Starmer: Simply Not Good Enough

It’s almost unthinkable, isn’t it? If we had a General Election tomorrow there’s every chance the British people would return a Boris Johnson government. And even if Johnson didn’t fancy it, You would most likely have Prime Minister Gove, who is of course, Rupert Murdoch’s chosen one. 

Apologies if you’re enjoying your breakfast. You should know me by now. 

Now, before we get on to the elevensies, let me explain why this is unthinkable. I could probably sum it up in just one word. 

Coronavirus. 

But that doesn’t really put a great deal of meat on the bone, or in my case, much soya in the Quorn fillets.

The last 10 months have been a nightmare - unless you’re Jeff Bezos, or one of the supermarket giants such as Asda or Tesco.

More than 800,000 jobs have gone, we face the deepest recession in the G7, small businesses are folding at an alarming rate, Statutory Sick Pay of around £13.70 PER DAY, isn’t quite cutting it, Universal Credit is leaving people in unsustainable debt, and dire poverty. 

The Prime Minister had to be shamed into allocating funding to help feed children from poor families, during a global pandemic, by a footballer. The government plan to cut £20 a week for Universal Credit claimants, who are already living way below the breadline. The supposed safety net of the welfare state has been exposed for what it is - the first step into a world of Food banks, benefit sanctions for the many, compassion for the very few, deeply degrading ‘work capability assessments, skipping meals, Victorian living standards, more than four million children in poverty. People have been led to believe it’s all about the very latest iPhones and 3D TV’s, it might be for a few, but it’s not the case for the many, that I can absolutely guarantee. 

Then there’s one of the highest Covid death rates in the world. More than 100,000 families have had their hearts broken. A country is grieving. Even if you have been lucky enough not to lose a loved one, you feel the sorrow, and you feel angry. 

You’re angry because Boris Johnson’s government failed to lockdown last March, instead allowing mass gatherings to go ahead. Perhaps we could just “take it on the chin”?

You’re angry because Boris Johnson’s  government allowed medical professionals to go to war with an “invisible enemy”, dressed in bin liners and pound shop face masks. Hundreds and hundreds gave tragically lost their lives.

You’re angry because Boris Johnson’s government sent our children back to school - our children who are vectors for this merciless virus - against the demands of the scientists, parents, teachers, and Unions, enabled and supported by a fully complicit Keir Starmer. 

Ah yes, Starmer. He who chases the Britain First vote, because he thinks all Leave voters are thick and racist, and if you sit in front of a few flags and (dog) whistle ‘Rule Britannia’ the working class will come running back to new New Labour with their arms wide open and their eyes wide shut. 

Spoiler: They’re not thick, they’re not racist, and they think you’re a knob.

Starmer himself is too dense to realise the Labour Party collapse in the Northern heartlands isn’t a recent thing, and was in fact caused by politicians just like him - posh boy spivs - so disconnected from the real world they may as well set up constituency offices on Mars. His type of politician takes your vote for granted. His type of politician laid the foundations for electoral oblivion for years to come, and when a chance to win came along, his type of politician did everything within their power to guarantee defeat. 

Don’t believe me? Take a look at Scotland. The Scottish Labour Party is like a remote-controlled corpse. They even prefer the Tories to Scottish Labour, in the same way much of Northern England prefers Boris Johnson to Keir Starmer. 

So, I’ve put forward an outline to you of what a catastrophe the last 10 months or so has been. Of course, there’s a lot more I could’ve said, and I probably already have. 

Dido Harding, Serco, Dominic Cummings, turbocharged privatisation, blatant corruption, multi-million Pound contracts handed over to Matt Hancock’s neighbours, without any real scrutiny, the A-level/GCSE fiasco - how the hell is Gavin Williamson a Secretary of State for anything important? 

We could go on all day. 

Based on what you have just read, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to ask why this government is consistently polling ahead of Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. 

Now, the Starmerrhoid’s will tell you some fibs about having to rebuild. This is bullshit. They’ve had plenty of time to make an impression, but Starmer’s lack of principles and his obvious abandonment of constructive opposition hasn’t gone unnoticed.

I’m afraid you simply cannot fit a fag paper between Starmer’s Diet Tories, and the full fat version led by the monster Johnson. The country needs so much more than a pair of plonkers. 

Can you imagine if the opposition offered hope? Instead the leader offers to support Boris Johnson’s entirely unnecessary visit to Scotland? 

Can you imagine if the opposition was proud to present a few socialist policies to the country? But they’re convinced the answer is centrism. So much has changed since the election defeat of 2019. The Brexit thing is done, and Coronavirus, of course. 

‘Broadband communism’ doesn’t seem so funny now. A leader with a radical and progressive alternative to this establishment-friendly nonsense would do incredibly well.. 

Even if Starmer did promise to adopt some common sense socialist policies he would let us down in the same way he let millions of people down when he promised to fight for the right to freedom of movement, which he ditched and exchanged for a continued easy ride from a very unconcerned establishment media. 

Favourable headlines? They let Starmer write his own, because he presents absolutely no threat to the status quo. He is a part of the status quo. Whatever you want, whatever you like, Starmer is your man. 

One of the joys of that Corbyn chap is he wasn’t for sale, at any price. Lol at you Keith. Another joy was the fact Mr Corbyn took the Labour Party from the brink of financial ruin and put them on a sound footing with money in the bank, increasing Labour Party membership to more than 550,000, making Corbyn’s Labour the biggest political party in Europe. 

Sadly, it didn’t take Starmer very long to put Labour, once again, in deep financial bother. The private donors haven’t been lining up, the membership money is reducing every single day, obscene compensation payouts have been awarded, on Starmer’s say-so. The coffers are no longer swelling, thanks to the diabolical leadership of Sir Keir Rodney Starmer. 

Here’s the thing. If Starmer had a few decent policies and some genuine charisma, he’d be way ahead of Boris Johnson. But he has nothing to offer beyond reactionary platitudes. He is a social conservative.

The charisma and personality cannot be underestimated. 

I see various video clips of him popping up, usually supporting the government, or offering exceptionally genital critique without saying what he, Keir Starmer would do about it. 

Starmer himself is a gaping yawn in a cave of boredom. He is walking Valium. It’s all so disingenuous, almost to the point of where I feel my insides cringe. He has the genuine warmth of a storage container for the Pfizer Covid vaccine, and the oratory skills of a stoned Iggle Piggle. It’s painful.

But that’s enough about his good points.

The Tory-toadying is a hideous spectacle. Honestly, there’s enough voters out there without having to crawl to The Daily Mail for a few column inches to an audience that already thinks you are a “lying Remainer prick”. Why not try to convert the convertible instead of chasing the votes that would still be blue if the Tories stood that annoying pound shop Rod Stewart plumber as a candidate?

When a small but power-holding third of the Labour Party attempts to drag the other principled and decent two-thirds of the Labour Party in a direction that the two-thirds refuse to go, how do you think it will end? The long term damage is immeasurable for Starmer.

Starmer - and the various right-wing head-nodders that he has hand-picked to surround himself with - have turned their backs on the voices of the people on the ground and exchanged them for the advice of a few focus groups based somewhere in London. 

I’ve not gone into depth regarding the ongoing purge of left-wingers from the Labour Party, or the Forde report, the threatening behaviour towards local Labour groups, the unjust and disgraceful treatment of Jeremy Corbyn, the multiple motions of no confidence issued against Keir Starmer himself, crikey, I’ve not even mentioned the mass exodus of BAME party members, disgusted by Starmer’s apparent tolerance of particular types of racism. 

As I said at the beginning, if a General Election went ahead tomorrow, Boris Johnson, or whoever the Tories put up, would come back with a majority, despite putting us through ten months of unprecedented misery, that in normal times would demand the resignation of Johnson and his entire government. 

In reality, Starmer isn’t just soiling on the soul of the Labour Party, he is also holding our country back, because he isn’t offering an alternative to the government of today, which means we are lumbered with the Tories, whether we like it or not. 

If Starmer was just a fraction of the patriot that he claims to be, he would step down from the top of the Labour Party, and allow the membership to decide if he has failed to live up to the pledges he made to them, just one year ago. 

I think he knows how that would go. And if he doesn’t, he has massively underestimated the opposition to the opposition, and not for the first time. 

This is where we find ourselves. A shit government, a shit opposition, and Piers Morgan considered to be doing a better job of holding the government to account than the leader of the opposition himself. 

We live in troubled and deeply unpredictable times. The need for a bottom-to-top overhaul of our political system has never been greater than it is today, in this moment. We cannot leave anyone behind when the time comes - and it will.

It’s just a crying shame we don’t have the political leaders to lead the change that we so desperately need right now. Someone to invest some hope into. Someone we can trust. Someone that will consistently put the best interests of the people before the biggest profits of the privateers. Someone that doesn’t constantly embarrass us on the global stage. A safe, but progressive pair of hands.

We simply do not have that leader.

Yet.

Take good care please. 

Rachael x

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