Starmer’s Day Of Shame And Disgrace Will Never Be Forgotten

The 4th January 2021 will be remembered for several reasons. 

Most notably, the history books will recall it being the day Boris Johnson ordered a third national lockdown. We were told his political capital was spent after the first round of national restrictions, he wouldn’t get away with another lockdown, but here we are again, being told to stay home, protect the NHS, and save lives. 

While we are on the Tory Party, whatever happened to the Vaccination Minister, Nadhim Zahawi? 

Whatever happened to “Operation Moonshot”? 

Is Dido Harding and the world-beating Serco test and trace shambles still a thing? 

But, for many of us, the biggest story of the day was the cowardice of Keir Starmer and the Labour Party. 

Let’s not kid ourselves here. The British left no longer has a mainstream political party that represents their core values. Starmer has sold out.

Compassion, decency, dignity, solidarity, community, togetherness, socialism - you cannot possibly tell me these values belong in Starmer’s version of the Labour Party, because they don’t. 

Starmer sees himself as the vaccine to socialism without taking a moment to consider how many of us think he is a vacuous fence-sitter with the personality of a gallon of creosote.

The abandonment of principled leadership wasn’t a surprise. It wasn’t the first time (Corbyn, Spycops, Brexit, Tory bumkissery), and it probably won’t be the last time, assuming Starmer doesn’t do the honourable thing and hand in his resignation, post haste. 

So let’s break it down a little, because I’ll be damned if the truth is hidden away in the MSM cupboards, and I’ll be damned if the pro-Starmer WhatsApp and Twitter group chats get to paint an entirely false narrative on my timeline. 

The facts. 

Three million primary school children went to school yesterday, on the orders of Boris Johnson, and fully supported by Keir Starmer. Starmer said he didn’t want to add to the “chaos” of closing the schools. 

This was despite teachers, unions, parents, students, healthcare professionals and scientists insisting it wasn’t safe to send our children into school. We spent most of the last seven days hitting the government, and the opposition, with everything that we had, armed with a combination of emotions and evidence.

We have been proven as right to do so. Our solidarity is a mighty force. 

Yesterday played out a little like this: At 11.25 yesterday, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green (ask your friends if they’ve ever heard of her) put out an article through Labour List, calling for a “Labour Lockdown” - while keeping the schools OPEN. Evidence below. 

That’s right. The Labour Party, founded and funded by the Unions, was sticking two fingers up at the Unions, dismissing the evidence of SAGE, ignoring the overwhelming fears of millions of parents, and trying to out-Tory the Tories, by using your children, who are vectors for this deadly disease, as guinea pigs. 

Your children aren’t safe with the Labour Party. 

I don’t think you realise how much it hurts to say that. But I promised myself, and the people kind enough to follow me, I will do whatever I can to hold the establishment to account. Starmer *is* the establishment in every sense of the word. 

We get to Monday afternoon, and still the Labour Party follows the Daily Mail line. 

But then we get wind of a Boris Johnson statement for 8pm. Favoured establishment hack, Robert Peston, was handed a bit of detail, and by 3pm we were fully aware the Prime Minister planned to announce widespread school closures. 

Oddly, 24 hours previously, the schools were perfectly safe to attend, according to Johnson himself. 

Finally, we get to 4pm, and school-obsessed Starmer comes out of the Bourgeoisie bunker and does a video interview with an impressive Sam Coates. I’m not a fan, Sam, but that was a job well done. 

Starmer conceded, and came off the fence long enough to say school closures were “inevitable”. But the reluctance was alarmingly obvious. Why? Any Labour leader worth the title should be at the front of the crowd, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Unions, supporting parents and teachers, following the best science available, and most vitally, putting the welfare of our children first. 

Isn’t it bloody incredible? Within just a little over five hours the Labour Party went from a sickening plan to send our children in to unsafe and understaffed schools, under a national lockdown, to calling for school closures, under a national lockdown, once they realised Boris Johnson planned to close the schools. 

Politics is often an opportunistic business, don’t get me wrong, but we do not create our opportunities like this. We don’t use the well-being of children to try and look tough in front of a few Daily Mail readers - that already think you’re a knob, Keith. 

Yes, Starmer did indeed call for a national lockdown on Sunday afternoon - more than a week after most of us - but he was clear, schools had to remain open. 

So the many Starmer supporters with the eerily similar tweets, trying to tell me Starmer forced Johnson into closing the schools, can get in the bin. You will not get to rewrite history, not now, not ever. 

Even during the 4pm car crash interview with Sky News, Starmer’s reluctance to call for school closures was painfully obvious. He had the chance to show some proper leadership, but like every other opportunity handed to him on a plate, he wasted it. 

Starmer is complicit in sending three million children to school on Monday 4th January 2021. Of course, it wasn’t his decision, for that lies with the monster Johnson, but he did not speak out, he did not stand up for teachers, parents, and children, and history will judge him harshly. 

I ask you this Mr Starmer. How many of those three million children that you insisted attend school yesterday will now spend the next 7 weeks, maybe longer, being cared for by their grandparents, so their parents can continue to put food on the table? 

Do you realise what you have done here? Your ineptitude is staggering, Keith. You will be held to account for every single decision that you make, no ifs, no buts. 

I heard the reason Starmer wasn’t demanding the closure of schools from an earlier date was because he was concerned by the framework in place for remote learning. Yes, a perfectly valid point, but had he not sabotaged the Labour Party for the last four years we would’ve had a Labour government, rolling out free high speed broadband - and you can guarantee one thing, no child would’ve been left behind under a Corbyn-led Labour government.

If that’s Starmer’s best excuse, for abandoning teachers, parents, children, and for picking and choosing the advice of SAGE, and for turning his back on the Unions, he’s in serious bother.

Children are a vector for this highly-infectious killer disease. That should’ve been the highest priority, not laptops, not how quickly we can get them back to school. I repeat, they sent three million children into school yesterday.

The Labour Party need to spend less time dreaming up memes like this flagshagging nonsense below, and concentrate on standing up for the working classes, the poor and vulnerable, the teachers, the toolmakers, the nurses and the cleaners, the self-employed, what the hell, they could even show a little bit of solidarity with the oppressed people of occupied Palestine. Imagine that!

This version of the Labour Party serves very little purpose. They have no policies of their own. Ask them for detail on their plans and we inevitably end up talking about how bad Boris Johnson is. But Starmer will get away with this in a way that Jeremy Corbyn couldn’t, because Starmer serves no threat to the status quo. 

You serve a greater threat. It’s you that they are really scared of, because you have the power to bring down this rotten corrupt system through the power of your vote. 

The only problem you have with that right now is the wafer thin slice of chicken you can put between the Conservative Party and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. 

But that can change. 

It has to change, because a post-Covid post-Brexit Britain is going to need a whole lot more than the bland principle-free awfulness of Starmer and the populist desk-thumping nonsense of Johnson. 

We will need radical thinking. It wasn’t that long ago Jeremy Corbyn’s free high speed broadband policy was being labelled as “Broadband Communism” by the BBC. 

This “Communism” that they speak of would have ensured millions of children could access remote learning during the multiple lengthy school closures. Instead, their parents pay a small fortune for a substandard service from a small selection of multi-billion Pound global corporations. 

Starmer is about as radical as a radish. His idea of progression is quite simply regression to most of us. He should be a mile ahead of this government, in fact, any other Labour leader would be at least twenty points ahead by now. 

Starmer out. 

Keep safe everyone. 

Rachael x

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