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Starmer cosying up to business backfires again as Brewdog boss accused of ‘inappropriate behaviour’

Unerring instinct for the wrong people yet again

Keir Starmer’s unerring instinct for cosying up to the wrong people has struck again. James Watt, CEO of beer giant Brewdog, has been accused by ‘more than fifteen employees’ speaking to the BBC’s Disclosure of ‘presiding over a toxic culture of fear’ and making women feel ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘powerless’. The programme was triggereed by a letter last year signed by more than 300 employees accusing Mr Watt.

So of course, Keir Starmer had gone to Brewdog for one of his notoriously awkward ‘pint untouched’ photo opportunities, praising the firm to the heavens in 2020 for making hand sanitiser.

Starmer has previously sidled up to British Gas, which abused its gas maintenance engineers in a ‘fire and rehire’ scandal, when he appeared in a jacket bearing the logo of Centrica, the British Gas parent company. And he appeared at food firm Kelloggs while Kelloggs workers were engaged in a bitter fight against the ‘offshoring’ of their jobs.

Keir Starmer in Centrica jacket

And Starmer’s instinct for palling up with the wrong people is not limited to companies. Blair sidekick Peter Mandelson remains a key Starmer handler, despite his connections with Jeffrey Epstein and the recent conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell for abetting the serial child abuser, and has not been suspended while those connections are examined.

With instincts like that, Starmer has no business being in the Labour party – let alone (at least in title) leading it.

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6 comments

  1. Turning up at a business whose staff are reduced to strike action and, separately, wearing the logo of the Parent Group of “fire and re-hire” British Gas whilst doing so, tells us what sort of Prime Minister Sir Keir Rodney Starmer would be.

    Not so much “for the Many, not the Few” as “damn the Many”.

    (On a positive note, Sir Keir-of-the-Few is reminding many Labour party members of a thing called the ‘class war’, which, until Blair and he, many had almost forgotten).

    1. A recall vote should be organised in Holborn and St Pancras constituency.

  2. And Starmer’s instinct for palling up with the wrong people is not limited to companies. Blair sidekick Peter Mandelson remains a key Starmer handler,

    …While pederast-enabling tax avoider, madge hodge is a close ally.

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