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We’ve just heard the most tone-deaf reason for voting for Keir Starmer and Rosena Allin-Khan

Peadar O'Cearnaigh by Peadar O'Cearnaigh
28 February 2020
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After voting in the UK Labour leadership and deputy leadership elections, actor Reece Dinsdale announced his decision on social media. He explained he’d voted for Keir Starmer and Rosena Allin-Khan. Dinsdale tweeted:

Just voted in the @UKLabour elections.
On basis that being in power is EVERYTHING & that the electorate recently informed us that they’d not sanction a hard left gov, I’ve gone for @Keir_Starmer & @DrRosena
Time to look after those we purport to help, not play party politics. pic.twitter.com/txd9miCR6M

— Reece Dinsdale 👀 (@reece_dinsdale) February 27, 2020

But his tweet doesn’t make sense. Because even in critical postmortems of Labour’s defeat, being “hard left” didn’t exactly feature. In fact, Labour received praise from economists for its policies. And while Corbyn’s popularity, undermined by a right-wing smear campaign, was an issue, so too was Labour’s position on Brexit.

Brexit and Starmer

The general election in 2019 was billed as a “Brexit election”. And Starmer was one of the architects of Labour’s position. This proved unpopular with much of the British electorate. Yet according to a recent poll, Starmer has kept his popularity with Labour Remainers. So quite possibly some people still haven’t got the message.

Hard what?

There was a lot of reaction to Dinsdale accusing Labour of having a “hard left” position:

https://twitter.com/BenJolly9/status/1233133728358182916?s=20

In response to Dinsdale’s suggestion that “power is EVERYTHING”, they reminded him just how the electorate might view Starmer:

And this person was clear what a vote for Starmer meant for them:

Starmer and Allin-Khan

In addition to his position on Brexit, Starmer needs to answer some questions. These include concerns about the undercover policing scandal. Similarly, Allin-Khan needs to be clear. On the one hand she claims to stand for the rights of Palestinians:

Yesterday, @AdamBoultonSky asked me why I'm vocal about Palestine.

When it comes to Palestine, I don't just shout about it. I've worked as a doctor treating Palestinians and have seen the appalling treatment they face. I'll never stop fighting for their human rights! pic.twitter.com/b7saFXUtjb

— Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (@DrRosena) January 30, 2020

But, along with Starmer, she signed the highly controversial list of demands from the right-wing Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD). Pledges which, in the words of Jewish Canary editor Emily Apple, mean Labour “must ignore socialist Jews” and “Jews who don’t support the actions of the Israeli state”.

What’s the point of power?

There’s little point “being in power” if you have to sacrifice the policies your party holds dear. The “centrist” Labour government under Tony Blair moved away from working-class people and, worse still, could be deemed guilty of war crimes.

So if the message popularised by Corbyn – “for the many not the few” – is also to be compromised, it’s hard to see how it can “look after those” it claims to represent.

Featured image via YouTube – Square Chapel Arts Centre / YouTube – Guardian News / YouTube – ITV News

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