Patrick Christys 'CONCERNED' of 'AUTHORITARIAN' Starmer after blaming Tories for 'EXTREME action'

it looks more and more like sir starma might be an incredibly authoritarian man there were signs of it before the election after he faced very strong allegations that he threatened speaker Lindsey hoil over a Gaza ceasefire vote when he was in opposition he wanted Harder Faster longer lockdowns as well didn't he he's appointed Sue gray as well as his chief of staff and she's already faced bullying allegations and claims that she brought some staff to tears now in the wake of the Southport attack and subsequent disorder he appeared to lean on the judges to give out long sentences able to demonstrate the criminal justice system working speedily so yesterday you saw the sentencing of individuals who've been involved in disorder days ago some of them getting sentences as long as 3 years that sent a very powerful message the home office then appeared to commit contempt of court by already finding everyone guilty despite them not yet having a trial now we've seen a marked increase in facial recognition technology being rolled out as well haven't we and today when faced with the very serious allegation of cronyism cash for Access SAS even borderline corruption he just arrogantly dismisses it most of these uh allegations and accusations are coming from the very people that dragged our country down in the first place so you'll forgive me uh if I take uh that approach to it but but I'm not really going to take lectures uh on this from the people who dragged our country so far down in the last few years thank you today we witness something that is straight out of the authoritarian Playbook okay claiming that things are so unbelievably bad because of your political opponents that it justifies starma taking really Extreme Action going forward but I have to be honest with you things are worse than we ever imagined things will get worse before they get better I'll have to turn to the country and make big asks of you as well to accept short-term pain for long-term good the difficult tradeoff for the genuine solution it's actually quite a skillful tactic that because that allows him to get away with lying in the runup to the election he can claim that the reality has changed and that what he promised then does not apply now it also allows him to ignore his own role in the economic Mass borrowing 3.1 billion pounds to pay the unions while callously taking winter fuel payments away from pensioners and then that's how he treats the media isn't there in the runup to the election he needed GB news viewers to vote for him so he CED you now he doesn't so he ignores you he's answered one of our political editor Christoper hopes questions at just one time out of five press conferences since becoming pm and today it looks like ofcom will get more powerful they suddenly need emergency powers to crack down on so-called misinformation online now hey look some people will say that was a boring speech by a boring man dealing with the boring business of getting Britain back on its feet and if you don't like that you don't like Britain if you don't want him to succeed you don't want Britain to succeed other people might think that armor is becoming increasingly authoritarian while we wielding a big majority and no opposition and that is concerning stuff let's get a thoughts of my panel this evening it's columnist and broadcaster Esther kru we also have the director of the center of migration and economic Prosperity Steven wolf and we also have journalist Jonathan L um Esther I'll start with you on this I mean I have quite significant concerns in case you couldn't tell about how authoritarian K starmer actually is the more we get and in power well I think authoritarian is probably the best word because I don't think anyone expected this sort of institutionalization of our basic freedoms right so this whole kind of it's it's technically called depoliticization which isn't actually the removing of politics but removing key institutions that are Central to politics from political actors from political influence so by saying you have the you know ofcom gets to decide what's misinformation what's hate well the British public that it affects don't get any get to decide because ofcom is free from the influence of the public public just like you know the the bank of England and all these institutions that make key decisions on the lives of people in this country but are removed from actually any sort of accountability and this is what I call Lazy politics because it removes politicians from having to make those difficult decisions from having to listen to the public from having to have rigorous debate and what what in the long term happens is you see people disengaging more and more from politics they think what's the point because we vote for one thing we don't get that politicians used to blame the EU now that we're out of the EU they say oh we have to relegate to ofcom or we have to relate the bank of England all these other institutions so people just think what is the point and more and more Britain becomes unrecognizable the idea of having some external body deciding what is misinformation or hate and then potentially having the police show up at your doorstep when you can't even have the police show up for a burglary is is is just going to drive Britain down a dark path and unfortunately I think Kama has really got it wrong here is he on a power trip absolutely but I think all politicians on a power trip who were in that position of powering as a a prime minister but my concern is there's a systemic institutional authoritarianism that's coming across our political Elites it's been going for a number of years as eser is quite rightly said the use of organizations like ofcom the bank of England and all these variety of quango Wango that are coming out as though these people are the great and good actually they're the poor and the weak they're the stupid and the Arrogant they're the snobs who of our society who look down upon people anybody in those positions of power and should actually be removed I have no respect for those people I've met many of them at dinner parties I've met many of them at institutions who say look at me I'm trying to help the world but actually not the thing that you dislike the most is the general public you see the thing is it would that people who think for themselves and that's why you hated brexit that's why you hated the referendum because you believed you made those decisions and all the manager ker stammer is doing and that's all he is his managerial class all he's trying to do is manage all these Institution systemic snobs that are running these non-government organizations and think we've been on air for a few minutes we've had a Jonathan Les ey rooll um I'm going to I'm going to just fire it over to you joh and just you know quite arrogantly just swatting away quite serious allegations of cronyism and Corruption the kind of which would have bogged down the Tories for for months and months no doubt there batting that off you know batting off not taking questions from us here at GB news when what we were going to ask him as I'm pretty sure he will have known was um have you done anything at all to consider cutting down on immigration since we had all of these protests is he actually quite dangerously authoritarian no I don't think he's dangerously authoritarian also Ste authoritarian Stephen I don't think that people were I think we can have good faith arguments about brexit okay I have good faith arguments about brexit about why people um voted brexit can't we just accept that people on the remain side might not all have been snobs who want to put down the working class they might actually thought it was in our interest saying those people in the institutions running them there's no evidence that ofcom was not a proe organization I think I think I think it's just it's just a distraction look I don't look as I've said to you many times Patrick I'm very prepared to criticize some I think he's done why I think he's doing wrong I think he's naturally quite an authoritarian person I don't think he can become the head of the you director of public prosecutions without having a sight authoritarian streak and I think that he's he's been incredibly ruthless in how he's treated the left of his party for example that doesn't mean that every single decision he takes his prime minister is going to be wrong and I thought it was important today that he said his government was not going to be perfect for example so look there are things he's warning us of his things there are things there are things in his speech that I agreed with there are things I think I think that were wrong and I think it would be it would be silly of me to kind of just take a tribal position and just try and say that everything he did was right I think I think the bigger concern here is the homogeneity of the kinds of people that are in these Nono non sort of governmental institutions these quangos these Bank of englands these these offc coms because they all think the same and they're not accountable to the British public those are the two main issues I don't I if if all of those people reflected the British Public's opinions in equal measure and they were accountable to the British public who give the the the um the government the power to even give these people any sort of authority that would that would be fine but you see people getting more and more removed from politics because they know the type of person they're going to to meet in these ofcom is obviously accountable to the government ultimately there not you know it's not not government to the people exactly can I just come back in here on I just want to keep you quite focused to the things he said today and I think that there was for me something straight out of the authoritarian Playbook which was I'm going to stand here now I'm going to over how absolutely catastrophically awful everything was before blame everything on my opponents I'm not saying everything was great far from it but the extent to which he's now say we could have had no idea it was as bad as this and now the promises I made to you when I ask you to vote for me don't apply anymore we're going to have to rip everything up and start again and that that's is that to me dangerous absolutely dangerous but it's also dishonest because he did have access to the obr's records they did have access to the government they've had through his chief of staff the ability to understand all all the documents that related to the economy behind that as well so for him to say that the things were worse than it actually is is untrue it's also a historical well the O did produce the letter to said that actually they didn't know all the things actually gone and implemented by the conservative see the problem with it is that to an extent though Patrick the conservative party did that themselves when they said that labor left a note saying there was no money left when they come in so we have to watch this but it is dangerous for people to say I've got to change everything and therefore I'll ignore what I said none of the promises he made matter which is but that's not true said because even no no no it's not true though is it because look I I think that any kind of threat of austerity is completely wrong it's not the answer it won't deliver any kind of desired outcomes if there's one thing we should have learned from the Coalition it's sad but they're not going to actually break Manifesto commitments they're not going to raise vat or income tax or National Insurance that has been that St reiterate today that would be suicidal to do that so I asse that suicidal to take away the win I think it's suicidal I think it was a mistake I think it was Su can just ask this you know there's there's the idea now that K St currently doesn't have an opposition basically for a couple of reasons both Parliament is not sitting and the Tores are in a complete mess in reform aren't big enough and the LI Dems aren't in opposition are they I don't know where they are at the moment right so there's that that side of it right so so so there's no opposition I think he's got a big majority he can force things through but can I just just round us off on this discussion by I actually just thought that was catastrophically awful leadership today we have a bloke who is leading this country who stood up outside his own house in his back Garden called the entire media there the world's media would have been watching it and he told everyone how flipping awful Britain is and how it's going to get even worse why would anyone in their right Minds with a bit of money or a bit about them stick around here what that is the opposite of what you want from a lead he didn't say the country was bad he said it had been governed badly and had been left in a terrible state which is true going to get worse it's ter this now this I disagree with this I disagree with I think that you need to give people hope there we have an entire generation in Britain now who have never known any kind of Hope whove just whoc you don't think every single generation pretty much the last 100 years has thought we're going have better than our parents did and this is the first generation that's basically become habituated to the fact for the last 25 years people have not had hope in this I think well well it's it's is prior to that was the end of the labor party then we've had a couple of financial crashes then we've had covid then we've had the devastation on our economy caused by the Ukraine war being told constantly and we're constantly told this about this but then we look across into the United States and we see how they're flying flying the difference between between them and us is palpable if most people had the opportunity to go to the United States and get a job over there they would tell they would hand hand on heart absolutely there more money over there in in in in like I've seen Builders over there that would pay the same level as Bankers over here you look you know you want a leader and you've got James O'Brien who fair play you know going out said very often coming out and taking that that stance which is that a boring man delivering a boring speech getting on with the boring task of of government Etc I would argue that wrapped up in all of that were some untruths actually was quite an authoritarian streak and a lot of misery in Doom and Gloom and I don't know if that's what we really want from from a leader but anyway