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The Owen Jones Podcast

Keir Starmer: A Dishonest Man

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer won the Labour leadership by offering radical domestic policies combined with party unity. As reports emerge that Starmer intends to abandon his solemn pledge in the election to hike income tax on the top 5% of earners - literally his first pledge - I ask a very basic question. If you care about Boris Johnson's dishonesty, but not Keir Starmer's dishonesty, do you really care about dishonesty at all? And what happens to our democracy when our leaders engage in such rampant dishonesty?


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0:00.0

I mean, I just thought we'd mentioned Labour there, and I suppose these are about Labour's

0:13.9

vision. Now, Keir Starmer, let's just have a little look at what happened, what kind

0:21.1

of revelation, if you like, on Friday, which was Paul War, who I'd say is someone who

0:29.8

the Labour leadership are very favourable towards. He's not the I. He said that Labour's likely

0:37.3

to ditch Jeremy Corbyn's 2019 pledge to high-income tax on those earning more than £80,000. Parties

0:43.0

look at more creative ways of making the rich pay more. I should say that's not just 2019.

0:47.6

I think 2019 manifesto, obviously, is associated now with an ATC Tory majority, get that.

0:56.6

It was also in the 2017 manifesto, because of 2019 manifesto, I think a lot of people

1:02.1

even, I think, around Jeremy Corbyn believe that that manifesto was just excessively policy,

1:09.1

heavy, because the Labour leadership would desperately, the time trying to shift the conversation

1:13.1

away from Brexit, which they succeeded in doing in 2017, but by 2019, the country was so

1:17.9

polarized, it just wasn't a runner at all. But anyway, that's why there's so many policies

1:23.0

at it. So even amongst many of the people around Corbyn's team, they kind of think, well,

1:26.4

2019 manifesto had a lot, it was noisy. The 2017 manifesto, on the other hand, was,

1:32.7

you know, described by Kirst Starrmer as the foundational document of the Labour Party

1:40.3

in the leadership contest. In fact, let's just be very clear, because Kirst Starrmer's

1:45.3

going back on this commitment to income tax, forget about the 2019 manifesto, it was

1:49.7

in his leadership campaign. So it was pledge number one. He did 10 pledges. Now, I think

1:56.2

some people don't understand, I don't want to be patronising here, but I think some

1:59.5

of Kirst Starrmer's most militant support don't understand what pledge means. The definition

2:03.9

of pledges a solemn promise or undertaking. Pledge number one, economic justice, increasing

2:10.1

income tax for top five percent of earners, reverse the Tory's cuts in corporation tax,

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