This interview with one of Starmer’s aides, whiny and petulant as it is, is still worth looking at properly to see how inane and vacuous their political vision is. 1/ https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/keir-starmer-aide-left-wing-labour-bring-it-on_uk_60255626c5b6741597e06e69

Harris says that she cries when she thinks about Labour MPs who lost their seats in 2019 (not about the people who have already suffered and will continue suffering under a Conservative government). But why did they lose those seats? 2/

The MPs she mentions all represented Leave-voting constituencies (margins ranging from 9 to 16%). They all gained votes under Corbyn in 2017 but lost in 2019. 3/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum_by_constituency

The “vision that nobody wanted to buy”, as Harris calls it, was a second referendum on Brexit. That policy was popular in some parts of Britain, but not in the seats that Labour lost. 4/

When Harris says that Starmer had to “get rid of all that nonsense”, she’s tacitly referring to a policy of which he was the principal architect, which he promptly scrapped as soon as he became leader, whipping to support Johnson’s hard-Brexit deal instead. 5/

Harris is now using the unpopularity of Starmer’s 2019 Brexit policy with Leave voters to justify scrapping a programme of social-democratic reforms that are both urgently needed and demonstrably popular with voters. It’s cynical beyond belief. 6/