in many ways starmer is the perfect embodiment of modern britain: he stands for nothing, builds nothing, has no ideas, no philosophy, no ideology or even policies; all he can muster are tentative toe pokes towards an action and when the public and press reaction is negative (and it almost always is) he immediately rows back and pretends it never happened; if he has an intellectual lodestar at all it is a shoulders-hunching, hand-wringing, cringing apologism and incessant thirsting compulsion to appear ‘nice’ all the time; the closest he ever gets to doing anything at all is meaningless rhetorical gestures like calling the irgc names or whatever