{"id":2748,"date":"2020-05-22T16:07:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/?page_id=2748"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:07:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:07:29","slug":"the-faux-outrage-about-sir-keir-starmers-wealth-strikes-a-new-low-in-british-politics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/?page_id=2748","title":{"rendered":"The faux outrage about Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s wealth strikes a new low in British politics."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\nsocial media fallout and faux outrage this weekend after the revelation in the\nMail on Sunday that the leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, owns land\nvalued\nat around \u00a310million<\/a> strikes a new low in British politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firstly,\nit continues to show how low and cheap both the Left and Right in British politics\nwill stoop to score points against each other; but more importantly it\ndemonstrates how the Right, supposedly totally against identity politics, are\nquite capable of using it when the situation suits them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nstory, in summary, is brief. In 1996 Sir Keir Starmer, whilst working as a\nhuman rights lawyer, bought a field behind his parents\u2019 house so that his now\nlate mother could care for rescue donkeys. Once she completely lost her ability\nto walk she was still able to watch the donkeys from her home. The land is now\nvalued at around \u00a310 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n\u2018outrage\u2019 generated from this revelation is that supposedly Sir Keir cannot be\nseen as a man of the people because he has wealth far in excess of the ordinary\nworking person. His London home is also valued at around \u00a31 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nBritish Right have jumped immediately on this bandwagon, trying to show that supposedly\nthe Labour Party has totally lost touch with their original working-class\nroots; now only standing for the wishes of the middle-class, university\neducated, Guardian-reading intelligentsia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All\nof this, of course, is complete drivel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also\nshows the shortest, most selective memory on record on the Right – that just\nsix short months ago working class people flocked to the ballot boxes in their\nmillions to vote for Eton and Oxford educated, multi-millionaire<\/a>\nBoris Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\nthis should say to the Right, and Left, is something we have known all along.\nThe British people want to aspire and they want their leaders to harness an\nenvironment that will allow them to do that – responsibly, collectively and\nindividually. Margaret Thatcher knew this, as did Tony Blair, as did David Cameron\nand as does Boris Johnson. Working people do not buy into this grievance led\nidentity politics. It\u2019s distasteful as well as divisive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nfact that Sir Keir, of humble origins, went to a grammar school; became a Human\nRights barrister; the Director of Public Prosecutions; Knighted and now leader\nof the Labour Party, purchasing land along the way for his disabled mother, is\nenough to show every person what hard work can\n<\/em>achieve in the UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the Right would be better to focus on is what a Sir Keir led Labour Party would do if they were to regain the levers of power. A cursory glance at the pledges he made in the leadership contest show that whilst Sir Keir might identify as \u2018soft-left\u2019, the Labour Party clearly is not. As long as this remains the case it would be a catastrophe for the country were they to regain power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Crawford.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BCiP Member<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The social media fallout and faux outrage this weekend after the revelation in the Mail on Sunday that the leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, owns land valued at around \u00a310million strikes a new low in British politics. Firstly, it continues to show how low and cheap both the Left and Right in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2570,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2748\/revisions\/2749"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}