{"id":165944,"date":"2021-05-14T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/14\/labours-defeat-and-sir-keir-starmers-grey-fade-into-irrelevance\/"},"modified":"2021-05-14T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T09:20:00","slug":"labours-defeat-and-sir-keir-starmers-grey-fade-into-irrelevance-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/14\/labours-defeat-and-sir-keir-starmers-grey-fade-into-irrelevance-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour\u2019s Defeat and Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s Grey Fade into Irrelevance\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people talk about Labour leader Sir Starmer as being insipid and ineffectual, someone who lacks any sharp outline or definition, a washed-out middle-management type with no soul, a grey, dismal rain-jacket of a man, a torpid dish-cloth with legs, not so much a mid-life crisis but more of a mid-life compromise, a charisma vacuum,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/14\/labours-defeat-and-sir-keir-starmers-grey-fade-into-irrelevance\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/14\/labours-defeat-and-sir-keir-starmers-grey-fade-into-irrelevance\/\">Labour\u2019s Defeat and Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s Grey Fade into Irrelevance\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/14\/labours-defeat-and-sir-keir-starmers-grey-fade-into-irrelevance\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people talk about Labour leader Sir Starmer as being insipid and ineffectual, someone who lacks any sharp outline or definition, a washed-out middle-management type with no soul, a grey, dismal rain-jacket of a man, a torpid dish-cloth with legs, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1031,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165945,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165944\/revisions\/165945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}