ray hutstone wrote:“This lack of moral conviction is not a secret. Rather than fooling everyone, he has in a sense never fooled anyone. Siblings, parents, teachers, bosses, subordinates, colleagues and friends have always seen through him... “a morally bankrupt cavorting charlatan, rooted in a contempt for the truth”...”
All this is, of course, very true, and obvious to anyone with even a rudimentary grasp of character. Those who failed to read de Pfeffel despite the trail of evidence scattered behind him must either be very shallow indeed, or ideologically committed no matter what.
But, seeing as this is a Labour thread, shouldn't we mention one of Starmer's own little 'secrets'? Like, e.g., that he was, in the 80s, a Pabloite, i.e. a member of a small Trotskyist grouping within the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency which followed the teachings of Michalis N. Raptis, aka Michel Raptis, aka Michel Pablo.
You can read one of the revolutionary Sir Keir's pieces in
Socialist Alternatives, covering the Wapping strike, here; then, when you get the taste for more, you can move on to Pablo himself and 'creative marxism':
https://britishpabloism.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/socialist-alternatives-v1-no1-july-august-1986.pdf
So what, you say? We're all hard left revolutionaries when we're young. We grow out of it, start families and get responsible jobs like leader of the 'opposition'. True enough. Only Sir Keir recently claimed he hasn't really changed.
