Keir Starmer has a habit of making promises that somehow turn out to be a bit less than that or as Marx noted ‘all that is solid melts into air’.
However an Election is nearing and Westminster politics is back for the autumn so promises now may be sightly more meaningful.
The promises are rather general. While its nice to know that Starmer won’t hammer workers like the Tories I’m sure people on the office floor will be saying, so we’ll still get hammered but a bit less. Indeed and that is putting a rather positive spin on Labour’s current version of social democracy.
There is a more fundamental point. What does Starmer mean by workers? It is ‘by hand or by brain’? The words are from Clause IV of Labour’s 1918 Constitution that Blair scrapped.
We can at least hope that Starmer is not recalling his sub-Trotskyist youth and starting a policy discussion on productive and unproductive labour.
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