Sunday, 14 January 2024
Charming the Charmless
Streeting says Corbyn and Farage are 'two cheeks of the same backside'
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has been speaking at the Jewish Labour conference in the last half hour, and he was asked if Sir Keir Starmer's decision to stay in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet was the right moral one.
Mr Streeting said they had the debate at the time - some chose to serve, some didn't...
Turning it onto the Tories, he said those more moderate Tory MPs, that he described as "actually quite heavy on the lectures during the Corbyn period", should "look in your own mirror at the dangerous forces of the populist right".
He went on: "Because whether it's hard left, hard right, Corbyn or Farage, they're two cheeks of the same backside.
It may have become impossible to support the Tories, but Streeting seems intent on making it a little easier. Hold your nose and vote against the oafs? Yes - he may just have put that possibility back on the political table. Quite an achievement.
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There are plenty of people that would normally vote Conservative - but they want to punish the current government for being useless. However voting Labour will seem like cutting your nose off to spite your face. If there are 'two cheeks of the same arse' it's the two main parties. The LibDems probably aspire to be as good as another cheek.
But voting Reform... that will send a message and may get the two main parties to go back to basics.
DJ - I agree, it's time to vote for significant change even if it fails. People like Streeting show us how grim a Labour government is likely to be and it may encourage many Tories to stay with them and hope for the best, but it's time to vote for change.
If Corbyn and Farage are the hard left and hard right, is Streeting claiming to be the soft centre? Like a strawberry cream in a box of chocolates?
Aaaah, 'populist' now means 'the right'!
In my book, 'populist' means 'Normal fed-up citizen who wants someone to actually govern their country, protect its people and show some leadership'...
Sam - you mean those sickly things with an obviously artificial flavour you wish you hadn't sampled?
Scrobs - it also seems to mean anyone who isn't on the extreme left, although many of these labels hardly mean anything now.
And the Liberals?
The : between the cheeks?
I will not explain, I respect your erudite readers.
Doonhamer - knowing the Liberals as we do, there are any number of possibilities between the cheeks.
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