Candidacy of Jewish left-winger in Starmer’s seat prompts pair to issue statements trying to con pro-Palestinian voters – but they don’t even bother to tweak the wording significantly
Keir Starmer is rattled – and reportedly ‘raging’ – at the announcement that left-wing Jewish heavyweight Andrew Feinstein, a former ANC MP who fought apartheid under Mandela, is going to contest Starmer’s Holborn and St Pancras constituency at the next parliamentary election. Rightly so: Feinstein’s substance, integrity and principle cast a cold light on Starmer’s lack.
But the incompetence and arrogance of the Labour right can’t help showing through. Clearly someone among Starmer’s advisers has decided it’d be a good idea to finally issue a statement calling for a ceasefire in Gaza to try to mollify the huge numbers of voters who are outraged at Starmer’s sabotage of earlier parliamentary motions calling for one and his support for Israel’s ‘right’ to commit war crimes.
So he and Lammy duly issued statements – or, to be more precise, one statement with hardly any modification and with most of the relevant portions identical, word for word, including the final sentence:
Shoddiness, incompetence, panic, or just the basic inability in that essential Establishment skill of faking sincerity – whatever the mix, Starmer and his acolytes are just not very good. That may be fly in an interview with media giving them the usual easy ride, but it won’t fool voters furious at their complicity in Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, in Gaza.
Instead, it just shows how scared Labour is of a challenge by someone of substance, even in seats where they held a big majority last time round.
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When his campaign’s up & running, I’m up for a trip to London to help canvas. Skipload of popcorn already ordered for Election night!
Both these feckers, as well as a majority of LP MPs and LP Councillors are complicit in genocide – it really is that simple.
Christopher. So true. Complicit, red hand wringers. This distasteful little enterprise is beneath contempt. Soon it will have just two members each accusing the other of A/S.
Any independent can stand and win on this issue
The one difference between the near-identical statements??
Well, lammy’s reads: Far too many civilians have been killed or wounded”
And, tellingly, keef’sdoesn’t.
Not that I believe either of them and their feigned “concern”
Get ready for Lammy to be accused of A/S. One wrong comma and your toast. They are all living in fear. Fear of A/S and fear of the brave anti genocide masses. They are right to be concerned. Soon no one will be safe apart from the ultra rich and ermine twirlers.the
…….Or even one “wrong” word:
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/08/facebook-instagram-censor-zionist-israel/?
“Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, is contemplating stricter rules around discussing Israeli nationalism on its platforms, a major policy change that could stifle criticism and free expression about the war in Gaza and beyond, five civil society sources who were briefed on the potential change told The Intercept.
“Meta is currently revisiting its hate speech policy, specifically in relation to the term ‘Zionist,’”
As Cardinal Richelieu noted…….
…”If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”
If that pathetic effort is the best that Trilateral Commissioner Starmer and Uncle Tom Lammy can produce, then it says a lot about the shallow opportunism of the Labour Party.
I’m looking forward to the pair of them joining me on next Saturday’s march and rally for Gaza
(now that they’ve abandoned their support for Israeli mass murder)
Can Feinstein actually win?
Unlikely but not impossible.
Labour’s share of the vote in 2005 was only 43.2% and its lead over the Liberal Democrats was 13.9%.
The Green Party managed 8.1% on that occasion. Boundaries a bit different back then.
If Starmer is forced to stay in his constituency during the election campaign then Labour might benefit nationally!
What is Lib Dem position, I know Greens are 100% Ceasefire
Double or Treble up with anti Red and Blue Tory parties
Field a single candidate and pool resources, in Lonfon multiple x 10
Hung Parliament is the key to unlocking our captured democracy
I don’t honestly know the libdem position on anything. I guess they want more exes but apart from that nothing. Travel cards? Junkers to Israel and cowboy land?
“A Dutch court has ordered the government to halt the delivery of parts for F-35 fighter jets used by Israel in its bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
The verdict, delivered by an appeals court on Monday, said there is a “clear risk” that the parts the Netherlands is exporting are being used in “serious violations of international humanitarian law”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/12/court-orders-netherlands-to-halt-delivery-of-fighter-jet-parts-to-israel
SteveH. Thank you I didn’t know that.
Herr Flick
Rochdale, Geordie Galloway is 2/1 from 16/1, one thing he isn’t going to lose is his deposit, hat was before the Fuhrer forced a grovelling apology
Doug – ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Keep the noise down Doug. Can you not see you’re keeping the toddler awake.
Good grief, those two – Lammy and Starmer – are nothing more than figures of fun. Figures of ridicule.
Where did either get the idea they could be major politicians, holding the future of the UK in their hands?
I think I’m right in saying – they’re both lawyers, with less than stellar careers, despite the hype.
Everyone in the party is scared, looking over their shoulders.A/S is after everyone until the party is built entirely according to their wishes. It’s not the work of our Jewish population It’s a construct that is using history to reshape or rather destroy a potentially successful socialist mass movement.
I hope you saw my post. Not one but two likes. I’m off on a pub crawl to celebrate that recod breaking post. Wonder if the Morning Star will splash it. They’ve got sod all else to talk about.