Polls are meaningless, it has been proven.
Starmer still can't stop McDonnell piping up to inadvertently remind everyone how close we came to crashing the pound for different reasons.
Starmer has massive credibility problems, not just over his attitude to unions and his policy vacuum. He's calling yet again for the PM to resign, as if nobody remembers a PM resigning is exactly how we got into this current mess. And quite a few others in recent memory.
Tony Blair (at the behest of Mandleson) would have been saying only one thing for the last six months. Call an election.
You either exude the confidence of a strategy and unity of purpose, or you don't. Starmer really doesn't.
Even now, with an open goal, he can barely land a punch before he's having to answer awkward questions about his own party.
I bet he secretly dreads being handed the shit sandwich that would be going into December needing to form a minority government or a coalition.
Hence his probably quite unconscious exuding of the air of a man who doesn't want an election to be called tomorrow. Even when he's poked and prodded to say directly to the audience, his wish is for an election tomorrow.
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