Firstly, the point you make about a lack of attention to the Tory fire is false. Johnson and his team are criticised relentlessly on this board; i'm sure one of our Tory voters will confirm that.
Secondly there is something missing from the rest of your post, and that is principle. in Keir Starmer you have a man who participated in the coup against his own leader Jeremy Corbyn. He then won the leadership of the party with ten pledges and a promise to be a uniting leader.
He has since ditched all ten pledges and spent the last year attacking the left of the party, denying left wing Jewish groups any voice; he has removed the whip from the former leader (this decision stands even after Corbyn was cleared) and suspended left wing Jews from the party. He did of course take a massive donation from a zionist which he kept hidden until the leadership vote was over.
Now the right wing of Labour are desperate for us to hold our noses and vote against our own principles just to remove the incumbent PM. Well I am less concerned about the short term because but if we do that we will remain a two party state forever and nothing will ever change. The reason I became a Labour supporter and party member is because of my principles, and that is this same reason that I have now withdrawn my membership and my vote.
Right, by people I meant "some" people, not all people. Namely, it's the far left of labour doing the complaining, not those in the middle of labour, those on the right of labour, or those outside of labour. The point is the left need to get on side, or just go, as they're sinking the ship trying to pull labour ina direction which loses votes from the middle. The people in the middles will not change their principles overnight, it will take years and decades and there's zero chance of getting them to change without being in power and demonstrating a good change.
Principle is all fine and dandy, to those who have principles, but it doesn't win votes. Or it doesn't win more than it loses. What wins votes is doing what most would agree is fine for the circumstances, or appealing to a large chunk of people who are there for the taking.
Coup? Corbyn was his own coup, he was his own (his parties) worst enemy, he did more damage to labour than the tories could ever do. Wrong man, wrong time, wrong place and that is coming from someone who very begrudgingly voted for him (well I didn't vote for him, I voted for Labour/ my MP).
He will unite more people for labour than corby did, although saying that, he won't even need to. The far left 10m won't be worth as much as the left ish and middle 12m, or even 10m etc. The far left can't/ won't vote tory ever, ever, ever and there's always a coalition chance with them, so a vote lost there is not one that will work against them, ever.
In the middle, every vote gained is one the tories lose, it's a swing vote, they're more important, twice as important, especially in critical seats.
I think the last year, he's kept quite middle of the road and kept quite quiet, which has been the right thing to do in a pandemic. Just sit there and be quiet whilst the tories burn their own house down.
Losing your vote is fine, you won't vote tory and if it gains a vote in the middle you've been replaced. It also means the toris are one down too, so it's a win.
Also, whoever you vote for would probably be up for a coalition, or more likely, whoever you vote for won't win that seat.
Being two party is bad news, I agree on that, but it's just the way it is and the only way to swing things away from the tories is to vote for the one thing that has a chance against them, which is labour and a labour which is not trying to change the world, too quickly, and when they're nowhere near having any sort of control. Gain control and then try and go for proportional representation, nobody honest and fair should not want proportional representation. If it;s sold truthfully, it should get in.
