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How many manifesto promises has he broken ?
Would he have been sacked for eating cake at a gathering he shouldn’t have been at?
Has he acted with integrity ?

I think we know the answers. I respect your answers Ulley on most things but in terms of Starmer he’s indefensible.
Unfortunately he’s no different to others.
6 out of 92 have been 'broken'. 20 completed, 18 on track, 23 in progress, 6 off track, and the 6 he (they) has/have failed to keep.

I've said repeatedly, I have no desire to defend anyone nor any hard commitments to his party. I vote or spoil as I see the landscape at the time of an election, and try to take an all-sides-considered view when scandals and news events occur. I don't see a man who is lacking in ability or conviction to a point where it's worrying, and the general view from most world leaders appears to back that. The economy has not tanked since they took office, and nothing has spiraled out of control. The party will, if they stay in office too long, inevitably succumb to the same temptations as all long term governments do, but generally, right now, they're not concerning me.

Plan B is another senior Labour figure who the media would seek to derail the moment they walk in. Plan C is an election which likely leads to a minority government under one of three parties, the other two of which are either lacking the time needed to rebuild or lacking an actual party at all. Of the options we have, and given that Starmer isn't the corrupt, flailing, deviant that GBNews and other assorted BS merchants would have us believe, I'll take the pain of what comes next with the current lot. My taxes are too high, some of the issues which affected us in 2024 are still around, but on balance I see no better situation than what we have based on any of what we 'could' have.