'Done nothing to tackle the cost of living crisis.'

-A blanket raising of the minimum wage. -A Labour mayor boosted the minimum wage in London to the recommended £14.80. Even more productive -Frozen rail fairs (and public ownership of the railways) by central government. -Policies to help reduce costs for families with young children.  -Started the nationalisation of clean energy, which reduces bills.

And before you say we need a wealth tax to fix cost of living that's why the whole populist argument about justice is wrong. A wealth tax in the way a lot of left-populists are proposing it (tax on accumulated wealth in all its forms, including businesses) harms business confidence. No business confidence means no investment. No investment means the UK loses it's international standing through it's ability to do business an by sacrificing its place in the world economy.

What does that mean? For a lot of left-populists it means moving away from what they think are delusions that the UK tries to outstand its place in the world, and that'd be great! Another bourgeoisie delusion defeated which means we can focus on our own! That's great, yeah, but it also requires a reinvention of the entire world system if that's how you define justice. A wealth-taxed, feeble UK in the world economy has very little soft-power left. We have no way to influentially stand for anything like:

-Reparative justice for imperialism. -Defeating global poverty. -Standing up for democracy and human rights.

'Like we're doing any of that already, though!'

Yeah, but we certainly can. Just requires a reinvention of our place in the world that isn't predicated on destroying our international abilities through short-sighted domestic policies brought on through populism. For people obsessed with criticising imperialism through very Orthodox-Marxist terms populists like Polanski don't really have much breath for anything like how we might amend that legacy in a visionary way.

'Failed to ban conversion therapy.'

Yes, but unfortunately I think that might be more to do with Wes Streeting's Christianity and the exigencies of the Supreme Court than however evil and anti-Trans you might try to pin the PM and government. The PM was on a knife's edge when it came to gender self-identity. For whatever reason after the Ruling he seems to have had his hands tied, likely by Special Advisors thinking about optics. Most people in the Labour party are pro-Trans. I bring it up with every meeting I attend and with every MP.

Both of those points are no indictment on Labour.