Union bosses have turned on Sir Keir Starmer ahead of an expected local election bloodbath, citing his failure to deliver the change he promised. The Telegraph has the story.
One General Secretary of a Labour-affiliated union told the Telegraph that the Prime Minister “needs to go”, while another said “the Government is not good enough”.
A video call has been scheduled for 5pm on Friday, when union leaders will privately discuss the local election results and what should be done next.
The party was on 18% in a national voting intention poll released by YouGov on Wednesday, significantly behind Reform on 25% and only just ahead of the Conservatives on 17%.
The final YouGov multi-level regression and post-stratification (MRP) poll for the Senedd in Wales showed Labour suffering its worst significant election result in more than a century, while the survey for Scotland projected the worst-ever Holyrood result for the party.
The fallout will increase the pressure on Sir Keir as Labour bleeds votes both to Reform on the Right and the Green Party on the Left.
The Prime Minister is preparing to come out fighting on Friday morning to battle for his premiership, with allies saying he intends to defy any challenge to his position.
However, away from the cameras, the leaders of the 11 trade unions formally affiliated with Labour will debate the results and their implications amid disillusionment with Sir Keir’s performance in office.
“Rebuilding trust has become so much harder because of Keir Starmer. The party desperately needs a bolder vision that speaks directly to the cost-of-living crisis.”
Another said: “The Government is not good enough. It is too slow. The British state is bloated and enfeebled. It needs somebody to get things moving and cut through it.”
Union leaders, like Labour MPs on the back benches, are split on whether the Prime Minister should go and, if that happens, who they would support as a replacement.
I am a free thinker, with eyes and ears to see what…
Cotfordtags
|
Email me alerts for this discussion
Please login to comment
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to the Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
7 Comments
Newest
OldestMost Voted
JXB
4 months ago
The mistake among the Labour loonies, is they think Starmer is the problem when in fact it’s the whole bloody Marxist Socialist Labour project.
Get thee gone – all of you.
huxleypiggles
4 months ago
“Union bosses have turned on Sir Keir Starmer ahead of an expected local election bloodbath, citing his failure to deliver the change he promised.”
Absolute numpties. Clearly the Union Bosses weren’t listening. The only thing Kneel promised was change; he certainly didn’t define the type of change.
NeilParkin
4 months ago
I like this Union Leaders comment.
Another said: “The Government is not good enough. It is too slow. The British state is bloated and enfeebled. ”
All as the result of unionisation, I expect.
DiscoveredJoys
4 months ago
“The Government is not good enough. It is too slow. The British state is bloated and enfeebled. It needs somebody to get things moving and cut through it.”
And which unions will support ‘de-bloating’ if it means some of their own members will be ‘downsized’?
pjar
4 months ago
This is fascinating (or, I thought so!): Robert Owen’s New Harmony experiment stands as perhaps the most instructive lesson in economic history about why socialism fails every single time someone tries it. This wasn’t some theoretical debate in a university classroom. Owen put his money where his mouth was, purchasing the thriving town of Harmonie, Indiana in 1825 for $150,000 and transforming it into his vision of a perfect socialist society.
The setup looked promising. Owen brought genuine intellectual firepower to Indiana. Scientists, educators, and progressive thinkers flocked to this “Community of Equality” where private property would disappear, money would become obsolete, and collective labor would serve the common good. Owen had already made his fortune in the textile industry, so he understood production and management. He wasn’t some armchair theorist.
Within months, the cracks appeared. The hardest workers started questioning why they should break their backs when lazy neighbors received identical compensation. Why stay late to finish critical tasks when someone else could sleep in and still eat the same meals? Owen had eliminated the price system that communicates information about individual contribution and social need. Incentives collapsed immediately.
You can trace the predictable cascade of failure. Production dropped… Read more »
““the extremely defective and vicious training of the population of the world, under the existing systems.”
Yes indeed – invent/adopt a system that runs contrary to the natural order of things, then blame the natural order of things for being inimical to your system. Under no circumstances adapt your system to suit the natural order of things. See also Procrustes – Wikipedia
transmissionofflame
4 months ago
Yet another version of “give us more money”
Thank you for reading. Please help us keep the Daily Sceptic going by becoming a donor.
Discussion
Comments
This week across the site:
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to the Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
The mistake among the Labour loonies, is they think Starmer is the problem when in fact it’s the whole bloody Marxist Socialist Labour project.
Get thee gone – all of you.
“Union bosses have turned on Sir Keir Starmer ahead of an expected local election bloodbath, citing his failure to deliver the change he promised.”
Absolute numpties. Clearly the Union Bosses weren’t listening. The only thing Kneel promised was change; he certainly didn’t define the type of change.
I like this Union Leaders comment.
Another said: “The Government is not good enough. It is too slow. The British state is bloated and enfeebled. ”
All as the result of unionisation, I expect.
And which unions will support ‘de-bloating’ if it means some of their own members will be ‘downsized’?
This is fascinating (or, I thought so!):
Robert Owen’s New Harmony experiment stands as perhaps the most instructive lesson in economic history about why socialism fails every single time someone tries it. This wasn’t some theoretical debate in a university classroom. Owen put his money where his mouth was, purchasing the thriving town of Harmonie, Indiana in 1825 for $150,000 and transforming it into his vision of a perfect socialist society.
The setup looked promising. Owen brought genuine intellectual firepower to Indiana. Scientists, educators, and progressive thinkers flocked to this “Community of Equality” where private property would disappear, money would become obsolete, and collective labor would serve the common good. Owen had already made his fortune in the textile industry, so he understood production and management. He wasn’t some armchair theorist.
Within months, the cracks appeared. The hardest workers started questioning why they should break their backs when lazy neighbors received identical compensation. Why stay late to finish critical tasks when someone else could sleep in and still eat the same meals? Owen had eliminated the price system that communicates information about individual contribution and social need. Incentives collapsed immediately.
You can trace the predictable cascade of failure. Production dropped… Read more »
Very good.
““the extremely defective and vicious training of the population of the world, under the existing systems.”
Yes indeed – invent/adopt a system that runs contrary to the natural order of things, then blame the natural order of things for being inimical to your system. Under no circumstances adapt your system to suit the natural order of things. See also Procrustes – Wikipedia
Yet another version of “give us more money”