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Home » Politics » Tony Blair Mark II? Starmer Praises Thatcher & It’s Gone Down As Well As Expected

Tony Blair Mark II? Starmer Praises Thatcher & It’s Gone Down As Well As Expected

Billy Bragg's NSFW comment might speak for you.

Politics Reporter by Politics Reporter
December 4, 2023
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer praises Thatcher and it has not gone down well.

Starmer said that she effected “meaningful change” in Britain in an article directly appealing to Tory oters to switch to Labour.

He made his comments in an article in the Sunday Telegraph.

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Starmer praises Thatcher

The Labour leader claimed that Margaret Thatcher had “set loose our natural entrepreneurialism” during her time leading the nation.

“Across Britain, there are people who feel disillusioned, frustrated, angry, worried. Many of them have always voted Conservative but feel that their party has left them,” Starmer said.

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“I understand that. I saw that with my own party and acted to fix it. But I also understand that many will still be uncertain about Labour. I ask them to take a look at us again.”

In the article, Sir Keir also praised previous Labour leaders, saying: “Tony Blair reimagined a stale, outdated Labour Party into one that could seize the optimism of the late 90s.

“A century ago, Clement Attlee wrote that Labour must be a party of duty and patriotism, not abstract theory.”

Momentum, the campaign group set up to support Labour’s former leader Jeremy Corbyn, said: “Margaret Thatcher represented the opposite of everything the labour movement stands for.

“By praising her, Starmer brings shame on our party.”

Reactions

1.

Keir Starmer has sparked backlash in the Labour Party after praising Margaret Thatcher as 'one of three key change-makers' in modern British politics.

Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer: "He says what he thinks people want to hear, we don't really know what he stands for at all!" pic.twitter.com/wqAPgRKr91

— Talk (@TalkTV) December 4, 2023

2.

Keir Starmer praising Thatcher for bringing meaningful change to the UK – is he talking about the mass unemployment, turbo charging inequality, national assets being sold off on the cheap? #GMB pic.twitter.com/5sC4vAOO6h

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) December 4, 2023

3.

What Thatcher did to mining and industrial communities was not "entrepreneurialism", it was vandalism.

Starmer praising Thatcher is an insult to those communities in Scotland, and across the UK, who still bear the scars of her disastrous policies.https://t.co/8FuiLZKvKI pic.twitter.com/ZQ4GNajlyA

— Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) December 3, 2023

4.

Starmer now ensuring that the next election is utterly pointless and will have the lowest turnout ever. His praise of Thatcher is the de facto end of social democracy and an endorsement of the continuation and consolidation of the last 40 years unopposed hegemony of big money.

— Irvine Welsh (@IrvineWelsh) December 3, 2023

5.

NEW: Humza Yousaf has said Keir Starmer's praise of Margaret Thatcher is an "insult" to the Scottish communities scarred by her policies. pic.twitter.com/5XtyobT0bh

— The National (@ScotNational) December 3, 2023

6.

I will not have people calling the Labour leader Maggie Starmer.

Keith Thatcher will do. pic.twitter.com/2fmwBVSpLf

— Alan Gibbons (@mygibbo) December 3, 2023

7.

Starmer credits Thatcher.

BE VERY CAREFUL SCOTLANDhttps://t.co/acKHlNw4KH

— Kenny Anderson (@Kennyaberdeen) December 3, 2023

8.

Thinking of Keir Starmer’s praise for a Margaret Thatcher who turbo-charged inequality, created mass unemployment, flogged public assets on the cheap to her mates and tried to crush trades unions. pic.twitter.com/HcazPCgC1i

— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) December 3, 2023

9.

Starmer piles praise on Thatcher to lose the left and the centre and anyone with an ounce of common decency. https://t.co/P28lvxVz3R

— Greg Herriett (@greg_herriett) December 2, 2023

10.

or Simply…

Oh fuck off. https://t.co/NB9FBpe4m3

— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) December 3, 2023

Related: Jeremy Corbyn’s comment about poverty and Starmer goes viral

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