Starmer’s Impossible Predicament: A Crisis Of His Own Making

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. 

When it comes to leadership, decision making is critical. You will be judged on your judgements. You won’t get everything right, because you’re human, and we are all prone to the occasional screw-up. 

But sometimes you have to look at a mistake, and learn from it. Did you need to make that decision? Was it right to be so reactive? In whose interests was the decision made? 

It’s particularly worth asking these questions if the mistake was a particularly humongous one, such as suspending the former Labour Party leader for exercising his right to freedom of speech. 

I’ll repeat his words. 

“The scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media.” 

Now let’s be absolutely clear. Despite the normal detractors getting in a froth with their own twisted version of events, Mr Corbyn, did not, at any point, say the EHRC report overstated or exaggerated the problem. 

Jeremy Corbyn’s statement was designed to offer perspective. And he was right to do so, because the facts back up his words. Supporters of Mr Corbyn won’t be shocked by that last sentence. Corbyn is well known for basing his judgements on facts. 

On Page 27 of the EHRC report it clearly states that “Article 10 of the Human Rights Act will protect Labour party members who, for example … express their opinions on internal party matters, such as the scale of antisemitism within the party, based on their own experience and within the law.”

My reading of that would suggest the Barrister is guilty of breaching Jeremy Corbyn’s human rights. How else can it be read? 

So there’s Sir Keir Starmer’s mistake. Has he backtracked? No. Did he even begin to consider the position he would end up putting himself in? Definitely not. 

Starmer’s impossible predicament is entirely down to Keir Starmer. Instead of standing up to his General Secretary, Blairite Evans, he helped him make it happen. 

He has two choices. 

1. He reinstates Jeremy Corbyn, the right-wing of Labour, funded by their shady lobbyists, go absolutely ballistic, and Starmer finds himself on the end of a leadership challenge from someone even worse than himself. They want Corbyn gone. 

2. He excludes Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party, a number of MPs tell Keir to get stuffed, next general election hopes smashed to smithereens, lengthy court battles, membership revenue collapses, Union money dries up. 

And let’s not forget, this is entirely of his own doing. He acted when there was no need to act. This was a massive failure of leadership by Sir Keir Starmer. 

While many of the once-pro-Corbyn flip-flop reporters have lost their tongues, the real left have found their voices, and they’re beginning to use them. 

Did they really think we would accept this grotesque factional attack on Corbyn? We spent five years defending the man from your callousness. What makes you think we will stop now? It won’t happen. Socialism won’t be going anywhere.

Starmer himself has always spoken of unity, and now it’s clear what he means. He wants to unify the centrists with the right. They already have a political party for that kind of thing, and it’s called the Conservative Party. Or if you want political obscurity, join the fucking Liberal Democrats. 

Starmer’s impossible predicament is likely to end up in the courts, in my humble opinion. We know he has a spine on loan from a starfish, and his (lack of) principles aren’t that hard to purchase, especially during a deep recession.

I read an excellent article by David Hearst before I started writing this. David says the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn will define Sir Keir Starmer in the same way that Iraq defined Tony Blair. I absolutely agree. 

I don’t think Sir Keir has quite got to grips with the enormity of his grave error. Do you?

I know lots of you left the Labour Party when it fell back into the pockets of the establishment. I know lots of you left after Starmer ordered his troops to start abstaining on Bills such as ‘Spycops’. I know lots of you left after last week's entirely unjust suspension of Jeremy Corbyn, some of my good friends included. I don’t blame any of you whatsoever.

The Labour Party serves no purpose when it hasn’t got the guts to stand up for what is right. 

The Labour Party serves no purpose when it spends months on end toadying up to a negligent Prime Minister while Covid-19 cuts through the population. 

The Labour Party, *this* Labour Party, is dead. 

The beige baguette is busying trying to take the credit for calling for a 2-week circuit break, some weeks after scientists called for it, and while that’s not taking up his time he’s telling us how important it is for us to send our children to school during this oddly-named “National lockdown”. 

Starmer: ‘so desperate not to look weak in the eyes of the British media he’ll kill your granny’. The sycophantic Starmer is morally redundant. 

People usually buy into a leader before they buy into a vision. There’s no buying into Sir Keir Starmer, unless you have pockets as deep as the Atlantic Ocean, and the vision is one of failing to speak out on oppression, helping the rich get richer, reliance on the private sector, and shutting down the voices of anyone to the left of Genghis Khan. 

So Keir, which way will you go next? Left or right? Whichever way you go, you know your position will be under immense pressure, and from the left side of things, we’ll make sure of it. You’ve seen the reaction. We are in this for the long haul. 

Reinstate Jeremy Corbyn, immediately. 

Speak soon guys, 

Rachael

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