Mendacity and Manipulation: Hoyle's Integrity Sacrificed for Starmer's Rigged the Ceasefire Vote
Channel: Labour Heartlands
Date: 2024-02-22

Sir Keir Starmer has acknowledged that he had discussions with Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle before the Ceasefire vote, where he admitted to "urging" Hoyle to select his Amendment to the SNP motion. 

While he firmly denied threatening Hoyle, he avoided addressing whether any Labour MPs had done so. It was noted that Starmer had meetings with Hoyle and Labour's Chief Whip, as mentioned by Stephen Flynn on Channel 4 News. 

Once again the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer reveals the tawdry machinations behind his polished public facade. His admission that he personally lobbied the Speaker to table his amendment rigging the rules and blocking a vote for an immediate ceasefire exposes the mendacity at the heart of New Labour.

While Starmer denies overt threats, his cloak and dagger meetings with Sir Lynsy Hoyle and Labour's whips betray his underhand methods. He then crafted his own self-serving amendment, neutering the ceasefire demand. Little wonder after his consultations with the bellicose Netanyahu.

Despite his claims to seek consensus, the truth is he plotted to derail real debate. Such is Labour's democracy. He shuns principle for political advantage, his plaintiff bleatings mere cant.

No surprise impartial Speaker Hoyle bent to his will. The lure of an ermine robe is speculated to await any who aid Labour's dissembling leader. Integrity is sacrificed on the altar of preferment and patronage.

Once again Starmer reveals Labour as the Tammany Hall of British politics. Backroom deals trump the national interest. Any high-minded rhetoric is but a platitudinous cloak for tawdry manoeuvring.

This latest unscrupulous contrivance shreds Starmer's credibility. The façade of statesman crumbles, exposing another feeble chancer beneath. He damns himself from his own mouth as a man of no conviction and less principle. Even his vaunted forensic skills desert him under scrutiny.

Labour are unfit to govern while led by such hollow men. British politics requires leaders of courage and integrity, not ones who scheme and plot against the interests of peace and justice. On every count, Keir Starmer has been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
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