Did Starmer just admit to sabotaging Labour’s 2019 General Election?

Right, so last night we had the Sky News party leader interviews didn’t we and frankly neither Sunak or Starmer did well, it was very much a case of coming away and thinking, I’m, not voting for either of these con artists frankly in my view, they are one as bad as each other, they’re both Tories, we should run a mile and definitely be taking our votes elsewhere, but the Starmer interview was notable because he really gave an insight, not only into the sort of person he is, by his reactions to the audience – the electorate effectively in this situation – but also insofar as what he said of the last General Election campaign for Labour, what his actions were then, versus his position now and what he’s done as leader of the Labour Party since and in both of these matters, I believe he really did show his true colours.
Right, so Keir Starmer, being interviewed by Beth Rigby on Sky last night did not have a fun time of it, the audience were not going to put up with rote responses the oft repeated phrases or any of that, even down to one person calling him robotic, to which he froze in response, a MayBot moment perhaps:
StarmBot would be a bit of a rip off wouldn’t it? Perhaps KeirBorg or RoboStarmer might be a better fit? Keithtronic 2000 though that one actually sounds like it would be good at something.
For me though, there were two standout moments and the first one relates to just how fed up with Starmer’s responses to certain questions the public is, but also his reaction to that was very telling:
So Starmer finally got the reaction to his ‘my dad was a toolmaker, my mum was a nurse’ line that he deserved, people have caught onto the fact that there are so many phrases Starmer incessantly repeats as if they are valid answers to a multitude of questions he gets asked, to sell these working class credentials he claims to have, despite it being rather difficult to imagine that growing up in the 60’s and 70’s as Starmer did, with both parents working, that he couldn’t make ends meet. That’s the truth of today’s families, he knows that, he’s playing on it. He tried it on when it came to Sky TV too, a line Sunak had come out with, that he didn’t have Sky TV as a kid. In Sunak’s case, he was 9 when Sky came out in 1989, lost of people didn’t have it, we didn’t either, I was 11 then, but it was considered a luxury too! Lots of us didn’t but Starmer saying it? He was 27 when Sky came out! A grown man!
Starmer really didn’t like being laughed at, in fact he snapped at the audience over it, but he also completely missed the point of WHY they were laughing at him. Interviews with Keir Starmer are becoming drinking games. My dad was a toolmaker, shot, my mum was a nurse, shot, I was director of public prosecutions, I ran a public service, the Crown Prosecution Service, Labour is a changed party, my Labour, Labour has changed, my wife works in the NHS, you can get legless watching him give a speech or give an interview because he says the same things over and over again, learnt, rote responses because he is incapable of thinking on his feet, as happened when he got called a robot. That is why people are now laughing you Keith, because we’re all sick of the same things being said, that tell us very little and annoy us past the point of a facepalm now.
But he actually had the brass neck to believe the audience were laughing at him talking about allegedly growing up in poverty, the son of a toolmaker, though the toolmaker in question allegedly owned the factory, and was incidentally, a genuine supporter of Jeremy Corbyn unlike his son, seemingly the biggest tool, he ever made.
Starmer was angered by the audience implying poverty was a laughing matter, yet when it came to the two child benefit cap being brought up and whether doing away with it would appear in the Labour Party manifesto, being launched as I was writing this, he said no. So for all his understanding of poverty allegedly, he’s completely clueless as to the scale of it in this country in this day and age, where he certainly doesn’t struggle, a millionaire today, whether you choose to believe his story about poverty in his youth or not. The audience are far more in touch with living at the sharp end than this allegedly working class individual who if ever that was true, long ago forgot his roots and his ambitions scream of wanting to mix with the rich and powerful, rather than represent ordinary working class people he claims he’s putting the party back in the service of. Corbyn did that, Corbyn put those transformative policies forward, you’re here now taking them away, and given a modest wealth tax would pay to scrap that heinous Tory policy that is keeping a quarter of a million kids in poverty and he’s deliberately choosing not to do that, his pretence at being on our side is just yet another in a very long list of Starmer lies.
But talking about Corbyn actually brings up the other major point, a revelation in fact about Starmer, that was also mentioned:
Starmer claimed that Labour were always going to lose the 2019 General Election there, over and over again in fact to avoid answering the question as to whether he thought Corbyn would have made a good Prime Minister, a man Starmer suspended on spurious reasons, abusing his own executive powers to do and forcing Corbyn in the end to go independent to continue standing up for the people of Islington North, whilst Starmer put a private health CEO up for the seat against him. Those working class beliefs of Starmer shining through once more clearly! He admitted to campaigning to get good colleagues re-elected and given the purges and parachuting in of candidates he’s being doing relentlessly for months now, it’s safe to assume it was right wingers he was looking to protect, all whilst he was a member of Corbyn’s shadow cabinet let us not forget, therefore under collective responsibility, he would have signed off on the 2019 manifesto he said the party was going to lose on and he would have shaped the policy of his brief, Starmer’s contribution, easily being the lousiest part of what was a good set of policies that would have benefitted ordinary working class people and made the rich pay their fair share instead of evading or avoiding it.
Starmer’s brief of course, was Brexit. 2019 was the Brexit election, get Brexit done as Boris Johnson said, our deal is oven ready and it was up against Starmer’s ridiculous people’s vote position that he’d put Labour in the year before, that Corbyn absolutely should have shut down and sacked Starmer from the front bench in my opinion, but that is now by the by.
What Starmer said here though, that despite his own contribution to that manifesto, that he knew they were going to lose that election, which is all he said dodging the Corbyn support question, positioning himself just like the Tories in the belief that bashing Corbyn is now a vote winning strategy.
You see before Starmer declared his belief that a second referendum on Brexit was needed, his so-called people’s vote, with remain being put back on the table was announced, Corbyn’s Labour had been leading in the polls for some time, Corbyn’s fence sitting strategy of letting the Tories destroy themselves over Brexit was working, his other policies, popular as they were, kept the Labour vote share up, until Starmer’s widely regarded as an act of sabotage people’s vote wrecked it. That is when Labour’s polling slid, that is when many of us as Corbyn supporters, wanting that change for the country knew in our hearts it was over, whether we chose to admit it at the time or not. So Starmer saying he knew Labour would lose? Well he also knows that is as a direct result of his own actions and he as good as admitted it there. That his second vote on Brexit was a successful and deliberate act of sabotage to keep the Tories in power for another 5 years. It was certainly the impression I got upon hearing that myself. That Starmer admitted the reason we’ve had another 5 years of hardship and pain, is in no small part a direct result of his own personal actions, which have forwarded his own ambitions, getting him to the top of the Labour Party and now as good as measuring up those new curtains to hang in 10 Downing Street. If he becomes PM, he’ll have been rewarded in effect, for having kept the Tories in power for 5 years longer than they should have been. 5 years where we’ve seen them hand crony contracts out like water, blow millions, mishandle a pandemic leading to tens of thousands of lost lives, many of which might have been avoided and everything else we’ve observed, that has happened to all of us in that time, as government policy touched all our lives. Starmer played no small part it seems in delivering that, so are you really sure you want to reward this robotic liar and seemingly now self admitting saboteur by voting Labour? Something to think about isn’t it?
Meanwhile of course, Jeremy Corbyn is standing again for Islington North, he needs help to get re-elected though, so many of his constituents still of course believe he’s Labour, rather than independent, so word needs to get out in case people accidentally vote for the Labour candidate rather than Independent Jez – it happens, people look for the party on the ballot, more often than a name, because who knows who half the people on the ballot actually are a lot of the time? If you can and do wish to help, you need the info in this video recommendation here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.