Wes Streeting is not as sold. His PR is of an heir to Blair type, relaxed about people getting stinking rich and firm on the Islamists.
Now, as he has to reveal himself while battling for No.10, we know it was all a deception, not only making Streeting unsuitable as a candidate for Prime Minister, but also puzzling how he ever got into the Cabinet in the first place.
The other day, he exploded his credentials of being on the Right of even Labour when revealing he was in favour of capital gains being taxed at the same rate as income.
Not wholly surprising as he has never done any proper paid work. Sales guy? No. Plumber? No. Amazon driver? No. Nothing. Just talking for a living and spending other people’s tax money.
Streeting had moved effortlessly (as they all do) from leader of the ragbag of lefties called the National Union of Students to being anointed as an MP.
Had never mentioned before that he wanted to massively increase the tax on gains when you came to flogging your business, which you turned into a success by abandoning work-life balance, re-mortgaging your home and working yourself half to death.
Income tax is different. A steady job for steady pay. Loads of holidays and as much sickness as you can reasonably get away with.
That’s why there is a difference in the taxes. One half kills you, and the other is a steady Eddie. Streeting wants to end that demarcation. He kept himself quiet for two decades because the Right were running the show in Labour. Now the left is making the running, and he has to be part of them to get elected.
But the final piece in the jigsaw showing Streeting is unfit for office comes from the fine Spectator writer Douglas Murray.
As Murray points out, when Streeting was an NUS leader, instead of condemning university Islamists, including the ‘’Underwear Bomber’’ who was at London’s UCL, he attacked those who didn’t care for such dangerous people being given a platform at our universities.
At one stage, Murray reports, Streeting was on stage and praised Islamic students for all their ‘’fantastic’’ work in promoting ‘’social cohesion’’ and boasted of his close relationship with the Muslim Council of Britain – an organisation that the Labour government of the time had cut off contact due to its extremist links.
Wes Streeting is not as sold. His true face woos Islamists and hates business owners
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Streeting then remained on stage while one Islamic leader gave a speech in which, among other things, he compared homosexuality to paedophilia. Surprising Streeting didn’t walk off stage as he is gay. Does he view himself as a paedo? I certainly hope not.
The Islamists leaders from around the world were all invited to campuses, but they didn’t face any rebuke by Streeting as he needed the Muslim vote to both win office and stay in it. Sickening, isn’t it?
A poll from YouGov at the time showed a third of Muslim students agreed with the statement that killing in the name of religion could be justified. That figure doubled among Muslim students who were members of their university’s Islamic societies.
There was not a peep about that poll from Street, with the notable exception that he denounced both the findings and methodology. He was quite happy to swallow their vile findings as long as he stayed in office due to Muslim support.
That historical reaction (it was back in 2009) should make him a non-runner to be PM.
The reality, as Streeting know, is that due to his small constituency majority of 528, he will be thrown out in 2029 no matter which way the wind blows.
He would do us all a favour if he would go now.
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