Keir Starmer’s 'new management' will cost Labour minority votes. Does he care? | Nesrine Malik

The Labour party is under new management, Keir Starmer said in his online conference speech last week. But for many, it’s not working. Despite a warm reception in some quarters, in others the speech was regarded as a disappointment. His efforts to win back the red wall, pivot towards patriotism and generally move to the right on culture have left black and minority-ethnic party members angry, and some Labour MPs feeling despondent.

It’s not just Starmer who’s pandering to the red-wall voters. Lexiteers repeatedly demanded that Labour must listen to the ‘legitimate concerns’ of the white working class. The problem is when you remove the veneer of respectability those concerns are often reactionary or racist.

I have a belief black Caribbean people en masse may not vote labour again after what happened with Diane Abbott and Dawn Butler. I can’t speak for other ethnic groups since they have their own unique issues. BAME is redundant as a term as each race has different challenges.

There you have it, straight from The Guardian's mouth: Labour's core vote is not the working class anymore.

“He was unwilling to go all out in terms of critiquing the police”. So what?

Terrorist organisation that needs to be shut down

Fucking hell. I'm a minority myself and even I know that by basic math, pandering to 13% of the population is foolish

Protecting the NHS and building council houses will do so much more to help BAME people than more identity pol pandering. The country is still a white one, BAME came here coz its a great place we should embrace ourselves not self hate. Vote labour.

Guardian calls red wall voters racist.

I want him to win. To crush the fascist cult that’s taken over No10 & has the Prime Minister’s nuts in a vice & a hand up his arse making his mouth move. The plight of the minority will be infinitely better off for it. I don’t have to agree with every small act to support him.

Hopefully not. As Dennis Healy said in 1987, you can't base a national party on minority interests.

If Starmer is saying that some BLM goals are stupid, then he is going in the right direction.

Are minority voters so gullible?

NesrineMalik Does Neserine not realise that the red wall seats are Labours traditional core support! This is another 'journalist' who needs to get out outside the M25 more often where she will discover that identity politics are not as important as she would like them to be!

Right, so he shouldn't try to win back voters lost in the north? Ridiculous commentary from The Guardian, yet again.

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