‘Thatcher was a bitter enemy of the working class’

Dan Jarvis and Stephanie Peacock were quoted in last week’s Chronicle making excuses for Keir Starmer, their leader.

Starmer had written in the ‘Daily Torygraph’ in praise of Margaret Thatcher saying that she ‘sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism’.

Barnsley’s Labour MPs are of course frightened that they will lose votes at the next election if their leader is seen to be identifying too closely with the Tories.

But the people of Barnsley are unlikely to be fooled; they know full well that Thatcher was a bitter enemy of ordinary working class people. She destroyed the mining industry without having any alternative economic plan, and with it the prosperity of the town and the prospects of generations to come.

We all know that Starmer is a fraud and an opportunist, eager to suck up to people with wealth and power so that they will trust him to be the next Prime Minister.

He, along with the Barnsley MPs, pretends to represent working people but in fact has nothing to offer apart from vacuous promises of ‘change’ and ‘fundamentally changing our town and country for the better’.

Starmer was elected Labour leader on promises to implement some of the proposals in the last Labour manifesto, like nationalising gas, electricity, water and the railways, creating a national care service, and increasing taxation on the rich.

This was his biggest fraud yet and all the promises have been abandoned, one by one.

Most recently, Labour both nationally and locally has failed to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and the rest of Palestine, when this is the obvious way to stop the mass slaughter there.

They apparently prefer to tag along behind the Tories and the United States, continuing to arm Israel and allow the destruction of 21,000-plus men, women and children.

People will make their own judgements when the election comes round.