Hands down, Keir’s vision doesn’t add up
LISTENING to labour’s front bench at the party conference in liverpool, it was incredible which facts and topics no one dared mention. Sir Keir Starmer said his family worked for his progress from a pebbledash semi but didn’t mention that he was given a ‘leg up’ by attending a selective school that became a private school while he was a pupil. He discussed the NHS but failed to say his party supported the strikes, led by left-wing activists, that are destroying our national recovery after the worst pandemic in living memory.
He didn’t mention the damage teachers are inflicting on children, after all they have suffered over the past few years, by striking for more pay. He didn’t mention the stupidity of Welsh labour’s 20mph speed limit, Sadiq Khan’s equally ridiculous Ulez scheme or the misery caused by the actions of greedy rail unions.
The speakers all blamed austerity from 2010 onwards but omitted any mention of the free-spending policies of the Blair and Brown years that left Britain stony broke, in a mountain of debt. On balance, i trust Rishi’s sincerity over Sir Keir’s advocacy of change for change’s sake.
LINDA KENDALL, Rayleigh, essex.
BEFORE Sir Keir carpets the country with new houses, he had better make sure the infrastructure is in place to support his new towns.
The country is desperately short of GPs, dentists and hospital beds, not to mention new reservoirs and electricity generation capacity. and if many of these houses are built on flood plains, the drainage system will be overwhelmed.
B. QUELCH, Bognor Regis, W. Sussex. Predictably, Sir Keir Starmer has promised to transform labour’s sacred cow, the NHS — but in light of its many failings, he can hardly use the party-run Welsh National Health Service as a model. His stated aim of cutting NHS waiting lists nationally rings hollow, when Welsh patients are forced to travel to england to be treated more speedily.
Sir Keir’s utopian vision simply doesn’t add up. Don’t get ill under a future labour government. DAVID Fleming, Downham Market, Norfolk. Sir Keir Starmer may have lent his party a thin veneer of credibility but the fact remains that underneath, labour is still stuffed with ultraleft no-goods awaiting their chance. Christopher Bean, Great Sankey, Cheshire. ‘Thank you conference, thank you conference, thank you conference.’ it sounded as if Keir Starmer was grateful for being allowed to stay on Strictly. DAVID JOHNS, Bridgnorth, Salop. JUST shows all that glitters is not gold. Bring on the General election.
GARY FIRTH, Skelmanthorpe, W. Yorks. Sir Keir Starmer’s speech does not add up. He claims to want to build more homes but unless he comes up with a plan to stop illegal immigration and drastically reduce legal migration, he will just be wasting time and money.
RICHARD BARCOCK, Seaford, e. Sussex.