Starmer is already breaking pledges in his manifesto as recognising a Palestinian state appears to have been binned.
Right, so to the surprise of nobody on the left whatsoever and should be coming as less of a surprise to voters who have been putting…
Starmer is already breaking pledges in his manifesto as recognising a Palestinian state appears to have been binned.
Right, so to the surprise of nobody on the left whatsoever and should be coming as less of a surprise to voters who have been putting Keir Starmer under some kind of scrutiny and familiarised themselves with the fact he breaks promises, pledges, missions, oaths, vows, obligations and assurances repeatedly and then acts as if he did no such thing, he’s now already breaking manifesto commitments and doing so whilst we’re still in the election campaign period.
In the Labour Party manifesto is a pledge regarding recognition of a state of Palestine, a key measure working towards a two state solution, but Starmer is now already rowing back on this, to either delay, or as some Labour sources are saying, to abandon entirely, because they can afford to up set people for whom this is an important issue who end up handing their vote to Labour. What kind of administration decides before reaching power which people who supported them they can afford to laugh in the faces of by abandoning certain pledges, that they told the nation they were committed to? One that will lie with impunity once in power.
Right, so Keir Starmer, already well known to be unabashedly pro Israel, having effectively been bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby as he has, has done significant damage to his party’s reputation on the issue of Gaza especially over the last nine months, and it very much looks like he is going to double down on that, having promised to recognise a Palestinian state as part of moves towards a two state solution in the Labour Party manifesto. It states:
‘Palestinian statehood is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people. It is not in the gift of any neighbour and is also essential to the long-term security of Israel. We are committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to a renewed peace process which results in a two-state solution with a..
