moment. Sigh. He also showed flashes of British exceptionalism. Double sigh. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...
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- Precisely. He did not say UK should not Join. He equivocated. Don't insult my intelligence by interpreting equivocation as a LibDem statement of policy that they don't want to Join the EU at the moment. Though maybe your assumption that Join is available to UK now is British exceptionalism?
- I think you are reading too much into this LDem statement. He seems to be saying this Starmer government is pro-Brexit so the current debate is not about Join. Not that the LDems are no longer in favour of Join.
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- Bear in mind the 30% are likely to be disproportionately on the left.
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- British self delusion is pitiful really.
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- The idea of "shared policy challenges" is underpinned by the fairy tale UK tells itself about sovereign equality. Relations with a weak state on the margins of Europe have marginal benefits to EU. If UK wants serious attention from the EU it needs to offer substantial concessions. Not red lines.
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- We had a by-election in my constituency
