Keir Starmers speech

"As well as anger, I feel frustration that every Labour Party spokesperson is a shadow. Shadow Education. Shadow Health. Shadow Chancellor. Shadow Foreign. Until we come out of the shadows, this party can’t change anything"

“I can see in my mind’s eye the country I want us to be; properly funded universal public services”

"Whilst Boris Johnson was writing flippant columns about bendy bananas, I was defending victims and prosecuting terrorists."
 
'it makes me angry that, just when the country needs leadership, we get serial incompetence. Six months in, a Cabinet chosen on loyalty alone shows no sign of having learnt any lessons from the crisis.

Here are two things I’ve learnt.

First, if you neglect your public services, you won’t be ready when a crisis hits. Nobody blames the government for the existence of the virus.

But the under-funding of the NHS, the abandonment of social care and the lack of investment in prevention, that’s all on their watch. That’s all down to them.

And it always ends this way with Tory governments:

Public services are neglected, cut-back, and left to decline. For a party called the Conservative Party, they don’t seem to conserve very much.

The second thing I’ve learnt is that a crisis reveals character like nothing else.

And I think we’ve learnt a lot about this Prime Minister. Tory backbenchers know it. His Cabinet knows it. We all know it.

He’s just not serious. He’s just not up to the job.

Whenever he encounters a problem, Johnson responds either by wishing it away or by lashing out.

He kept wishing away the problems with testing, pretending they didn’t exist. He wished away the problems with the Irish border. Then, when he finally realised what he’d signed up to, he lashed out and decided to break international law.

We’re all doing our bit to combat the virus by obeying the rule of six. Meanwhile the government won’t even obey the rule of law.

And this is the big difference between the Prime Minister and me:

While Boris Johnson was writing flippant columns about bendy bananas, I was defending victims and prosecuting terrorists.

While he was being sacked by a newspaper for making up quotes, I was fighting for justice and the rule of law.'


That is excellent stuff.
 
'The promise that brought us all into politics – to change the country for the better – is pointless if all we can do is object to endless Tory governments.

So let’s be blunt. Let’s be brutally honest with ourselves.

When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to.

'You don’t look at the electorate and ask them: “what were you thinking?” You look at yourself and ask: “what were we doing?”

The Labour Party has lost four general elections in a row. We’ve granted the Tories a decade of power.

The Tories have had as many election winners in five years as we’ve had in seventy-five.

It’s a betrayal of what we believe in to let this go on. It’s time to get serious about winning.

That means we have to change, and that’s what we’re doing.

This is a party under new leadership.'
 
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'Never again will Labour go into an election not being trusted on national security, with your job, with your community and with your money.

That’s what being under new leadership means.

And the best incentive for being deadly serious about victory is to remember why we want to win.

I don’t want to win power just to be Prime Minister. I want to win because of the country I love and because of the values I hold dear.'

Johnson is toast of course, it is just a question of when. I don't see anyone in the current Tory Party who can touch Starmer.
 
I'm not a Labour party supporter but he looks and sounds like the next leader of this country. The government will have only themselves to blame.

Having recently won an election before the crisis, I have the grim feeling they will drag it out and hide behind the likes of Whitty and Vallance for as long as they possibly can to maintain power. Remember that the virus has 'delayed' elections elsewhere such as in Hong Kong.
 
'I’m not the sort of Leader who wants to turn the clock back. Times change – and so do political priorities.

But let’s remind ourselves of what this party can achieve at its best.

This is the party that created the National Health Service and founded NATO.

This is the party of the Equal Pay Act and this is the Party of the Open University.

This is the Party of the National Minimum Wage and this is Party of the Good Friday Agreement.

These achievements show that we inherit a task and a purpose.

All three of the post-war Labour winners – Attlee, Wilson and Blair – saw it as their task to modernise Britain.

In 1945, Attlee had to build a society fit to reward the sacrifices of the war.

In 1964, Wilson had to make the “white heat of technology” work for working people.

In 1997, Blair wanted to extend the new era of opportunity to everyone.

In the 75 years since the historic victory of 1945 there have only been three Labour winners. I want to be the fourth.

And when you look back to 1945, 1964 and 1997 you learn an important lesson. The lesson is don’t look back, look to the future.

We need to be thinking about the questions of 2024 and the 2030s, not the questions of the past.

If anything, Covid has quickened the pace.

The challenges we now face mean that even the questions of 2019 already seem like ancient history.

What we say at the next general election isn’t written yet. But it will be rooted in Labour values.

It won’t sound like anything you’ve heard before. It will sound like the future arriving.'


If you understand anything about the psychology of voting, this speech ticks every box. Labour landslide coming, it's just terrible we will have to wait so long.
 
Finally, Labour is putting right all the mistakes it was making under that idiot Corbyn. It has a statesman leading the party. Somebody who realises values are worthless unless you have the power granted to it by the people. Starmer has said much of what I got shot down for saying on the old board. He understands the party has to be proactive in winning the centre ground, people like me. It is not just enough to vote Labour or any party merely because you loathe another. The trust of the ordinary British men and women has to be won over.

Starmer gets it, his speech was absolutely hitting the nail on the head and was the best speech I have heard from any politician since Blair in 1997. Starmer is brilliant at PMQ’s forensically destroying Johnson each time. He does it in a cool calm manner that earns respect, trust and will bring back the trust of the British people In Labour after its woeful marxist leadership experiment finally lost its momentum. The Labour party, in ditching Corbyn and his allies, by electing a statesman with real leadership qualities and a vision the British public will vote in droves for, has given Itself the real chance to make a difference in our post brexit, post covid world. He has rekindled my faith and hope in a better future for young and old alike and albeit in 4 yrs time, if not sooner, the hope that we have an electable visionary, a statesman who understands our country and someone who will hopefully put an end to the nationalists that aim to separate our union.

If only those that propped up the Corbyn way had seen sense sooner, we could well be looking at having had a Labour victory at the last election and be looking at a very different future than the ones the Tories are rapidly wrecking. If the Tories stick with Johnson post Brexit, they will be committing political suicide, mind looking at the likely future contenders they will be toast anyway. In Keir I trust.
 
Lefty said:
'it makes me angry that, just when the country needs leadership, we get serial incompetence. Six months in, a Cabinet chosen on loyalty alone shows no sign of having learnt any lessons from the crisis.

Here are two things I’ve learnt.

First, if you neglect your public services, you won’t be ready when a crisis hits. Nobody blames the government for the existence of the virus.

But the under-funding of the NHS, the abandonment of social care and the lack of investment in prevention, that’s all on their watch. That’s all down to them.

And it always ends this way with Tory governments:

Public services are neglected, cut-back, and left to decline. For a party called the Conservative Party, they don’t seem to conserve very much.

The second thing I’ve learnt is that a crisis reveals character like nothing else.

And I think we’ve learnt a lot about this Prime Minister. Tory backbenchers know it. His Cabinet knows it. We all know it.

He’s just not serious. He’s just not up to the job.

Whenever he encounters a problem, Johnson responds either by wishing it away or by lashing out.

He kept wishing away the problems with testing, pretending they didn’t exist. He wished away the problems with the Irish border. Then, when he finally realised what he’d signed up to, he lashed out and decided to break international law.

We’re all doing our bit to combat the virus by obeying the rule of six. Meanwhile the government won’t even obey the rule of law.

And this is the big difference between the Prime Minister and me:

While Boris Johnson was writing flippant columns about bendy bananas, I was defending victims and prosecuting terrorists.

While he was being sacked by a newspaper for making up quotes, I was fighting for justice and the rule of law.'


That is excellent stuff.
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Summed up brilliantly
 
He will be prime minister after the next election UNLESS the Cons bin BJ (which I fully expect them to do in the next 12 months).
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Not looking like he'll get my vote. Nothing on evictions. Will wait to see if there's anything in the manifesto or if it's just soft Tory.
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It'd be stupid to reveal exact policy at this point because if it gained support from the public then it'd be incorporated into the Tory manifesto.
He's not enough of a socialist for me, but if he can get rid of this current mob of self-serving mobsters and start to change the national dialogue to a fairer and more equitable one then he'll do for me.
It might be a long journey to reach where I think we'd be a better nation, but we have to start that journey away from the rush to the right and I think he can do that.
 
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