Stop lying, BBC! Starmer wasn’t heckled over his mother but for failing to support the NHS
Why do people bother to pay the licence fee when BBC News feeds them lies?
The current editor-approved attack line against socialists is that people who – rightly – heckled Keir Starmer’s speech to the Labour conference were mocking him for talking about his mother being in intensive care.
This is a lie.
See it in action in this clip in which Laura Pidcock was asked for her reaction:
"It was long, wasn't it? I didn't think that was his moment"
Ex-Labour MP Laura Pidcock reacts to Keir Starmer's "quite uninspiring" speechhttps://t.co/WfJ1MPh5mT pic.twitter.com/l72CfIwoMv
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) September 29, 2021
Note that the false implication about Starmer’s mother isn’t fanfared – it’s just slipped into the clip to take you by surprise.
Here’s the reality of the situation:
Are the BBC really going with the line “Keir was heckled over his mother being in intensive care”. This is an appalling reframing of what happened. Starmer wanted to talk up the importance of NHS nurses so he was heckled over his refusal to commit to a proper pay rise for them!
— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) September 29, 2021
The correct news angle would have been to ask why Starmer doesn’t support a 15 per cent pay rise for nurses if he appreciates the work they did for (among others) his own mother. Isn’t it hypocritical and insensitive of him to use his own mother in such a way?
Starmer’s speech was full of similar howlers. Top of this list is his announcement of a new organisation, Labour Friends of the Police, on the day we heard how a police officer used his powers to arrest, kidnap, rape and murder a woman, and then burned the body.
If that is the kind of friend Keir Starmer wants, then he is no friend of yours.
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I think Labour will be helped to win the next election (look at the BBC coverage of their conference) and Starmer will introduce many unpopular neoliberal policies like patient (customer) billing for the NHS, to help ensure they never get into power again. Reject him now, the country is being engineered to reject Labour.