Jeremy Corbyn smiles at Starmer's misfortune!

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[00:00:00]the ticking time bomb that is the Kiestama administration could potentially be coming to an end.

[00:00:06]Um he said recently obviously in his cabinet meeting yesterday that he will not be resigning. So that basically means that the Labour party will have to uh find candidates that can gain support. They need over 80 members I believe to trigger a leadership election and force him out that way. Uh the first one that looks like he's uh going to put himself forward is Wes Streeting um because he is preparing it looks like to resign from the cabinet and he would be worse which is pretty impressive. He would probably be the only candidate that's realistically able to uh to you know actually compete with Star that I would pick Star over. Yeah, he's genuinely awful. He's a proper Mandlesson and Mcweeny protetéé, even more so than Star is, which is saying something. Um, we could see other people put their names forward, most likely Andy Burnham with maybe the support of Angela Raina as opposed to her being her own separate uh like leadership contest.

[00:01:12]She'd probably work with Burnham. And that probably is the best option Labour have. Don't get me wrong, still probably wouldn't be great, but at least it would be, you know, some kind of progress, some kind of you know, soft left movement within Labor again, which is the bare minimum really. Um, but we are going to look at a man who knows a lot about coups within the Labor Party. He knows exactly what it's like to win leadership elections as well as be challenged even after he's won the leadership election. That is, of course, Jeremy Corbin. So we will see what uh his take is and his feelings and opinions on Kristama's recent struggles and whether he will hold the leadership or not. So let's see. Good old Jeza old Jeremy Corbyn.

[00:01:59]Let's see what he has to say.

[00:02:03]>> We are looking at potentially the fall of Karma. This must be very upsetting for you as he was your I can't even say it seriously. It's um it is desperately upsetting for me, but I'm coping.

[00:02:15]>> He was your prodigy. No, he ran on a ticket that was Corbyn politics uh and they have proven not to work apparently.

[00:02:22]>> Well, he claimed to be following the policies that we had put into the two manifestos at 17 and 19. And he rather bizarrely claimed that I was one of his best friends. It was, I must say, was news to me and it was news to all of my other friends. But there you go. We always allow a bit of imagination in politics, don't we? Uh and the the real issue is that his government has not delivered on working-class living standards. It has not delivered on public ownership of water and key services like that. And even the rail public ownership is a pretty botched affair. And uh it's also pursued international policies that are catastrophic and devastating including supplying the weapons to enable Israel's genocide against the Palestinian >> and that's something you're going to raise later isn't it in a speech but so I'll come back to it but just sticking on Star you think that it's starism and the politics that this Labour party has pursued that has failed or do you think it is him as a person do you think it's personality based I think it is largely the policies, but it is partly the personality because he's somebody that seems uncomfortable talking to the public, uncomfortable doing open air public meetings in town centers and things. In fact, I can't remember him ever doing one. Um it is the politics of management by him coupled with an agenda which is simply a managerial agenda and uh it doesn't work because it doesn't excite or enthuse anybody and even when the government does something broadly right like bringing the renters bill it misses the whole point behind it which is rent control as well as protection of tenants. Of course, I agree with protection of tenants, but if you don't control the level of rent that's paid, you're not actually really helping them in the living standards crisis that they're going through.

[00:04:27]>> They're the key points. He's just done it very uh very succinctly in in what he's just said where he's not charismatic, which shouldn't really matter in politics, but it does. It really does.

[00:04:40]how you're able to portray your message and convince people that what you're doing will work out for them in the uh in the long run is very important. He's not charismatic. He doesn't seem to have a clear plan. He obviously does a lot of U-turns. He tries the things he does try and do are very unpopular and then get turned back. And then the good things that he has done for instance he's just mentioned one um the renters's rights act as well as um the employee the employees uh rights act as well where they've strengthened um employees rights from the moment they start the job as opposed to having to wait 6 months or two years to gain some of the uh you know the rights that longer longerterm workers have at specific jobs which is also good. Like there are some good things this government has done, but it just gets lost in the the waves and waves of indecision, U-turns, and bad policies.

[00:05:30]And as Jeremy said, especially with the Renters Rights Act one, yes, it's good that they've got more rights and it's harder to evict them. But ultimately, the main thing with rent is how out of control the pricing is. If you put rent controls in where you cap the maximum they're allowed to charge, you will see a higher standard of living for for those people that you know are in desperate need of that money. And so ultimately they are the middle management of politics. They are the centrist that like oh bit of this, a little bit of that, little tweaking here or there and everything will be fine.

[00:06:03]It's like no it's we're in a horrendous situation and we need strong leadership and radical change.

[00:06:13]and the public know that that's why the the the voters are so um you know so split now across lots of different parties because we all think that different ways will improve society. So yeah, it' be interesting to see what wins out. But yeah, Jeremy spot on there that Star's management is what's made him so unpopular. Even if I would argue he's not obviously one of the worst prime ministers we've had in the last 20 years, he's he's not that bad really.

[00:06:41]He's he could be much worse, but he's very unfavorable because he's not likable. And instead of him doing actively bad things or actively good things, he's just tweaking little things in the middle that don't really have much impact.

[00:06:52]Looking at what could potentially happen tomorrow, if we work on the hypothetical that West Streeting is going to launch a challenge to Kia Starmer and we again work on the hypothetical that he will be coronated because there may not be a challenger. Do you think his politics could turn the party around or do you think that could be another death nail for the Labour Party?

[00:07:12]>> Well, it's a a coup that's being mounted against Star and he should know about them because he was there when the coup was mounted against me. Um our response in 2016 was to say, "Okay, let's have a leadership contest." And we went out, campaigned all over the country and won with more votes than we'd won with the year before. Um I don't think he's going to do that at all. If Dharma decides to contest the leadership between him and streeting, it will be a pretty poor choice of politics. Either you've got the politics of allowing Palanteer and the private sector into the NHS or the politics of the managerialism of Star. It won't be a very exciting leadership contest. I think it's all conjecture at this stage. We don't even know what street is going to do.

[00:08:01]Maybe he hasn't decided himself. If he decides to run, then it could be that Star will just say, "Okay, that's it.

[00:08:07]I'm off." I don't know. I I can't really tell. But, um, it's not as if the public are going to be involved in this.

[00:08:16]This will be a vote of Labor members.

[00:08:19]And it is really a bit odd, isn't it, that less than two years into a government that came in with a huge parliamentary majority, albeit on a very low vote, that the whole thing is collapsed now less than two years, less than two years in when um the opportunities they had and still have to do so much is good. And today the King speech is full of caveats and vagaries.

[00:08:45]So it doesn't say for example that the water companies are going to be tked to task and dealt with. It says there's going to be yet another round of regulation. Well, we've had 30 years of regulation and we've had an increasing level of sewage in our rivers and streams ever since. We need public ownership. We need public control of the water industry as well as others.

[00:09:06]>> Yeah.

[00:09:06]>> And that's what you would have pursued.

[00:09:08]>> Absolutely. Absolutely. public ownership of rail, mail, water as a start because uh they ought to be in public hands.

[00:09:17]>> Do you think that labor has a fundamental issue because of the way in which it has um contributed to the Israel Gaza war? Do you think that people who are standing in the parliamentary Labor party, do you think they are all tainted in the public view?

[00:09:35]All those that have defended the government's policy on the sale of arms, on not calling for a ceasefire are actually tainted. As you remember, we did a Gaza tribunal through the peace and justice project. We had 29 expert witnesses and it's coming out as a book in the very near future, all of the evidence on that. And it is very clear that the government not only supplied arms to Israel, allowed arms to be supplied to Israel, knew full well what was going on. And the RAF overflying of Gaza in order to pick up information must have been witnesses to the destruction of schools and hospitals and civilian life. 74,000 people have been killed. And u I think forever this will be hung around the necks of this government.

[00:10:24]>> And you're going to raise that again today in your king's speech. I never stop raising it because I'm so disgusted at the way in which the Palestinian people have been shortchanged for so long. We're going back all of my lifetime the Palestinian people have been shortch changed and we have to keep on speaking up for the Palestinian people because very few governments anywhere around the world are really really speaking up and defending the Palestinian people. Only the H group of nations are actually trying to do anything at the UN.

[00:10:54]>> Span again. spot on. I don't really have anything else to say other than free Palestine and we've just got to keep going, keep shouting that day in day out because Starmmer, you know, does defend Israel and says it has a right to starve Gazen.

[00:11:11]So yeah, stay strong and keep fighting.

[00:11:16]>> Prospect of Andy Bernham returning to parliament, again, a hypothetical because he does not have a seat. Is that a Labour Party leader you could endorse or support?

[00:11:26]>> Um, obviously if Andy decides to run for leadership of the party, he's got a number of hurdles to get over. One is to find a constituency where there's a vacancy that he can run in and secondly to be elected because uh the Labour brand did spectacularly badly a week ago. Now, I worked with Andy in the shadow cabinet. He didn't take part in the coup. He then left the shadow cabinet in order to run for mayor of Manchester and I think he's greater Manchester mayor. He's done a good job particularly on the buses and public transport. However, I have noticed that of late Andy's economic strategy isn't particularly radical and indeed his suggestion that there should be private finance borrowing in order to pay for defense increases fills me with horror.

[00:12:15]It's almost as bad as a PFI in the health service that we would end up allowing the private sector to be involved in the running of our defense industries with an inbuilt demand to spend more and more. And this is where the government's failure to produce any kind of international strategy for peace. I'm not here to defend Russia in Ukraine, but I am here to call for peace in Ukraine as I would call for peace in other wars. You don't achieve that by just endlessly raising defense expenditure. You do it by a real diplomatic determination to bring about a peace process. Starmmer has done none of that and neither of his foreign secretaries have done anything in that direction at all.

[00:12:59]>> Again, no further notes. He's always very good on international affairs. Uh and the uh the other point that he raised by Andy Burnham is again spot on. I don't think Andy Bernham's a bad shout. He is probably the most popular labor, you know, I'm not, it's not even MP, but Labour politician.

[00:13:19]Uh, but he is still quite blare in his economics. So, we wouldn't see any major changes, major positive changes, but it would be slightly better and he would do some better things than any of the other options would uh in my opinion. still not enough to win back a lot of the the Labour members and supporters that there were under Corbyn, but yeah, at least it would be a somewhat positive direction for Labour to go in.

[00:13:48]>> Ask you finally, you know, you are a Labour man really. You've been a Labor politician for the majority of your life.

[00:13:56]>> I joined the Labor Party when I was 16.

[00:13:58]>> Odd thing to do for a 16year-old in Shroptshire, but I did.

[00:14:01]>> So only 10 years then.

[00:14:05]If there was a chance to bring the Labor Party back into a socialist control, would you consider rejoining the Labour Party?

[00:14:13]>> I don't see any chance of that happening. I think the Labor Party's ship has frankly sailed. I'm sad to say that, but I do. The numbers of people that joined during my leadership, most of whom were either expelled or left the party. The policies being pursued are weak to put it mildly and uh the numbers of people active in the Labor Party is minuscule all over the country. And what I noticed last week in the elections and I did a lot of traveling around the country in the local elections. I was supporting um independent candidates and different groups like Aspire in Hammets, Redidge Independence, Blackburn Independence and so on. What I noticed um amongst the public was a clear division.

[00:15:01]Those that uh were susceptible to the message of reform were susceptible to the message of the simplicity and the danger of Faraj's message, which is basically you blame all minorities for every problem we've got. It's nonsense.

[00:15:13]He knows it's nonsense, but it's very dangerous nonsense. And the others were just looking for an alternative. They're voting independent, voting green, or whatever. and they didn't see in Labor any way forward. What I noticed amongst some of the older voters, if you like very traditional Labor voters, they said, "Well, I can't change the habits of a lifetime." And I would say, "Well, why?" They said, "Well, I've always done that." And some said, "I was happy to vote Labour when you were leader, but not anymore."

[00:15:41]>> You had a number of victories during the local elections.

[00:15:44]>> And the results were mixed all over the country as as ever. But I think the way in which the independent candidates in the east end of London in New Redbridge and particularly in Tower Hamlets in a sense were actually very much traditional labor platform. Build council houses, better administration and um in the case of Tower Hamlets, student burseries, free school meals for secondary school children. And despite everything, they managed to build 20 youth centers when all their neighboring councils were closing youth centers. I think that I say well done to our hamlets.

[00:16:22]>> Do you think that we're streeting con constituency in Ilford? Do you think that could go to an independent at the next election?

[00:16:30]>> Very likely to. Yeah, I spent um quite a bit of time in Redbridge last week and the week before. I went I think five times to Red Bridge over the last few weeks and spoke to a lot of people there and streeting managed to creep through by 500 votes against Leani Muhammad. Um I would have thought it must be a huge risk for him and I certainly didn't detect any great popularity of him at all.

[00:16:55]>> Do you think he'd be popular as leader?

[00:16:58]He is um trained in the dark arts of student politics and um I think about the last thing this country needs is student politics running it.

[00:17:12]Spot on.

[00:17:14]He very rarely misses a beat that man.

[00:17:16]Um so yeah, that about sums it up.

[00:17:20]Whoever the next prime minister is, uh if someone does deploy Star, we're not going to see much change. Uh the only change we'll get is from a general election. And even then, if you were to hold one now, it' probably be negative change. We're likely to get a reformed government.

[00:17:36]Uh but their mandate isn't really a mandate because nobody wants them there now. And even when they did vote for them, it was only, you know, just over 30% of the population that did. And if reform got in and had another big majority or at least a minority and then coalition with conservatives, that seems likely as well, you'd only have about 25% of the voters that would have voted for them.

[00:18:02]It's why we need to change the voting system. It's ridiculous that you can have so little the vote share but get such a large percentage of the total seats. So yeah, that's really it. Who do you think the next Labor Party leader and prime minister is going to be? And what do you think that will mean for Britain and the United Kingdom? Uh, leave a like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoyed this video. And I'll see you all in the next one.