Pledges Broken And Principles Abandoned: Keir Starmer Is A Shameless Liar

pledge

verb [ T ] 

“to make a serious or formal promise to give or do something:” 

Have you had enough of millions of the poor and low-paid working classes clapping like demented seals as the unelected monarch rides past in his golden carriage, wearing the priceless crown containing 444 precious gemstones yet? 

If you do need a bit more of the compulsory coronation cobblers you could always go and read the fucking Mail on Sunday, they’re bound to have a souvenir edition, because you’re not going to find another sentence wasted on the £250 million circus on this page today. 

But you have probably guessed that from the opening reference to the Cambridge dictionary definition of the word “pledge”. 

A pledge is a serious or formal promise. Has anyone even considered pointing this out to the fundamentally dishonest Keir Starmer? 

Let’s go back to the start. 

It’s December 2019, and Keir Starmer puts himself forward to replace Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the Labour Party. “Another future is possible”, claimed the Starmer campaign.

Starmer was fully aware that the power of decision sits with the half-a-million plus Labour members, so he set about drawing up a list of ‘soft Corbynite’ pledges to sell to the predominantly left-wing voters. 

We had punchy little things such as social justice, defending migrants rights, strengthening workers rights and trade unions, and even offering effective opposition to the Tories. 

Starmer even started his list of pledges by stating: 

“Based on the moral case for socialism, here is where I stand…” 

History will show that many of us had only just witnessed Keir Starmer hand the 2019 election on a plate to the Tories with his (not Jeremy’s) unequivocal backing for a second referendum on the EU, so you could probably forgive us for being somewhat sceptical of the reincarnation of Karl Marx, with added Brylcreem. 

I can also remember once-sensible people insisting Keir Starmer was the saviour of the Labour Party simply for sharing the same Christian name as the founder of the Labour movement, Keir Hardie. 

Those pledges made by Keir Starmer, along with other treasures such as his insistence he wouldn’t be speaking with the S*n tabloid, were enough to secure the beige barrister a pretty convincing victory when the votes were counted. 

Bizarrely, it would seem Mr Starmer hasn’t yet worked out - which is pretty fucking shocking for a barrister -  the glue that binds together a pledge and an end result is accountability. 

Lying say-anything-for-power politicians that tell numerous lies to the people cannot bypass the consequences of telling numerous lies to the people, and that applies to Keir Starmer too. 

So what pledges has Keir Starmer placed on the scrapheap on his quest towards the ultimate goal of principle-free power? 

Let’s start with his first pledge. In fact, let’s start with the very first sentence of pledge number one - economic justice. 

“Increase income tax for the top 5% of earners”. 

This sounds like a pretty standard Labour policy to me, but not for Keir Starmer, who told the BBC just this week, “We are likely to move on from that commitment because we do find ourselves in a different financial situation”. 

Labour insiders also believe Starmer is likely to rule out any sort of a wealth tax prior to the next general election. 

So that is the invertebrate Starmer’s very first sentence of his very first pledge, torn up and trashed because the establishment bag-carrier needs to keep the rich and powerful on side to stand any chance of swapping opposition for government. 

Let’s look at another pledge. Number 2 on the list - social justice. 

Jeremy Corbyn’s promise to scrap tuition fees was a core part of our manifestos in the 2017 and 2019 elections, and wasn’t it great to see Mr Starmer commit to “support the abolition of tuition fees”, when he came looking for your votes in 2020? 

But this pledge has also been added to the abandoned list following Starmer’s latest u-turn. 

“We are likely to move on from that commitment because we do find ourselves in a different financial situation”, claimed the Labour leader on the Today Programme, this week. 

Pledge 1, abandoned, pledge 2, abandoned. Can you sense a theme here or do you really believe Starmer shouldn’t be held to account for his lies and embellishments?

Now let’s look at another of Starmer’s infamous ten pledges - He calls it “common ownership”, because he is scared of the word “nationalisation”. 

“Public services should be in public hands, not making profits for shareholders. Support common ownership of rail, mail, energy and water; end outsourcing in our NHS, local government and justice system”. 

Well, just last year Keir Starmer promised to create a nationalised energy company, “Great British Energy”, within a year of Labour coming to power. 

Poor-hating Rachel Reeves quietly ditched that policy in March, and all that remains of Labour’s nationalisation commitment is rail - and how long will that last with a bonafide fraud like Keir Starmer in charge? 

I’m starting to think it would be easier to tell you which of Keir Starmer’s ten pledges are still worth the paper they are written on, because the answer to that would be a shameful zero. 

I’ll finish up with my thoughts on the local elections, and as I said last week this was an anti-Tory election, not a pro-Labour election. 

Labour strategists will be wondering what else the Tories need to do to get ousted in places such as Darlington and Hartlepool because the Ukipification of the Labour Party still isn’t cutting through in some parts. 

But overall Labour will be quietly happy that the Tories have proven to be so fucking awful that even a lying and unscrupulous bucket of inadequacy like Starmer seems a safe pair of hands. 

At some point Keir Starmer is going to have to put together a manifesto that he can take to the country at a general election, but what will the pledges to the nation be worth when he cannot keep his promises to his own party members?

I really don’t see a Prime Minister when I look at Keir Starmer. All I see is a dishonest, factional bully with the charisma of a mouldy bath plug trying to coast into power on the crest of a wave of anti-Tory sentiment.

Until next time, 

Rachael 

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