Oh dear, that's a bit rubbish.
Not sure why people are aghast at Starmer not taking Meghan seriously
The thing is, the UK is far from being the only country in the world that still has a monarchy. There's another eight or so just in Western Europe. Do they all constantly lurch from one controversy or crisis to the next? Maybe we just don't hear about it, but they mostly seem to have a bit less of all that going on. (With some exceptions - that missing Dubai princess, the Thai king's notorious drug-fuelled debauchery...)
He's not even done that on a weekly basis since Corbyn became leader.Would that be the same Guardian in which Owen Jones has sung Corbyn's praises on a weekly basis since about 3000 BC?
Figure of speech (as was the "3000BC" bit). He's a pretty regular contributor, put it that way.He's not even done that on a weekly basis since Corbyn became leader.
That referendum was about alternative vote, not PR, though - although I guess if it had returned an overall Yes, it may have paved the way for PR some way down the road.I feel that any chance of PR died with the referendum on changing the system in 2011 or whatever... that was the second part of the Lib Dem betrayal and, I reckon, the moment that put us on the path to where we are now.
OK, absent Jones and the balance of opinion is generally not favourable, granted. But the Guardian is a newspaper, not an in-house publication of the Labour party, and it's under no obligation to support any given Labour leader. It's hardly as if they none of their writers ever had an unkind thing to say about Tony Blair. And while there did seem to be a brief honeymoon period with Starmer, they've carried a number of critical articles about him since the turn of the year, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/29/keir-starmer-year-labour-poll-ratingsHe is but I don't think even the most rabid Telegraph reader would think that the Guardian, as a whole, was anything other than anti-Corbyn.
Still I think it set back electoral reform for a generation.That referendum was about alternative vote, not PR, though - although I guess if it had returned an overall Yes, it may have paved the way for PR some way down the road.
Yeah, it was a chance to shake things up a bit, at least, and fluffed it.Still I think it set back electoral reform for a generation.