In its terror of jeopardising slow, marginal change, the party has sacrificed its ambition. It has stigmatised hope, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
In its terror of jeopardising slow, marginal change, the party has sacrificed its ambition. It has stigmatised hopeam often asked why I hate this country. Whenever I criticise our political culture , I am asked by various pleasant people on the internet why I am so ungrateful to the country that naturalised me. The simple answer, of course, is that you don’t have to hate a country to point out what is wrong with it.
The council estates were sold off to developers, and with them the offices that gave support and advice, and the stalls and shops that sustained those communities. Every local library that I used has been turned into flats. In their place new, expensive things were erected. Metallic new-builds, low-lit restaurants, identikit shopping outlets, cool pop-ups. And we were the lucky ones. In other parts of the country, that infrastructure was replaced by nothing at all.
With the instruction to settle comes a stigmatisation of hope. It is seen as not just misplaced but suspect, disqualifying. If you have hope, then you must believe you can change things, which means you are capricious, not to be taken seriously, and certainlyTories have made UK's problems 'deeper', says Starmer as he lays out Labour's 'missions' – video
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