Epitome of the patronising politician mouthing vacuous pieties when he's after your vote.
Keir Starmer has pledged to end the Tory culture wars if he becomes prime minister.
In an exclusive interview, the Labour leader told HuffPost UK that people are “exhausted” by the political battles over issues such as trans rights.
And he said he wanted to focus on “bringing people together” rather than creating further division....
Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch also announced last week that if they win the election, the Tories will amend the Equality Act to ensure that “sex in the law means biological sex and not new, redefined meanings of the word”. Starmer has been criticised in the past for shifting his own position on transgender rights.
However, the Labour leader said his government would look to bring an end to those controversies on day one.
He said: “I think people are exhausted by culture wars. My clear view is that the vast majority of the public in general in the UK are reasonable, tolerant people.
“Live and let live is a very British thing, and what culture wars do is force people into taking sides that they’re not instinctively inclined to do. And it’s exhausting because you’re constantly having a battle about this and a battle about that.
“That’s why I’ve said that politics needs to tread more lightly on people’s lives.”
Starmer added: “The Tories have got nowhere else to go but this divisive culture war area, and I do think that if we do win the election I do want it to be a reset moment for politics in a number of different ways.
“The most important thing to me personally is to restore politics to service, a sense that this we are here to serve the country, but also this sense of bringing people together.”
That's some fucking brass neck from the man who couldn't define a woman and thinks men can have a cervix, discovers he's on the wrong side of the debate, changes his mind, doesn't want to offend his trans-friendly supporters (of which there are many), and cold-shoulders Rosie Duffield the only Labour MP who's been consistently right and principled in these so-called "culture wars". Just forget about all that because, you know, I'm really a jolly nice person and I think really we're all jolly nice people, and let's pretend none of this ever happened.
1/ It's the height of luxury to write off perfectly legitimate and fundamental policy concerns as a "culture war". Whether a child has their puberty blocked or Helen Webberley gives them a potentially fatal dose of testosterone is not a culture war. https://t.co/5w5Gu7dToj
— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) June 11, 2024
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3/ From where I'm sitting, it's not a "culture war" to have a society that openly denigrates homosexuals like when the former CEO of Stonewall called lesbians "sexual racists" or one where gay men are called "genital fetishists". It's just abusive.
4/ I add that people who stand up to Gay Conversion 2.0 at gender abattoirs, people who show the sort of guts sadly lacking in the Labour leadership such as Kemi Badenoch are not mere "culture warriors", they are taking gay rights concerns seriously.
5/ Puberty is a human right and it is a gay right. The Cass review is not a "culture war", it is a damning indictment of a society that drifted into medically correcting gays and sterilising the autistic because it was too scared to say no.
6/ It is not a "culture war" to give boys who will probably grow up to be gay men experimental drugs which are being linked to increased testicular cancer risk. It is not a culture war to want young girls to grow up not having mastectomies.
7/ It is not a "culture war" to object to this massive great hulking rapist [Isla Bryson] being placed in the female prison estate. It is basic bloody sanity. Women and sane people are not objecting to this out of enthusiasm for debate, we are objecting because this is mad.
8/ The Labour leadership's utterances show no appreciation of the fact that we are dealing with a conflict of rights/penetration of a malign ideological into the centres of power. The approach seems to be "ignore it and it will go away". Well. Do I have news for you.
9/ Trans activism simply does not go away. It is well funded, well connected, seriously influential and ensconced across multiple institutions public and private with supporters in blue chips and unions alike. It is not noted for its lack of ambition or extremity in demands.
10/ Equally, those of us who think chemically castrating gay boys or surgically correcting lesbians are not going anywhere either. These are not "Tory culture wars". The Tories, for their faults, ordered the Cass review and appreciate the law re biological sex.
11/ This "culture war", which in reality is a serious and sustained assault on women and homosexuals, came from the third sector from bodies more aligned with Labour values. So don't tell me this is something the right dreamed up, it didn't. Yes it should have done more.
12/ But there's a reason the ugly new chevron on the ghastly corrupted rainbow flag comes from the left. So don't think you can duck this one Sir Keir. Don't think either side on this is going to stop.
These issues are too important to written off breezily as some "culture war"
Starmer's position is basically the usual leftist trope: "Why don't you all just shut up and agree with me, then we can move on"
Posted by: Peter MacFarlane | June 11, 2024 at 04:30 PM