Glorianny
DaisyAnne
Glorianny
I've one it before but here goes again!(I'm beginning to feel like Cassandra)
1. He promised a radical party which would be united under his leadership. He has basically chucked out anyone on the left .
2. He promised to heal the party of anti-semitism. He has just thrown out left leaning Jews, so right wing Jewish organisations approve of him. (apparently Jews who think differently are "the wrong sort of Jew" and that isn't anti-semitic!!!)
3. He promised to keep borders open and support immigration only he doesn't think that now.
That'll do for a start.
But if your want a real laugh I suggest you go to his website and read his 10 pledges
keirstarmer.com/plans/10-pledges/
If you can find one he has kept to I'd love to know which.
He says he stands for human rights but disciplines an MP who said quite correctly Israel is an apartheid state (Amnesty agrees).
He says he wants to strengthen Trade Unions but won't support strikers.
He says he believes in the NHS but won't rule out privatisation.
It's really difficult to know what Labour policies he does believe in.
These don't sound like lies to me although I accept that is how you see them.
They sound like someone in the party who doesn't agree with the politics of the elected leader. Nothing more, nothing less. You are perfectly at liberty to do that, just as I, and others, are at liberty to think your views pretty extreme and ignore them when contemplating the possibility of Starmer winning the election and whether that's what we want.
It is often the extremists who drive others away from their party. You are doing a very good job in that direction. If I felt people holding your views were going to be able to take charge of the Labour party I would certainly not vote for them. I do not want to see my country in the hands of those on any extreme, ever again. I know I may not be able to stop them with one vote but hopefully others will have had enough of the extremists too.
I asked you to look at the pledges ad tell me one he has kept. I accept that you can't do that.
Since when did not keeping a pledge become just a difference in policies? If you promise to do something and don't do it unless you give an adequate reason why something prevented you from keeping that pledge you were in fact lying.
If Starmer can lie in order to become leader of the LP what might he do to become PM?
You really need to learn that you cannot instruct people in what they answer or you will keep upsetting yourself. Pledges have often changed with the knowledge of what may be possible; what you may be left with. If he has changed them this is hardly a first. I can't tell you how little it matters to me, but then I don't see this as lying; I see it as politics. Some things do matter but the in-fighting in the Labour Party, if this is what this is, is certainly not one of them.
So, as you feel aggrieved by these perceived "lies", who will you vote for in the next election? The right has outstripped Starmer in any form of lying.
Starmer is sensible enough to know he needs the centre votes to win the next election. No party, unless it's a single-issue election such as Johnson's, wins without the centre. So the Leader of the Labour Party is trying to ensure he appeals to the right people in the right places and, at the moment, that obviously isn't you.
As any phycologist would tell you, you cannot change how another human being behaves (although I think Starmer is better than many). The only thing you can do, for your own mental health, is to change your attitude towards that behaviour. Most people learn this much earlier in life than granny-time, and it is much easier to live with other human beings when you have.
