Thread by @SteB777

There is something seriously wrong with Keir Starmer, and if the Labour Party, don't eject him, their reputation is going to be trashed.

I suppose Starmer thinks that supporting, denying and apologising for genocide is progressive.

You have to look at the whole big picture.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1937906062394298597

It's not just choosing to hammer the sick and disabled, supporting the horrendous genocidal, murderous behaviour of the Israel regime. But there is rowing back on climate action, and supporting fossil fuel industry greenwash, and far more.
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There is locking up peaceful climate activists and giving them long prison sentences, the way he has overseen oppressive action against protestors, protesting against the genocide in Gaza.

Then there is sucking up to Donald Trump and being sycophantic towards him.
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Next, we have Starmer trashing our nature and environmental protections, to facilitate house building, by large commercial house builders, and virtually no support for social housing. Refusing to nationalise water companies.
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I could go on and on. This policy is the diametric opposite of progressive. When I have challenged people to name any progressive policy Starmer has pursued, the most people can come up with is VAT on school fees.
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Aside from the latter, there is virtually nothing to separate Starmer from the previous Tory administration. In fact, the best Starmer can come up with is the Tories were incompetent, and he's going to push through their policy more competently.
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Then we come to Starmer's obsession, economic growth, which actually he's not doing too well with. With Orwellian language he tries to sell this as for ordinary people. It primarily benefits the very rich. Trickle-down is a complete lie.

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https://x.com/anenr9/status/1938124363506848096

It would be massively long, if I listed all Starmer's policy, which seems to be straight from right wing think tanks and the owners of the Tory Press.

But the thing that stands out most to me, are the Orwellian lies, that he is doing this for the benefit of ordinary people.
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Keir Starmer's only apparent political ability, is shamelessly telling bare-faced lies, and not giving a damn about it, working on the principle, that not everyone will see through his lies, and people will swallow it, just because he's the PM.
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Previously, the term Red Tories has been used for right wing Labour politicians. But this is a whole next level.

What Starmer is doing, is I argue, far worse than Blair, because of the deceit.
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Under Corbyn, when Starmer was deputy leader, Starmer positioned himself as someone who could work with the left, and who was not a right winger. This is all revealed as a complete and utter lie.
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I would argue that Keir Starmer is actually a far worse liar than Boris Johnson. Johnson was a buffoonish, and not very good liar, because everyone knew he was a liar. But Starmer pretends to be an honest man, whilst lying through his teeth.
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To round up, there is something much bigger. Starmer's is so unlikeable, that he is handing an open goal to Reform. Where in any agenda, is making Reform popular, in the interests of the Labour Party?
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Keir Starmer, on the face of it, seems like a right wing mole, parachuted into the Labour Party, to trash its reputation, and implement the nastiest right wing agenda, ever seen in the UK. How did Labour become the shameless nasty party?
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This is not hyperbole, or empty rhetoric. Starmer actually seems nastier than most Tory regimes. What is horrific, is the Orwellian way he is selling this as for "working people", stolen from the Tory's "hard working people" slogan.

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When a Labour PM starts using a slogan, shamelessly stolen from the Tories, where they were trying to convince people, that they were really for ordinary people, you know that there is something seriously rotten about Keir Starmer.
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To round up, I cannot think of one redeeming feature of Starmer's regime. Not one iota of real progressive policy. Starmer is just hammering away at the Tory strategy of disingenuously trying to convince people he's doing this for ordinary people, in an Orwellian way.
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Keir Starmer is the oligarch's man, who is not merely implementing oligarch policy, but along the way, trashing Labour's reputation, and opening the way for Labour to be replaced by Reform. Stop the denial out of Labour loyalty.
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Even worse, is the way Starmer has been inveigling Labour figures like Angela Rayner, into demeaning themselves, by robustly defending his total shitfuckery, to borrow a technical term from @thejuicemedia.
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