Starmer’s Labour is Campbell on steroids
Western Daily Press, 29 May 2024, p. 19
Last week’s expulsion from the Labour Party of veteran former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tells us all we need to know about the current leader, Sir Keir Starmer.
I write as a former Labour Party member who voted for Rebecca Long-Bailey in the 2020 Labour leadership contest, held after Corbyn resigned. Throughout his disingenuous leadership campaign, Starmer flagrantly lied about his policy commitments, pretending to be a progressive left-wing candidate purely to mop up enough Corbyn supporters in order to win the contest. A matter of hours after the leadership result was announced, Starmer started his unprincipled purge of the party’s left wing by sacking shadow education secretary, Long-Bailey, on a completely bogus, trumped-up charge of ‘anti-semitism’. Along with seven other party members at the time, I submitted a very detailed formal complaint about Starmer’s disgraceful act – and of course, it was completely ignored.
Since then, Starmer has grandstanded to the mainstream media and the Israel lobby about ‘rooting out’ anti-semitism – which was never a major problem in the Labour Party, as numerous opinion polls at the time showed.
That there existed no truth or substance to Starmer’s grandstanding posturings didn’t matter a jot to him – as long as the headlines in the Daily Mail were the ‘right’ ones. ‘Alastair Campbell on steroids’, would be one way to describe Labour under Starmer.
In the forthcoming election, moreover, it is clear that a vote for Davos-loving Starmer will effectively be a vote for the World Economic Forum’s Tony Blair.
Corbyn is standing as an Independent candidate in Islington North in the coming election. Hundreds of us are going to be flooding to London to help his campaign and ensure that he’s re-elected to Parliament. It’s fascinating that the two current Independent MPs (the other is former Tory MP Andrew Bridgen) were both drummed out of their respective parties for wholly spurious, manufactured charges of anti-semitism.
The best way for democracy-loving voters to make their voice heard in the forthcomig election is to abandon the Uni-party choices, and vote for principled Independent candidates wherever they can.
Dr Richard House
Stroud, Gloucestershire
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