{"id":1113858,"date":"2021-12-13T08:58:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1113858"},"modified":"2021-12-13T08:58:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T13:58:59","slug":"obama-coaching-britains-leftist-labour-party-on-how-to-win-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-coaching-britains-leftist-labour-party-on-how-to-win-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Coaching Britain&#039;s Leftist Labour Party on How to Win Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1352089314-e1639395429282-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former U.S. President Barack Obama has been coaching Britain\u2019s leftist Labour Party on how best to take power during the next election.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s left-wing Labour party \u2014 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2016\/06\/24\/listen-nigel-farage-on-momentous-eu-referendum-win\/\">like Obama<\/a> campaigned heavily against Brexit in the past \u2014 has received coaching from the former American president on how best to regain political power.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Obama hosted two senior Labour MPs, party leader Sir Keir Starmer and controversial Shadow Foreign Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/david-lammy\/\">David Lammy<\/a>, in Washington, going over how Labour can best achieve power as a \u201cprogressive\u201d party.<\/p>\n<p>While the exact contents of the meeting, which lasted two hours, remains unknown, Lammy reports that the issues of media and campaign funding were both prominently discussed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really is about how progressive parties win and how Labour can fight back in an environment where our opponents have 10-to-one more funds than us,\u201d the MP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/dec\/12\/barack-obama-gives-tips-to-keir-starmer-and-david-lammy-on-how-labour-can-regain-winning-ways\">told<\/a> <em>The Observer<\/em>. \u201cObviously, in the United States there is Fox News, but we have similar challenges in the UK,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cGetting our message across and learning collectively is really important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lammy also said that Labour was encouraged to see leftists such as Biden and Olaf Scholz, the new Chancellor of Germany, winning elections, and that Labour \u201chave got to learn the lessons\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.9329608938547\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lammy Demands Illegal Migrant Amnesty, Says Comparing Brexit Tories to Nazis \u2018Not Strong Enough\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mtCr9U9eIq\">https:\/\/t.co\/mtCr9U9eIq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1117767025814691844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Polling published by <em>The Observer<\/em> has put Labour at a nine-point lead over the ruling Conservative Party, which is currently dogged by controversy surrounding Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/08\/covid-1984-boris-locks-down-britain-before-christmas\/\">recently<\/a> implemented new coronavirus restrictions, ostensibly to combat the Omicron variant of the Chinese virus, has been accused of implementing the measures as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/08\/dead-cat-boris-distracts-nation-from-party-scandal-with-fresh-lockdown-threats\/\">\u201cdead cat\u201d<\/a> distraction tactic from alleged breaches at Downing Street last Christmas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhy should people listen to the Prime Minister\u2019s instructions to follow the rules when people inside Number 10 Downing Street don\u2019t do so?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/09\/conservatives-rebel-over-bojos-vax-mandate-political-suicide\/\">asked<\/a> one Conservative MP regarding the new measures, with others vowing to vote against any proposal regarding the implementation of the so-called \u2018Plan B\u2019 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>In another worrying development for Johnson, arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage has raised concerns over the Prime Minister\u2019s fitness for office.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>This was as a result of Johnson\u2019s suggestion that the United Kingdom should have a \u201cnational conversation\u201d regarding the possibility of making vaccination mandatory within the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, Mr Johnson, I\u2019m not listening anymore, I don\u2019t believe you have the moral authority to lead this country,\u201d Farage said last week. \u201cI\u2019ve no intention of abiding by anything you\u2019ve asked me to do this evening, and I think that sentiment is one that is being much more widely shared around this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Farage arguably orchestrate the downfall of Britain\u2019s last two prime ministers after they clashed with him on Brexit and its delivery, or lack thereof.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2972972972973\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Labour Party Unveils Black Lives Matter-Inspired Vision for Britain on Anniversary of George Floyd\u2019s Death <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FMnWZ1MmVT\">https:\/\/t.co\/FMnWZ1MmVT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1397470710193430532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the Conservative Party are currently plagued with controversies, Labour is not free from them either, dealing with a number of serious issues of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Former Labour leader Tony Blair has warned that the party has little chance of winning any elections should they continue fighting the culture wars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should openly embrace liberal, tolerant but common-sensical positions on the \u2018culture\u2019 issues, and emphatically reject the \u2018wokeism\u2019 of a small though vocal minority,\u201d Blair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/tony-blair-reject-corbynism-and-the-culture-wars-how-labour-can-win-again-g5jfcdd8w\">wrote<\/a> in an opinion piece in <em>The Times&nbsp;<\/em>\u2014 although state-sponsored multiculturalism and political correctness flourished under his own government.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the party\u2019s trashing in the last general election, as well as ex-PM Blair\u2019s warning, Labour has largely continued down the road of \u201cprogressive\u201d culture-war politics, with both Starmer and Lammy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/05\/25\/labour-party-unveils-black-lives-matter-policy-proposals-on-anniversary-of-george-floyds-death\/\">heavily pushing<\/a> for Black Lives Matter inspired policies in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge Floyd looked like me, he could have been me,\u201d Lammy said earlier this year, vowing that Labour would increase \u201cdiversity in positions of power so that decisions are made by people who are representative of the public\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sir Keir vowed to implement a so-called \u201cRace Equality Act\u201d aiming at the \u201ceradication of structural racism\u201d in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.6193548387097\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Labour Party Conference: Too Many \u2018White Men\u2019 Speaking, Members Told <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lm8L9lgTrV\">https:\/\/t.co\/lm8L9lgTrV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1442514366507614212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a 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