It is occasionally worth reminding oneself about promises made in the past and then forgotten.
These were the pledges made by Keir Starmer to become leader of the Labour Party:
What have we got?
None of those things.
We have, instead, a dying Labour Party superating the stench of rotteness from every one of its remaining pores.
Some legacy and proof that breaking promises can have consequences.
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My goodness. Thank you for dusting that off. Wouldn’t it be great to have PMs do an ‘exit interview’ where they are grilled on their broken promises? As it is, they just slope off through the revolving door…
I found The Spider’s Web on YouTube yesterday. Chilling. With reference to another of your posts today, talking about the four nations making up Britain, I thought “there is another, the city of London”. It really is a fiefdom of its own. It has a strong and malign influence on Britain and the world.
Thanks
Quite. If B.Liar (warmonger & bar) established the trajectory that LINO took over +/- 30 years, one could argue that Corbyn, tried to move the party back to something closer to the “Wilsonian” party that meant something to UK citizens. This was quite clearly unacceptable to part of the party hence events and the arrival of Starmer, his “promises” & the extripation of anybodty in the party that was in favour of “social democracy” & thus dissent.
The only place for Starmer (& McSweeney) now is a shared cell in the Hague. If the SNP wants to guarantee a landslide in May, a suggestion: commit to this: when Starmer crosses the border – have him arrested (assisting and abetting genocide) and shipped to the Hague. Apparently Starmer wants to campaign in Scotland to help Scottish LINO – demonstrating how utterly out of touch he is.
In a sentence, and simply put:
Starmer has sold out.
Those people, mainly Labour members, including myself, believed him. Why wouldn’t we?
I was warned by many Corbyn fans that Starmer was not what he proclaimed in the promises he made. But, like many others, I thought that Corbyn was so bad as a leader, that Starmer was almost certain to be much better.
Well, he certainly fooled me. Fool me once, shame on him: fool me twice, shame on me.
He isn’t a socialist in any sense of the word and should not even be in the Labour Party I once knew. The sooner he goes, the better. He has opened the Pandora’s Box of a hard right coalition which is very likely to trample on everything I believe in. What a fine mess you’ve got us into, Starmer.
Do you think the gap between what politicians say and what they do in any way explains the complete lack of trust in them?
The man is a complete disgrace. Well reminded
Thank you for the stark reminder. I hope The Green Party draw attention to this in their campaign to win the Gorton & Denton by election.
This morning we have Starmer asking the odious Jim Ratclffe for an apology when he should be demanding police action and the immediate payment of the huge sum of tax avoided by Ratcliffe.
Most in LINO say Starmer is a fundamentally decent man even if they criticise him for ineffective leadership.
NO!
That’s a wicked lie. He is NOT a decent man. Nowhere near it.
He is a calculating, manipulative deceiver who lied his way through a leadership election, who destroyed decent opponents by smears, slanders and hypocrisy, and then lied his way through a General Election promising change having already been paid to deliver more Tory sleaze and austerity, as well as supporting genocide and persecuting those who oppose it.
His cabinet are equally complicit with him as are the media who smoothed his path to power, helped destroy his opponents, and even now shield him from proper scrutiny.
Sources:
FRAUD by Paul Holden
COMPLICIT by Peter Oborne
Labour Leaks report
The Forde Report
See also, The Trilateral Commission, the proscription of Palestine Action, the suppression of protest, the abuse of remand legislation, and the complete sellout to overseas interests, and the contempt for international law, along with the progressive destruction of our economy, our essential infrastructure, and much of our social cohesion. He is also deeply complicit along with our entire government, in genocide and other war crimes.
Keir Starmer is NOT a decent man.
Given the amount of money flowing into the Labour Party from vested interests, both commercial and state entities (USA, Israel, Gulf States), none of this is surprising.
What IS surprising is that anyone has either the gall or the guillibility to call him “a decent man”.
I got this “devemnt man” argument from a long standing friend at the weekend.
I opened up with both barrels, I am afraid. A full broadside. We agreed to differ.
Surely some other Kier Starmer, one who vanished from Labour along with Jeremy Corbyn?