Apart
from a desire to become the next UK Prime Minister and a thirst for power, it's
difficult to know what Tory-lite Sir Keir Starmer-oid really believes in or
what he really stands for. The Labour Party leader can turn on a dime in his
quest for power and his pledges don't amount to very much.
As
the journalist Peter Oborne shows in this excellent Double Down News (DDN)
video, Starmer-oid has done a U-turn on most of his pledges. Starmer-oid is the
great dissembler and hypocrite who will say anything to get a vote. Yet, in an
age of social media, it's more difficult to dissemble because your deceit can
be exposed in the dusty archives of your forgotten past.
In
his younger days, Starmer-oid was a Trotskyist and a member of Socialist
Alternatives, which represented the British section of the International
Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (IRMT). Today, Starmer-oid wraps himself up in
the union jack and praises the monarchy. He's previously said that he prefers
Davos to Westminster. But in his younger days, as a Pabloite Trotskyist, he was
a fervent anti-capitalist and anti-Royalist. He was also in favour of giving
the trade unions greater power.
Starmer-oid
has often been accused of selling out, but he's not the only Labour big shot
that can be accused of being an apostate. Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson were
once members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Starmer-oid is
very much a political chameleon who can change colours to suit every occasion.
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Blair was never a communist
Your article on Keir Starmer and what he stands for captures the feeling among many possible voters . In attempting to become all things to all men , he may find himself appealing to no -one because of his inability to express what he stands for . Alternatively , it may all be a carefully constructed narrative designed to avoid any meaningful statements and fool the politically unsophisticated into believing that it is something substantial . It was an astute move to feature his history in the piece , given that information , at least it provides a semblance of balance against the shiny, superficial PR version that is presented to the electorate .
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