Close The Schools, Sack Williamson And Ditch Invisible Starmer

Well, 2021 hasn’t started very well, has it? 


We’ve had the news about the Pfizer vaccine delay, which has caused yet more confusion for a lot of vulnerable people. Public Health England have confirmed we cannot and must not ‘mix and match’ the various Covid vaccines. Pandemonium reigns supreme.


We’ve also got a mutant strain of Covid tearing through the country, and more than 2,500 recorded Covid deaths in just the last three days. 


Then look at our hospitals. They are overwhelmed. Covid patients are being treated in ambulances. Huge numbers of Covid positive children are in our hospitals, and just yesterday we found out the heartbreaking news of an eight year old tragically losing their life to this merciless disease. 


And then we have the school closures crisis.


Are we really to be surprised by a government that had no qualms allowing children to go hungry - until the intervention of a Premier League footballer - when we realise they have absolutely no problem with sending our children, and their teachers, teaching assistants, dinner ladies/men, office staff and caretakers, back into the schools to spread this deadly virus, against the advice of their own scientists? 


Seriously? Just how far down the rabbit hole do we need to go before we work out we cannot afford yet another rerun of Johnson in Blunderland? We’ve already got the box set. 


Do we find ourselves surprised by the reaction from the Labour Party? Their education spokesperson is on record as saying: 

I think there is obviously a real, immediate pressure to address these funding needs for the crisis, for the coronavirus crisis.”


But I think we should use the opportunity, don’t let a good crisis go to waste.” 


A good crisis? Oh do fuck off. 


This is the sort of language you would expect from the Minister for 1804, Jacob Rees-Mogg - not Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary. 


Whether you liked her or not, Rebecca Long-Bailey was a vastly superior Shadow Education Secretary. So was Angela Rayner. Can you imagine if Long-Bailey said the same insulting and insensitive words that Green came out with? 


But no, she called Maxine Peake “a diamond”. 


Starmer’s factional nonsense is abhorrent. If he put the same effort into opposing Boris Johnson and the establishment as he does into attacking the British left and the trade unions, we would be in a completely different place to where we are now. But that’s the problem.


Starmer *is* the establishment. 


He will not shit on the doorsteps of the Mayfair residents - he wouldn’t even think about it. But he would have absolutely no problem dumping his bowel contents on the doorsteps of Matlock, Margate or Manchester. 

Starmer is one of them, he’s not one of us. He never has been, and he never will be. 


A growing number of people who gave their vote to Keir Starmer have realised that his promise to make the “moral case for socialism” is, in fact, complete and utter bullshit. It was simply a ploy to round up some undecided ‘Corbynistas’ - and it worked a treat. 


I look forward to the usual “change the record, Rach” comments. And before you furiously type your reply, telling me I’m “helping the Tories”, or I should “get behind Starmer”, I’ll offer you a deal. 


I will change the record when you change the leadership. And not a moment before. Deal


I don’t care who they put in charge, even if it is on a temporary basis. The Labour Party, and the country, is crying out for real opposition. We’re not asking Keith to criticise for the sake of criticising - that’s not how opposition should be done during a time of national crisis - we’re not asking him to tear off the expensive suit, put on a Che Guevara hoodie and sing ‘The Red Flag’, without a script, in the middle of Parliament Square. 


We just want robust opposition to this callous, incompetent and demonstrably corrupted government, not acquiescence, and certainly not a column in the Daily Mail, sucking up to the predominantly Vote Leave audience, that already think the man is a Remain-backing charlatan with the charisma of a concrete lamppost.


The only people that haven’t been completely let down by Sir Keith are the top 5% and the diminishing number of well-meaning folk that still believe a Labour government led by Starmer would bring around the radical change we will need to put broken Britain back together. 


After a decade of austerity, a deep recession, mass unemployment, an overwhelmed health service, a lack of social housing, Coronavirus, Brexit, suppressed wages, class war and huge and deepening levels of inequality, a Starmer government offers the same radical change you would get from most socially conservative politicians. 


He will dangle a carrot when he needs activists on the street, and he will dangle a carrot when he finally comes up with an opinion so great that it forces him into a policy. 


Starmer has a strange obsession with keeping all of the schools open. His Shadow Cabinet confirmed as recently as the 20th December, just before the break, that they did not support closing the schools. 


I’m not suggesting Labour should do anything like what Kate Green suggested, but I am saying Boris Johnson left the goal wide open for Starmer to show some leadership and simply put the ball in the back of the net, but instead, he keeps scoring one own goal after another. 

The schools issue is divisive, there’s no doubt about it. I totally get both sides of the argument, but I’m thinking you cannot balance health and education. We tried that, and look where we’ve ended up. 


If Starmer has picked his side, then he must be held accountable for his decisions. He is supposed to be the leader of her majesty’s official opposition, but his commitment to opposing is non-existent. 


What side do you choose? The red pill made up of Unions, teachers, children, parents, doctors, nurses and scientists, or do you go with the blue pill, which consists of Boris Johnson, the fireplace salesman national security risk Williamson, Diet Tory Starmer, and the Daily Mail? 


Do you even need to think about that?


We shouldn’t need sides, we’ve seen enough division in this country over the last decade or so to last us a lifetime. But we have to unify against these establishment forces and rip their agenda into tiny little pieces.


You can rebuild an economy. The government has all of the money it ever needs, and don’t be fooled into thinking they can’t afford to honour their pledges, such as laptops for poor children and adequate 4G routers for families unable to afford broadband. They can afford it. They just choose not to. It’s all political choices. 


The National Education Union has told their members to stay away from schools. 


The National Association of Headteachers have issued a list of perfectly reasonable demands - and they will be taking legal action against the government. 


This is just one more crisis to add to a catalogue of failures. PPE supply, delayed lockdowns, sending Covid-19 positive elderly patients into care homes - untested, I could go on and on. 

But this is a major crisis, and the virtual silence from the Labour leadership and his Shadow Cabinet has been utterly disgraceful. 


I don’t know about you, but I’m going to make sure I end up on the right side of history. I’ll send my child back to school when the schools are safe to attend, and not a minute before. 


Keep safe my friends, stay home as much as possible, and take care of each other. 


Rachael x 



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  1. Thank you Rachael, concise, to the point and a breath of fresh air !!!

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  2. totally agree, couldn't have said it better myself, i would just add that i would like the leader of the opposition to return his Knighthood.

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