The media's obsession with the "first 100 days" is so stupid.
It's a ridiculous Americanism that only really applied to one President, yet is now apparently a landmark that all governments everywhere are measured by.
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There's an idea in management that when you join a new role as a manager you shouldn't do anything except listen and learn for 100 days as you won't understand what you're doing.
This doesn't apply to a country of course, though it may to some individual ministers in odd departments, but I do think it's an interesting idea to keep in mind. Sometimes immediate action is the exact wrong thing to do.
We should move to continuous panning of the PM instead of this waterfall approach.
That's because Starmer made getting stuff done in the first hundred days a major part of his campaign.
When the election takes place right before the summer recess, that's not going to happen.
It does feel like Labour are playing the long game with short-term pain, for long-term gain so they probably accept that this first 100 days was going to be rough. However, you'd think they'd try to balance things out, spread the pain around, because the winter fuel payment issue will be a stick used to beat Labour with at the next election.
Yeah that's my interpretation of it too, they had quite a bit of political capital stored up after the election win, and they're spending it on making unpopular choices now, presumably with the intent that by the next election the painful bit will be over and we'll be seeing improvements across the board that they can then campaign on.
I think maybe this also feels weird to a lot of people because they're actually doing stuff and not just using the post-win honeymoon period to fuck about like the Tories usually do.
It's because their whole tone has been completely and utterly miserable. Regardless of how objectively bad the state of everything is, it would have cost them nothing to soothe our morale with a bit of positivity after over a decade of endless bad news.
soothe our morale with a bit of positivity
They could fucking do something that helps the working class. That'd be better than positivity.
On The Rest is Politics Campbell has said he thought it was a mistake to have the budget so long after the election and I think he's right. It gives the impression of a vague meandering with nothing happening.
amazing how many countries are at the "we gave leftist parties a chance and it didn't work" point on the road to fascism.
average succdemery in action
The verdict is in, and it isn't good: Sir Keir's approval poll ratings last week fell to -33 - a drop of 44 points since his post-election high, while one poll put Labour just one point ahead of the Tories.
The new cool thing in the western world in multiple countries is to provide a choice of a useless and deeply loathsome liberal or foaming at the mouth fascism. 
He's largely done it to himself.
Over promise under deliver and what he has announced has been unpopular and in many cases divisive. Also they really need to field test their announcements.
Don't even know if you can really classify this as over promising, most of what he promises seems pretty bleak too
What fucking “national renewal”?