Starmer reckons his new policies aren’t ‘very’ different to the pledges he abandoned. Liar?
We shouldn’t be surprised at Keir Starmer’s latest two-faced outburst: back in 2015 he campaigned against ‘Israeli racism’ and now he is a staunch ally of that country’s government.
Keir Starmer – what a… politician!
No, the comment is not well-meant.
He even lies about lying, as far as I can see.
In an interview, ITV political editor Robert Peston said voters may have difficulty trusting a party leader who has abandoned all the policy pledges he made in order to get elected as leader.
Starmer responded with a claim that his current policies are “not very different” but this is not true. The policies on which he was elected were a continuation of Jeremy Corbyn’s centre-left socialism, while his current plans mark a shift to right-wing neoliberalism.
Think about the NHS: where before he was preaching a return to a fully publicly-owned service, now he wants to infect it with even more corporate profiteering.
And he’s saying he wants to stimulate the economy with lower taxes. Firstly, we all know that cutting taxes didn’t work so well for Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng – they crashed the economy; secondly, as ‘Marl Karx’ below points out…
Taxes are not at an all-time high.
Corporation Tax, Capital Gains Tax, and the top rate of Income Tax are all lower than they were 40 years ago. https://t.co/j7qSpuesRX
— Marl Karx (@BareLeft) May 9, 2023
So all Starmer achieved with his answer to Peston was to prove that he is not to be trusted – and neither can Labour, while he leads it.
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Were the traitor Starmer, and Johnson twins that were separated at birth? Both are proven pathological liars, both are self serving frauds that continually take the piss out of all of us, both are bought and paid for, both are corrupt, neither of them serve Britain or the British people…
When human beings breathe in, they need to release the air with oxygen extracted and carbon dioxide replacing it.
When Herr Sturmer breathes in, he needs to release the air with oxygen extracted and spoken untruths replacing it.