An unedifying record of perfidy
JVL Introduction
As we reel from the calamitous Labour performance in Parliament on February 21, when Starmer, Lammy, Streeting & Co scuppered the SNP Gaza ceasefire motion, giving their cowardly cohorts a way of wriggling out of condemning Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinians, it’s become a dizzying experience trying to track the twists and turns of the party leadership’s unprincipled policy shifts.
This compilation, which Politico is promising to keep up to date, is a helpful if unedifying record of the perfidy to date of Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.
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This article was originally published by Politico on Tue 13 Feb 2024. Read the original here.
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A personal view of someone else is only a personal view and shouldn’t be construed as objective fact. That said, I personally believe Starmer is too flawed as a human being to be entrusted with ANY responsibility for managing other people or for making decisions involving their future well-being.
I fear for the UK if Starmer becomes its PM. What Starmer has done to the Labour party as leader is destructive enough … but a PM has much more power (and no more effective constraints on him should they be needed).
The other day I watched Mick Lynch advocating a vote for Labour this year. “Any Labour government is better than a Tory government”.
Perhaps he is clutching at any straws found in number 2 on this list.
I think he needs to either stick to his trains or take a closer look at what is happening both home and abroad.
Many people planned to vote Labour.
Now they don’t.
And who can blame them?
But unfair to claim Starmer lacks beliefs.
Yes, he stands for…the national anthem.
The next election recalls a football match.
Old Jews asked to back Iran or Germany.
Their reply:”Why can’t they both lose?”
Low turnouts at recent byelections showed why just one in 10 citizens trust politicians.
Only mass poll boycotts can force progressive change.
Who does he work for, because it sure as hell is not tthe likes of us
What happens when your elected representatives are bought and paid for by other countries and vested interests
Starmer is on record saying he spoke directly with the President of Israel before the vote on Wednesday night
Do we have a functioning Democracy
Methinks not
Uhuh! Missed – probably – the most important – several – of all :
‘My mate, Jeremy Corbyn, has been vilified…’
‘Jeremy Corbyn will not be the Labour candidate, for Islington North…’
We could go on in that vein, for some time.
‘If Jeremy Corbyn apologises using this agreed form of words…’
‘No, I do not accept his apology!’
There should be a ‘no-one to vote for’ option on the ballot paper and these should be counted alongside the candidate votes.
Starmer is without worthwhile principles, is dishonest and is a ruthless cheat. He is also fundamentally incompetent about everything that matters.
Starmer and his stooges in the Parliamentary Labour Party show themselves up as narrow political opportunists. The silly Speaker was obviously coerced into his bizarre actions about a Gaza Ceasefire vote. His strained justification that he was motivated by considerations of safety, no, not for the regularly bombed and shot at indigenous people and children of Palestine but for our cynical representatives here who are passing by on the other side, as Jesus graphically and neatly described self-righteous indifference, is grotesque.
Starmers first act as Leader was to write a condemnation of Labour under Jeremy Corbyn by apologising for the really serious situation of Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party in his letter to Marie van der Zyl.
This continuation of the weaponisation of the Anti-Semitism was greeted with joy in the Main Stream Media who then ignored the fact the Forde Report said that effectively the whole scene had been without foundation and in fact the stressing of this had created a hierarchy of racism/religious importance.
Starmer and Evans apologised but not in a way which actually made the News.
Ten Pledges adopted to become elected on a Unity ticket and then to sow enmity and discord.
After that his ‘Israel has a right to defend itself with a siege more in common with the era of the Crusades showed his inability to know anything about International Law.
I believe that he will find it hard to be re-elected as an MP and he will never be free of justified criticism where ever and whenever he chooses to be seen in public.
In my opinion the only alternative is to vote for the Green Party at the next general election. It is the only left leaning party with great quality policies. The party was the first party to call for a ceasefire. I am for the Greens!