Keir Starmer Tells You To Get Stuffed
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer's speech this week had a very clear message: if you believe in things like the rich paying a fair share of tax, that utilities such as energy should be publicly owned, or young people should be punished with student debt, then you're not welcome in the Labour party.
A lot of the focus has been on Jeremy Corbyn - and that issue does underline Starmer's lack of integrity. But his dishonesty is much more far reaching - and it represents an attack on democracy itself.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you think that the booming rich should pay a bit more in tax, a fair share of tax, |
| 0:04.4 | so we can invest more in our crumbling public services? Do you think that our key utilities, |
| 0:09.1 | like energy, for example, should be in public hands rather than cash cows for wealthy shareholders? |
| 0:15.6 | Do you think that private businesses have no place in our national health services because |
| 0:20.4 | they put profit before patients needs? Do you think that students shouldn't be saddled with |
| 0:25.3 | debt for daring to dream to your university education from which all of society benefits? Do you |
| 0:31.5 | think that we should support trade unions representing nurses, paramedics, care workers, teachers, |
| 0:37.6 | public servants, transport workers, the pillars of our society? Keep our country ticking |
| 0:42.8 | day after day when they take action to stop their wages collapsing and to go on strike to improve |
| 0:50.0 | their often woeful terms and conditions. If you believe those things, then Keir Starmer, |
| 0:55.9 | the leader of the Labour Party, has told you to go and take a running jump. That's really what |
| 1:02.0 | he speech this week was all about. Now, I know a lot of attention has focused on his treatment of |
| 1:07.0 | Jamie Corbyn, his predecessor, banning local party members from being able to have a say about |
| 1:12.8 | whether they re-select Jamie Corbyn as their Labour candidate for them to make their own decision, |
| 1:18.7 | which is despite a promise in the leadership election that members should be able to choose |
| 1:24.5 | in all cases who represent them without interference from the leadership. Let me just deal with |
| 1:29.5 | the Corbyn issue first. And I think, to be honest, you should park what you think about Jamie Corbyn |
| 1:34.3 | and focus, I think here on the issue of integrity and what sort of politician that Keir Starmer, |
| 1:39.7 | who is almost certain to be the next Prime Minister, what sort of politician he is. Now, of course, |
| 1:44.0 | Keir Starmer served in Corbyn's shadow cabinet. In fact, he owes his political career as it is now |
| 1:50.8 | to being appointed as Brexit Secretary, where he was able to flaunt his remain credentials, |
| 1:54.8 | which was crucial in becoming the successor to Jamie Corbyn. He campaigned, of course, for Corbyn |
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