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The previous head, Jeremy Corbyn, was socialist and had a long history of fighting for socialist causes. It would have been hard for Labour to find a leader more socialist than him amongst their MP's.
Corbyn was also at the helm of a horrible Labour defeat in 2019.
Starmer has been compared to Blair, for better or worse. Given the Labour party's platform, I expect a lot of the energy of this government will be to fix the damage that the Tories caused, get some new clean energy, and try to grow the economy as some former Warsaw Pact countries are creeping up to the UK's average wage.
What you say is better than what the Tories did, but with such a large majority they could seize the opportunity and renationalise some privatized services, improve and adequately finance those that the right was letting die, change the tax system so that the upper classes help to finance the state. You already know, things that should be normal on the left until the "third way"
Like op, I'm not British and I wonder if this would be possible or do we forget that something like this is going to happen, I don't know, if you're from there, tell us.
They could, but aren't going to.
So far they have u-turned on every pledge they've made, specifically those about nationalising services, saving the health and social services from complete destruction from underfunding and privatisation, and stopping further cuts to a cruel benefits system they have no intention of addressing.
Meanwhile taxing the rich more wasn't even in their pledges, all they talk about is making Britain "better for business" and making the population less "work shy".
Anyone pinning any hope for significant change on Starmer's blue Labour, hasn't been paying any attention (or is out enough of direct harms way to not give a shit about those of us already at the bottom who will continue getting pounded).
Thanks for the info, I wasn't paying attention, but because British politics doesn't affect me of course, I'm sorry for what it does.
If you're not from here, my issue isn't with you, people aren't obliged to know the politics of all countries (though wherever you are, something similar is likely happening - the Overton window is shifting to the right globally), it's the masses of locals who buy in to the idea that Starmer is a leftist that I find frustrating..
Yes, I understand you, in my country it has not yet taken hold in a drastic way, but you see how politicians with ideas, social democrats at most, are treated in the press like ultra-intractable radical leftists.