Starmer was slicker, more thoughtful, clearly cares about trying to hold the party together, and selling the project. Brexit a slight weakness still. Media strategy being smooth is no surprise: he was considering running for leader in 2015, the year he was elected.
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One thing I think will differ in this race: Corbyn was an older, upper-middle-class, white man. Some of the media jibes/attacks on Angela Rayner, Dawn Butler, Becky Long-Bailey and others will be about class/race/gender/accent and the public will notice & react against that.
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Like Diane Abbott with a tinned cocktail on the tube: some of these media attacks will see the masks slip off. See also who gets asked what questions in interviews.
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Also, the deputy leadership race will garner far more attention this time, whereas in 2015 all focus was on the main leadership. You want someone with their own ideas, but who’s also supportive (though not unequivocally uncritical) of the leadership, not an obsessive wrecker.
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Regardless, it’ll be more interesting, more democratic, and healthier than both the Tory race last year, and the 2007 Labour coronation. I was a student working the Green Room for one of the hustings on the latter & watching Brown on stage did nothing for my opinion of the party.
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She was unimpressive to say the least. Whiney tone to her voice. Poor at answering questions. 'Wait and see' seemed to be her main response
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In though it was sad. She's got suckered into a high profile by rightwing media, now exposed.
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I thought Jess was thoughtful and considered. She knows compremise is important otherwise you end up with a dictatorship. She did not make flat binary statements.
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