#broken pledhes

[eaglesnick]

"Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" (Lewis Carroll)

The Oxford Dictionary tells us that a pledge is to "formally promise to give or do something."

We already know that Keir Starmer has broken the vast majority of the 10 pledges he made to the Labour Party membership when campaigning to be leader. Having betrayed those in the Labour Party he is now intent on betraying the British public in general as he continues to make and break promises.

“Labour right to ditch rent controls idea: Shadow housing secretary Lisa Nandy’s statement today that Labour will not support rent controls has been welcomed by the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA).” (mortgagestrategy: 28/06/23)

If you cannot afford the massive increase in your rent then Keir Starmer says: TOUGH!

If you are a public sector worker, experiencing year on year erosion of your pay, then Keir Starmer says: TOUGH!

In a televised interview on BBC News, March 2021 Starmer told the audience that NHS staff needed to be “properly recognised and properly rewarded”.

Today we read that

“Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has not ruled out blocking public sector pay rises.”  (The Irish Times: 24/06/23)

Broken promises at home and, it seems, broken promises on the international front as well.

“Keir Starmer is considering dropping a promise to reinstate the Department for International Development (DfID), prompting anger from senior Labour figures and high-profile names in the international development world.” (Guardian: 28/06/23)

We live in an age where politicians  - from Donald Trump to Boris Johnson, from Rishi Sunak to Keir Starmer - are quite prepared to make whatever pledges they consider the electorate want to hear in order to gain power. Lets not mince words, a pledge which is deliberately broken is a lie. The British electorate knowingly voted for the liar Boris Johnson and look what that led to. Lets hope we don’t make the same mistake again.