The Guardian has a story that when a student Keir Starmer had a summer job selling ice-cream on the French Riviera. It was not illegal and according to the report his ice-creams were confiscated.
The paper focuses on an apparent contradiction between Starmer’s current obsession with the rule of law (or his law anyway) and this illegal act, for which he was not arrested
The point is being missed.
When I was a student in the late 1970s I was of course a socialist and the summer was not spent selling ice cream. Rather, certainly from late July and through August the time was spent organising to get people to attend protests at the appropriate Party conferences in September (in the late 70s that was Labour). In those pre-mobile pre-e-mail days that required hard slog. Actually visiting people, getting money for the coach and noting their details.
Starmer during this period was involved in a Trotskyisant organisation and publication for which wrote (inevitably) dull articles. None mention ice cream or the French Riveria.
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