{"id":76970,"date":"2025-07-02T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76970"},"modified":"2025-07-02T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:55:00","slug":"poorly-led-strategically-inept-and-shorn-of-democracy-now-i-truly-fear-for-this-labour-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/02\/poorly-led-strategically-inept-and-shorn-of-democracy-now-i-truly-fear-for-this-labour-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1HNQoF.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6&amp;x=422&amp;y=856&amp;s=171&amp;d=171\" alt=\"Keir Starmer delivering a statement in the House of Commons, London, 26 June 2025. Photograph: House of Commons\/Reuters\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The welfare bill\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2025\/jul\/01\/welfare-bill-vote-labour-conservatives-keir-starmer-universal-credit-pip-uk-politics-latest-news-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">has gone through<\/a>, but what is on the minds of most Labour MPs and supporters is how did we get into this appalling mess over disability benefits? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/poorly-led-strategically-inept-and-shorn-of-democracy-now-i-truly-fear-for-this-labour-government\/ar-AA1HNNQv?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=79c91f44ff86486589f0ae50d6a423cc&amp;ei=22\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The welfare bill\u00a0has gone through, but what is on the minds of most Labour MPs and supporters is how did we get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/starmmer-wants-change.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76971,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76970\/revisions\/76971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}