Same as being realistic A point they have made several times.
The greens are targetting a number of seat coming 1st and 2nd in some according to polls They don't expect to win. Left wing taxation ideas - tax will go up. Nuke - at last not as bad as it was - for some anyway.
Reform much the same but a magic money tree. They don't expect to win either.
Don't expect to win may actually cause people to vote for them. On the other hand what happens if they do?
Tory - well they have a big problem. Far too much of their usual mantra and the plan is working claims which it clearly hasn't. I don't think there has been a centrist within their MPs for rather a long time,
I'd say it's more a case of Labour being pragmatic; saying the right things and telling the right people what they want to hear. 'Change' is the rehashed slogan from 2019, and the Tories and LibDems have just looked into the recent past and tweaked an old slogan for this election - so what's actually changing? Only the electoral map, as far as i can see: there's going to be a lot more red than blue on July 5th. Apart from that, not much. Fresh faces saying the same things, over and over.
Ironically, the country has its lowest-ever ranking in the global corruption index; but an annual study of graft by
Transparency International shows public confidence in political institutions has
hit international lows. Keir Starmer is hoping to instill a new Ethics and Integrity Commission in an attempt to pull together Westminster’s confusing web of standards regulators into one powerful body that can hold them to account - although Tony Blair pitched his landslide 1997 campaign as an antidote to years of Conservative scandal, for example, claiming his party would be “purer than pure”, and in 2010, David Cameron promised major transparency and governance reforms as a scandal featuring lawmakers claiming wild, taxpayer-funded expenses tanked public trust.
Blair’s mandate was soon tested by his own cash-for-access scandals and after leaving government he cursed himself as a “naive, foolish irresponsible nincompoop” for having introduced the U.K.’s pioneering Freedom of Information Act in the first place. Cameron did improve public access to government data, tightening procurement rules, and unveiling Britain’s first-ever register of lobbying but was then overshadowed by his own post-government involvement in
a major lobbying scandal. The lobbying register he once touted has been so derided that lobbyists themselves have asked for tougher rules to prevent politicians from sullying their industry’s reputation.
Any fool can make sweeping promises of change while in opposition, (you only have to read Reform's manifesto to see that) but it's taking the chance to enact real legislative change that always ends up being watered down once in office. Starmer will fall in to the same trap as Blair by listening to too many voices without knowing his own mind and allowing himself to be decided by the loudest one in the room. I don't see this election changing a damn thing.
