Jeremy Corbyn Exposes Keir Starmer for The Liar He Is

I want to give a trigger warning.I do want to show part of Keir Starmer's resignation speech.And it's it's it's a little triggering even for me.And I'm not a UK citizen.And I'm also not someone who was smeared, maligned and kneecapped by by him.So I imagine it's going to be triggering for you.

But it's I think a really important thing to respond to.

I can cope.It's all right.

You've gone through harder things in life.OK.

Six years ago, I inherited a Labour Party that was politically, financially and morally bankrupt.I was told time and time again that my party was finished.That we were consigned to history.That a majority at the general election, let alone a landslide majority, was impossible.But we proved those people wrong.Because we changed our party.

Ripping out the poison of anti -Semitism.restoring trust on the economy, defence and national security, and becoming a party that once again stood proudly with, not against, our national flag.The hard work of change was with a singular purpose.Not power for power's sake, but to change Britain for the better.To build a fairer country, with dignity and respect, where everyone is seen, everyone is valued, wealth and opportunity for all, not just the privileged few.And look at what we've achieved in just two years.

An economyis stronger.Going faster than our peers.Wages rising faster than inflation in every single month since we came to power.Investments secured.Infrastructure being built.

An end to austerity.With the fastest fall in NHS waiting lists for 17 years.The biggest improvement in rights for workers and renters in a generation.the biggest uplift in defense spending since the Cold War, small boat crossings, hauling asylum hotels, closing, protecting young people from social media, and half a million children being lifted out of poverty because of the choices that I made.

Wow, so humble.So there he goes.He complains that he inherited a labor party that was politically financially bankrupt.And then he also brags about all the things that he allegedly accomplished.So what's your response to either of those?

Well, I was appalled by the speech and appalled by the base allegations made, which I'll come to in a second.But also, if somebody's stepping down as Prime Minister after less than two years in office, you'd expect a degree of contrition and a degree of honesty in what they're saying.So let's take the factors one by one.Morally bankrupt Labour Party.He really thought that.Why was he so utterly desperate to become part of the Labour Party leadership whilst I was leader?

Utterly desperate to be in the Shadow Cabinet and was indeed a member of the Shadow Cabinet.He signed off and supported the entirety of the 2019 election manifesto.And then when he says a political failure, his achievement after four years of leading the party in opposition was to lose a million votes compared to what we achieved in 2019 and several million more than we achieved in 2017.The two biggest votes for Labour this century were in 2017 and 2019.We also during my leadership increased Labour Party membership from somewhere over 200 ,000 to 600 ,000, making us the biggest political party in Europe.He invited people to leave the Labour Party if they didn't like his leadership, and they did listen to him, and about 400 ,000 left the party under his leadership.

So he's now left the smallest membership for many, many decades.And the idea that the Labour Party was financially bankrupt is a very strange one indeed.I became Labour leader in 2015.I looked at the finances of the Labour Party and I was appalled that, first of all, there was very little money.Secondly, there were massive debts owed to various very wealthy people, all of whom had loaned money to the party while Tony Blair was leader and hadn't asked for it back for some cases more than 10 years.The day I became leader, they all asked for their money back straight away.

And so I instructed the Labour Party officials to pay off all the debts because we were then getting a lot more money in from membership income.I also said we didn't want donations from big business, we didn't want donations from arms companies, we didn't want to be in hock to the wealthy minority in our society.And so we raised money through the trade unions and through popular appeals to raise funds.And so when I ceased to be Labour leader, just after we'd fought what was a very expensive general election campaign, the Labour Party had liquid assets of £13 .5 million.That's on top of paying off all the debts and all the mortgages.So you had a debt -free party with a very large amount of money available to them.

Four years later, The debts have returned, the overdrafts have returned, and the surpluses appear to have all gone.He threw money away on pointless legal cases against me and other people at the same time, and has then sought to try and blame me for it all.And the argument about moral bankruptcy, well, For somebody who provided arms to Israel whilst the bombardment of Gaza was going on, while the genocide was being committed, please, let's not have lectures about moral bankruptcy.And so I feel very angry at that, and I feel very sad that he's dragged the Labour Party down to that particular level.I'm not a member of the Labour Party.I was expelled from the Labour Party by his membership.

He also, having claimed in 2020 when he was running for leader that I was apparently his best friend, it was, I must say, news to me and my family.That's what he said.then went on to move a motion to the national executive of the Labour Party that I was no longer fit to hold public office.And he was very happy to serve in my shadow cabinet.So that's my piece on Starmer.He's gone.

That's the end of it.

And he also, I'll just say in terms of character, and I know this is not as important as policy, but, you know, he after claiming that you guys were were good friends, he then not only denied that you were friends, but denied even having said that you were friends and then said, oh, he just changed his mind on it.So very, very base lies.And in terms of the the the credit he takes for all these things that he did, what is your response to those claims?I mean, he makes himself sound somewhat anti austerity.

Well, Not really, because since he has been in charge of the British economy now for the past two years, there's been a growth of poverty, a growth of inequality, and we now have a situation where there's 157 billionaires, that's pound billionaires in Britain, who collectively own 22 % of the nation's wealth.That has grown year on year.The taxation regime he's brought in subsidizes the biggest businesses, gives tax relief and tax breaks to the very wealthiest, and by refusing to raise the tax thresholds, that's the level of income you have to have when you're required to pay income tax, by refusing to raise those in line with inflation, As years go on, more and more people are brought into taxation, another 3 million will be brought into taxation, who run an income of less than £12 ,000 a year.That is a very low income indeed.So, the levels of poverty are appalling, and whilst he has brought in free school meals for children, Good, I support that.Whilst they brought in a renter's bill to give greater security of tenure, good, I support that.

But he absolutely flatly refused toto bring in rent regulation and control.So, you might be more secure in your tenancy, but you're not secure in the rent levels you have to pay.I'll give you an example.In the community I represent, an average private sector flat would cost at least £2 ,000 per month.to rent, that's £500 a week, which is way above what the minimum wage is and indeed it makes even somebody on average income unable to rent a flat in my area.

Right.Well, I want to just give a little bit of a sense of Starmer's position on Gaza, because as you know, in a tweet, he's gone.But a lot of these issues merit investigation, like the complicity of the U .K.government in the genocide in Gaza.So let's just take a look.

This is a mashup that was made by Novara Media.Let's take a look at his record and then we'll talk about what has to happen forward.

Israel must have that, does have that right to defend herself.And Hamas bears responsibility.

A siege is appropriate, cutting off power, cutting off water.

I think that Israel does have that right.

And by the way, I have to add, this is someone who was a human rights lawyer.which makes his position all the more despicable.OK, now here he is speaking to the UK military.

Right.There's a lot of different work that goes on.I'm also a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus.some or quite a bit of what goes on here can't necessarily be talked about all the time.It isn't, although we're really proud of what you're doing, we can't necessarily tell the world what you're doing here and therefore it makes it really important to say thank you to acknowledge that.

Now, in a written statement from the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to the House, she has made it clear that she has decided to prescribe Palestine action under Section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Here he is.Here's Keir Starmer appearing with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who famously said that there's no such thing as a civilian in Gaza.

Is the UK still a friend of Israel?

And that, of course, is footage of someone being arrested, protesting with Palestine Action, which has been prescribed.And there were a lot of people, including people with disabilities, including the elderly, who were protesting and brutally carted off.And you are muted, Jeremy.So I think.OK, great.So what is your what what of these things that we just saw are relevant right now?

Well, the very interesting footage you just showed there, the situation at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, which is where he made that speech, I think what he's referring to is the surveillance flights over Gaza, and there were hundreds of them made by Royal Air Force planes, filming everything in Gaza and sharing all that information with the Israeli Defense Force as part of the security.sharing operation, and I believe they've been used for targeted bombing.So here you have the British government taking film, passing it on to Israel, they then return with the bombing campaign against schools, hospitals, homes.This genocide is the mostdisgraceful, disgusting thing possible.And then, to prescribe Palestine Action, which is a civil disobedience organization, and it is in that tradition of civil disobedience organizations, like the 100 years ago, more than 100 years ago, the suffragette women campaigned for the right to vote by using nonviolent, direct action, They damaged property and so on.

His government has now prescribed them and also instructed the police to arrest anyone that shows a Palestine Action placard.About 2 ,500 people are now facing court action under terrorism charges for showing a sign saying Palestine Action.run this thing all through the courts and the courts have so far for the most part supported, ultimately supported what the government is trying to do.And the Elbit systems and other protesters are now facing long periods imprisonment.And we have this deadening effect of the prescription of Palestine action on the mere right to take protest action in support of Palestine.The leadership of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and those that had organized the demonstrations.

Two of them have been convicted and they're not in prison but they were convicted of organizing an assembly which indeed many of us were at at the time.So that is the atmosphere that's created by Keir Starmer's legacy as he kept telling us a human rights lawyer.What about the human rights of the Palestinian people in Gaza.who've seen their families killed in front of their very eyes?And it's now a place with more rubble than houses and more destruction than anything else.It is a disgraceful and disgusting record that he has.

And Jeremy, you recently reintroduced a bill for an independent inquiry into Britain's role in the genocide.You also helped edit a book based on a conference in the UK on the UK's role in Israel and the US's genocide.So tell us more about this bill that you introduce and you report.And If what the impact of stuff like this can potentially have in maybe stopping war crimes as we speak stopping genocide as we speak or perhaps Stopping them moving forward.

I introduced a bill that to set up a public Gaza inquiry, which got through its first stage in Parliament almost a year ago, and was then blocked by the government.And so we set up our own tribunal of inquiry, organized through the Peace and Justice Project, whose office I've been at the moment.I was a founder of the Peace and Justice Project.And we did a two -day inquiry, very much on the lines of the Russell Tribunal over the Vietnam War.and we took 29 expert witness statements, and they were under cross -examination from me and two others to make sure that everything was said was verifiable, supportive, and accurate.And we are now publishing that in a book, a book form in which there is some added chapters from myself and the other two, Nev and Shahad, who are the other two assessors, and a supplementary chapter from Sally Rooney, who has written something about the horror of Gaza and the way in which the Palestinian people have been treated.

This is at the printers now.It'll be on sale from next week's time.And we're doing a book tour with it.We're doing promotion of the book all over.And we will no doubt be in New York promoting it as well, hopefully later in the year.Because I do think people have got to understand that there is a clear record there of the inhumanity and disgusting behavior of the Palestinians of the Israeli Defense Force and the way it was politically and financially and militarily supported by a number of countries, including the UK.

And so we are not giving up, we're not relenting, we're not retreating, we're out there.Because there's something really unconscionable.I grew up protesting against the Vietnam War, and I remember the film we saw about Vietnam, some of which eventually appeared on UK television.And we saw the bravery of people trying to survive under that massive bombardment.We now have no excuses because then we were told all sorts of things.There was no live television coverage.

There was film that occasionally came out of Hanoi or whatever, but not very much.And so I think the bravery of people like Jane Fonda at the time of going to Hanoi, who was then dubbed Hanoi Jane and removed from an awful lot of casting lists in Hollywood as a result.We don't have those excuses anymore.It's all there, live, real time.We've got those very brave citizen journalists in Gaza who've been telling us what's going on.History is going to be very harsh on the political classes of the 21st century who allowed all this stuff to go on.