- Keir Starmer Says 'Big' Victory In Labour Leadership Race Needed To Unite Party Archived Message
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on February 27, 2020, 2:38 pm
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As part of the drive for unity, Starmer said that people like Alastair Campbell, who had been booted out of the party for admitting voting Lib Dem in the Euro elections, should be welcomed back. “Look I want anybody who wants to be in our party to be in the party. Alastair is a constituent of mine. And he was a long standing Labour member, a huge contribution to the party. I think we need to get past this whole question of chucking people out and expulsions, etc,” he said. “The cases we should concentrate on are cases, for example, of anti-Semitism or other racist behaviour within the party. “And I use Alastair’s case an example to say, if you can be chucked out of the party, almost straight away, for supporting another party at a [euro] election, surely you can be chucked out of our party in an absolutely clear case of anti-Semitism, and the mismatch was huge there.” Shills for war crimes in; supporters of Palestinians out. STARMER ON...JULIAN ASSANGE’S EXTRADITION “The whole idea was to take the politics out of it. And therefore, in any extradition case, the judge, a high court judge in most cases, has to decide whether it’s lawful or appropriate whether the evidence is there to extradite someone, so it’s independent judges. “So all of those in the Assange case or any other case, who say it’s all a big conspiracy are either missing the point that this is an independent judge-made decision or they’re implying that our High Court judiciary is corrupt. And I do not subscribe to that view by a very, very long shot. We’ve got a very good independent judiciary. It’s revered across the world. And we knock it at our peril. “It’s up to politicians what they want to campaign for or not, but on extradition High Court judges made the decision, they do it in open court with the evidence, and they give recent judgments, you can read the judgments and work out why the judge decided that an individual should be extradited. This is not done in secret. It’s not done without evidence, it’s not done without argument both sides have advocates, and then a judge makes a decision, they think the judges got it wrong, you can appeal. It’s a very simple system, it’s very good system, and it should be upheld.” Such touching faith. Must have missed CM's writings. Assange being tortured to incoherence and denied access to records and lawyers of no concern, then. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/keir-starmer-huffpost-interview-bigger-the-win-the-better_uk_5e5516e4c5b6ad3de384561c?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLn |