This was my take on what's wrong with the No 10 operation and how to fix it. But the changes announced so far don't seem radical enough. samf.substack.com/p/how-to-fix...
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No doubt Starmer himself is part of the problem. But given he's not going anywhere in the near future you need to try and create an operation that will work with what he can do.
aug 28, 2025, 12:55 pm • 34 1 • view
Isn’t this always true for any PM? Nobody will ever tick all the boxes, or even most of them.
aug 28, 2025, 1:06 pm • 1 0 • view
What is the Labour Party process for ditching their leader? Not on the cards for now, but if Labour continues to plummet surely the knives will be getting sharpened.
aug 28, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
No amount of moving the deck chairs can make up for the lack of a message and political backbone. Too often they just seem to react to stuff and don’t want to set the agenda. Yet when Farage makes a ridiculous policy statement they don’t react at all.
aug 28, 2025, 1:15 pm • 6 0 • view
Listening to Nick Thomas Symonds on the Newsagents he seems a decent competent person and yet doesn’t seem to have a political bone in his body. It’s so frustrating
aug 28, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
The Labour conference could be telling. A lot of Labour people are really not comfortable with Starmer and Cooper nodding along with the Farage rhetoric.
aug 28, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
He needs someone who actually understands politics. The endless clueless decisions he and Reeves have taken to piss off natural Labour voters. It’s almost a daily occurrence. Middle managing isn’t enough.
aug 28, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Is it possible Starmer really is highly intelligent, very hard-working and even effective but only, perhaps fatally for a Prime Minister, by concentrating, for prolonged periods, exclusively on one thing at a time?
aug 28, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
A perfectly serviceable Secretary of State for Justice, sadly wasted in a role he's just no good at.
aug 28, 2025, 1:22 pm • 1 0 • view
People voted for change and what did they get? Expectations were high and now they are lower than a Daschounds bollox, I’m never voting Labour again under this regime! So we need regime change👍🍷
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