They have an 80 seat majority, if they lost the vote it would have been because their own MPs voted against them. It’s down to Johnson to persuade his own MPs. That’s the narrative and it’s down to you as the leader of the opposition to go out there and push it.
It’s going to be a long 4 years with your attitude because you could use your narrative for just about everything.
“We don’t agree with it, but we’re not going to vote against it because we’re scared of being blamed”.
The next one will be Brexit, which will be an absolute disaster for our economy.
If Starmer doesn’t have the courage to oppose the tier system there’s no chance he votes against a bad Brexit deal.
“Yeah it’s not a good deal, but we decide for the national interest not to vote against it as we didn’t want to be seen as being Anti-British or against the will of the people”.
Weak, weak, weak. Unless it’s against the left of course, then he becomes the Incredible Hulk.