MaizieD
^Those who have faith in Labour under Starmer might well be immune to any 'smear' campaign levelled at him or the party^
They're desperately struggling to find anything to smear him with...
I think that the greater part of the electorate is so desperate to get the tories out that smears won't influence them. After all, the UK has fallen apart under the tories and they've not proven to be incorrupt....
The polls can't be so wildly wrong. Can you see the tories coming back from being 22 percentage points behind Labour, with Reform's results rising and them grabbing many of the tory's voters?
I don't know Mazie - once bitten... I mean we were all so sure that Remain would secure the Referendum. I take nothing for granted now.
I doubt there's much to smear Starmer with (not for want of trying) - but they might dig around the others to see what they can come up with. They could put doubt in the mind of the electorate with a little bit of speculation, without making any outright claims.
One of the posters on here mentioned not voting for Labour because she felt sure the "Corbynistas" would creep back in and another is convinced Starmer will march us back into the EU again.
It doesn't take much to heat up these fears in the media, so that those who were undecided decide not to vote for Labour after all. You've only got to play on people's fears a little bit- and the Tories are the masters of this art, as their track record since 2016 proves.
They don't need to find facts- insinuations will do fine.
As for all those things you've mentioned - well of course everything's in an appalling state, but ask around and you'll find quite a few people will throw in Ukraine, the pandemic, immigration, as being the cause... what's a poor government to do faced with all those "unprecedented" events, eh! I've read such on here, on GN, where posters have sympathised with the government, so of course it's not their fault that we can't get a GP appointment or are stuck on a waiting list for surgery, etc, etc. They did their best, don't you know!