This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a clear pitch to Conservative voters, Sir Keir highlighted immigration and small boat crossings in his article as “matters of serious public concern”.
Later on Sunday, Sir Keir told Broadcasting House that the point of his article was to compare what he described as the “drift” of recent years with the “sense of mission” of previous leaders.
“The point I am making in that article is that you can distinguish political leaders, certainly in the post war period, into those that had a plan and a sense of mission, and those that drifted essentially.”
Responding to Sir Keir’ comments, Labour MP Ian Byrne - a member of the parliamentary Socialist Campaign Group - said Baroness Thatcher’s legacy was “inequality, hunger, destitution and misery”.
In his article in the traditionally conservative Sunday Telegraph - Sir Keir sought to highlight how Labour had changed from the party of 2019 under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
Health Secretary Victoria Atkins accused Sir Keir of trying to “ride on the coattails” of Baroness Thatcher’s success.
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Of course he defends it and the weirdos that support him will defend it too. There’s this idea running around that vying for voters is more important than integrity. People keep acting like anything other than Tory is still a thing when the reality is that Tory Light is still Tory. There’s nothing about Starmer, his policies or politics that are inherently left and in fact his brazenness in being so right leaning that as a Labour leader, he can come out and praise Thatcher shows just how much he takes grassroots Labour for granted. I hope Liverpool and the north turn their back on him and Labour. Fuck them and the farce that they are!
Sadly under FPTP it really is just Steamer’s labour or Tories. Unless we can somehow manage a hung parliament and the Lib Dems demand the introduction of proportional representation as their price.
Keir would never go for PR. Such a shame, but if Labour aren’t up for it then it sadly will never happen.
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I see what you’re going for, but it’s like you didn’t read what I said and tried to take a perceived sentiment and run with it.
First things first, there’s not a single yardstick by which we can ever call Maggie Thatcher left or even centrist and so the fact that Starmer is praising her, in whatever context or abstraction, puts him firmly on the right.
Are we saying he’s far right like Farage? No! Like Rees Mog? Not far off but no!
What I alluded to was that chasing votes without any integrity isn’t a good thing and that I hoped it would backfire because those constituents of Labour seats who have had to endure the fuckeries we’ve been through deserve better than more of the same. We deserve new ideas, new approaches and a government that doesn’t try and hold up Margaret fucking Thatcher as anything other than a fucking evil cow that’s better off dead!
And I would argue that people like you that try and Red Wash Starmer and his actions are actually at the root of the problem.
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Sure mate, we’ll turn our back on the only viable way under First Past The Post to boot the ACTUAL Tories out of office.
Get of your idealistic high-horse, look around and realise this land, thanks to Murdoch and a deeply entrenched class system, is full of right wingers that’ll NEVER vote in anything more left than Blair, Gordon, and Starmer into power. They just know Sunak is out of ideas and they’re willing to switch sides.
Diet Tory he may be in rhetoric, but better than the full-sugar Tories rotting away the roots of our institutions and futures to sell to their mates.
