IF THERE’S NOTHING ELSE YOU WATCH THIS YEAR WATCH Ken Loach savage Starmer for his Treachery, Dishonesty And Contempt For Democracy
Like Brutus, Starmer bided his time, waiting for the opportunity when he could plunge the knife between Corbyn's shoulder blades
It’s
not just that Starmer has the personality of a poodle pretending to be a German
shepherd dog. Nor is it that when give the choice he prefers to lie. It’s not
even that he portrayed himself as the unity candidate standing on 10 pledges from the Corbyn
Manifesto. It isn’t even that Starmer has an utter contempt for Labour Party
democracy, suspending whole parties for having the temerity to discuss and
debate the suspension of a former leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
It’s
not even his treachery in staying in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet and ensuring that Labour’s
approach to Brexit would spell disaster. It is all of these things and more. Starmer’s
only achievement to date is that he has made dishonesty into a fine art. And
let’s face it.This is the best that New
Labour can offer.
I
looked at his 10 pledges and there isn’t one he has kept. The first pledge was
to reverse Tory cuts to corporation tax.So what did he do when the Tories raised corporation tax?He opposed
them!
He
pledged to ‘put the Green New Deal at the heart of everything we do.’ Which
presumably is why he tried to keep the GND off the agenda at this week’s Labour
Party conference!
Perhaps it’s Pledge 4, Promote peace and human rights that
sticks most in the gullet. He promised
‘No more illegal wars. Introduce a Prevention of Military Intervention Act
and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales
and make us a force for international peace and justice.’
So what did he do?He supported the Tories Overseas Operations
Bill, sacking
3 shadow cabinet members who voted against a bill that effectively grants
immunity to British soldiers guilty of war crimes and torture! The Spycops Bill
that would render the activities of the Metropolitan Police’s Special Demonstration
Squad legal, including its rape of women, was also
supported by Starmer.
But perhaps the biggest lie of
all was Pledge 10 that promised ‘Effective
opposition to the Tories’. Instead we have had uncritical support of Boris
Johnson throughout the COVID crisis and use of that crisis to further the
privatisation of the NHS.
Ken Loach starts off by comparing
Starmer to a Mr Bean who is trying to be Stalin, unlike Gordon Brown who took
the reverse path! I’m not even sure that Stalin is the right comparison for
this tin pot dictator who best resembles an incompetent Asiatic despot.
This
is a superb demolition job on Starmer. Loach doesn’t spare Starmer as he pours
contempt on this miserable man. The exodus of 150,000 members and the
destruction of the party whose membership Corbyn virtually doubled into
becoming the largest political party in Europe will be Starmer’s main legacy.
We
only have to look at the lie that Starmer’s changing how leaders are elected in
order to give power back to ordinary trade union members.Just another small lie. If Starmer was
serious about giving power to trade unionists he would pledge to get rid of the
anti-trade union laws.
Starmer
promised to ‘root
out the poison’ of a non-existing anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.
Yet what has he done? Jewish members of the Labour Party are 5
times more likely to be suspended or expelled than non-Jewish members.
If Starmer (and the
Labour Right) had had any honesty they would have admitted that their concern
was support for the Israeli state not anti-Semitism.
Starmer
waited until he was elected Labour leader to reveal
that he was a ‘Zionist without qualification’. Just as he waited until he was
elected to reveal that a host of millionaires had funded
his campaign including Sir Trevor Chinn, who bankrolls a variety of Zionist groups
including Labour Friends of Israel, to the tune of £445,000.
Starmer
withdrew
of a Ramadan iftar after the Board of Deputies lobbied him to do so after it
was revealed, shock horror, that one of the organisers supported the boycott of
Israeli dates!
And
just to emphasise his racist and imperialist credentials, Starmer and that
other waste of space, Angela Rayner, decided
to speak at a Labour Friends of Israel/Jewish Labour Movement meeting on
the same day as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinians.
More Lies which the sheep swallowed
But
Loach does not simply demolish Starmer.He also provides us with an alternative. The Left has to grapple the nettle now or forever lose the opportunity
that the Corbyn Project and its dissolution has provided it with. We need
to build a new socialist movement, not a party, that can provide the basis for
a challenge to a Labour Party that is now a Tory Party Mark II.
The
Labour Party today under Starmer is a party of the British ruling class and a
safe alternative to the Tories when they fall out of favour with the electorate.
A party which will not provide an alternative either to capitalism or
imperialist war.
Watch
it and enjoy.
Tony Greenstein
I am also
reprinting this excellent resignation letter to Keir Starmer on Skwawkbox
from Stephen Smith, Faringdon town councillor and Labour conference delegate.
Stephen Smith has resigned his party membership and all his positions in the
local party after being targeted for suspension as part of the Labour
right’s attempt to protect Keir Starmer’s acting general secretary from
democracy – he has yet to decide whether he will remain a councillor.
Councillor and delegate’s
blistering resignation letter lists Starmer’s crimes against Labour, democracy
and the people
‘I
at least expected the most basic standards of honesty and integrity. How naive…
You can’t even lie competently… How fucking dare you?!’ Councillor resigns
membership and all party offices and tells Keir Starmer he is putting
‘insatiable factionalism’ above the needs of the country
Great to see the issues that Football Against Apartheid has been pushing ever since the adoption of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS is now mainstream leftist policy. "#StarmerOut has expelled more Black & Jewish party anti-racist, anti-apartheid, anti-Zionist members than any other political party" No doubt Starmer would have opposed the Jewish War Veterans in 1932.
"I visited Israel in Easter 2018 and prayed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. I am a Grade 2 Krav Maga [Israeli martial art] practitioner."
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Great to see the issues that Football Against Apartheid has been pushing ever since the adoption of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS is now mainstream leftist policy. "#StarmerOut has expelled more Black & Jewish party anti-racist, anti-apartheid, anti-Zionist members than any other political party" No doubt Starmer would have opposed the Jewish War Veterans in 1932.
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