{"id":15,"date":"2022-07-20T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T10:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/captain-hindsight.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2022-07-22T13:40:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:40:32","slug":"captain-hindsight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/captain-hindsight.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Hindsight"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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captain Hindsight<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I lied outrageously to win the Labour Party leadership. I have since broken every single one of my ten pledges.<\/p>

I backed Remain in the EU referendum … then promised to honour the result\u00a0 … then spent 3 years trying to scrap Brexit … and now I claim to be pro-Brexit.\u00a0<\/p>

I repeatedly attacked the government for not going far enough during COVID and then blamed them for having gone too far.<\/p>

I spouted cynical and self-righteous hypocrisy over Partygate while pressuring Durham Constabulary and its Labour Police Commissioner to whitewash my own Beergate scandal.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cPre-announcing whatever Number 10 says is the most risk-free strategy for a party leader who values responsibility and electoral credibility far more than voter-repellent radicalism. But the tactic is also cynical, and it\u2019s becoming more transparent every day.<\/em>\u201d
<\/strong>Former Labour MP, Tom Harris writing in The Telegraph.<\/p>

\u201cLabour lied [over Beergate] … inexplicable \u2013 and increasingly desperate \u2013 evasion, obfuscation and deceit\u201d.
<\/strong><\/em>Dan Hodges, writing in the Mail On Sunday<\/p>

“Starmer should never be allowed to forget his Brexit betrayal.<\/em> He tried to reverse it after promising not to.”<\/strong>
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Partners in Political Crime: David Lammy<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am captain Hindsight I lied outrageously to win the Labour Party leadership. I have since broken every single one of my ten pledges. I backed Remain in the EU referendum … then promised to honour the result\u00a0 … then spent 3 years trying to scrap Brexit … and now I claim to be pro-Brexit.\u00a0 I repeatedly attacked the government for not going far enough during COVID and then blamed them for having gone too far. I spouted cynical and self-righteous hypocrisy over Partygate while pressuring Durham Constabulary and its Labour Police Commissioner to whitewash my own Beergate scandal. \u201cPre-announcing whatever Number 10 says is the most risk-free strategy for a party leader who values responsibility and electoral credibility far more than voter-repellent radicalism. But the tactic is also cynical, and it\u2019s becoming more transparent every day.\u201dFormer Labour MP, Tom Harris writing in The Telegraph. \u201cLabour lied [over Beergate] ……<\/p>\n

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