Keir Starmer has clearly determined that so as to win over the membership he should seem sympathetic to Corbyn and Corbynism. His marketing campai
Keir Starmer has clearly determined that so as to win over the membership he should seem sympathetic to Corbyn and Corbynism. His marketing campaign launch video was a masterclass in repositioning, presenting the soft-left Starmer as some form of socialist stalwart. Certainly, talking on the Fabian Society convention this afternoon, the frontrunner was requested by the Night Commonplace‘s Ayesha Hazarika how he would win over these, ‘who could fear that you’ve got been too near the previous management?’
Starmer replied:
I don’t settle for this argument that everyone ought to have refused to serve below Jeremy Corbyn and we should always have left our frontbench empty for 5 years so the Tories might wreck the nation. I simply don’t settle for it.
A principled stand from Mr Starmer. He went on to inform the gang: ‘It might have been a dereliction of responsibility for me to sit down on the backbenches with no person on the dispatch field while Theresa Could and Johnson did what the hell they appreciated.’ Fiery stuff.
However would that be the identical Keir Starmer who, simply days after the 2016 referendum, introduced that he was ‘responsibility certain’ to resign from these exact same frontbenches so as to hasten Corbyn’s downfall?
With disappointment & remorse, I’ve resigned as shadow residence workplace minister: Brexit has modified the problem forward. pic.twitter.com/l9NWXCh9zN
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) June 27, 2016
Mr S thinks that such an airbrushing of historical past may signify a ‘dereliction of responsibility’ to these Labour occasion members he’s attempting to win over.