Is Labour in danger of becoming irrelevant under Keir Starmer?

 

Sir Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer is typically evasive. He can’t shoot straight. What a wimp! Who are "those people" that he constantly refers to who want 'change'. It's such a nebulous term. These are the people that Starmer says he came into politics to help and will always fight for. Starmer is so amorphous that he's the ultimate plasticine man. He can be bent into any shape and bears the imprint of the last man who sat on him. 

The Labour Party was set up by the trade unions to represent the interest of the "working class" but he's afraid to use the term. All this Puritanical Labour Party nonsense about "working hard" and "hard working families" is depressingly Victorian. Most people undertake paid work to live; they don't live to work. People should be leading more fulfilled and diverse lives and not grinding away like some donkey on a treadmill, until they drop dead. Many people are going to lose their jobs to AI and automation and so we ought to be thinking about a post-work society and redistribution. 

When I was a kid in an English primary school in the 1950s and 1960s, the teachers used to talk to us about the "leisure society." We were told that when we grew up a lot of work would be done by machines giving people a lot more time for leisure. Those people who lose their jobs to AI and automation, what is to be done with them? 

The Green Party wants to introduce a citizens Universal Basic Income. This could be paid to people both in and out of work. Labour managerialism has nothing to offer. The Labour Party is well past its sell-by date and is in danger of becoming an irrelevance under Keir Starmer.