Yes, but still: we're comparing him to Tony Blair here, remember? This is not a high bar.

Streeting in particular has been spouting off about things he doesn't really care about recently, most likely to appeal more to the membership in case of a leadership election. But if he's not actually going to steer the party to the left he'll just be a [somehow] less-charismatic Kier Starmer...

I'm in the same place, but also: do these aspirants really not realise Kier Starmer is the most hated man in politics because he's leader of this useless, damaging version of the Labour party, not just because he's Kier Starmer?! Who'd want the job unless they're going to radically change things?

I don't think most men like him actually want a woman to stay married to them. That's commitment and responsibility and giving up on novelty.
They want to fuck pretty young things and get children as a legacy and most importantly they need to be the ones to leave the woman, not the other way around.

I don’t have much truck with most justifications for staying on X, but I will accept “I’m Joyce Carol Oates and I’m needling him into profoundly humiliating public self-exposure”

The man even managed to come back from the political grave to have a second shot at Prime Minister in the fifties to get his hand in at a bit more oppressive imperialist violence before bed.

...I don't even need to know what specifically you're talking about, in which country or category. It's just a generic statement for the 21st century.

The fact that fighting the Nazis was the right thing to do - especially in retrospect - was a happy coincidence that allowed Churchill and others to retroactively launder his entire career into that of a freedom-loving moral titan. Hitler was probably the best thing that happened to his reputation!

I didn't say we did. One of Hitler's many great misjudgements was that the UK might possibly be brought on-side simply because it had so much in common in approach, but the UK was never going to share what it had with foreigners. Franco wasn't expanding so he wasn't a threat.

Quite - hence "Streeting of all people"! But he does seem to have realised faster than the rest of the cabinet that mimicking Reform isn't going to keep him in a job in three and a half years' time.

The most worrying part of it to me is that Streeting of all people is the first major figure in government to finally realise that people who vote for or are members of the Labour party actually like left-wing positions. What's wrong with the rest of them?!

Unsurprised, but also it's a pretty naïve approach. The longer they prop up the parasitic billionaire class, the more people are hurting, the more that kind of accusation is just going to have people start questioning what's actually so bad about radical socialism.