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Green Parliamentary candidate proves herself better than many in Labour

Jeremy Corbyn: it’s funny how a Green Party candidate can apologise for falsely accusing him of anti-Semitism, but people in the Labour Party – including the leader who succeeded Corbyn – cannot.

A Green Party candidate has shown herself to be better than many members of Labour – by admitting she was wrong and apologising.

Take a look at the following:

So the claim was that Green Party members called Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite and have yet to apologise. Which Green Party members?

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Turns out one had been discovered earlier:

But here’s a thing. Having discovered that her words from 2020 had been resurrected and thrown at her political party, Chesca Walton published a statement. This one:

She passed her comment in anger, at a time when she was not a Green Party member. She accepted that her words were ill-judged and wholeheartedly apologised.

And she encouraged anybody who thinks they can do better to put themselves forward as electoral candidates too – for an excellent reason.

She’s not quite right in what she says. Heather Mendick points out: “It is good to see someone in politics saying: I’m sorry, I was wrong. It shows openness and learning. But for the record, Jeremy Corbyn never shared antisemitic content, he’s an awesome constituency MP, and you will have to look far and wide to find a better politician.”

The reason I mention all this is simple.

Jeremy Corbyn was attacked with false accusations of anti-Semitism by people within his own party – Labour. Eventually – in 2020 – he was ousted from the Parliamentary Labour Party and made to sit in the House of Commons as an Independent.

All the accusations against Mr Corbyn have – as Ms Walton said – been disproved.

How many current Labour Party members – including MPs – have apologised in as full and frank a way as she did? When can we expect an apology from current leader Keir Starmer?

If Mr Corbyn doesn’t get one, then it’s another – big – reason for voters to abandon lying Labour and turn to someone else.

To the Green Party, maybe.

And in Hackney South, where the sitting MP is Meg Hillier, who once betrayed benefit claimants by abstaining on the Tories plan to introduce the benefit cap (which is now well-established), no doubt among other crimes against the electorate – and where Ms Walton is the Green Party?

Well, we’ll see, shall we?


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Keir Starmer, Wes Streeting, Labour – all useless. Vote Green/Independent?

Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting: they should rename their party ‘No Labour’.

Keir Starmer and his shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting provided ample examples of reasons not to vote for their Labour Party during the Sunday morning media round today (January 14, 2024).

I doubt I even have to provide much commentary on the following. It speaks for itself.

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Here’s Starmer on why he supported attacking one of the world’s poorest countries:

Here’s a response that puts his words in context:

Starmer’s support for the attack represents a massive u-turn in his own personal commitments – as Laura Kuenssberg pointed out to him. His response was beyond parody:

So, in Keir Starmer’s world, air strikes are not military operations. This may explain why he has not condemned Israel’s carpet-bombing of Gaza that has killed so many thousands of men, women and children.

Here’s Starmer on why his use of a private, highly-polluting plane is perfectly reasonable and Rishi Sunak doing exactly the same is outrageous:

So he’s happy to pollute, even when there are scheduled flights, and even when a telephone conversation would probably be perfectly appropriate. Now we know.

Green Party deputy leader Zack Polanski made the facts clear for us all:

Closer to home, Starmer showed that he fully supports the Tory government’s persecution of refugees and asylum-seekers:

Streeting supported Starmer – and the Tories – when he was interviewed by Trevor Phillips:

Streeting also defended Starmer’s u-turn on having Parliamentary votes before military action:

Streeting is a member of Labour Friends of Israel. Here he is, explaining why he doesn’t want to pay attention to the genocide hearings at the International Court of Justice (notice his about-turn on calls for an Israel/Gaza ceasefire):

Meanwhile, Starmer’s party is losing the support of its own elected representatives because of its determination to stand with genocidal Israel:

And the wider public?

All of this is a huge bonus to the smaller political parties and independents – or would be, if they were allowed to have a voice in the mass media. Apparently they aren’t:

It goes for Independents, too. How many people in Kensington and Bayswater know about this?

Why not?

Perhaps it’s time to give a platform to people who have something to say.


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Drug policy: are the Greens really the only adults in the room?

Candidate: it seems the Green Party has a serious candidate in the race to be mayor of London after an election this year.

It seems the campaign to elect a new mayor of London has more than two serious candidates this time.

Here’s Zoe Garbett of the Green Party, putting forward a policy to tackle rising drug-related deaths in the city:

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Are there any experts in preventing drug deaths reading this, who can explain whether her words make good sense? If not, what would?


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After Keir Starmer’s speech, people turn to the Green Party

Keir Starmer: Labour’s poll lead over the Tories may have dropped after his speech.

Keir Starmer gave his big New Year speech, and it landed like a lump of lead.

As This Site reported on January 2, Starmer was appealing for disillusioned stay-at-home voters to turn out for the next general election, warning that apathy could keep the Tories in power.

This Writer knew it was going to be bad when I saw this post on ‘X’:

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Nobody with any influence was going to take it seriously, then – and how could they, when the Labour leader who has been lying to the nation since before he was elected to that post in 2020 bemoaned the fact that people don’t trust politicians any more?

There was a bit of guff about offering “fundamental change”, but how fundamental was it, really?

If all he has to offer are warmed-over Tory policies, then he has nothing to offer at all – and even the media representatives at the event picked up on this:

We’ll come back to the Green Party momentarily, but let’s examine a couple more elements that put the seal on Starmer’s shame. First, his failure to act properly with regard to Peter Mandelson’s relationship with paedophiliacs’ pimp Jeffrey Epstein:

As soon as Mandelson’s alleged connection with Epstein became known to him – which may have been before it was public knowledge – Starmer should have acted to find out the facts, and done whatever was necessary to safeguard the reputation of Labour. He didn’t.

It is now years since we discovered the Tory whips had a file covering the illegal activities – many of them sexual – of a large number of that party’s MPs. Is it realistic to believe that Labour does not have a similar dossier? And if Labour doesn’t, isn’t this a failure on Starmer’s part? He should be ensuring that nobody represents his party who isn’t as pure as the driven snow.

Secondly – and not mentioned at the event – is the inherent hypocrisy of Starmer’s message, appealing for voters who may have turned away from Labour to come back and support him. It suggests a selective amnesia – forgetting that he is the Labour leader who pushed so many of them away:

Yes, people have found another party to support. Which party?

That’s right – the Green Party is the preference for disillusioned former Labour members and supporters – and deputy leader Zack Polanski was quick to capitalise on that:

I have seen – and responded to – some arguments that the Greens don’t have enough support, from silly, silly people:

The argument supports the status quo that merely passes power between two sets of politicians that are equally corrupt, allowing them to divide the prosperity provided by the world’s sixth largest economy between them while leaving nothing for the rest of us.

And it puts far too much influence in the hands of the polling companies, who are mostly run by people who support right-wing politics. What makes you think they will ever admit what the majority of people in the UK really want?

Starmer reckons it doesn’t matter what he says or how he is criticised, because voters don’t have an alternative – and supporters like “Jank”, above, seem keen to prove him right.

How about we all spend this year proving both of them wrong?


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Did Green Party ‘hit list’ of MPs who didn’t vote for Gaza ceasefire really endanger them?

Keir Starmer: he says he’s afraid for the future of his family after he supported the continued slaughter of Palestinian families by the Israeli war machine.

The Green Party has come under fire – particularly from Labour – for publishing what some are calling a “hit list” of MPs who did not support calls for a ceasefire in Gaza at a Parliamentary vote last week.

Some MPs have been exposed to mass demonstrations outside their offices – and in some cases vandalisation of those buildings.

The victims – and others – have claimed that publication of their voting choice has endangered them.

But the way every MP votes in every Parliamentary decision is always available to the public. So why are they whining?

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MPs knew the vote was going to be contentious before they got anywhere near a voting lobby and were publishing their own commentaries on why they intended to oppose a ceasefire in advance of it.

Sadly, in many cases, their claims seem to have fallen short of the kind of understanding the public expects them to have:

After the vote, people were calling for heads to roll independently. Here’s comedian Francesca Martinez on Keir Starmer:

And here, Stats for Lefties calls out hypocrisy by a nonentity Labour frontbencher called Matt Western (who?):

But the Green Party ‘X’ post highlighting every MP who opposed a ceasefire attracted hate from the moment it appeared. Cllr John Haywood appears to make a good point:

The point seemed to be hammered home when this happened:

But then, consider this response to an MP’s employee:

Yes. Actions have consequences. A positive vote for a ceasefire could have led to more positive action that could, eventually, have put a stop to scenes like that which “Lady Blah Blah” highlighted. Employees of MPs who voted against that can’t really say they are working to improve people’s lives in such instances. Can they?

Labour leader Keir Starmer said he is not worried about his own safety but has concerns for that of his family – presumably as a result of this vote:

Of course, nobody should feel endangered as a result of a vote in Parliament. Equally, they need to remember that they are only in Parliament to enact the will of the people – and 76 per cent of the UK public (that’s more than three-quarters) want peace in Gaza.

If a member of Parliament votes against the will of their constituents – having been made fully aware of that will in advance of the vote – then they need to accept that there may be consequences. If those consequences are extreme, they may wish to implement defensive measures – especially if people cross the line into illegality.

This Writer is a journalist and has been for more than 30 years. In that time I have received threats of violence, death, “we know where you live”… the whole gamut. Mostly those have been nothing more than people letting off steam and nothing more came of them.

None of them stopped me from doing my job. But then, my job was always defending the vulnerable against powerful, vested interests. I was always in the right. Those who voted against a ceasefire cannot make the same claim.

Perhaps we should look for other reasons these MPs are complaining…

It seems likely, doesn’t it?

Is this the start of an attack on MPs’ accountability? If so, it must be opposed.

“People have a right to know how their MP votes in parliament. If these MPs do not like being held to account then they are in the wrong job.”

And here’s another thought:

Finally, the sound and fury over people who voted against a ceasefire has obscured the fact that people who voted for it have also been targeted:

Was this deliberate? Make a lot of noise about being victims so that other victims go unnoticed?

That would be utterly despicable.


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Lies that won’t die: Look who’s afraid of this former Labour candidate winning for the Greens!

Jo Bird: Bigoted witch-hunters are again conducting a hate campaign to sabotage her chances of winning a Parliamentary seat from Labour – but the facts are against them.

A woman who was unfairly expelled from the Labour Party while she was running for election to its ruling NEC is to stand as the Green Party’s candidate for Birkenhead in the next general election – and the false accusations against her have suddenly re-emerged.

Somebody must be terrified that Jo Bird will take the seat!

Ms Bird was originally suspended by Labour – for just nine days – after making a self-deprecating remark that their should be “Jew process” when considering allegations of anti-Semitism against party members.

She was suspended again when she was running for election to Labour’s ruling body, the NEC.

Much was made of this at the time, including by the Jewish Chronicle. Ms Bird complained to press regulator IPSO about inaccuracies in its article, and the eventual finding came back in her favour.

But we live in an age of despicable lies that won’t die – and, now that she has been announced as the Green Party’s Birkenhead candidate, they have resurfaced – to derision from those of us who know the facts:

Fortunately she has plenty of support. This is just one example:

We know why this is happening: the Green Party is in an excellent position to take Birkenhead from Labour right-winger Alison McGovern*, so Labour is wheeling out its old, false, accusations against that party’s candidate.

This is politics of the dirtiest kind. If you live in Birkenhead and you were thinking of Labour before, think again now.

*McGovern beat left-wing candidate Mick Whitley in a selection contest after boundary changes:


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Starmer shouts down young people – in speech saying youngsters should speak up

Shutting down young voices: after this incident it is clear that, despite his own speechifying, Keir Starmer doesn’t want to allow anybody to speak up for themselves.

This is too good to leave for the News in tweets: while giving a speech on how young people need to learn how to express themselves vocally, Keir Starmer was challenged by two young people on Labour policy – and told them to shut up.

The youths from Green New Deal Rising were standing as part of a group of youngsters Starmer had arranged behind himself to make a good photo – but while he was talking about “oracy”, and his desire for people to be able to express themselves verbally, as well as on paper, they stepped forward.

This is what happened:

Another commentator, tweeting a similar clip, stated: “Keir Starmer making a speech about how important it is that young people learn how to express themselves & articulate their thoughts clearly. Starmer to young people expressing themselves & articulating their thoughts clearly: stop drowning other people out.”

Quite.

Worse than what happened today (Thursday, July 6, 2023) is the fact that Starmer has form in cold-shouldering young people from Green New Deal.

Remember this, from a recent Labour Party Conference?

Put it all together and not only do you know for sure that Rishi Sunak isn’t the only leader of a UK political party who is “simply uninterested” in the environment – Starmer couldn’t care less either…

But you can also be sure that, for all his own speechifying, he really doesn’t want anybody to be allowed – let alone able – to speak for themselves.


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Labour does u-turn on green investment pledge. Does that party have ANY policies at all?

Rachel Reeves: it’s a big smile but the eyes are utterly vacant – like her policy platform.

Rachel Reeves has announced yet another StarmerLabour u-turn, leaving voters questioning whether the party has any policies it will not betray and asking why they should ever vote for it.

Speaking on the BBC’s Today programme, Reeves scrapped Labour’s promise to invest £28 billion per year on green projects, funded by borrowing. This was in line with a Labour commitment that it would only borrow to invest, and not to support day-to-day spending.

She said she would increase investment after the time of the election, reaching £28 billion per year “after 2027”.

How long after 2027? We’ve heard weasel words like these before. It’s a “sometime/never” promise that means nothing.

Remember: the entire planet is in an environmental crisis, with catastrophic and irreversible disaster only a few short years away if no change happens.

Tory politicians have been talked out of shifting to green policies by the fossil-fuel industrialists who stand to lose profit by the change. They probably threatened to cut donations to the party.

Has the same now happened to Labour?

The announcement has been greeted with disgust on the social media.

See what I mean?

That’s an easy question to answer: under Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy, Wes Streeting and the rest, UK Labour stands for the acquisition of power for its own sake and the enrichment of the individuals named above – in the same way Tony Blair’s New Labour did. Or so it seems to me.

Labour’s problem now is the sense of betrayal that voters are feeling across the nation:

And those voters are already looking for alternatives:

People will certainly be looking for a political movement to support that won’t betray its promises and make liars of its representatives on a regular basis.

Obviously that won’t be Labour. Let’s be honest – it hasn’t been Labour for years. Think of the way Starmer lied his way into the party leadership and then systematically ditched every single promise he made in order to get there.

Who will you support, now?


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Did Damian Green just explain what made him want to be a politician?

Damian Green: here he demonstrates his technique for ensuring he didn’t swallow any sewage while swimming in it. Possibly.

Former Cabinet minister Damian Green has tried to justify all the sewage the water companies – privatised by Tories in the 1980s, remember – have been dumping in our rivers by saying he used to swim in it when he was a child:

Did he really?

I remember being warned not to swim in rivers as a child (I’m 13 years younger than Green), because of pollution. Maybe it had become worse in the intervening decade or so, but I still find his confession that he swam in other people’s excrement utterly remarkable – and revolting.

It has attracted exactly the kind of response one should expect:

Yes indeed – although we should remember that he was sacked from his Cabinet position for having filth of a different kind on his Parliamentary laptop (computer).

My personal opinion was that, having swum in … that as a boy, it explains why Green wanted to be a Tory politician in later life; he enjoyed the experience so much, he wanted to repeat it on a long-term basis.

And it has spawned a new strand of satire:


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House prices will fall under a Labour government: it’ll build on Green Belt, says Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer: he’s pointing where he wants the value of people’s housing to go – down.

Here’s another Keir Starmer promise that may never be honoured.

He reckons house prices will fall under a Labour government because he’ll boost the supply of housing – build new homes.

So for many homeowners, the biggest investment they have ever made in their lives will lose value, thanks to Labour.

And there is no guarantee that the people who need new housing will be able to afford whatever Starmer may build.

Here’s what he said:

“At the moment, one of the reasons that house prices are so high is because people hold land, trying to ensure that it gains as much value as possible,” he said.

The Labour leader added: “Developers and landowners actually have a vested interest in not building so many houses, because that keeps the price high. We want to change that model and make sure that many, many more houses are built – and that the price comes down.”

He did make an interesting point about building on the Green Belt; and having just heard a discussion of this on the BBC’s Politics Live, it seems clear that a lot of nonsense is talked about this.

Starmer said a discussion was needed on building over the Green Belt, but added that he wanted to end confusion in rules that meant housing was built over a playing field in Maidstone, rather than a car park, because the car park was classified as being in the Green Belt.

To This Writer, the answer is to re-classify the car park so it isn’t in the Green Belt any more (how did it get put into the Green Belt in the first place?) – and then there would be no need to legislate to allow building in the Green Belt at all.

It should be clear to everybody that green land should be preserved, for the good of us all.

Ultimately, this seems yet another attempt by Starmer to cripple his own party’s electoral chances.

Current homeowners won’t support a party that actively campaigns to make them poorer by reducing the value of their houses, and potential homeowners won’t want to be forced to choose between having a new house and taking away everybody’s green space.

If he isn’t intentionally trying to sabotage his party’s chances, then he needs to learn how to do something that should be as natural to a lawyer as breathing: he needs to think before speaking.

Source: House prices will fall under Labour government, says Keir Starmer


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