Zarah Sultana has claimed Volodymyr Zelensky “isn’t a friend of the working class“. In an interview with PoliticsJoe today, she said:
“We want this war to end because it is working class Ukrainians and working-class Russians who are being killed… Putin is a dictator, a gangster, and there are war crimes that have been committed but Zelensky isn’t a friend of the working class either and those were the voices that I was hearing in Paris… the only people that benefit from conflict in Ukraine and um in in Gaza or anywhere else are arms manufacturers and people who profit from the arms industry.”
Sultana went on to say that ‘Your Party’ needs to elect an executive committee “led by the movement” without any MPs on it, and that 14-year-olds should be able to join the party too. Plenty of things for comrade Corbyn to chew on…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”