Nigel Farage has described Sir Keir Starmer as ‘Blair without the Flair’ and ‘almost a charisma-free zone as the Labour leader made his six point pledge ahead of the next general election.
Speaking on GB News, Nigel Farage said: “Today was a big speech from Sir Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition Labour Party. And what did he tell us today? Well, he told us that he would stick to tough spending rules in order to give us economic stability.
“He’d set up Great British Energy, a publicly owned clean power energy company.
“He’d cut NHS waiting lists by providing 40,000 more appointments each week, funded apparently by tackling tax avoidance and Non Dom loopholes.
“He;d launch a Border Security Command to stop the gangs arranging small boat crossings, and he’d provide another 6500 neighbourhood police officers to reduce antisocial behavior and there’d be new penalties for offenders.
“I’ll tell you what’s interesting about those six pledges: there is absolutely nothing new at all. And this idea that somehow you remove tax breaks, as they’re seen for private schools, and that gives you the money to recruit an extra 6500 teachers. It’s all nonsense.
“Yet everybody in politics and the media keeps asking the question, how will you pay for it? And you would think literally, that we take tax off one thing and give it directly to another. We don’t. It’s all baloney.
“Actually, all the money, whether it’s tax, whatever form of tax it is, all goes into a central po. We don’t have what is known as hypothecation of taxes.
“And anyway, we don’t run balanced budgets either, so that bit of it I find insufferable but don’t worry; Rishi Sunak does exactly the same thing.
“Well, of course, [Starmer’s] like Tony Blair. He’s aping Tony Blair in absolutely every way.
“It was Blair back in ‘97 that came up with the five point pledge card.
“There’s Starmer today, walking around the stage very much as Blair would have done. Do you notice the shirt? The rolled up shirt? It’s absolutely identical.
“Now look, there is an argument that if you find a winning formula, you keep using it but I just put this to you folks. This is Blair without the flair. This is almost a charisma free zone.”
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