- Fri Jul 05, 2024 11:42 pm
#72063
I felt a bit deflated when it wasn’t a Tory wipeout of double digit performance. But actually, I’ve been steadily enjoying the day more and more as it has gone on. Starmer’s speech was great, and genuinely touching - not boastful, not gloating, but just eager to get on and proud to serve. Then I’ve been really impressed with the appointments and the approach to them. And then just the fact things like Streeting calling the doctor’s union before he’s probably even got his name on an office door, and the apparent new code of conduct from Sue Grey. And this isn’t in an attempt to win anything more - it’s just what will now be normal service.
After 14 years of increasing ridiculousness, callousness, ineptitude, laziness, entitlement and a complete absence of taking responsibility, it’s going to take a bit of time to adjust. But I actually feel genuinely hopeful tonight. I think it’s going to be hard work, but they clearly have plans and are already underway which is more than anyone expected less than a day in. And I already get the impression Starmer is going to quietly impress and annoy - impress because of his ability to simply get stuff done with no fuss and no demand for plaudits for doing so, and annoy because the trots and the right wing are going to be disappointed he isn’t a red Tory in how he governs and he is clearly an honest and decent man, respectively.
It’s just such a relief.