294: Starmer’s one-party state | David Starkey

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🗓️ 31 July 2024

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What does Keir Starmer actually want? The UK’s new Labour prime minister is usually described as moderate, pragmatic and non-ideological. Here, historian and broadcaster David Starkey argues that this is an illusion. Starmer, Starkey explains, is a fierce anti-democrat. He wants to transfer power from the UK’s elected parliament to unelected bodies, from the courts to the civil service to the quangos. His party will establish the supremacy of the ‘Blob’, all while cracking down hard on free speech. Our democracy and liberty are in peril.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Fraser here. You're about to hear a conversation I had with the historian David Starkey
0:05.2	about the new Labour government. This was recorded for Spiked YouTube channel.
0:09.8	If you weren't already aware, Spiked Producers regular video content from a filmed version of the Spiked
0:15.3	Podcast to short video polemics, to interviews with some of our favorite thinkers like this one.
0:21.1	So do check out our YouTube channel and subscribe so that you never miss
0:24.6	anything new. Sir Kiea Storm Casey, he is a believer in the supremacy of
0:31.6	lawyers rules which are enforced by people like him and prevent
0:36.8	anybody else from having a say in anything.
0:39.2	It's profoundly undemocratic.
0:41.6	It is an endeavor to create a one-party state. What's needed is for
0:46.0	the little people to take new control of politics.
0:51.1	Hello, I'm Fraser Myers, Deputy Editor of Spiked and I'm delighted to welcome David Starkey.
0:59.2	David will need absolutely no introduction to most of you at home. He is one of the UK's most eminent historians and most
1:05.2	combative TV broadcasters as well. A thug. An intellectual thug.
1:10.7	An intellectual thug. Let's get it right.
1:14.0	So David, I wanted to talk to you about the new labor government that we currently find ourselves living under.
1:19.0	Change.
1:20.0	Get your language right.
1:22.0	I mean new, not as in capital n new but new as in coming in now. A lot of people talk about
1:29.2	kirstarma as being a moderate. They look at the labor manifesto and say that it was very thin, very light on promises.
1:36.8	But you've argued that actually labor's program is a lot more substantial and
1:41.1	perhaps a lot more worrying than a lot of people have been
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