A familiar issue of course, but the whole piece is well worth reading because as Dinnage says, the dishonesty is becoming intolerable. Intolerable? This suggests some kind of major upheaval may be lurking on the political horizon, quite apart from the May elections.
Labour’s dishonesty has become intolerable
It takes a special kind of political crisis to make a right-winger agree with Diane Abbott.
As Keir Starmer faced MPs on Monday over his appointment of renowned sinophile and friend of Jeffrey Epstein Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US, Abbott struck at the heart of the Prime Minister’s weakness. Portraying himself as feeling as hurt, betrayed and confused as the rest of the nation, Starmer insisted time and again that he believed due process had been followed. But as the Hackney MP pointed out, ‘ordinary people don’t really care about process and procedure, they want transparency and they want to know that they have confidence in the words of elected politicians’.
She’s absolutely right, and at one time Starmer seemed to think so too.
Labour’s dishonesty has become intolerable
- Between Peter Mandelson's sinophilia and Chris Pincher's wandering hands, we've suffered sleaze for too long
- Keir Starmer will ultimately leave Britain in an angrier and materially poorer position than when he found it
- Whoever leads Britain into the next decade must be guided by one principle above all: honesty
It takes a special kind of political crisis to make a right-winger agree with Diane Abbott.
As Keir Starmer faced MPs on Monday over his appointment of renowned sinophile and friend of Jeffrey Epstein Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US, Abbott struck at the heart of the Prime Minister’s weakness. Portraying himself as feeling as hurt, betrayed and confused as the rest of the nation, Starmer insisted time and again that he believed due process had been followed. But as the Hackney MP pointed out, ‘ordinary people don’t really care about process and procedure, they want transparency and they want to know that they have confidence in the words of elected politicians’.
She’s absolutely right, and at one time Starmer seemed to think so too.
5 comments:
There are politicians, yes, hopeless lot, plus Whitehall. However it's those behind these people, controlling them ... and they are nasty, utterly without conscience, plus an agenda to destroy ... those in decision making positions, officially, are highly compromised. I'll go further ... it's almost an ancient viciousness to these controllers behind them. All the paedo etc. comes from them.
"ordinary people don’t really care about process and procedure..."
Quite so, especially when process and procedure is used as an excuse by a help desk or a customer service representative to explain why you can't have something that is blindingly obvious.
So when a politician sounds like he is reading a help desk script for the umpteenth time you have to conclude he doesn't care if people believe him. The script says no.
James - yes there is an ancient viciousness behind them, the depraved viciousness of most ruling classes through the ages.
DJ - yes, that's partly why Starmer comes across as so out of touch. He is out of touch, he thinks process and procedure is enough and not even the spirit of process and procedure, just the wording and whatever obfuscation can be squeezed into it.
I watched Starmer being ripped apart in the Commons and was astonished to hear what Dianne Abbott had to say.
The only question now really is which of the dimwitted cretins is going to replace him. None of them fill me with any confidence that they have a better grip on reality. I cant see him clinging to the wreckage for much longer, if he manages to survive this week, the Local election results if as expected will finish him off. Can I suggest a stake through the heart and burial at the crossroads, it seems to work in the vampire stories.
John - yes that's the problem, Starmer's replacement could be worse. A more optimistic possibility is that he or she learns something from Starmer's bonehead incompetence, the party learns something and most of the Cabinet goes too.
Or a stake through the heart.
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