If Keir Starmer preferred Boris Johnson over Jeremy Corbyn, why wasn’t he a Tory in 2019?
Keir Starmer: how many own goals must he score before Labour Party members decide his game is over?
Wow. Asked five times if he thought Jeremy Corbyn would be a better prime minister than Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer would not answer.
That’s as good as an admission that he actually preferred Johnson – but couldn’t say so because that would have meant admitting he was a massive hypocrite, and possibly even that he had actively sabotaged Corbyn’s 2019 election campaign to prevent him from winning.
(We hear that many other allegedly Labour representatives did.)
The confrontation happened on Radio 4’s Today programme and incensed large numbers of Labour supporters listening. This is just one of the milder responses on Twitter:
Can I just say, to help out Keir Starmer, yes, @jeremycorbyn would have been a million times better leader than Johnson.
Dedicated to public service, serious, internationalist, ambitious in his plans for housing, the NHS, pay and the environment, Corbyn was the man.
— Alan Gibbons (@mygibbo) November 19, 2021
Perhaps more important is this question: why do political reporters still feel the need to ask about an election that happened nearly two years ago?
Here’s a possible answer:
I think the reason is simple. The media establishment helped to crush an effort at political reform & they need to keep justifying this to themselves & eachother. https://t.co/ETqxLbb3ux
— Tom Mills (@ta_mills) November 19, 2021
Inevitably, listeners came up with their own answer to a question that, although unasked on air, occurred to many of them:
https://twitter.com/RD_Hale_/status/1461702230483034117
And public opinion matters. Starmer has shot himself in the foot yet again – by holding his tongue.
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we all know starmer sabotaged the 2019 election! he is well in bed with the far right wing Israeli government judging by his speech at their event he attended!
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