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Keir Starmer's time is up

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teqniq said:
Great idea but how long before he walks back on this?

www.theguardian.com

Keir Starmer pledges to clean up politics and crack down on cronyism

Exclusive: Party considering new offence of fraud against the public purse that would see jail terms of more than 10 years
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“After the sex scandals, the expenses scandals, the waste scandals, the contracts for friends – even in a crisis like the pandemic – people think we’re all just in it for ourselves.”

We do. But as Gosub said the apparant Starmer approach of slamming one door years after that horse has bolted is purely a gesture.
 
Smokeandsteam said:
“After the sex scandals, the expenses scandals, the waste scandals, the contracts for friends – even in a crisis like the pandemic – people think we’re all just in it for ourselves.”
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Well there is the massive pension and revolving door jobs too, oh, and lobbying
 
Starmer says he is open in principle to possibility of asylum seekers having their claims processed offshore
Q: What would you do about illegal migration?

Starmer says the government has lost control. People want the crossings stopped. He says he would look at credible ways of stopping this. Gangs are running this. The boats are being made to order, and stored in France. As DPP he worked with other countries on breaking up gangs. And he refuses to believe that these are the only gangs that cannot be stopped.

As for processing claims offshore, he says there is a difference between processing claims offshore, and just deporting people, which is the Rwanda policy.

He says the Ukraine scheme includes an element of offshore processing. Other countries are looking at this, and he would be open to the idea, he says.

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www.theguardian.com

Keir Starmer open to possibility of processing asylum claims offshore – UK politics live

Labour leader says in Q+A session after speech in Bristol he wants to look at credible ways of stopping illegal Channel crossings
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Smokeandsteam said:
Starmer fancies himself as Wilson in 1964, in fact he's Callaghan in 1976.

Callaghan's historic role was to prepare the ground for the end of the 30-year social democratic era. The actual delivery of the project was a job for Thatcher who easily defeated a weak, divided and largely ‘rabbits in the headlights’ Labour Party in 1979.

Starmer's historic role is to prepare the ground - cloaked in identity politics/reform/morality language - for the destruction of universal public services (that were, of course, an integral core of the social democratic era that Callaghan announced the burial of).

Like Callaghan, Starmer's premiership will be short and chaotic, but key in effectively preparing the ground for a recomposed Tory Party under radical ‘new conservative’ leadership. An incoming Tory Government that will be pledged to properly undertake the job that Starmer has begun/prophesised but is popularly seen as too weak/too incompetent/too restrained by the vestiges of the labour movement (another relic of the social democratic age) to deliver.

History, as they say, does have a habit of repeating itself....
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As I was saying....

www.theguardian.com

Britain risks shift to far right if Labour fails to enact ‘radical change’, says John McDonnell

Former shadow chancellor says public disillusionment could set in and calls for ‘real strategy’ on wages and incomes
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two sheds said:
He's gone back on so many promises he'll be stuck if he gets in, not able to remember what he's promised and what he's gone back on.
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It won't make any difference. His process is to have an advisor tell him what the TV and newspapers were asking for the previous day and then spend the morning saying he has always been committed to whatever that was. He then gets another briefing after lunch when he gets told about the media reaction to what he had been saying that day, and back tracks a little in the afternoon where he has been caught out being obviously wrong. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum. He has NO thoughts of his own, other than maybe wondering now and again who the next 6 figure donation will come from.
 
Purely as a party leader, he's done well in many respects though.

Not sure what he actually wants to do but I'd wager that if the well isn't fatally poisoned for the bulk of his probable government, he'll be substantially more competent and less venal.

Not sure why people are groaning and throwing in angry 'likes' every time he doesn't appear to be the ideal saviour you apparently expect from a Westminster politician.
 
In criticising the government's response to recent flooding and their failure to invest in or even maintain flood defences, Starmer was clear to point out that solving the problem is 'not about spending more money'. Which is pretty clearly him saying that there's no more money on the way for flood defences despite the ever-increasing frequency of 'once in a generation' floods.
 
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