Reasons to leave Labour /1

Keir Starmer, as head of DPP:

• did not prosecute Jimmy Savile

• did not prosecute the police officer that murdered Ian Tomlinson’s

• did not prosecute the Rochdale Grooming Gang

• wanted to criminalise protestors who covered their faces
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• said benefit claimants who were prosecuted were “getting one over on the system”. Most benefit fraud prosecutions are because of minor infractions.

While an MP, Keir Starmer:

• abstained against the Tories’ Welfare Bill which sentenced the vulnerable to death
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• came up with the 2nd referendum policy and refused to respect the Brexit referendum (which saw 50% of Labour to Tory voters cite Brexit as the reason for switching and saw Labour lose their northern seats [98% of the 2019 seats voted leave])
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In his first day as Leader, Keir Starmer:

• appointed Rachel Reeves to the shadow cabinet (she said Labour is not a party for workers and will be tougher than the Tories on welfare).

• Reeves also admires Nancy Astor, the antisemite who called Jews “killers of Christ”.
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• appointed Lisa Nandy as foreign secretary; Nandy famously said she treat Scottish Independence referendums like Spain in its treatment towards Catalonia.

• Nandy also blew the racist dog whistle multiple times during her leadership bid.
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• reaffirmed his commitment to unwaveringly support Israel (he said he is a Zionist without qualification).

• wrote his first op-ed as Leader in Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times, which was behind a paywall.
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• made Labour a safe haven for the Islamophobic Frances ‘trots should be shot’ Barber.

• made Labour a safe haven for Matt Forde, who went on to cheapen the murder of 1,000,000 Iraqis.

• shafted the north by sacking Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett
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• made Labour’s front bench ***less diverse*** than the Tory front bench

I could go on, but I’ll leave it here.

To everybody that said Keir Starmer is left wing: you played yourself.

To everybody that said they’ll wait and see: you waited and saw. Leave @UKLabour.
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One last thing, he vowed to work with the Tories and to prop them up after they failed to do anything to stop the spread of Covid-19.
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