‘Equality’ policy launch flops after even hand-picked audience finds him jingoistic and unpleasant
Keir Starmer delivered his latest policy con to a hand-picked audience and no press on Monday – after cancelling his main launch because of a planned pro-Palestinian protest, outside the original Tottenham venue, against his support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza – and it flopped.
According to Sky’s Serena Barker-Singh, even though Labour had winnowed down the audience to a ‘select’ few and excluded all the media, the ‘favoured’ attendees found Starmer ‘cold and horrible’ and his presentation ‘jingoistic’, with ‘union jacks everywhere’.
Starmer becomes less popular the more people see of him and it seems his advisers recognise that – but even hiding him from all but a few true believers doesn’t work, because they find themselves disliking him too.
And with Starmer’s record of breaking every promise, his ‘policy’ to supposedly improve equality is as meaningless as the fetid air it takes to speak it.
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What are the odds that there’s a leadership challenge before the next General Election?
I dunno but it’s nice to be able to discuss something with other Skwawkies. I do understand the reasons but dammit just when you wanna say a point especially over that psychotic Blairite HENCHMAN WHO DERIDED OUR YOUNGSTERS. Sorry about the caps, arthritis.
How unkind this post is to the much misunderstood Sir Kid Starver.
At least there is a consistency in his breaking of pledges. In fact he’s never failed to break one!!
I shall be writing to Sir Kid offering my sympathy that he should be the subject of such vicious personal attacks as the above merely because he’s not prepared to condem a small matter like genocide
Reply to tony greenstein
What was it they said about the Hollywood actor Errol Flynn? Something along the lines of he was totally reliable. If he said he was going to do something you could be absolutely certain that he wouldn’t. Same applies to Starmer- he is not a man of his word,he is like a weather vane which changes direction depending on which way the wind is blowing in all things except of course his Zionism. His adherence to it remains steadfast and he will not utter one word of criticism of the Zionist state even though it is being tried at the ICJ for genocide.
Before. He’s as reliable as Lammy!
Tony, you might have to word it in very convoluted english, because he ,it appears to me, only understands forensic english but not plain and to the point english.
Poikilotherm.
Further evidence that keef’s disliked even by those he has to have pre-vetted to be unfortunate enough to be in his presence. I’m surprised they found audience members still conscious that weren’t bored into a coma by Mr Mogadon.
And I’m almost a tiny bit surprised we haven’t had the ubiquitous:“It will be interesting to discover what keef said that was jingoistic and unpleasant.” yet.
(No, it just won’t, it will be the same arld shite as per usual).
…As if it wasn’t the case just about every time the muculent monstrosity opens his mealy mouth.
He’s like ken barlow’s even more boring and bland twin brother. But with more punchability.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/labour-excluded-some-campaigners-from-race-equality-act-launch-event-13064982
Shadow equalities minister Anneliese Dodds told Sky News she genuinely believes the act will make a huge difference and “throughout this process we’ve engaged with dozens of experts, with businesses, with trade unions, with people with lived experiences and what we’ve found is generally people are very supportive of the changes we’re setting out”.
She also confirmed Sir Keir and herself have undergone unconscious bias training – and it was “useful to understand how sometimes different patterns of behaviour can become entrenched”.
Really, Annaliese….REALLY?
Tell that to Diane Abbott, Kate Osamor, Claudia Webbe, Apsana Begum and Marc Wadsworth (for gender balance) to name but five…
On that note…….
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/02/05/landmark-employment-victory-for-miller-gives-anti-zionist-views-workplace-protection/
…..where does this judgement leave all those LP members and elected representatives who have been disciplined, expelled, and even sacked from their role in the Party up to and including the PLP for the same alleged antisemitism on the basis of their anti-Zionist beliefs?
Some sort of class action against the LP, its NEC, and present regime leadership would seem to be in order. Preferably before any General Election – if one should actually take place in the present wider context.
Toffee – Wasn’t Marc Wadsworth just one of the many who were expelled from the party during Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure
Wasn’t Marc Wadsworth just one of the many who were expelled from the party during Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure
On the lies and insistence of smarmerists…And he has not been permitted back during keef’s tenure.
I used (mainly) examples of anti-black, anti-left bias. Need I provide examples of overt smarmerist anti-muslim and antisemitic bias too, so you can try (and fail – again) to blame Corbyn??
After all, there’s plenty to choose from.
Do us all a favour, and keep quiet.
Toffee – Are you having a laugh, Corbyn was proud of how many he’d managed to expel from the party?
Jennie Formby (Corbyn’s GenSec) gave a speech at the beginning of 2019 showing off about how many members they had expelled from the party and boasting that their new procedures for throwing members under the proverbial bus was now far more efficient.
Oh dear, more selective usage and reliance on the made up reality in your head Billy.
It is well understood on this site that you don’t do objective facts and detail, Billy, as it conflicts with your very obvious single sided prejudices. You really should try to be a proper grown up by researching the facts rather than making things up by omission or twisting events to suit your narrative.
To begin with:
[the] “GLU’s disciplinary processes in 2015-2016 were characterised by an almost complete lack of systems, processes, guidance, and training for staff members. There was no system for logging all complaints and GLU did not apply the Macpherson principles of recording all complaints of racism as racism…….
…….cases were still dragging on for years……..
……..There was, at the time, no system of logging and recording complaints or decisions.”
– from the leaked Labour Party Report
There was little involvement by the NEC in a ‘process’ largely left to insufficiently trained staff. Recognisable due process standards were absent.
In contextual terms the actual figures of expelled members were:
2011 = 0
2012 = 0
2013 = 1
2014 = 1
2015 = 3
2016 = 0
2017 = 2
2018 = 10
2019 = 49
2020 (up to 3 March) = 30
Hardly huge figures – particularly when some of those cases had been dragging on for years prior to the election of Corbyn and subsequent attempts to introduce robust and fair due process standards..
On which note this passage from the leaked report is instructive….
“In 2019, commenting on an email in which Jennie Formby raised concerns about the NCC not following proper processes, Iain McNicol said that it “should ring alarm bells across the party” as “To try to interfere politically within the NCC is just wrong.”
…..because it reveals that objective based concerns about the absence of due process for Party members was viewed by the extreme centerist’s within the Party bureaucracy as ‘political interference’ as they clearly preferred to operate under a ‘rules based order’ in which they made the rules of the process to suit their own politically motivated convenience.
A case in point being the way in which the complaint against journalist Rod Liddle was handled and processed. Liddle being ‘chummy with Ian Austin & by extension [Tom Watson]” in 2016.
The kind of informal and ad hoc practices and solutions in which selective handling was widely practiced on the one hand left both party members subject to complaints and those submitting complaints in limbo for years at a time; whilst on the other hand those Party insiders who had mates in the bureaucracy largely got a free pass.
My own complaints were ‘lost’ twice’ by those who were part of the Panorama stitch up, and no requested evidence of investigation was forthcoming.
This is the context of Formby’s attempts to deal with the backlog of complaints and the total absence of proper due process. Attempts aimed at introducing recognisable due process standards based on universal principles. Which Billy no mates here portrays as making the system more efficient ‘to throw members under the bus.’
Deliberately misrepresenting the objective reality to suit his own narrow and petty prejudices.
You are a liar and a fraud Billy.
I am particularly pleased by the Miller judgement as its implications are far-reaching.
It blows out of the water all the humbug and false accusations that flow from the appalling IHRA definition and we should not hesitate to stick it up the noses of the perpetrators.
Viva Palestina !
The ripples from Gaza have only begun. The extortion, the spreading of fear, and terrorising of individuals by putting their livelihoods at stake are coming to it end. This is a great win for Mr Miller. The youth have opened their eyes and won’t take this defaming anymore. Will we see the return of sit ins and such. I hope so.
” ………. ‘favoured’ attendees found Starmer ‘cold and horrible’ and his presentation ‘jingoistic’, with ‘union jacks everywhere’.
Starmer becomes less popular the more people see of him ……… ”
What took them so long to notice ?? !!
What took them so long to notice??
Remember when keef was bemoaning that Joe Public weren’t getting the chance to get to see what he was about because of the lockdown(s)?? 🤔
This BTL comment to recent a naked capitalism article about Blair and Hague seeking to sell NHS patient data to corporations which, quelle surprise, fund the Tony Blair Institute reveals a great deal about the non-choice on offer from the uni-party:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/02/why-is-tony-blair-so-desperate-for-the-uks-national-health-service-to-sell-off-its-patients-health-data.html#comment-3993373
“From late November, I have become involved with the trade body representing foreign banks operating in the City, including their engagement with Labour. What you report is the tip of the iceberg.
Labour’s leader and its Treasury team told us that “the City is a force for good” and “Labour has the City’s back” and “every day, every month and every year of a Labour government, it will maintain its credibility with the markets and enhance relations with investors”, but this does not include a rapprochement with the EU, which is what most City firms want. This includes a balanced budget, if not a budget surplus, and funding solely from tax.
Labour would like the City to fund its programme,partner at all levels of government and second staff to all levels of government, including economic development, education and land use planning. It sees no role for unions and civil society. Labour’s definition of “an active state” is where the government “is stable and ensures all the levers pull in the same direction”.
Labour is not interested in “opposition for opposition’s sake” and “has moved on from student t shirt politics”.
Blair’s team, which has many young former civil servants, and Mandelson are working on Labour’s “bomb proof” manifesto. They have banksters from Barclays, HSBC, Citi, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan and staff from private equity on secondment.
Later this month, we have a session with the Labour health and development leads, Wes Streeting and Lisa Nandy. Labour is keen to mobilise City investment and expertise to reform healthcare and overseas development.
Streeting is a protege and more of Mandelson and has the Blair and Mandelson machine in his corner for the succession to Starmer, which many blairites hope will be sooner rather than later.”
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No place, no role, in Britain for civil society. Period. That’s the reality of what is what is on offer from the Labour Party and the other major political party’s standing in the GE should it take place.
That’s the so called only ‘credible’ choice available. Take it or leave it. Like it or lump it. That’s what we will get whether Tweedledum or Tweedledummer ‘win’. Because the vast majority of the politicians we have are nothing more than bought and paid for ciphers.
When attempts to be reasonable and to reform such Rotten Borough systems have been tried and failed the historical record demonstrates that the only way to achieve meaningful improvement is by less reasonable methods.
As George Bernard Shaw observed “all progress depends on the unreasonable man”.
Starmer would be the perfect coach for the basketball team Washington Generals… I refuse to believe he is that stupid.
Toffee – Are you having a laugh, Corbyn was proud of how many he’d managed to expel from the party?
ORLY??????????
And that’s why the gobshites continued to slur Corbyn (and STILL do) as an antisemite; because Corbyn was proud of how many antisemites he expelled
For absolute and total fucks sake. They were calling for Corbyn to get shut wholesale and in one fell-fucking-swoop, and shrieking he wasn’t doing anywhere’s near enough about the over exaggerated issue, you complete fucking rollmop
Oh, and what was it the rodent rayner said about expelling all these antisemites, again?
Then remind us who was leading the party WHEN the rodent said it??
Seriously, just fuck off.
Seconded.