Jeremy Corbyn just ruined Keir Starmer’s first anniversary as Labour leader
This week was Keir Starmer’s first anniversary of being Labour leader. So, enter Jeremy Corbyn to show us what a mess Starmer’s made of it.
Baloo Starmer
Starmer’s time as leader has been both contentious and unsurprising. From a series of rebrandings to writing in right-wing papers and ‘out-Torying the Tories‘, Starmer has been dire. Rachael Swindon noted in a recent article that:
Nearly every day for a year I have asked on Twitter – “I wonder how the Labour Party will disappoint us today?” – and nearly every day the Labour Party will answer the question for me, exceeding my expectations of their awfulness, time after time.
On Good Friday, Starmer managed to clusterfuck again. Because he visited a homophobic church. But it was perhaps Joe‘s mock-up of Starmer in the Disney song I Wanna Be Like You which best summed up his time in charge:
Keir Starmer – I Wanna Be Like You 🐻🌴 #BalooLabour pic.twitter.com/0Q9DY0n91Z
— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) February 1, 2021
So, all in all, Starmer is proving a disaster. Now enter Corbyn to remind everyone how leadership should be done.
Corbyn bringing the fire
Corbyn was speaking at a London #KillTheBill demonstration on Saturday 3 April. He said that the Police Bill protests:
should also be taken in the context of a series of piece of legislation that this government is trying to push through that place over there [parliament]. The Spy Cops Bill; the Overseas Operations Bill; all these bills designed to empower the secretary of state to legislate beyond the powers of parliament; to restrict protest; to organise counter surveillance operations and so many other things.
Here’s @jeremycorbyn on #KillTheBill protest in Parliament Sq #RightToProtest pic.twitter.com/0tz4hjONcX
— Stand Up To Racism (@AntiRacismDay) April 3, 2021
People have criticised Starmer for his leadership (or lack thereof) on all those bills. Whereas Corbyn? He was forthright and standing with the people:
“it’s the brave people who have stood up that have changed history” –@jeremycorbyn. he goes on to talk about the history of struggle, from suffragettes, trade unionism and the anti-apartheid movement and how integral protest has been too them.
— huck (@HUCKmagazine) April 3, 2021
Corbyn also sent solidarity to the Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller (GRT) community – a pointed remark given Labour’s recent racist anti-GRT leaflets:
“i stand with the gypsy, romani and traveller community” says @jeremycorbyn to huge cheers before stating “the road to oppression is the silence of the majority”
— huck (@HUCKmagazine) April 3, 2021
The former Labour leader wrapped-up his speech by saying:
I want to live in a world of peace and justice. I want to live in a world of human rights and democracy.
Jeremy Corbyn wrapping up his speech on why protest needs to continue if society is to change for the better. #killthebill pic.twitter.com/cBMoNdHTKR
— Michael Petch (@MichaellPetch) April 3, 2021
People on social media were impressed:
Seeing this reminds me why I admire him so much. He may never be PM but he speaks in ways I can connect with. I'm so glad to see him still campaigning like this.
— Raven 🦁🦊 (@RuthieR) April 3, 2021
After #AYearOfKeir Jeremy Corbyn remains both a breath of fresh air & a political inspiration to many. Still seriously annoying all the Right people too ✊✊✊ pic.twitter.com/mUtkPS5jxO
— Prof Gayle Letherby (@gletherby) April 4, 2021
“My voice will not be stilled, I’ll be around, I’ll be campaigning, I’ll be arguing, & I’ll be demanding justice for the people of this country”@JeremyCorbyn meant what he said.
A true servant of the people; titles are good, purpose better.
Yesterday👇pic.twitter.com/09CWWUnlVX
— James Foster (@JamesEFoster) April 4, 2021
Sadly, Corbyn’s voice is now a minority in parliament. And his message is far removed from Starmer’s.
Could it get any worse?
As Swindon summed up:
I can already tell you how the Labour Party will disappoint us today, and I mean *this* Labour Party.
Simply by existing.
Could the next year of Starmer’s leadership be worse than this one? Yeah. Don’t answer that.
Featured image via the Telegraph – YouTube and VICE News – YouTube
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Stand up for Jeremy Corbyn – Just as he stands up for all of us.
No wonder the right wing want him out of the frame.
Carry on fighting for justice.
Kill the Bill !!
Corbyn, the Tory dream opposition leader who delivered Boris Johnson a thumping majority.
Well done.
I think you need to get your facts straight. The biggest contributor to the last Labour defeat was the disastrous Brexit policy, engineered by… Keir Starmer.
The second biggest contributor was probably the right wing of the Labour Party who spent the whole of Jeremy Corbyn’s term as leader briefing against him and in some cases actively working against him. He came within a few thousand votes of what would have been an astounding victory in 2017, and without the activities of the fifth column would probably have pulled it off.
Add to that the lies and anti-left propoganda spouted by and gobbled up by the brain muted Sun readers who treat Murdochs press as gospel and still haven’t figured out that their sole reason for buying his arse wipe material hasn’t been on page three for a few years now.
“spouted by” the MSM
Well, at least you now know how gullible, naive and sheepish you’ve been….hayho
Steer Karma
He’ll get his.
Can anyone point me to the text of Corbyn’s speech of 3 April 2021? Search engines don’t know of it.
Oh whot a leader done in by his own party the sniviling shxxx but has above he didn’t stand a chance
In 2017 Labour got 40% of the vote. In 2005, 35%. In 2010, 29%. In 2015 30%. So who’s the vote loser? Corbyn’s percentage in 2017 was the 4th highest since 1966. Higher than 1974 (twice), 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 2005, 2010, 2015. Higher than Kinnock, than Blair in 2005, than Brown, than Miliband. And yet, Corbyn has the whip withdrawn. Even in 2019 Corbyn did better in vote share than Brown and Miliband. Yet he’s the devil. He’s the bugbear. He’s the problem. The left is the problem. Thus, Labour is now in the control of one man: David Evans. The dark bureaucracy at the heart of Labour has expelled and suspended thousands in breach of its own rules. People have been left in limbo. No investigation. No reference to the NEC. Labour is two institutions: the political and the bureaucratic. Like all bureaucracies, Labour’s is reactionary, self-serving, anti-democratic, opaque and unaccountable. Labour is now a totalitarian bureaucracy. Members are told their most urgent concerns are “not competent for discussion” that the candidates they choose are “not competent” for office. Labour is a machine to win power for its own sake. It has no commitment to justice. It treats its own members despicably. This should remind us of what we should never forget: anarchism is the only respectable political philosophy because it is the only one which wishes to erode rather than consolidate power. The self-governing society is the answer. People must take control of their own lives. Labour is a sick, Statist body determined to defend capitalism at all costs. It betrays those who vote for it over and again. Direct, peaceable action to take control of our own lives is what is needed. Let the Deliveroo workers win. They will if we all support them. Let Deliveroo disappear. Who needs it? We can do for ourselves what it does and spread the wealth around.
I seldom disagree with the basic thrust of a Canary article, but I do think the team should consider dropping the form of these headlines that utilise the word ‘just’. It sounds half American, half tittle-tattle mercheant, to me. It’s like the equivalent of The Guardian’s use of ‘Meet the… x’ or it’s presmptuous use of ‘we’ when really only talking about the people of Belsize Park. It can irritate to the point where it must play a part in alienating potential allies.
It’s like songs with the word ‘blues’ in, this homogenisation. Just come up with a headline with its content dictating the form anew. Then none of us are here hearing, “Did you see what what x just did? He…’
A relatively minor point, I know, in an ever-increasingly messy and firghtening world, but I do think this is worth attending to.