A call on Starmer to honour his promise to stamp out factionalism
JVL Introduction
Melissa Heywood, President of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA), calls on Keir Starmer to honour a pledge he made while seeking TSSA support for him as party leader.
She writes:
When Keir visited the TSSA Executive Committee, he spoke passionately about his desire to build on the policy programme of the 2017 manifesto, he warmly praised his friend Jeremy Corbyn for rejuvenating our party, and he looked me in the eye and promised that under his leadership factionalism within the party would end.
She laments the sectarian treatment which Mish Rahman, Jamie Driscoll, Sam Tarry, Ian Byrne and Jeremy Corbyn have received and calls on Starmer to end Party factionalism so we can all concentrate on the real enemy – the Conservatives.
We support the call but wonder if Starmer is not the agent and beneficiary of this rampant factionalism rather than someone who wants to put an end to it…
RK
This article was originally published by LabourList on Wed 23 Aug 2023. Read the original here.
‘Keir Starmer must honour his promise to stamp out factionalism’
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It is sad to say, but I doubt that Mr starmer will amend his destructive authoritarian dishonest behaviour of hoodwinking members and potential voters. He’ll continue to break more pledges.
While I can understand and sympathise with Melissa Heywood’s hopes for an end to right-wing factionalism on the part of the Labour leadership, all the evidence suggests that she will be disappointed.
Starmer has proved himself to be an arch-factionalist.
As a member for several years of the Trilateral Commission (the only UK MP to be a member), he is a fifth-columnist in the Labour Party.
His role has been to destroy the Labour Party as a democratic socialist party rooted in grass-roots activism.
The promises he made to get elected as leader lie in ruins.
To end factionalism is just one of many such promises.
I fear that the Labour Party is now irrecoverably lost to us and it is time we faced up that unpleasant truth.
A very reasoned argument. Well said, Melissa Heywood
“We support the call but wonder if Starmer is not the agent and beneficiary of this rampant factionalism rather than someone who wants to put an end to it…”
Well quite. I can’t see what good it does to repost this article except to highlight someone who has lost touch with reality.
Starmer is undoubtedly the beneficiary and most probably also the/an agent. He was in at the start of the chicken-coup and the orchestrated, serial
resignation pantomime involving shadow ministers, timed to catch radio/tv news programmes throughout the day. It should be reposted wherever possible, but agree it may not bring about a significant change, but to remind/inform any viewer of the duplicitous an vicious nature of KS is a good thing not least because it cheers me up a bit.