Re: Keir Starmer tells Labour conference: we deserved to lose election Archived Message
Posted by Raskolnikov on September 22, 2020, 7:41 pm, in reply to "Keir Starmer tells Labour conference: we deserved to lose election"
Keir Starmer’s first party conference speech as leader had been pitched in advance as a moment to set out his values and vision – which sceptics of his leadership have grumbled are hard to discern. Tuesday’s speech at an arts centre in Doncaster fulfilled that brief: Starmer spoke about, “a country that embodies the values I hold dear. Decency, fairness, opportunity, compassion and security”. But the much stronger message woven though the speech was a different one: I am not Jeremy Corbyn. It began even before the Labour leader had said a word, as he was introduced by the Jewish former Labour MP Ruth Smeeth, who has been a leading critic of her party’s record on antisemitism. Smeeth talked about the “visceral racism” directed at Jewish colleagues, who had been “bullied out” of the party – and underlined Starmer’s determination to take a different approach. Cosy little club of lying scumbags you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it. A real shame.
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