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Starmer’s refusal to support strikes shows his blind ambition [VIDEO]

Promises broken: Jeremy Vine also pressed Keir Starmer on his reasons for abandoning the 10 pledges on which he was elected Labour leader.

Here’s a balancing view to set against This Site’s earlier article about Keir Starmer’s plan to tackle the cost of living crisis.

In the same Jeremy Vine interview when he discussed that plan, Starmer refused to support strike action by the TSSA (Transport Salaried Staff Association) union, saying he had to focus on his own ambition to be prime minister.

This Site’s friend Cornish Damo has this to say about it:

He’s got a good point, hasn’t he?

Starmer also discussed with Vine his u-turn on plans to renationalise the privatised energy firms; apparently the Covid-19 pandemic changed everything and now he can’t justify it.

Damo says this is nonsense and – from the arguments This Writer has heard over the last few years – he’s the one making sense:

It’s all worth thinking about, when you’re weighing up whether a Starmer-led Labour Party deserves your support at the ballot box.

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Shocked out of his bubble: Jeremy Vine discovers the truth about the years of Tory rule

Shocked: Jeremy Vine.

Veteran broadcaster Jeremy Vine had a nasty shock when he saw a graph showing the change in average income between the richest and the poorest people in the UK.

While Tory dissemblers like Philip Hammond told the world the poorest have benefited the most from Tory tax and benefit changes, the chart by the OECD showed that – in real terms – the poorest people in the UK have lost money, while the richest have increased their income massively.

This is a man who has spent the last eight years reporting and commenting on every political and economic development the United Kingdom has undergone – and he had no idea that the poorest were being pushed further into poverty.

Some of our favourite commentators have drawn attention to his reaction – and the dissonance between it and the realities of life:

But the real question is: What difference will it make?

Now that Mr Vine knows what the stories he has been reporting actually mean, will it change the way he reports them?

Will he be allowed to ask the questions that need to be asked? Or will he just ignore them and carry on as normal?

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