“Isn’t He Supposed To Be Labour?” - Very Good Question

It’s kind of depressing writing about the Labour leader in negative terms. But we aren’t really dealing with a Labour leader of principle here, are we? This has been a dreadful week for the Labour Party, and let’s not pretend otherwise.

Labour should provide a voice for the voiceless, build homes for the homeless, fight for those who are unable to fight for themselves, not roll over like an establishment poodle waiting for a rub on the belly from their elitist owners. 

I would rather be much rather be going for Johnson, be in no doubt. 

Picture Johnson as a HS2 train for a moment. The same HS2 Labour have just announced their full support for. Cummings has designated himself driver - eyesights will always need testing after all. The train is hurtling down the track, and at the moment the brakes needed applying, Driver Dom presses the go faster button. 

By the time Driver Dom decides its time to apply the brakes, they fail, probably made by Serco, and the train keeps hurtling down the track. 

The big problem we have here? They have around 67 million passengers on board. 

The great unstoppable £100 billion+ train gets to the end of the tracks and keeps on going, smashing through trees, buildings, leaving a trail of utter devastation in its wake. The passengers are confused and dazed, lots of them literally just wanted to get Brexit done.

Finally, after ploughing through London, the train comes shuddering to a halt. It’s reached the border of Kent, and Dom didn’t pack his passport. 

Thankfully, Rupert Murdoch Lickspittle, Michael Gove, appears in his Hi-Viz jacket, and decides the faulty train needs replacing. Driver Dom, a long time friend of the pobtastic Gove, agrees, because he will get to drive the new train. 

After a period of time, we find out the old train had been absorbing a little too much fuel during the evenings, and had often been found sleeping in the wrong train yard, and that explained why the old train simply wasn’t up to the job. 

Enid Blyton, eat your heart out. 

So I can talk about the Tories at the flick of a switch. But what would I be telling you about Johnson that you don’t already know, or simply do not care to know? 

I don’t know about you, but my inbox is full, actually overflowing, with talk about one man, one TV show, and an overwhelming sense of betrayal. Some of them have been honest enough to admit they voted for him, because they didn’t think the left-candidate represented them. I’ve no idea how they thought Starmer represented them, but he did do a fantastic job of selling his ten pledges to them. 

So that’s why I’m here, talking about establishment golden boy, Sir Keir Starmer. 

I get plenty of abuse from his supporters, and it’s usually personal. “Hard-left beggar” and that sort of thing. Poor shaming, disability shaming, they think they’re the first ever person to tell the world my surname isn’t really Swindon, but Cousins. 

Yep, that’s me. And I take inspiration from their efforts to smear me. The fact I get under their skin, that much, makes every tweet worthwhile. 

But let’s not get lost in that, yet. 

Starmer’s ten pledges are quite frankly, bullshit. He introduced his pledges with a bit of soft-left blurb, and said quite clearly that he wanted to make, are you ready for this?... 

“The Moral Case For Socialism”. 

Now unless I’m mistaken, he just sacked three junior ministers for doing exactly what he pledged: making the moral case for socialism. 

What could be a better demonstration of your own personal morals than voting against legislating torture? He’s supposed to be a shit-hot human rights barrister for crying out loud. 

It also appears Starmer’s team decided to brief far-right clickbait site, Guido Fawkes, before speaking to one of the MPs that was removed from her post, Nadia Whittome. Just how low are they actually willing to go?

Credit must be given to the eighteen Labour MPs that voted against this at the earliest stage. This looks eerily like the infamous 2015 Tory Welfare Reform Bill. Again, Sir Keir Starmer went missing. His attempts at not looking weak and unsupportive of Johnson’s government is happening at the expense of torture victims. How are you comfortable with this?

The same Sir Keir Starmer couldn’t even muster up a robust condemnation of Israel’s vicious bombardment of Gaza, and from the leader of the Labour Party, this simply is not good enough. No ifs no buts. 

It wasn’t that long ago we were demanding an inquiry into the rampant Islamophobia in the Conservative Party. Even now, we are nowhere nearer seeing an inquiry, despite Boris Johnson’s promise during the Conservative leadership campaign. In fact, it appears to have been dropped altogether.

But now we find out British Muslim Labour Party members are cutting up their membership cards - and this is down to Keir Starmer. I found this video angering, but also deeply upsetting. This follows the exodus of black party members, again, this is down to Keir Starmer. Shame on you.

What has happened to the Labour Party? 

Does Starmer seriously think they can function as an effective opposition when they effectively offer absolutely no opposition whatsoever? Get real. While Boris Johnson’s unpopularity may give Starmer a short term boost in the polls, once the Tories remove the matted scarecrow, Starmer will be facing a different Conservative government, and as much as I dislike someone like Gove, they’ll play Starmer like a fiddle.

Which leads me on to the Gogglebox incident. 

Did Sir Keir catch it? Probably not. But if he did he would’ve had the chance to listen to what people are saying outside of the Westminster bubble and beyond the focus groups that will agree with anything if you pay them enough.

Starmer was utterly torn apart. I sat here nodding along with every single truth bomb. Will someone show him some clips please? 

Yes, the entertainment value was close to priceless, but, didn’t they make some excellent points? 

He’s confusing me now, isn’t he supposed to be Labour? 

All he does is agree with the government. 

Nobody mentioned “forensic”. That’s one for the Westminster commentators to throw around.

Everything you’ve thought and said about Starmer was being broadcast through your TV set. 

Can’t they just talk about Starmer every week? 

It has been an absolutely dreadful week for Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. The ten pledges are in the bin, human rights no longer matter, Ipsos Mori blew Starmer’s ‘popularity’ apart, the shadow education secretary has been asking how they can best exploit the Covid crisis, BAME members are abandoning a rapidly sinking ship, Starmer’s “no ifs, no buts” back to school demands (in the Mail on Sunday) are coming back to bite him on the backside, at the cost of our wellbeing, he’s been called out on national TV for failing to oppose the government, parked his red tanks somewhere near Boris Johnson’s garden, been renamed “Keir Starmer Fascist Charmer”, after his horrendous virtual conference speech, and has dragged the Labour Party membership to the right, kicking and screaming, with no say in the matter. 

Starmer was elected off of the back of his ten pledges, and of course, the “moral case for socialism”. 

May I put it to you, Sir Keir Starmer’s abandonment of principle is certainly not moral, and Starmer himself? 

He ain’t no socialist, Bruv. 

Enjoy your Sunday, I’m going to enjoy some grassroots footy while we still can x

Rachael 

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