Go Now Starmer, And Take Your Patronising Patriotism With You

How does one go about describing what Keir Starmer has done to the Labour Party without turning the air bluer than the blue on his Union Jack Y-fronts? This patronising patriotism is a hideous spectacle and has rightfully been widely panned.

Okay, some of you gave him a bit longer than me, and some of you still believe he is an adequate replacement for the bumbling idiot currently occupying Number 10. 

He’s not. 

Don’t allow the opinion polls, which he mostly trails in, to convince you he is the great modern day saviour of the Labour Party. He’s not. We had the chance and threw it away.

He trails the worst government in history, a government with more than 100,000 Covid-19 deaths on its watch - many thousands of these tragic deaths were entirely avoidable. 

See if you’re able to explain why this happens to be the case without mentioning Jeremy Corbyn. 

You can’t. It’s inexcusable. Twenty points ahead? Four points behind is the norm for Starmer. If they deem this to be a success I dread to think what they deem to be failure. 

Let’s talk about a couple of videos that surfaced this week. 

Firstly, we have Labour’s lamentable official political party broadcast. 

Now, I remember when we were good at this sort of thing. The incredibly talented and hugely missed Mr Simon Baker of EL4C was the creative driving force behind many of Labour’s popular broadcasts. We couldn’t wait to see what brilliance Simon would come up with. There were no focus groups, no soundbites and no fake displays of patriotism. We really do miss him. Barely a day goes by when I don’t think about Simon and his young family. He was taken from them way before his time, and I and many others will always be proud to count him as a friend and comrade.

But this latest political party broadcast was shocking. It had no direction, no energy, it was bland, it spoke to nobody. If Keir Starmer was a political party broadcast, this one was Keir Starmer. 

But at least it had flags, right?

At the time of writing, the official Labour Party broadcast managed to accumulate 173,000 views. Even I’ve made videos on a broken iPhone, with free apps, and they’ve racked up more than half-a-million views, and I don’t have anywhere near the following of Starmer and the Labour Party.

Our Simon’s videos were usually in the millions. They showed us what our country could look like with a Labour government.

Then we take a look at another video that was released earlier this week. 

The creative wizards at Joe put a video together, ‘Baloo Labour’, utterly destroying Starmer and his efforts to turn the Labour Party into the Diet Tories. Within hours, the video went viral, simply because it resonated with so many of us. At the time of writing, this incredible video has been seen 750,000 times. 

The Labour Party, and Starmer, completely dismantled the brilliant social media machine put together by us pesky socialists, and turned it into one of pathetic memes and videos of the haircut meeting us lower classes, looking about as comfortable as a vicar being asked to put his keys in the bowl. 

This is what happens when you bulk-buy Twitter followers with no profile, no tweets to their name, with Russian IP addresses. Starmer can’t even buy dodgy followers without screwing up. 

Can you imagine him holding the National purse strings?  Sweet Jesus.

While Jeremy Corbyn was heavily criticised for daring to say we could do things a better way, offering free high speed broadband, for example, Starmer faces massive criticism for saying we can do things the same way as the Tories. But the criticism doesn’t come from the Tory press, because their billionaire tax-shy owners are absolutely comfortable with the prospect of a Starmer government, in the unlikely event of the Tories losing their 80 seat majority at the next general election. 

It’s an unlikely event because Starmer isn’t cutting through. If he can’t now, during this moment of unimaginable national crisis, he never will. 

The Labour Party, Starmer in particular, have had an absolute shocker of a week. It started with the video, that was bad enough, but then we find out a number of the Labour officials suspended over the contents of the damning Labour leaks report have been let back into the party, including Starmer’s former favoured choice to be Labour Party General Secretary, Emilie Oldknow. 

The saboteurs, including Oldknow, should be permanently excluded from the Party. They have all played their parts in where we find ourselves now. 

Look at it this way. They have quietly allowed these treacherous individuals back into the Party, the same individuals that hoped for a young Labour member to “die in a fire”, while allowing the suspension of good people like Alan ‘Gibbo’ Gibbons to remain in place, for the ‘crime’ of standing by Labour’s democratic socialist values. 

The Labour Party is fully controlled by Tory think-tanks, warmongers, shady donors, racists, spivs, anti-socialist factions, elitists, and flag-shagging piss-poor posh boys. And it’s not going to get much better in the near future. But that doesn’t mean it won’t.

Just yesterday we found out about a leaked internal Labour Party report. It says that Labour must make use of the union flag, veterans, and dressing smartly as part of a bizarre nationalistic rebranding to help them win back the trust of disillusioned voters. 

I did wonder why Starner was being stalked by the Union flag. Wherever Starmer turns up, the flag always seems to be behind him, lurking in the background. 

Do they realise how patronising it is to think they can win back the ‘red wall’ - which the leaked report claims are now called “foundation seats” - by waving a few flags and not being quite as racist as the Conservative Party? 

The naivety is painful to witness. This is the Labour Party, founded by Keir Hardie, and degraded by Keir Starmer. Did Hardie go around ye olde debating halls dressed up like one of those royal-family-fixated Buckingham Palace deckchair dwellers?

Before the right-wingers, including Keith and his cabal of fucking useless nonentities drown in their own mouth froth, they need to understand this: 

It’s not the flag we are embarrassed of, it’s very pretty, but we are embarrassed by the genocidal history that is attached to it. The days of empire erotica are long gone I’m afraid. We are also embarrassed by the fascists that have hijacked the flag. The Tommy Robinson’s, the Farage’s, the knobheads on Twitter calling themselves British Dean. 

And now we find the Labour Party thinking a flag, and a bit of out-Torying-the-Tories is the way to power in 3 years time.

Starmer is quite obviously blinded to the reality of what happens when you start pandering to the language and the misguided concerns of the right. 

It’s hard to articulate just how much of a shambles the Starmer regime has become. Even Boris Johnson finds himself taking the piss out of Starmer’s focus group fetish. 

Sometimes you can find a politician with the charisma of wallpaper paste, but they can get away with it, because they have something that resembles a moral compass. This saving grace simply doesn’t apply to Starmer. He is as likeable as the South African mutant strain of Covid-19, and his moral compass is guided by the highest offer on the table.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right. That’s how it works. You can put yourself on the right side of history if you apply morality to your decision making.

There cannot and will not be any compromise on moral principles. 

I ask you, what is the point of the Labour Party when they cease to represent a positive case for radical, progressive change? 

What is the point of the Labour Party if their strategy is formed upon the opinions of wealthy donors rather than the democratic wishes of its members? - the very people that pay for the privilege of allowing racists and bullies to quietly sneak their way back into the party establishment. 

What is the point of the Labour Party when they think standing up for the poor, sick, disabled and the low paid working classes will be achieved with smart suits, “using” veterans for photo opportunities, and wrapping themselves up in a flag that has unfortunately lost much of it’s meaning following decades of neoliberalism, keeping up with The Jones’, me me me, I’m alright Jack and spoon-fed selfishness? 

What is the point of the Labour Party if they’re not representing the British left? 

As if we are going to let them get away with cancelling compassion, deplatforming progression, and punch down on our principles. 

As if we are going to dance to the tune of faux patriotism. While you pander to the right with your deeply alarming selective anti-racism, we will stand against all forms of racism. Black Lives Matter was never a moment. While you stand in front of your flags, we will stand in front of our brothers and sisters who face the systemic racism that is embedded as normal practice within our society. 

In years to come, Britain will need to heal. But to heal, Britain needs an alternative, and I truly believe Britain will want an alternative. We will be a massive part of this alternative.

When you look at the two main parties, there is no alternative. You have a hard-right Tory government, responsible for one of the highest Covid-19 death rates in the world (if only we were an island, like New Zealand), and you’ve got an opposition that is so up to their eyeballs in complicity they’re close to drowning in a beige sea of guilt. 

Aren’t we lucky? 

Is it any wonder a majority of Scots want out of this unholy corrupted union? 

Do we really believe a few more Union Jack’s will win back the SNP heartlands? They’re gone now. 

Do we really believe a few more photos of Keith standing next to medal-covered veterans will win back places such as Darlington? 

Talk about patronising nonsense. It’s pathetic. 

The Starmer era won’t end well. If he makes it to the next General Election the electorate will punish him for thinking we’re all ‘thick racists’ that are going to be won over with a Gucci suit and a slavish adoration to the red, white and blue. 

All of the time the Sir remains the leader of the Labour Party, the Labour Party no longer serves a purpose. The sooner he is gone, the better. 

Twenty points ahead? Pull the other one. 

We *are* the opposition to this type of opposition. 

Get Starmer out. 

Take care one and all, thanks for reading. 


Rachael x


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Comments

  1. Thanks for putting it into words Rachael, my first thought was BNP and Mosley how bloody dare he take our labour party and do that to it. I'm furious and l suspect many like me feel the same

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  2. Starmer. His mistakes are truly frightening. The Overton window has moved to the moon.Please somebody with courage,integrity, charisma and egalitarian principles show yourself, and represent the compassionate humankind in this country

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  3. Spot on Rachael, Thanks for putting it so well.

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  4. Your analysis is about as deep as a paddling pool and offers no actual solution for Labour to win another election. Corbynisn and Momentum delivered the worst electoral result in history and Starmer can’t bust ahead in the polls, as neither seem to be election winners the question therefore is what is the fundamental issue and what do we differently so we actually win?

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  5. Well referring to former Labour voters as fascist knobheads is bound to persuade them to come back. I mean, it didn't work in the referendum or in 2019. So third time lucky, eh?

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  6. I have entered the land of " I wish I'd said that" Ms Swindon.

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  7. Excellent blog Rachael, keep up the writing, truly appreciated

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