Keir Starmer In Crisis Over Gaza
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer's decision to back war crimes - then be dishonest about it - and refusal to support a crisis has plunged him into crisis. A massive internal revolt has now gripped Labour, demanding the party support peace - and that's down to you.
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| 0:00.0 | Firstly, a well done to you, for those who have marched against Israel's onslaught against Gaza, |
| 0:05.2 | for those who've written to their MPs, for those who've posted about what's going on, |
| 0:09.1 | using whatever platform, however big or small you have, sharing videos, articles, |
| 0:14.0 | not least platforming voices from Gaza itself, whatever you've done, no matter how big, |
| 0:19.2 | nor small the pressure is paying off. Now, our government arms and supports Israel, |
| 0:24.4 | that's why we have directly complicit and was currently unfolding in Gaza, the horror, |
| 0:28.9 | and that's without even talking about the historic role of British colonialism in the |
| 0:32.5 | least in all of this. Now, we want to force the government's position to change away from |
| 0:37.2 | the unquestioning support of Israel, that's the very least that we're fighting for in the current. |
| 0:44.0 | In the current calamity, and the first step to doing that is to force the labour opposition |
| 0:47.4 | to abandon its support for a military onslaught which has killed over 7,000 people, |
| 0:53.0 | including over 2,700 kids with many others trapped under the rubble. Now, communications have |
| 0:58.7 | been blocked in Gaza, the fear has to be now that the worst is to come. Now, at the moment, |
| 1:04.4 | the Conservatives know they have carte blanche to let, basically as well do whatever it wants, |
| 1:09.8 | because the opposition isn't putting it under any pressure. Now, if the opposition did take a |
| 1:14.2 | stand, it would galvanise public opinion, because the polling shows overwhelming support for a cease |
| 1:20.3 | fire, just needs leadership to give it to put pressure on the government, and so labour changing |
| 1:26.7 | its stance, some people go, what's the opposition, why is it matter? Because it will put massive |
| 1:30.2 | pressure on the government, given where public opinion is currently at. Now, because of people |
| 1:34.0 | like those watching or listening to this, here, Starmer is now under huge pressure with a big |
| 1:37.8 | revolt in the labour party. Before I talk through that revolt, here I was on Storm Huntly show in |
| 1:43.1 | Channel 5, discussing Starmer's support for war crimes and deceit over it, which is what triggered |
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