After he dropped his Green Prosperity Plan, activists try to deliver, to Keir Starmer, a spine
‘My arbitrary fiscal rules are at fault’: Green New Deal Rising’s infographic attacking Keir Starmer’s decision to abandon policies that might save the environment in favour of profit-friendly opportunism.
Fair play to the activists from Green New Deal Rising for getting onto this as quickly as they did.
On the day the Labour Party dropped its pledge to spend £28 billion a year on green projects to boost the UK’s economy, they went straight up to Parliament to do this:
Delivery for Keir Starmer… pic.twitter.com/cxKpy9KLlR
— Green New Deal Rising (@GNDRising) February 8, 2024
And who can blame them?
In trying to make his party as “vanilla” as possible, Starmer has ditched every single policy that marked it out as being different from what we already have, while adopting anything that could make Labour look like the Conservatives.
The message to voters is: “Vote Labour for absolutely no change!”
I wonder who he hopes to impress with that.
Certainly not the members of Green New Deal Rising, who have had bad experiences with Starmer in the past:
“We need a green new deal now”
Starmer – “we did that last month”
Utter humiliation during one of the most boring speeches I’ve witnessed for some time pic.twitter.com/SxLJvEE1lB
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) July 6, 2023
Young people were ignored by @Keir_Starmer when we asked him where he stood on the #GreenNewDeal in Brighton today.
£85 billion is the minimum we would need to create millions of good green jobs.
But Keir won’t even commit to that? pic.twitter.com/k9UHHQRBqe
— Green New Deal Rising (@GNDRising) September 26, 2021
WATCH: Yesterday @Keir_Starmer ran away from us and said he was “too busy” (!) to talk about the climate crisis.
Today we challenged him on his refusal to take action and back the Green New Deal bill.
Words mean nothing Keir. We need urgent action. We need you to #BackTheBill pic.twitter.com/Duj2igzgH2
— Green New Deal Rising (@GNDRising) August 12, 2021
Just looking at the clips above, if This Writer had to choose between Starmer and his Labour cronies, and the Green New Deal Rising campaigners, I’d put the youngsters in Parliament every time.
Putting them next to each other simply emphasizes the lack of trustworthiness that oozes from the man in the suit.
I hope they – and everyone else who has a conscience – hammers the pledgebreaker with this until he is out of politics altogether.
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When Blair became leader I thought it was worth it because, after many years in the wilderness, his right wing views might be more palatable to the south east and ensure we got the Tories out. He did have some ideas about what he wanted to do although I disagreed with some of it. Sir Keir seems not to have any actual policies I can think of. Now that he has binned thinking about the environment I don’t think there’s anything that voters would be voting either ‘for’ or ‘against’ if they vote Labour.
He’s reduced it to ‘who else are you gonna vote for?’ in a rather sneering fashion. No one looks at manifestos anyway so it’ll be the few soundbites from the slick talker in the fancy suit who they deem acceptable enough to vote for to have a change from the Tories. He’ll win simply as voters want a change and nothing else.
But if there’s ‘boots on the ground’ by British troops anywhere or if it’s a particularly wet winter Thursday night and the voters forget their IDs then he may be skating on thinner ice than he’d like. But it looks like we are to be led by the least of us..
My standing advice is NOT to listen to the slick talk but to examine the individual candidates’ policy documents and vote for the individual candidate in your constituency who offers the most for you.
Your comments demonstrate the problem with that, which is that people insist on doing the least amount of work possible, vote according to whoever looks prettiest or makes them feel best, and then they end up being represented by scum.
My problem is that I can keep repeating this ad infinitum, ad nauseam, ad absurdum, and it won’t make a scrap of difference because hardly anybody will read it due to censorship by the big social media platforms.
Very reminiscent of how Starmer threw away the Uxbridge by election.
I totally agree with everything said about Starmer. He has made the Labour party unelectable, with his refusal to put the planet before profit, and his support of the genocide being committed in Palestine by Israel. But who can we vote for in the upcoming election to make sure we get the Tories out? Is it possible that Starmer was put in place to ensure that the anti-Tory vote is divided and become ineffectual?