Immigration: Sir Keir Starmer and Labour still not listening to us – Yorkshire Post Letters

I THOUGHT ‘man of the people’ and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told us all, after Labour’s devastating defeat in the December 2019 general election, their worst defeat since 1935, that he and they had now got the message regarding listening to the people?

He’s misleading us because part of that overwhelming defeat was the promise by the Tories to curb immigration. On July 1, the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill was voted on to be introduced from 2021, putting a points system in place.

Starmer had all his MPs whipped to vote against a Bill that the British people had voted overwhelmingly for by electing the Tories into Downing Street to carry it out and so did Parliament by a majority of 94.

Sir Keir Starmer listening? I do not think so. He and his party’s ‘Blairite’ philosophy on immigration has not changed one iota.

Labour may fool some of the people some of the time, but you don’t fool the majority at all.

From: Peter Asquith-Cowen, First Lane, Anlaby.

IF Labour does not unite and get on the offensive, it will not ever return to power. I have grave reservations about Sir Keir Starmer. We can’t afford a Labour Party like Tony Blair’s ‘New Labour’.

It has to be a socialist party with trade unionism and workers’ rights at its core.

Without these, it will drift into oblivion and the ordinary people of our dear country will lose out considerably. Already the fallout from Covid-19 bodes ill with mass unemployment and a recession of unimaginable length.

Now is the time for Labour to unite. Workers’ rights will be obliterated and we will return to the bleak days of the 1930s.

Labour must prove that it has clear, sensible policies that are both sensible and workable.

From: Peter Brown, Shadwell.

HILARY Andrews (The Yorkshire Post, July 4) asks if she is 
alone in thinking Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is “programmed” like a robot doll to only disagree with Boris Johnson’s Government. Alone or not, the characterisation is wrong.

It is refreshing to now
have an Opposition leader effective at challenging a bedraggled Government – and Dominic Cummings’s puppet Prime Minister – which increasingly looks inept and accident-prone.

Keep it up, Sir Keir.

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