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Monday 5 December 2022

Sir Keir shifts the blame



Politics latest: Keir Starmer outlines 'blueprint' for a Labour government - written by ex-PM

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer outlines a "blueprint" for his party in government, drafted by Gordon Brown - including a pledge to abolish the House of Lords and ban almost all second jobs for MPs.

Sir Keir thinks we have two key government issues to resolve - the House of Lords and too much outside experience. 

Hmm - 

Sir Keir suggests that these are the issues which go a long way to explain why the House of Commons is so useless. Of course, he is not likely to see things that way at all, but it shifts the blame and he probably hopes Labour voters and potential Labour voters are dim enough to swallow it. He may well be right. 

4 comments:

Doonhamer said...

Not even Blair. But he goes right to the source of dim-wittery, Gorgon, Who if he ever suspected he would ever read a good policy, would shut his good eye.
"Wanna buy some gold? But Ah hae tae warn you it all has tae go, and quickly, so Ah'm setting a vurra reasonable price. So let me see your bawbees. Before Ah swallow ma tongue again."
Ban the Second Chamber? But how is he going to get rid of an embarrassing Member (Ooh err, Missus.), or reward an arris licking toady? There is no EU Commission sinecures to hand out now.
Ah, yes, Royal Commissions to decide on the racist implications of "Taking the Wrong Knee", and devising a suitable token gesture for woke paraplegics. Quangos. Endless possibilities.
Wur doomed, Ah tell ye, doo - oomed.

Tammly said...

One idiot taking advice from another idiot.

Sam Vega said...

It is of course a lot of opportunist nonsense to capitalise on the fact that the Tories have run out of ideas, and don't know what they are for any longer. But it's the unintended consequences that will be really dangerous. Just like Blair, who wanted to make a mark but didn't know what he was unleashing in the Middle East, the useless "graduates", and immigration.


It will mean the further fracturing of the Union. It will encourage regional autonomy, a new layer of bureaucracy, and power drifting away from London. More importantly, by challenging the hereditary principle, it will make the monarchy look more isolated and anomalous when it is currently in something of a crisis. These things might be good or bad. But I bet that Starmer hasn't really considered how it will all play out.

A K Haart said...

Doonhamer - yes, it isn't easy to believe that Starmer is taking tactical advice from Goldfinger Brown, but apparently he is. You are right - we're doo - oomed.

Tammly - that's it. Hard to credit, but so many things are.

Sam - yes it's just opportunist nonsense. It's not even smart because it's too technical and could easily be portrayed as fiddling while Rome burns. Roping in Brown doesn't feel like a smart move either - he's too old and too weird.