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Originally Posted by Damien
More bizareness this morning.
The Tories are starting to pivot the attack on Starmer from 'what does he stand for' (which has some merit) to 'Sleepy Kier' following on from Trump's 'Sleep Joe' tag for Joe Biden.
https://www.ft.com/content/2c00e00e-...9-43264c85a82f
They have no ideas. There are plenty of criticisms of Starmer but hardly anyone thinks it's he is too old and tired to do the job. It won't cut through at all. It works with Biden because he is old and he looks like it. The no 1 concern voters seem to have him with is his age and mental state.
Also Steve Baker, NI Minister, has come out against the National Service plan and expects to be fired over it: https://www.stevebaker.info/2024/05/...aw-now-always/ |
Boris was out at the weekend accusing Starmer of not prosecuting Jimmy Saville. Back in the day (it did the rounds when he was first appointed in 2020) the argument had a certain level of merit, assuming some dotted line could be drawn to show Starmer’s leadership of the CPS meant he ought to have intervened to ensure a prosecution went ahead. It’s by no means clear that argument was ever developed, and now the line just seems to be ‘Starmer didn’t prosecute Saville’ as if it was only ever in his personal in-tray.
All in all, the Tory campaign appears to be to shore up the core, boomer vote by demonising Keir Starmer and teenagers.