Starmer In Crisis - And He’s Less Popular Than Hancock

Rejoice! 

Not because it’s Sunday, I’m not convinced a bloke with a big beard and long robes lives up in the sky - unless one of Branson’s balloons has blown off-course. 

But we do have a reason to be thankful today, because the promised twenty-point-lead under ABC (Anyone But Corbyn) has finally materialised, after ten long, insipid months. 

So why aren’t the Liberal metropolitan elite up on the rooftops of Labour HQ screaming “we told you so”, at the top of their voices? Surely this is their big moment?

Why aren’t the Twitter Starmeramas (the ones that call you a “Tory enabler”) taking to the Twittersphere to tell you they were right and you were wrong? I know there’s only enough of them to fill a Fiat 500, but you think they would at least come up with a shift pattern. After all, when we was behind “Corbyn’s Engine Of Hate”, we would always have a few on the night shift, promoting the evils of free broadband, an economy that works for all, and an end of outsourcing contracts to Matt Hancock’s fucking hamster. 

And we managed to do all of this, from the Kremlin, while Vlad used to keep us entertained with live bear-wrestling and vodka tasting sessions. 

солидарность всегда дорогой товарищ 

Anyway, back to that glorious twenty-point-lead. The reason they’re not shouting it from the rooftops is simply because that utter failure of a Prime Minister, father, husband, and human, Boris Johnson, sits twenty-points-ahead of Sir Keir Starmer in the personal approval ratings - when asked who would make the best Prime Minister.

This is an utter humiliation for Starmer, the MPs that nominated the chronic dullard, and every single person that somehow believes he is an adequate leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition. 

He. Is. Not. 

A new poll from Savanta ComRes has deepened the humiliation further for Starmer. He now finds himself  less popular than Boris Johnson’s co-defendant, Health Secretary Mr Hancock and even the ghoul of a Foreign Secretary that is Dominic Raab. 

Even Rishi Sunak is twenty points clear of the disastrous Labour leader.

This government has the deaths of 120,000 of our loved ones on their charge sheet. Their response to the arrival of Covid has arguably only been worsened by Trump and Bolsanaro. Starmer should be cutting through. He just isn’t.

Starmer is a disgrace. His ineptitude is glaring. His acquiescence to “Social murder” is an albatross hanging around his privileged neck. 

He has failed the Labour Party and all of those that give their hard-earned and much needed cash to the Party coffers. He has betrayed the left in the same way he betrayed the Remainers that believed him when he told us of his undying love for Freedom of Movement, and the Remainers before them who believed him when he stood on a People’s Vote platform, demanding a second EU referendum. 

You may well support Starmer today, and that is your choice to do so, but if he doesn’t let you down tomorrow, if he doesn’t sell his ‘soul’ to yet another highest bidder, I promise you this: Keir Starmer will sell you out. This is how he has got to the lofty position of Labour Party leader. 

A large number of Jeremy Corbyn supporters lent their vote to Starmer. They were sucked in by the “arguing the moral case for socialism” bullshit. Do you think they would ever vote for him again? Not a chance. Hell will freeze over first.

It has been yet another dreadful week for Keir Starmer. Poll after poll makes embarrassing reading for Team Starmer. 

This week's big keynote speech was supposed to be the reset and relaunch speech. Media briefings the previous evening were leading people to believe he had something huge up his sleeve. One commentator mentioned Clem Attlee. The speech was panned by most commentators, but not the ever faithful Guardian.

Starmer took to the stage, and stood in front of a backdrop that I can only describe as a New Labour/UKIP mashup. He then went on to speak for what felt like several days. 

If Dignitas ever want to question how they can do away with lethal injections, the answer lies within Starmer’s speech. Not a bit of it, the whole thing. It was so dour, so lacklustre, so lacking in substance, beyond a couple of current government policies dressed in red, the thought of teeth extractions without an anaesthetic genuinely had more appeal to it. 

I’ve already done my blog on the speech, so I’ll keep it brief, but this was just plain horrible. It spoke to no one, it had the authenticity of a £10 Rolex, and to say he fired blanks would be generous, because he really didn’t fire at all. 

He tried a desperate last call to the Tommy Robinson fan club with a declaration of his undying love for his country, but once again, it was like a very bad actor reading from a very bad script. 

At one point he even had the brass neck to talk about his record as a defender of Human Rights! Is he taking the piss? Ask Gazans what they think about his record, because he fails to say a fucking word about their human rights. Why is this, Mr Starmer? Why don’t you unequivocally condemn the apartheid state of Israel for the illegal occupation of Palestine, and the illegal settlements popping up all over Palestinian land. Aren’t you utterly disturbed by ethnic cleansing? Will you be fully supporting an ICC investigation into these crimes against humanity? 

The speech was nearly as pointless as Starmer himself. That’s the kindest thing I can possibly say about it. 

But Starmer’s week of misery doesn’t end there. Far from. 

A report released by Business Insider, just yesterday, alleged Starmer’s very own Chief of staff, Shadow Foreign Secretary and Shadow Communities Secretary ran or run a business, Labour Together, that failed to declare 83% of almost £1 million in donations within the statutory time period. 

The same company wrote ‘blueprint for Starmerism’. They are allies of Keir Starmer, be in no doubt whatsoever.

Some of the donations hadn’t been declared for more than two years, and the Electoral Commission will be investigating them. 

You’re currently stuck with a government dishing out multi-million Pound contracts to anyone with even the most tenuous of links to the Conservative Party, and a key supporter of the leader of the opposition being investigated by the Electoral Commission for financial irregularities. 

They actually had the fucking cheek to tell you Jeremy Corbyn, armed with a few ideas on how to do things differently, was the problem? Jeez.

I’ll make no apologies for the whataboutery. If this was Corbyn’s Labour it would be all over the news. You know it, and so do I. The media is truly broken. Corbyn knew it too, and that’s why they went for him. 

Starmer is no threat to the status quo. Johnson doesn’t fear Starmer, like they said he would. If the Labour Party leader isn’t a daily target for a vicious and hate-filled predominantly right-wing media then they’re simply not a Labour leader worth having. 

The more the public sees of Starmer the more his ratings plummet. Wait until the media go for him. Wait for him to come pleading to the ‘outriders’. The door will be shut in his face.

The speech. The polls. The dodgy donors. The continued purge of left-wing socialists from the Labour Party. Is this what his supporters voted for, or did they think they were voting for a soft-left capable pair of hands, who might at least try and honour the commitments he made to the membership? He is a snake. 

This has been a diabolical week for the Labour Party. It is devastating to see a government and a Prime Minister, so tarnished by events over the last year, the death, the destitution, the abject misery, still sit comfortably ahead of this wretched, amateur, anonymous opposition. 

It’s gone past the point of not knowing what Sir Keir Starmer stands for, nobody seems to really care. If he just had a tiny bit of charisma it might help soften the blows from his frenzied backstabbing, but you will find a greater degree of charisma in one of Jeremy Corbyn’s giant marrows. 

The weakness of Starmer Chameleon is to the detriment of the millions and millions of us that need and want a progressive Socialist government. We do not forget how close we got in 2017. We also remember where a Tory-lite platform got us in 2015. Utterly obliterated. 

“But what about 2019?”, I hear from the detractors. But in reality, it should be us that is asking them what happened in 2019, because we didn’t spend the previous two years sabotaging the Corbyn leadership, we didn’t spend the previous two years telling the electorate they were better off voting Tory, we didn’t demand the second referendum that ensured some 4 million Labour Leave voters turned their backs on the Labour Party, and we didn’t make out an award-winning, jam-making, peace-loving, anti-racist kindly man from Islington was in fact a threat to national security, a danger to world peace, and an antisemite. 

But they did. 

And now their leader is in genuine crisis, a crisis entirely of his own making. 

I’ve said it before, and I will say it again. Sir Keir Starmer simply isn’t good enough to be the leader of Her Majesty’s official opposition. 

The sooner he is replaced, the better for the Labour Party, and the better for the country, because while this nefarious government has an opposition leader so willing to bend over backwards for them, we have no opposition, apart from ourselves. 

All the best, 

Rachael x

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