Keir Starmer was beaten up as teenager trying to defend gay friend, book reveals
Keir Starmer was beaten up as teenager trying to defend gay friend, book reveals
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Keir Starmer was beaten up in a nightclub in Cornwall as a teenager after trying to defend one of his friends who was attacked for being gay, a new book reveals.
In an incident that the book’s author, Tom Baldwin, suggests demonstrates Starmer’s values, the Labour leader describes how he was disgusted that his friend had been kicked out of the family home in the 1980s for being gay by his father who told him “you’re no son of mine”.
In the summer after he sat his A-levels in 1980, Starmer and two friends from school, Mark and Graham, worked at a holiday centre for a disability charity in Cornwall, where they went on a night out.
Baldwin recounts how “in cold fury” Starmer “tossed his phone across the table” to show him two photos of his niece’s face, the first looking radiant and happy on her wedding day, the other almost unrecognisably swollen and purple after the attack.
“Starmer’s anger over what happened to his niece, and – despite his best efforts with the police – the failure to prosecute those responsible, is an emotion you rarely see from him in public,” Baldwin writes.
“For my part, I think the argument made casually by a lot of people these days that he stands for nothing is well wide of the mark.”
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Hopefully he’ll be beaten at the next election for defending Israeli genocide.
By who?
We can only hope this is a way of avoiding the anti-Semitism claims used (in part) to sink Labour when Corbyn was in charge.
He could explain the difference between Israel and Judaism a billion times, but if he denounces Israel, he'll be called an anti-Semite by all and sundry. It'll tarnish his reputation and potentially ruin his election hopes.
Of course, I have no way of knowing his true feelings. Maybe he genuinely is in favour of what they're doing over there.
Just to clarify, of course I mean beaten electorally. By who? That’s a great question.
Antisemitism in the Labour party is a real issue. It is an issue across society. If Labour has a particularly prominent antisemitism problem, we can most likely consider it to have derived at least in part from the Palestine issue. That categorically does not excuse antisemitism, but it does give us a clue as to how to fairly judge when a member or supporter has been antisemitic, and a possible approach to preventing further encroachment of antisemitism into the Israel-Palestine issue.
Opposing adoption of the IHRA was one a way to ensure antisemitism could be countered successfully. The IHRA conflates criticism of Israel or of Zionism with antisemitism. It ensures there will always be a steady stream of wrongful accusations of antisemitism, drowning out the true cases, and perhaps driving people towards genuinely antisemitic views in response to the overreaching definition.
Kier Starmer very clearly supported adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, binding him to an impossible stance on Israel-Palestine. He is partly responsible for the electoral bind he finds himself in today.
I can’t say he supported adoption of the IHRA solely to hurt Corbyn and the left, but it was certainly a useful tool in doing so. I also don’t think he supports any of the awful things happening right now, but his past actions have him in a bind.
He could quite easily condemn genocide of Palestinians and also condemn antisemitism. The public are not so apathetic as to not care for tens of thousands dead, injured, orphaned, dying, whilst also supporting safety for Jewish people and safety for Israelis.
If not Starmer, who? Great question, I don’t have an answer to that, but he needs to think more than one step ahead and do the right thing. If I were him, I’d prefer not to win simply for being the lesser of two evils.
Quick, we're losing the core left voters - deploy the gay story
How I hope that is truly the case. That is, that the right is losing ground to the left (ie progressive) sector of the world. It needs to happen, and by all "rights" it should have happened long before this. Luckily the pendulum always swings back to the left at some point - and i really believe that time is coming.
This is just bullshit fluff to cover up the fact that they have absolutely no intention of making ordinary people's lives better.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he's not a homophobe. But this is just the Dems self-defeating demographic strategy. Fuck the working class but hey, marginalised people, vote for us!
And he can't even do it properly because he's decided transphobia and racism are A-OK because otherwise the media he is too afraid to stand up too will attack his spineless self.
Kier starmer errrr
used to be called ‘gay starmer’likes the word ‘gay’has a cool Grindr profilehas gay friends yes that’s it that’s the one bingo got it yes gottem