Starmer’s Labour: Standard Bearers For Social Conservatism

A political cabinet made up of chancers, career politicians, backstabbers, warmongers, narcissists, bullies and grotesquely inept, morally bankrupt individuals. 

A political cabinet with a proven track record of sabotage, dishonesty and incapability, from top to bottom. 

A political cabinet held together by think-tanks, focus groups, PR agencies, and meaningless three-word slogans.

A political cabinet funded by huge corporations and private individuals wishing to invest in their own little piece of our democracy, using their vast wealth to influence our direction of travel. 

Welcome to Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. 

If this current Labour Party was a year, it would undoubtedly be this year, 2020. 

This current Labour Party is demanding a ‘purge of Corbynistas’ - the witchfinder general is a woman that wants the Labour Party to be tougher on the welfare state than the Conservative Party. This being the very same welfare state the Labour Party proudly created. 

The current Labour Party shadow Home Secretary, Lisa Farage, who said, “I have no idea whether Donald Trump is a racist or not a racist” - someone who would have no hesitation in nuking a rogue state, ultimately leading to the decimation of our tiny little island - is currently using the language of the faux-patriot far-right, wrapped up in a Union Jack. Britain First, innit. 

A quick browse through my inbox this morning leads me to believe yet another exodus of Labour Party members is underway. Reeves won’t need to do any purging, because people won’t hand over their hard-earned cash to pay for Wes Streeting’s biscuits, while being told they’re hard-left marxist dogs by a few establishment lickspittles. 

Keir Starmer PROMISED to make the “moral case for socialism”, but like many of his predecessors, Starmer has abandoned the S-word, through fear of upsetting the political commentariat, and of course, those billionaire media moguls that try and sell you a holiday for £9.50 if you collect 25 tokens from their tabloid. Starmer is trying to wrap himself up in the same Union Jack you see at a Tommy Robinson gig. And if he isn’t, perhaps he needs to have a word with the focus group that came up with this treasure?

The reaction to Starmer’s speech was quite something. The nasal, passionless, dreary performance would have pleased the media faces that told you Boris Johnson wasn’t as bad as Jeremy Corbyn, because their consciences are stained by the unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of our loved ones. They need Starmer to succeed more than you or I. They helped deliver Boris Johnson a whopping Parliamentary majority, and now they need to find a vehicle of repentance. 

That vehicle is Starmer. 

Starmer used his speech to tell you that you didn’t deserve to win the last election. All of your campaigning, banging on doors in the dark, night after night - you deserved to lose. Well let me tell you now, you didn’t deserve to lose, but you did deserve to have a Labour Party that supported the twice-elected leader, rather than a Labour Party that plotted, smeared and lied, to make sure we didn’t win an election.

It is nearly six months since Sir Starmer blagged his way to the top job - and we find ourselves 23 points behind the sunlit uplands of being 20 points clear of the Conservative Party. They told us how any other leader but Corbyn would be miles ahead of Johnson’s cabal. 

They lied. 

This is only made worse by the decline of Boris Johnson. His stock in his own party has never been so low. MPs openly talk about his replacement. 

Had Corbyn’s Labour still been in business, they too would have benefited in the polls in the same way Starmer has. Starmer fans are always quick to brush over Corbyn’s Labour being 8 points clear of the Tories, because their man can’t even pull clear of the worst government in living memory. Aren’t you even a little bit embarrassed, dear centrists? 

Conference speeches are often used to relay your vision to the party membership as well as the wider public. What vision were you left with after Starmer’s snorefest yesterday? 

I was left with a vision of a once great party desperately blowing smoke up Boris Johnson’s backside in the hope of gaining some sort of relevance. 

I was left with a vision of a chameleon-like leader that will abandon any principle if it creates a nice headline in the Daily Mail. The same Daily Mail he did a piece for, just recently, and no, I won’t be linking the Mail here.

I was left with the vision of a political party that doesn’t know what it stands for, isn’t entirely sure what it stands against, and if your bank balance is healthy enough, you can directly influence future policy. 

Now you can say what you like about Jeremy Corbyn, I’ve heard it all before. But I can tell you something that isn’t up for debate. Jeremy Corbyn simply wasn’t for sale, at any price, to any bidder. His track record is there for all to see. 

Never once have I called for the return of Jeremy Corbyn, for many reasons. That time has passed, in the same way the time to argue about remain and leave has passed. The only return I have called for since the departure of Mr Corbyn is a return to socialism, because it was our 2017 socialist manifesto that saw Labour pick up its highest vote share for years, utterly eclipsing the end of the Blair years, Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband’s efforts. 

Had the plotters not plotted, who knows where we would be now. But the plotters now form much of Keir Starmer’s shallow cabinet, and a return to the political wilderness in the centre ground is complete. 

Positioning yourself to the right of the Tories on law and order may well grab you a few headlines, but will it grab you a few more votes? Starmer’s attempt to portray himself as a friend of the Northern leave voter is embarrassing - I can feel myself cringing while he pretends the last three years never actually happened. I was there, Sir Keir, it did happen.

Let me tell you this. Jeremy Corbyn, and his team, fought valiantly to hold on to our 2017 Brexit position. His critics would say it was all about “Brexiteer Corbyn” getting his own way, but this simply isn’t true.

Despite facing the wrath of a mostly pro-Remain membership and a mostly ultra-Remain PLP, Mr Corbyn is a believer in democracy. He also knew that any abandonment of our 2017 position would lead to a collapse in our voter base across the North of England. 

Was he wrong?

Sir Keir Starmer, aided by Tom Watson, knew the only way to get rid of Jeremy at the next election was to deeply betray millions of Labour voters. And that is exactly what they did. 

The plan was simple enough. Keep pushing the Remain line, and try to recruit Corbyn loyalists. Some of them fell for it, but most of us didn’t. Starmer, Watson and many of the other ultra-remainers turned up at rallies, while the crowd would sing “where’s Jeremy Corbyn?” 

This wasn’t ever about Remaining in the EU, it was about getting rid of the single biggest threat to the establishment way of doing things. Starmer led the charge early on, using his conference speech to go off-script, and throw a second vote lifeline to a vastly pro-Remain membership. 

The betrayal of millions of Labour voters, Jeremy Corbyn, and democracy, was complete. 

The press had all of the headlines that they needed to blame Jeremy Corbyn for abandoning Labour’s 2017 Brexit position, despite Corbyn himself being one of the most vocal advocates of sticking to our guns. It was all Starmer’s work. He knew what it would do to us at the following general election, and that was how to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn, and return full ownership of the Labour Party to the deep, but exceptionally grubby pockets of the establishment. 

So when you see Sir Keir saying the remain or leave argument is now finished, you might want to remind him how we told him this, day in, day out, for nearly three years, and he insisted it wasn’t. 

Starmer is an opportunist. He cannot be trusted. There is more socialism in my wheelie bin than you will ever find in the knight of the realm. You can’t say he doesn’t have a spine, because he does. But like the rest of Starmer, the spine is owned by someone else.

The “moral case for socialism” has been replaced with the language of Britain first. The vision of peace across the world has been replaced by the complicity of silence. The vision of equality and social justice has been replaced with the Labour Party arguing AGAINST a hike in corporation tax, while Chancellor Sunak speaks of a new benefits freeze, a public sector pay freeze, and an abandonment of the pensions triple lock policy.

Starmer’s vision for the Labour Party isn't entirely clear. We haven’t seen or heard any substance, but if you are parking your tanks on Boris Johnson’s lawn, it’s not a vision that has a place for socialism, no matter how hard you try and convince yourselves. 

We wanted opposition and we got complicity. 

We wanted socialism and we got capitalism. 

We wanted questions answering, just to be told that “now is not the time”.

This isn’t a real Labour opposition, it’s a collection of appeasers that gave Boris Johnson a free pass, when we needed scrutiny and accountability more than ever.

This is social conservatism. The politics of the mediocre.

In the space of just a few months, Sir Keir Starmer has removed the heart of the Labour Party, and painted it blue, and this, my friends, must never go unchallenged. 

See you soon. 

Rachael 

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