The problem with a coronation is that there is no opportunity for collective discussion and debate before we move forward.
The danger then is people invest their own beliefs in the new leader, and may become bitterly disappointed.
This was Starmer's fate.
https://t.co/PAG5X8Av4o
Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff.
He supported Iraq invasion; ex chair of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants.
Next?
https://t.co/8Cnj0hIu62
No, Keir Starmer is not a decent man who fell victim to events.
He is an unprincipled politician who abandoned promises with as much enthusiasm as he trousered freebies from rich donors.
New column 👇
https://t.co/cikvqJlmVF
🚨 Starmer’s gone… but the reckoning isn’t.
Jeremy Corbyn just made it crystal clear:
“Keir Starmer has gone but we will never forget the role his government played in the greatest crime of our time.
Today, I re-presented my Bill for an independent inquiry into Britain’s complicity in genocide.”
He’s back in Parliament pushing the bill.
No moving on.
No forgetting.
The clip from the chamber says everything.
An independent inquiry into UK complicity is the bare minimum.
We asked Israeli president Isaac Herzog if he is a war criminal as he walked along Downing Street for a meeting with Keir Starmer last year.
The UN Commission of Inquiry has found Herzog responsible for inciting genocide against Palestinians.
No one should ever forget:
The partnership of Netanyahu 🇮🇱; Trump 🇺🇸 & Starmer 🇬🇧 did this
It’s apocalyptic
An evil, racist genocide
For the sake of humanity, all must be made to answer in The Hague
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Before this, geezer gets the job of labour leader and PM. Perhaps we should ask for his views on ethnic cleansing, genocide, land stealing, starving a nation, and locking up children as hostages think that might change the outcome, don't you?.
Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.
Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.
On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.
And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.
But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.
History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.
https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR
Today, Andrew Marr asked Jeremy Corbyn how he felt about Keir Starmer saying the Labour Party was “morally bankrupt” when he took over the leadership.
It was good to hear Jeremy set the record straight, as Starmer’s remark was massively insulting to many thousands of people.
Despite claims of so-called ceasefire, Israel has continued to massacre Palestinians with impunity.
This is a genocide aided and abetted by the British government, who continue to provide diplomatic cover, surveillance and arms sales to the IDF.
https://t.co/m6e1y7yAp1
Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA.
It has made JD Vance very mad.
It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?
Vean como los judíos son brutalmente apaleados por los policías sionistas, por negarse a ser alistados en el ejército genocida de "Israel" y ser enviados a masacrar a Gaza y Líbano.
Esto es "Israel", un apartheid sanguinario que apalea a todo el que lo niegue, incluido judíos.
🇮🇱 Clashes are breaking out in Israel between Orthodox Jews and Zionist authorities.
In disturbing footage, Israeli police officers are seen lifting and throwing a child over a separation fence with shocking force.
Thousands of Haredi Jews protest military conscription.
The following @UKLabour govt ministers are LFI members
Rachel Reeves
Yvette Cooper
Jonathan Reynolds
Peter Kyle
Pat McFadden
Sharon Hodgson
Damien Egan
Mike Tapp
Jo White
Chris Evans
Dame Diana Johnson
Conor McGinn
All Israeli assets, all complicit in genocide.
London's Metropolitan Police are not investigating the Great Israeli Real Estate Event which took place in a London synagogue.
Please RT until they do.
Thank you.