“He’s a Tory” hashtag intended for David Cameron impacts instead… on KEIR STARMER
Keir Starmer: it seems the nation believes he is a Conservative cuckoo, only pretending he believes in Labour values. But will voters do enough to push him out of that party’s leadership on May 6?
This is the reason Labour is going to lose seats in the local elections next month, in a nutshell.
As I write this, the phrase “He’s a Tory” is trending on Twitter. It was intended as an explanation of David Cameron’s behaviour in lobbying his former colleagues in the Conservative government on behalf of his subsequent employer:
It's because he's a Tory. They're all greedy. The Conservative Party should be renamed the Selfish Party.
— Bollocks to Westminster! (@ExitTheUnion) April 12, 2021
He's a Tory it'll be swept under the carpet and "lessons learned" now if it were a labour MP they'd be cat calls to remove them and inflict the harshest punishments
— just a person (@Atime4change) April 12, 2021
Well he's a Tory, he is also loosely connected to the royal family, he's done no worse that many of the other crooks in the cabinet.
To arrest him would be to open the floodgates for the rest of their wrongdoing.— The Grim Reaper. (@mcm_home) April 12, 2021
No shit Sherlock..
He was a member of the Bullingdon Club
He's a Tory
He's a greed soaked bast#rd
He was Prime Minister
Now I wonder who he reminds me of…? https://t.co/1u5aJ3MBaV— Fletch (@Paul_Kearns01) April 12, 2021
He's a Tory, but not just any Tory, he's…… an Eton Tory.
— Social Bloke (@bloke_social) April 12, 2021
But it has been hijacked – unintentionally, it seems – by critics of Keir Starmer who have taken it to refer to the Labour leader’s own political leanings:
Saw He's a Tory trending and honestly thought it was about Keir Starmer.
— Sam Went (@SamJWent) April 12, 2021
I see Keir Starmer is trending. Is it because "he's a Tory"?
— Pen Jf (@Humdiha) April 12, 2021
https://twitter.com/Teo_plays_games/status/1381228152324771840
He's a Tory is trending on Twitter in the UK. That the tweets are split between being about either Cameron and Starmer says it all. pic.twitter.com/P0mdhlevVH
— Devutopia (@D_Raval) April 12, 2021
Yes, it says it all.
Most particularly, it says that Labour voters will abandon that party at the local elections next month.
The only question now is whether they will just stay at home, meaning the proportion of people voting will fall but the result is unlikely to be significantly different from usual.
Alternatively, they might choose to make their vote count by handing it to someone else. A boost for one of the minority parties like the Greens (or – more likely in the current climate – nationalists like Plaid Cymru or the SNP) would be a serious blow for Starmer’s credibility, along with that of the Labour Party he leads and may prompt a rethink of his leadership abilities.
It depends on how disaffected Labour voters feel.
Do they think withholding their vote will achieve anything?
Or do they actually want to push Labour into being better?
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greens have got my vote, until we get a socialist back in charge of 8labour, it will be a long time before the blairites let a socialist anywhere near the leadership.
The authors question of >>Do they think withholding their vote will achieve anything? YES!!!
Giving a vote to this cult of new Labour 2.0 will encourage this BS tory-lite rubbish crusade to continue. Either Labour is a socialist party or it’s this cult! If it’s not socialist why should I vote for an ideology I despise just because it still has the words Labour party attached but that’s all that remains. No, I am a socialist if I can’t vote for a socialist, I will not vote tactically of any of that BS as I live in a Tory safe seat Blurg…
This is why I keep on repeating if Labour wants to walk away from socialism then we need to have a socialist party. But this time NO right wing ever it’s just a cancer that destroys the host with gread and arrogant self-serving scumbags. Just like Starmer and yes he is a Tory!
My point was that not voting at all will not help or change the situation; enough people will still vote Tory/Labour for the status quo to continue.
The only way to effect change is to vote for one of the minor parties.
Vote Tusc anti cuts party in local elections, not Labour, and get the real socialists into the council, to help people in ever more dire need.
This is where Tusc is running https://www.tusc.org.uk/txt/441.pdf