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Keir Starmer comes unstuck over Corbyn, his five missions, and his 10 pledges

Is Labour leader Keir Starmer really up to the job?

At the moment, he’s coming across as a shifty liar who doesn’t stand for anything and simply wants power for its own sake.

His latest pose is to say he was never on good terms with former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who he supported as a prospective future UK prime minister in two general elections.

real friend of Mr Corbyn – Diane Abbott – has corrected the record on that for him:

We have video clips of Starmer saying Mr Corbyn would be a great prime minister. I know it’s not the same as saying he was a personal friend, but the support – at the time – was clear, and it makes Starmer’s current volte face all the more telling.

Starmer’s big announcement last week was his ‘Five Missions’ for the Labour Party to restore the UK’s floundering fortunes – but he struggled to put meat on their bones at interview. For example:

Worse than that was a nearly 15-minute interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in which the interviewer – was it that notorious Tory Nick Robinson? – tore him to shreds.

It is a long-ish listen but well worth the time, and I’ve put it on YouTube:

Perhaps the lack of substance is best clarified in the following tweet from Clare Hepworth, whose observations are always well worth noting:

Yeah, he was criticised on Today for using a lot of jargon in his ‘Five Missions’ documentation too. Can’t this guy make himself clear?

And if he can’t – or won’t… is this really the man we want leading the UK after the next election – even if we know Rishi Sunak can’t be allowed to stay?


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Labour now has Five Missions – to replace Starmer’s 10 Pledges that he betrayed?

Keir Starmer has revealed what he describes as Labour’s “Five Missions for a Better Britain” – as foreshadowed by Rishi Sunak (!) in Prime Minister’s Questions.

We’ll come back to Sunak shortly, but first: should we trust Starmer to take these “missions” – whatever they are – forward to a general election?

No.

Of course not.

This is a man who stood for the Labour leadership on 10 “pledges” – all of which he has since betrayed.

The only way we can expect him to honour this latest relaunch in any way is if the promises it contains are so loosely-worded, he can make them seem to mean anything.

So let’s hear what he has to say:

So he reckons he’ll make the UK the best-performing economy in the G7; restore the NHS to greatness; crack down on crime; break down barriers to opportunity; and turn the UK into a “clean energy superpower”.

I think he’d fall at the first hurdle. With sub-Tory economic ideas and an adherence to Brexit, restoring the UK’s economy will be an impossible task.

We already know he’s planning to privatise more of the NHS in an utter betrayal of Labour’s greatest achievement.

Need I go on?

His full speech is here, if you can stomach it:

But let’s get back to Rishi Sunak.

I reckon he made the best comment on Starmer’s “missions” – before even hearing what they were. It’s the last item on his list in this clip:

Sunak’s Tories are no better, of course. Labour is only high in the polls at the moment because the Conservatives have repeatedly self-harmed over 13 years of administrative incompetence.

With crud like this leading our two most popular political organisations, how is the UK ever going to climb out of the hole they have dug for us?


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Keir

Will YOU call on Labour’s would-be leaders to support the People’s 10 Pledges, rather than the Board of Deputies’?

Labour’s remaining leadership candidates: will you ask them to reject the demands of a group that represents, at best, a minority of a minority and ask them to embrace a wider, better version?

A blogger who posted her own alternatives to the ’10 pledges’ – demands the Board of Deputies of British Jews tried to foist on the Labour Party – has won the support of thousands of readers.

This Site reported on Kay Green’s alternative pledges here – and she acknowledged the boost in a follow-up piece, calling for action to make Labour’s would-be leaders take notice.

Here are her main points:

Here’s a link to OUR Ten Pledges Don’t lose it.

  1. Send a link to your chosen leadership candidates, and ask them what they think.
  2. Send a link to your MP, and ask him/her if they endorse them.
  3. Send a link to Jennie Formby, and ask her to tell the NEC we prefer them.
  4. Send a link to ALL the NEC members!
  5. Present OUR Ten Pledges to your CLP as a motion to the NEC.
  6. Ask your CLP to put them forward as a motion for conference (and/or women’s conference).
  7. Present them to your Trade Union branch, socialist society or local assembly, and ask them to recommend them to the Labour Party.
  8. Send them to your favourite lefty blog or newspaper (mine’s the Morning Star) and ask them to write about them.
  9. Share this blog on different social media, and in your favourite groups, and ask them for more ideas about how to promote OUR Ten Pledges in the Party.
  10. Promise yourself you’ll never forget that leaders can be led. Whoever becomes leader, and whatever they may personally sign up to, if a membership of half a million are clear and politely persistent about wanting something different, different will happen.

And do please keep in touch. If you do any of these ten things, or if you think of other things to do, please pop back to the Ten Pledges blog post and leave a comment to let everyone know.

They may have knocked Jeremy Corbyn out (for now) but they can’t kill the movement he inspired unless we decide to do nothing.

What are you going to do?

Read the full article here: YOU have the power – Kay Green

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