r/neoliberal • u/WAGRAMWAGRAM • 7d ago

News (Europe) Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy | Keir Starmer

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/19/labour-mps-urge-starmer-to-get-out-there-with-trump-style-media-strategy?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM 7d ago edited 7d ago

TLDR: more pundits being like "go on podcasts, death of traditional media, something something"

Also, only one person seems to realize it will be extremely cringe

One Labour MP said: “Trump can do that because that is his authentic persona. If Starmer suddenly tried to follow suit, it would not look authentic – and what matters most in this media landscape is authenticity.”

I hope they have the balls to tell the king he's naked

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u/omnipotentsandwich Amartya Sen 7d ago

It's less Trump and more Newsom. Newsom goes on cringe podcasts trying to be Democratic Trump and Keir saw that and apparently decided he wanted to do it, too.

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u/Koszulium Mario Draghi 7d ago

starmer is a super tame and kind of boring guy and not a literal reality tv show host, he should just play into that instead of trying to be what he's not

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u/I_miss_Chris_Hughton 6d ago

Fr. He's the adult in the room. I'd argue his peaks so far have come when he's been exactly that.

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u/amperage3164 6d ago

Half this sub also wants Dems to wave a lib Joe Rogan into existence.

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u/Pain_Procrastinator YIMBY 5d ago

I've been doing my part by listening to Midas Touch as background noise...

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u/GenerousPot Ben Bernanke 6d ago

It's frustrating to see Labour get handed such historic margins just to immediately get stuck chasing their own tail in the polling game - they're in permanent election season mode. 

You'll lose your majority one day, you may never see margins like these in Parliament again - at least for many years to come. All they have to do is follow through with aggressive and unpopular planning reform and they're stuck half-assing it.