[hibeejim21]

Thats a bit unfair matt. The reason it was in parliament today was because of labour, Starmer brought it up at the last PMQs and the party have campaigned for it.

What Rashford has done is a great job in using his social status to increase the pressure on the gov, without him I doubt it would have passed parliament because Boris would have whipped the majority from his MPs. I'm not sure this says much that is good about us as a country.

What annoys me about Starmer so far is he seems to be worried about upsetting the establishment and he's trying to distance himself away from Corbyn which is understandable as most leaders want to be their own person. He makes a lot of relevant points at PMQs and the forensic dissections of Johnson and what the Tories are doing is great but at times it feels like he's missing an open goal. I know he's a few weeks and months into the job and it will take time for him to adjust but sometimes he needs to get straight to the point instead of going round the houses. He will have to do a juggling act where he keeps the Left and the Corbyn supporters happy while at the same time trying to attract the floating voters to vote Labour at the next election. A lot of the people who voted for Brexit have already stated they won't for Labour or Starmer as he was talking about a 2nd referendum in the 2019 General Election.

I agree without Rashford highlighting the issue I very much doubt that there would have been a U-turn. It's 2020 no child should go hungry in a country which has the 5th/6th best economy in the World and we shouldn't have bloody foodbanks either. 10 years of austerity has caused this! Johnson's supporters were complaining on social media about the U-turn on providing school meals for children from low income families throughout the summer holidays but they are all for £900,000 of taxpayers money to be spent on the PM's official plane to be resprayed red, blue and white, to 'better represent the UK'. I'm sorry but that £900,000 could and should be spent on something else, I mean there are more important things going on right now than having a bloody plane resprayed. Talk about getting their priorities straight.

The honest answer to that matt is that starmer IS part of the establishment, he's a sir and a former DPP. It's the right wing media he's wary off, he saw what they did to corbyn. He likely won't rock the boat much as a result.
But that doesn't mean that he can't deliver some positive changes for the country. I think he's potentially a very good leader but he's up against a guy who's a blatant liar,gaslighter,bully and bullshit merchant and parliament isn't a court of law, so Boris gets to bluster his way out of it. Its nearly impossible to hold him to account.

He's said the brexit argument is done, so now he can shift the debate to things that will concern those brexit voters pretty soon. I think he's played a good hand so far.