It Would Appear That Sir Keir Starmer Is An A+ In Terms Of Hypocrisy

Wine glasses had been charged, solid silver teaspoons clinked in fine bone china cups and shimmering candles were casting a warm glimmer over the gilded frames of large oil portraits as Sir Keir Starmer rose to speak.

It was late one Thursday night in January 2017, and our then Shadow Brexit Secretary found himself addressing guests inside the majestic stateroom at the East India Club, just off London’s Pall Mall.

The choice of venue sat awkwardly with his responsibilities as a member of Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet since this private members establishment doesn’t permit women to join. But the gathering itself was reassuringly progressive.

That’s because Sir Keir Starmer was one of just over 60 dashingly attired guests supporting the inaugural fundraising dinner of a charitable organisation called the Henry Smith Club.

Named after one of the great Elizabethan philanthropists, the club had been formed three years before in support of a cause that, back then, at least, lay close to Sir Keir Starmer’s heart.

Specifically, it provided funds to allow gifted but underprivileged young people to attend Starmer’s alma mater, Reigate Grammar School, a league table-topping £22,995 a year private school in the Surrey commuter belt.

Sir Keir Starmer, who attended RGS from 1974 to 1981, gave every appearance of being an evangelical supporter of its mission to transform young lives.

An account of his after-dinner speech, published on the website of the school’s charitable foundation, documents that he ‘spoke of his fond memories of his time at school and of the first class education he received, which laid the platform for his successful career’.

According to his biographer, Nigel Cawthorne, Sir Keir Starmer also agreed to be a paid-up member of the Henry Smith Club, contributing £1,675 a year for the privilege.

The sum, chosen because RGS was established in 1675, went into a charitable pot. For every ten people who joined, the club would sponsor an underprivileged local boy or girl through RGS, with the school chipping in the balance of the fees.

It was a great gesture from a man whose life’s journey has, as we shall see, provided an object lesson in the transformative powers of private schooling.

Yet fast forward just five years and Sir Keir Starmer, who hails from a working-class family, yet, for reasons was able to attend RGS for free, has executed a volte-face on the matter.

Clearly, the politician who once went to such great lengths to support his old school, and to help other children of humble means to walk its well-mown lawns, now seems determined to destroy the place.

How else, one might ask, are we to interpret his Labour Party’s desire to slap VAT on independent school fees?

This highly incendiary policy, which Sir Keir Starmer inherited from privately educated class warrior Jeremy Corbyn, will add 20 per cent to the cost of private education overnight.

Labour might get back, although I’m not sure why, as all the parties pretty much plan the same. They all say that we need to change, but they don’t really elaborate on what will change.

People like Sir Keir Starmer had no problem climbing up the ladder, but once he didn’t need that ladder anymore, he had no trouble pulling the ladder down so that nobody else could climb it.

When it comes down to it, all politicians are hypocrites and they will say anything to get into power, and Sir Keir Starmer is no different from any of them.

I’m sick to death of both the Tories and Labour, and just looking at what they’ve both done to our once beautiful country, makes me wonder who to vote for because it doesn’t matter what party they are, they all make promises that they never keep.

Why promise the people something they know they won’t do? Because it’s a manifesto gimmick. Tell the people what they want to hear and they might vote for them, and of course, people are sheeple, and they will follow whatever they believe is best.

The government also want us to fight against each other, and we do where politics is concerned: ‘Don’t do this or that because you will hurt your fellow man’. That’s why they created the unions so that they could fight against each other.