KEIR WE GO! Labour Leader SLAMS Far-Left Black Lives Matter Mob
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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer becomes the second major British party leader to condemn the far-left Black Lives Matter organisation, describing some of their aims as ‘nonsense’.
During an with BBC Breakfast, Starmer became the second British party leader (following the Brexit Party’s Nigel Farage) to condemn Black Lives Matter, specifically on their aim to defund the police.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer tells it’s "a shame" the sentiment behind the Black Lives Matter movement is getting “tangled up with these organisational issues" and it’s "nonsense" to call to ‘Defund the Police’.
— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast)
During the interview, he stated that it was ‘nonsense’ to talk about ‘defunding the police’, saying that as a former ‘director of public prosecutions’, he would have ‘no truck with that’, highlighting that he was a ‘strong supporter’ of the police.
He also felt it was squandering a ‘broader movement’ following the death of George Floyd in the United States of America which is getting ‘tangled up with these organisational issues’. Starmer had previously shown support for the organisation, going so far as to kneel in solidarity with them alongside Labour’s Deputy Leader, Angela Rayner.
There was a mixed response to this, with some welcoming the criticism and others feeling he was alienating the left and many black people from the Labour cause. The aforementioned Farage with Starmer, and Conservative Prime Minister for not doing the same thing, feeling that Starmer was ‘more conservative’ at this stage. Journalist Helen Dale also him, feeling he’d executed a ‘superb combination handbreak turn/reverse ferret on BLM’. Meanwhile, the Warwick wing of the Labour Party publicly Starmer’s comments as a’slap in the face’ to those wanting a ‘just society’ and called his comments ‘disgusting’, despite the fact they’d about ‘police cuts’ causing ‘increased crime’.
The organisation itself by stating that when they mean ‘defund the police’, they meant ‘invest in programmes that actually keep us safe’, citing ‘youth services’ and ‘housing’ as examples. They also Starmer a ‘cop in an expensive suit’ and decried how the British prison population had doubled since the 1980s. They that the ‘expansion of police and prison power has not made our communities safer’ and felt that the establishment should ‘imprison away social problems’.
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