Under Keir Starmer, there is a moral compass in Downing Street once more. But something else has gone missing. Too often, Labour now seems to lack not a moral compass, but a fully functioning political one. It has never needed one more than it does today.
And why is that, pray tell?
The most recent evidence that Labour’s political compass has been lost is in the unnecessary and overwrought row about its role in the US election. Here, once again, Labour has allowed its actions to be defined by its critics. As such, it fits a pattern: the failure to spot the danger in the freebies-for-ministers revelations; the tangled rise and fall of Sue Gray; the peremptory cull of winter fuel payments. With a good political compass, all of these could have been avoided.
Martin seems to have forgotten the 'Guardian's' own little foray into US politics, and just how effective that was!
But if you are waging a class war that has been deferred too long (YMMV) then you don't need a political compass because you don't care about collateral damage.
ReplyDeleteI have a Moral Compass.
ReplyDeleteI also carry a magnet in my shirt pocket.
Strangely, no matter which direction I go, my Moral Compass tells me that I am going in the Right direction.
What could possibly go wrong?