Keir Starmer’s dishonesty catches up with him live on radio

Right, so as far as interviews with Keir Starmer go, we tend to know what we’re going to get don’t we? We know it’ll his dad was a toolmaker and his mum was a nurse, we know it’ll be I was Director of Public Prosecutions, we know it’ll be Labour is a changed Party, we know it’ll be my wife works in the NHS, it’s the same soundbites over and over as he mixes and matches these tedious rote responses he’s learned, to virtually any question he gets asked, because he can’t answer a straight question with a straight answer.
However by now you’d have thought an interview with Nick Ferrari on LBC would be one to avoid, because he does seem to come unstuck! Probably the most infamous and damning interview Starmer ever gave was to Ferrari when he of course told the nation, though has denied it ever since, that Israel had the right to withdraw food and power from Gaza, collective punishment. But this week when he popped back on Ferrari’s show a question from a member of the public stopped Starmer in his tracks. No textbook response would do this time and it has exposed Starmer’s dishonesty as his past lies all of a sudden caught up with him and he had nowhere to turn.
Right, so that was Keir Starmer on Nick Ferrari’s show the other day, where 6 or 7 times there he stated that he did not believe that Labour were going to win in either the 2017 or 2019 General Elections and I’m going to come onto Starmer’s role in that specifically, there’s more to it than just his Brexit sabotage going into the 2019 General Election which I spoke about the other day on a recent video, but I’ll come back to that in a moment. Firstly, let’s deal with this question Starmer was asked, which was quite reasonable, quite simple, if Corbyn had won in 2017 or 2019, would Starmer have served in his cabinet. He couldn’t say yes or no despite being asked to give a yes or no answer – you’ll notice Starmer never can do that in interviews, look out for it – instead he incredulously repeated that he didn’t think Labour would win, despite him being a shadow cabinet minister from pretty much 2016 onwards, through both of those elections, campaigned in both, signed off manifestos for both, wrote part of them himself as Shadow Brexit Minister and yet throughout he expects us to believe he took those posts, the extra money, the position despite not believing his party would win? Well how do we know in which case you were even trying? Were doing your best work? Serving your party and the leadership the membership, myself included at that point, had mandated you to do, by electing Corbyn to lead the party, his vision for the country what we all wanted? Right now, you expect the country to vote for you in the belief that Labour is a changed party now, to serve the people of this country, yet for years now, by your admission in this interview, to this question from this chap Graham, that you weren’t working in the interests of your then party membership? It’s no wonder you’ve told people if they don’t like what you’ve done to Labour, that there’s the door. It’s no wonder people who have left, have been referred to as shaking off the fleas. And you still want their vote?
Starmer’s conduct therefore, can be seen in reality, to have been completely self serving in which case.
Starmer’s belief that Corbyn couldn’t win in 2017 must have come as a shock to him when Labour actually increased the number of seats they had for the first time since 1997, 20 years of losing seats in subsequent elections finally ended, all despite the sabotage going on behind the scenes at Labour HQ where funding was misappropriated to shore up favoured MPs, right wingers and if that funding had been sunk into winning new seats as it was supposed to be, then Labour might well have won. It has been the belief of many members of the Labour Party from that period, that those who abused the party finances for their own political agendas, inflicted the Tories on us thereafter. Starmer’s admission in that Ferrari interview that he didn’t believe the party could win in 2017, makes me wonder how much he might have known about what was happening at that time and was that an accidental admission there.
Of course the crux of his awkward responses was to try and put as much distance between himself and Corbyn as possible, bashing Jez, seen by both him and the Tories as vote winning stuff, but actually in his case, having served in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet for as long as he had, it just makes him look all the more dishonest and untrustworthy now, which is in my view exactly how people should perceive Starmer. The man lies like a rug, cannot be trusted and his conduct whilst serving Corbyn ostensibly highlights that and this question, just shone a spotlight on Starmer’s conduct during that period. He served for 4 years in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet and yet tells us he didn’t think they’d win, it was all about helping good colleagues – and we’ve seen what he thinks bad colleagues must be in his factional purging of so many left wing candidates and indeed MPs as well, using boundary changes to rid himself of even more, so was he part of the plot to stop Corbyn from within in which case?
Well there was his People’s Vote Brexit move at the 2018 Labour Party conference, which detonated Corbyn’s Brexit position of course, handed the 2019 General Election to Boris Johnson on a plate, Starmer easily seen as the chief saboteur there, it was his brief. Since then of course he’s gone on to say he wants to make Brexit work, so did he ever believe in a People’s Vote, or was it just another example of his dishonesty to forward his own right wing ends?
Well, there’s something else that happened between that Labour Conference in the autumn of 2018 and the 2019 General Election, which took place that December.
Six months before that election, it turns out that Starmer was already setting up his own leadership team, with the aim at that point of convincing the Labour membership to back Starmer in a leadership race, should Labour lose the upcoming election, which of course they did, Starmer in no small part having dealt the damage already, Corbyn going along with it reluctantly, I and many others have been very critical of this, Starmer should have been sacked in my view for what he did, but it seems he might not have had much choice, with dissenting right wingers in his broad church shadow cabinet threatening another slew of resignations if he didn’t go with it.
All in all, it meant Starmer was, in his apparent words ‘in a position to consider standing – should a vacancy arise’ in terms of the Labour leadership. He’d brought in at this point his current top advisor, Morgan McSweeney, who had analysed the membership, where Starmer could legitimately be seen as a good choice based on where the membership was on various issues as well as which issues to avoid, in order to sell Starmer to the wider membership and of course it worked. He was sold to the members as the next Corbyn and of course as he got into the job, set about burning everything Corbyn stood for to the ground and sending anyone supporting him packing either in disgust or through the purges based on what later became referred to as Labour’s hierarchy of racism.
Keir Starmer’s political career only began in 2015 and in these past 9 years he has built up what has become a reputation for rampant dishonesty, of standing up for absolutely nothing, changing his mind on various issues with the polls, and he’s got away with it, looks to be heading for Number 10 now, not because of him, widely disliked by the public as he is, but getting rewarded for everything he’s done because the Tories have gone to pieces and nothing quite exposes that all now beginning to catch up with him and that will follow him into power too, off the back of one interview on LBC where he couldn’t answer a straight yes no question. He’s going to get into power, do yourself a favour and don’t lament being one of the people who backed him. Back someone else.
Someone involved in Labour during this time who is absolutely taking their vote elsewhere now is Corbyn’s General Secretary from that time Jennie Formby, she who had to deal with the mess left by right wingers sabotaging Corbyn’s administration from within. She’s announced she’s voting for the Green Party instead! Find out all about her reasons for doing so in this video recommendation here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.