Unscrupulous, Feeble, And Uninspiring - Starmer Has To Go

I was temporarily pleased with myself last Sunday. 

I thought I’d managed to put a blog together that quite nicely summed up the state of Keir Starmer. I got to Sunday morning, posted my blog, and the next thing you know, Starmer is on the TV quite literally saying Matt Hancock shouldn’t resign, following the courts confirmation that Secretary of State Hancock was illegally handing out multi-million Pound contracts to every one from the window cleaner to anyone brave enough to admit to being his friend.

I genuinely didn’t see that one coming. 

But that was just the start of yet another utterly diabolical week for Keir Starmer and the Manic Keith Preachers. 

Now I know what you’re thinking here. “Does she ever shut up about that Keir bloody Starmer?” - and you would be perfectly entitled to think that. I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t plan to become part of the opposition to the opposition, but that is where we have ended up, and I’ll repeat this until I am blue in the face: 

You won’t get the Tories out of government until you get the Tories out of the Labour Party. This position is uncompromisable. Keir Starmer is a social conservative, not a socialist.

The shouts of “Tory enabler” get just that little bit quieter each time Starmer slips back a point or two in the opinion polls. The cries of “we got behind Corbyn so you should get behind Starmer” are now just whimpers into the abyss. 

I mean, did you want a shiny gold medal for getting behind Jeremy Corbyn, a democratic socialist leading a democratic socialist political movement? Let’s be honest though, you were probably telling us how Jo Swinson (remember her?) would be the next Prime Minister, just a couple of years ago. 

Remember to delete your tweet history before you come to my timeline calling me a “Tory enabler”, because no Lib Dem, and no centrist megamelt will be giving me lessons on enabling the Tories. 

The Lib Dems propped up the Tories for five long years of austerity - they swapped harsher benefit sanctions for the carrier bag tax. They were led by a Tory named Nick Clegg, and the Lib Dems ceased to exist the moment William Hague got them to agree to go into coalition with David Cameron’s Conservative Party. No lessons from you lot. 

The centrists, still reeling from their 2010 demise, and the utter humiliation of 2015, never quite got to grips with the fact their golden boy, former Prime Minister and MP for Bahrain East, Tony Blair, started the rot in the Labour Party. 

Losing one million Labour voters might be seen to be a tad clumsy. Losing nearly three million of them was nothing less than a catastrophe. 

But the centrists refused to believe their ideology was dead and buried. They spent five years savaging Ed Miliband, to the point of where the soft-left on the inside Miliband was cajoled into offering the same austerity as the Conservative Party - plus the cringey red ‘control on immigration’ mugs, and a big stone. The only thing missing was an offer to drive the grotesque ‘Go Home’ vans - but let’s not be giving flagman Starmer any ideas.

Jeremy Corbyn’s arrival heralded the beginning of undoubtably the biggest character assassination of a politician that we had ever seen - and we are ever likely to see - unless another politician comes along with the audacity to challenge the establishments corrupted, grubby way of doing things. Jeremy was quite literally the most smeared politician in history.

The centrists preferred a Conservative government to a Labour government led by a socialist. No lessons from you lot. Now now, not ever. 

Give us a Labour Party worth supporting and we would support you. But you are giving us a Labour Party that deserves opposing. And believe me, we will oppose. 

This Labour Party couldn’t run a tombola at a village fete without stopping to see if they can offer a range of prizes that are just as bad as the selection of Poundshop tat on the Tories hook-a-dodgy-contract stall. 

This Labour Party seems determined to steamroll the aspirations of the many, while protecting the wealth of the few. 

Starmer sees the left as a nuisance, because he knows we deal in hope. He knows we won’t rollover for political donors looking to purchase policy influence. We believe in the power of community, Starmer believes in giving further power to the big business community.

Starmer blagged his way into the top job with ease. The infamous ten pledges are as worthless now as the day some trendy focus group in Primrose Hill came up with them. 

You can’t even get past the introduction to the pledges without tripping over a pile of bullshit. Starmer says, and I quote, “based on the moral case for socialism, here is where I stand”. Sounds great, doesn’t it? But where the fuck was the moral case for socialism when you was ordering your MPs not to vote against the SPYCOPS bill? 

Starmer has made the immoral case for anti-Socialism. He is a dreadful leader, and an even worse socialist. 

Once you get past the utterly deceitful introduction you don’t have to go far to stumble upon another pile of thinktank polished turd. 

Pledge number 1 - Economic Justice. 

“Increase income tax for the top 5% of earners, reverse the Tories cuts to corporation tax, and clamp down on tax avoidance, particularly of large corporations”. 

Stopped laughing yet? 

“No stepping back from our core principles”. 

Principles? What fucking principles? Starmer is utterly unscrupulous.  

In matters of style, you swim with the current; in matters of principle, you stand like a rock. Starmer values his privileges way above his principles. Principles are inflexible, but Starmer will bend in any direction you wish if it brings in the tea and biscuit money. 

So why, just this week, did the Labour Party “step back from our core principles”, and refuse to back a rise in corporation tax? 

Shadow Business Secretary, Ed Miliband, had already backed moves to increase corporation tax, but Starmer had other ideas, saying “now is not the time” to raise corporation tax - just like he said “now is not the time” to ask difficult questions of Boris Johnson, as more than 1,000 people a day were dying of Covid-19, during the first peak in April 2020.

You, Sir, are entirely complicit in the human tragedy that has unfolded over the last year. 

So not only did he instantly demolish his first of the ten pledges, he also trashed the manifesto that he stood on which committed to raising corporation tax to raise £30 billion to spend on vital public services, such as our NHS. 

I wonder where Starmer stands on another manifesto commitment - a higher tax on capital gains and dividends - by ending the unfair system of taxing wealth more lightly than taxing income. That would be another £14 billion in the public purse. 

We certainly don’t need to wonder where Keir Starmer stands on our nuclear weapons. I won’t call them a “deterrent”, because that’s what the media and the MPs say. They are not a deterrent to the threats that face our country today. Trident didn’t stop the Manchester Arena bomber, and it didn’t stop the IRA from unleashing decades of terror on our streets. 

Like Starmer, Trident is completely and utterly useless. It serves no purpose beyond a global willy-waving competition for the richest countries. When it comes to Trident, Starmer, and his nuke-friendly shadow something-or-another Nandy sits to the right of Michael Portillo, the former Conservative Defence Secretary and trainspotter. That’s how awful this lot are. They should feel deeply ashamed. 

Do they seriously believe Putin will nuke Britain? Get real. Where else would they be able to launder their dirty money with such ease? 

We find ourselves in a place where Starmer is perfectly comfortable with unfairly suspending and removing the whip from Jeremy Corbyn, but he’s not so comfortable demanding the resignation of a senior government minister that had just been found guilty of breaking the law. 

Think about that for just one moment. What does that say to you about the state of Keir Starmer's Labour Party? They are a shambles of an opposition. 

I don’t care about the field he got his mum, to keep her donkeys in, I really couldn’t care less, but I do care about the donkeys that pack out the shadow cabinet, and the extraordinary asses that make up Team Starmer. 

By the time you’ve read this I dread to think what else Starmer has come up with. 

Perhaps another column for a Murdoch rag, behind a paywall? What about an online policy suggestion forum, hosted by Guido Fawkes? Why not go one step further and commit to spending 5% of our GDP on flags and poles for every garden, in every village, town, and city? 

What a shame there’s not another Tory Welfare Reforms Bill going through because this would create further opportunities for Starmer to show his ‘steel’, and abstain, once again. 

It really is a shitshow my friends. There are no excuses for this abysmal, charisma-free, failure of a leader. None whatsoever. We needed someone to rage against the machine, but we got beige in favour of the machine. 

Get Starmer out. The sooner, the better. You deserve a better opposition, the country deserves a better opposition, we all need a better opposition, but I can assure you, it will never happen while the Labour Party isn’t the natural political home for compassionate, decent, progressive people. 

That’s people like you.

Take care, 

Rachael

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