Starmer’s performative politics | Another Angry Voice
Once again the Angry Yorkshireman behind Another Angry Voice strips away the outer veneer of respectability to show the truth behind Keir Starmer’s performative politics.
In this article he lists some of the positive acts that Starmer’s Labour government, with its huge Parliamentary majority, could carry out – and contrasts them with what he has actually done: remove a portrait of Margaret Thatcher from a wall in 10 Downing Street.
This is not new behaviour; when Starmer was leader of the Opposition, he “took the knee” to show that “black lives matter” after the killing of George Floyd by US police [pictured] – but then backtracked on everything that was intended by the symbolic gesture.
Here’s an excerpt from the AAV article:
Starmer could begin reversing Thatcher’s diabolical assault on social housing that’s seen the social housing stock massively depleted, and millions of people trapped in rip-off private rents, but he won’t (especially since he’s literally tripled the number of private landlords on the Labour benches).
Starmer could rid Britain of the debilitating infestation of privatisation profiteers in our vital infrastructure and services (especially water and energy), but he’s actually plotting to expand this parasitical infestation even deeper into the NHS.
Starmer could move away from the neoliberal economic madness introduced by Thatcher in 1979, and move Britain back towards being a successful social democratic “mixed economy”, but he won’t because British politics has shifted so far to the right that Thatcher would probably be one of the more left-wing figures if she were in Starmer’s cabinet today.
With a vast parliamentary majority behind him, Keir Starmer could begin reversing many of Margaret Thatcher’s most toxic legacies, instead he’s just performatively removed a Thatcher portrait.
Instead of tackling any of these issues head on, Starmer’s intent on playing performative politics by simply removing a portrait of Thatcher from Downing Street, whilst sticking to her hard-right economic agenda.
Read the rest of this great article here: Starmer’s performative politics – Another Angry Voice
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Starmer could repeal the Conservative vote suppression laws but has shown no interest in doing so.
I remember the first time I heard Margaret Thatcher explain how the NHS would thrive with “Internal Markets” to drive greater efficiency, reduce waiting times and save ‘loads a money’. It sounded nonsensical to have people driving across the country to have much needed operations at a hub, for example all knee replacements in the South of England could be carried out in Milton Keynes. Now that we have seen some of Reagan’s/Friedman’s/Thatcher’s ideas in practice we recognise many of the dangers, but Starmer seems quite happy to set us back another 10 years using dangerous Tory dogma. I fear the worst, but will reserve judgement until Mrs Joicey has made her Autumn Statement.