{"id":292405,"date":"2024-08-05T07:40:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T07:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292405"},"modified":"2024-08-06T06:20:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T06:20:27","slug":"two-tier-starmer-must-not-be-allowed-to-wriggle-out-of-responsibility-for-the-civil-disorder-engulfing-our-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292405","title":{"rendered":"Two-Tier Starmer Must Not Be Allowed to Wriggle Out of Responsibility for the Civil Disorder Engulfing Our Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laurie Wastell \u2013 The Daily Sceptic Aug 4, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u201cHow many more children are going to die on our streets, Prime Minister?\u201d This comment, shouted at Keir Starmer on Tuesday as he lay flowers for the three murdered girls in Southport, summed up the mood of a nation: both the visceral horror of the attack itself, and the public fear and alarm at the lawlessness that seems in recent weeks to have gripped the whole country. As the cameras flashed and the heckling grew, the man who wants to end politics<\/a>, to insulate himself and his Government in quangos, committees and fiscal rules, found himself in a traditional political encounter. Something has gone horribly wrong. People are furious. And Starmer is the leader of the country: what is he<\/em> going to do about it?<\/p>\n

Their cries, predictably, fell on deaf ears. Right from the off, Labour\u2019s response to public anger over the Southport tragedy has been tone-deaf and contemptuous. Consider the optics of that flower-laying itself. Starmer ended up with his back to the assembled locals.\u00a0At no point did he deign to address them \u2013 indeed, he did not so much as look at them. He was flanked throughout by several security guards and the flowers had scarcely hit the ground before he was whisked away to his car, prompting shouts of \u201cYou\u2019ve got your photo, off you go\u201d and \u201cGo away!\u201d The visit, from the man who claimed on taking office he would end the \u201cera of politics as performance<\/a>\u201d, lasted barely two minutes<\/a>. Reading the room has of course never been Starmer\u2019s strong suit \u2013 think of his brittle, tetchy response to a studio audience laughing at his thousandth repeat of the \u201cson of a tool-maker\u201d line. But the contrast with earlier PMs is stark. Tony Blair, David Cameron, Boris Johnson \u2013 all would surely have understood instinctively what was required of them and given a sombre, unifying speech.<\/p>\n

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Labour\u2019s response to public anger over the Southport tragedy has been tone-deaf and contemptuous. Consider the optics of that flower-laying itself. Three children have been brutally murdered but Starmer ended up with his back to the assembled locals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":292407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292406,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292405\/revisions\/292406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}