Help In Choosing The Next Unelectable Labour Leader.

[richmond62]

How did Keir Starmer acquire that knighthood?

Oh, wait a minute, they are like Bachelor's degree, cheapened to the extent that they
mean almost nothing nowadays: how remiss of me to forget.

[Michael Rolls]

>>Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2014 New Year Honours for "services to law and criminal justice"<<


Mike - per Wiki

[Michael Rolls]

I am a bit intrigued by another entry re KS


>>Bar Council’s Sydney Elland Goldsmith Award for his outstanding contribution to pro bono work in challenging the death penalty in 2005<<


The death penalty in the uk was abolished in 1965 . At time Starmer was three years old - don't know how effective an advocate he must have been from his pram!
Mike

[richmond62]

Presumably that means he was doing something about the death penalty outwith Britain.

[Michael Rolls]

Doesn't say so - although, being serious, I would imagine that to be the case
Mike

[Ashy]

Whilst I have no idea what Mr Starmer was doing in 1965, wasn't it Blair's ministry that abolished the death penalty for treason?

[Michael Rolls]

Yes 29th May 1998. HoC ratified the 6th Protocol of the EU Convention on Human Rights until than, as far as I am aware, capital punishment remained on the books for treason
Mike

[Diasi]

Excellent new, Thornberry / Nugee's standing as Labour leader.

[richmond62]

"Blair's ministry that abolished the death penalty for treason?"

I sometimes wonder whether that was wise as I can see quite a few politicians whose actions and words
might be described as treasonous.

[Cassandra]

I am a bit intrigued by another entry re KS


>>Bar Council’s Sydney Elland Goldsmith Award for his outstanding contribution to pro bono work in challenging the death penalty in 2005<<


The death penalty in the uk was abolished in 1965 . At time Starmer was three years old - don't know how effective an advocate he must have been from his pram!
Mike

Mike,
The noble Starmer was actually given his gong for work appertaining to his contribution to generic human rights and international endeavours for work to abolish the Death Penalty in Uganda. A Blair goodbye present!

He's actually a very decent man, unfortunately blindly committed to the EU. He became closely associated with Gina Miller and other co-conspirators to set aside the referendum result. The Northern Labour constituencies consequently sought revenge and boy did they get it!

[richmond62]

"He's actually a very decent man"

Quite possibly; I suspect that quite a few members of the Labour party are decent people; I just feel that they are going about things
in the wrong way: socialism has had its day, if it ever had one at all.

"unfortunately blindly committed to the EU"

Well, I am anti-Brexit, but certainly not blindly, and feel that Britain would have been better to work from within to
effect a radical transformation.

I also suffer from a condition where I can understand both points of view.

Any sort of blind commitment, which ever way it goes, is potentially extremely dangerous.

[Diasi]

This is the sort of Labour activist / commentator, who can't & won't accept the result of a democratic election & who still openly calls Brexit voters xenophobes, who will help to keep Labour unelectable.

https://bit.ly/2M9aR9N

[Michael Rolls]

"Blair's ministry that abolished the death penalty for treason?"

I sometimes wonder whether that was wise as I can see quite a few politicians whose actions and words
might be described as treasonous.

I have a feeling it might have been a case of self-interest!
Mike

[Michael Rolls]

Cassandra
Thanks for the gen on Starmer's gong. Whenever anyone mentions Uganda, my mind immediately switched ot Idi Amin and the plight of many Ugandan Asians
Mike

[Ashy]

I gather the legacy media has already decided it's Eduard Miliband recycled.