Tories Out? Yes. Starmer In? No.

Boris Johnson used an interview on Friday to tell us a second wave of Coronavirus is “inevitable”. He said it has already happened in France, Spain and all over Europe. 

But we don’t like to make international comparisons, of course. 

Listen up Prime Minister. The only inevitable thing here is your exit from 10 Downing Street. For the sake of your health, and our people, start clearing your desk, because you’re quite simply not up to the job. I’m sure you’ll make enough to pay the nanny when you’re sitting on the board of Serco and charging £50,000 a time on the after-dinner speech circuit, because that’s what shitehawks do.

While this might excite some people, you need to consider the potential replacements. Gove, Raab, Sunak, Patel and Hancock will all fancy their chances. Once Johnson becomes a liability to the party, in the same we he has been a liability to the country, the 1922 committee will end his reign, if he doesn’t clear his own desk first.

Gove is Rupert Murdoch’s golden boy. They go way back, and the ancient tortoise testicle wants one more big victory. Right-wing populism won’t be going anywhere in a hurry, unfortunately. 

Some people will be hoping for a General Election before 2024. I can’t see any of the potential replacements calling an early General Election, why would they? Each of them are senior cabinet ministers that have served in a government that holds no regard for the law whatsoever. 

So let’s say it’s pretty likely that we will have a Conservative government for the next four years. 

The saddest thing about that for me is knowing of people who simply will not survive another four years of this slow-motion car crash. That really hurts. It didn’t have to be this way. 

Would’ve things been perfect under a Jeremy Corbyn Labour Government? No, probably not. 

Would’ve things been worse than the absolute disaster we’ve witnessed over the last eight months? No, definitely not. 

Boris Johnson’s only success throughout this entire crisis was to catch the deadly virus itself, and even that has been questioned. For what it’s worth, several sources I trust have told me Johnson was indeed a very poorly man, and he still suffers from ‘Long Covid’. 

I just thought he was a pisshead, to be honest. 

So we’ve established we’ve probably got four more years of right-wing populism, whether it be Johnson, Gove, or whatever malevolent monster they thrust upon us. 

And that means we have to start thinking about the alternative. Currently, that is Sir Keir Starmer. 

I have seen a couple of polls putting Labour neck and neck with the Tories. If you think this is down to the wooden-like pitiable Starmer, I’ve got news for you. This is down to Boris Johnson alone. 

People are sick of him. I’m sick of him. You’re sick of him. His Fiancé is sick of him. He’s probably sick of himself. 

If Sir Keir had some progressive, common sense socialist policies he might be closer to the 20 points ahead that we’ve been promised. Instead, nobody really knows what he represents. 

Where does he stand on building social housing? Telling us he wants to build lots of houses tells us precisely nothing. 

Where does he stand on private sector involvement in the National Health Service? Isn’t one of his advisers a former privatisation lobbyist? 

Where does he stand on defending human rights? His silence on the pummelling of Gaza was only just equalled by the BBC. Have you heard him talk about Israel ethnically cleansing the Palestinian population from their own land? Nor me. 

Where does he stand on corporation tax hikes? Just a few days back he was saying now isn’t the time to ask these huge corporations to pay a little bit more tax on their billions. Why not? 

Bezos and co don’t just make billions, they take billions. 

Our super-low corporation tax rate simply isn’t sustainable. Somebody needs to pay Serco £410 million for the marvellous job they’ve done with testing. It will be the hard workers and low earners that will pay the Covid debt. It won’t be Bezos. 

Where does he stand on schools? Just weeks ago he unforgivably took to the refugee-loathing Mail to tell Boris Johnson to get the kids back to school, “no ifs, no buts”. Well Keith, we now have Coronavirus infections in more than 1,200 schools, and the infection rate is soaring. What did the private letter say? What support have you offered to the negligent failure in Number 10? 

Like it or lump it, Sir, you played your role in the spreading of a killer virus for which we have no vaccine. No ifs, and no buts. 

So you can see where I’m coming from. 

I will not be told I’m helping the Tories. I had one doofus ask if I was on Boris Johnson’s payroll. I’ll make this as clear as possible for the Starmy army, somewhere in Islington. 

Labour is a party of the left. It has been hijacked by pro-establishment, pro-capitalist career politicians, selling the membership a soft-left platform while giving the public a centrist, not-as-bad-as-the-Tories programme, for nearly as long as I’ve been alive - Corbyn being the notable exception to this need for greed.!But before this time, Labour was the party of the welfare state and the NHS. Labour was the party of Attlee, Bevan, Wilson, Benn, and Skinner. The occupation of neoliberalism is not permanent. 

Labour will once again be a party of the left. 

So when you tell me I’m helping the Tories you also need to tell me why on earth I should help Sir Keir Starmer when he will do absolutely nothing to improve my life and the world I live in, and he’ll do absolutely nothing to improve the lives of you and your loved ones. 

I do not believe in the Labour Party leadership. Their new three-word slogan sums it up. “A new leadership”, because that is exactly what the Labour Party needs to deliver the change that we need. When I say “we”, I mean me and you, I mean the NHS staff earning less than what an unelected Peer will receive for turning up at the House of Lords for a sneaky forty winks. I mean the people who serve you at Tesco Express. I mean the call centre worker, the brickie, the hearts of our communities and the engines of our economy. 

We are the 95%. We are the vast majority. 

This blue leadership will serve the elite. Starmer isn’t a threat to the Murdoch’s and the Rothermere’s of this murky world, he is an ally, and a friend of theirs will never be a friend of ours.

So yes, by god do we need the Tories out, be in no doubt of that whatsoever. My track record of holding the last three Conservative governments to account speaks for itself, and I won’t be justifying my criticism of centrism in the quest for a healthy dose of 21st century socialism. 

Offer an alternative, offer us compassion for humans, offer us real change, from the bottom up. Offer us a vision where we know our children will have good jobs, affordable property, cleaner air and a chance to thrive and fulfil their ambitions, no matter what they choose to do. You have nothing to lose. 

But, as it stands, there is no alternative.

Corporate socialism is everywhere you look, and what’s good enough for billionaires - helping themselves to the taxpayers generosity - is good enough for the people. No ifs, and no buts. 

And it’s the Labour Party leadership that should be shouting this from the rooftops of the Norman Shaw building, louder than anyone else. 

Have a good Sunday, Rachael 

@Rachael_Swindon 

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