Where Are The Calls For Starmer To Go? Get Rid.

Brace yourselves. 

Do you remember those mass resignations from Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet? The ones where Laura Kuenssberg was involved with setting up a live resignation with A. Nobody - who absolutely nobody had ever heard of apart from his immediate family, on the BBC Daily Politics show? What about the timed resignations that followed? Each was designed to cause as much damage as possible to the former Labour leader. Or do you remember Keir Starmer’s resignation letter? Which went something along the lines of ‘Dear Jeremy, I’m resigning because everyone else is’. 

It was 2016, Jeremy Corbyn had only been the party leader for just nine months, and Labour and the Tories both sat on 32%, according to a Survation poll - That’s right, they launched their gutless coup while we sat level in the polls with the Conservatives.

Fast forward a few years to today and the latest poll puts Keir Starmer’s “under new management” Labour Party a massive and utterly jaw-dropping 13 points behind a government so bad they make Theresa May’s shambolic outfit look strong and stable. 

So what time do the mass resignations begin? 

When will Dame Hodge put in the PLP’s vote of no confidence in his leadership? 

Will Peter Mandelson try to bring down Starmer, “every single day”? 

Will former US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, threaten to intervene in our elections, because he’s not a Starmer fan?

Can we expect the Guardian to prove their dismay by finally admitting they have more writers than readers? 

 

Will the predominantly right-wing British press launch a full on smorgasbord of smears, lies and unbridled hatred towards the impossibly diabolical Starmer? 

Or was it simply a case of protecting the wealth and assets of the richest and most powerful while intentionally denying and cheating the British people out of the government that we so desperately needed? 

Where are the demands for Starmer to go? Why hasn’t he already gone? Will he offer his immediate resignation if Labour fail to make massive gains at the local elections in May? 

These are the discussions the Labour Party needs to be having, rather than putting together tacky memes on MS Paint. The Labour Party is in trouble, electorally and financially - and the blame for this sits squarely on the shoulders of Sir Keir Rodney Starmer QC (quisling chameleon). 

Starmer’s own behaviour has resulted in the loss of millions of Pounds of membership fees. If people wanted to support a Tory-lite happy clappy bunch of deeply unpopular political lightweights they would’ve joined the Liberal Democrats, not the supposedly Democratic Socialist Labour Party. 

I caught up with a couple of Labour sources yesterday, one a former MP and the other is a current MP. Believe me, it’s not just the left that wants Starmer placed in the dustbin of history. Deep trouble is on the horizon. The centre-right have already begun discussions about a replacement - it appears their biggest issue at the moment is agreeing on one candidate to represent the warmongers, racists, bigots, bullies and bullshitters that occupy much of the Labour green benches. 

I won’t speculate on the names. It would be wrong of me to drop any hints about MPs that can knock on 20,000 doors-per-hour, and I certainly wouldn’t want to hint at the possibility of another potential candidate being the wife of someone that pledged to match all of George Osborne’s austerity prior to the 2015 General Election. 

So it’s not just you and I that want to bring an end to the Starmer leadership.

Starmer has made more enemies than friends during his eleven-month-long mission to convert the Labour Party into the shambolic failed centrist opposition that it is today. If his job was to destroy the Labour Party for a generation to come, then you could say he is doing a fantastic job. But his task was to form his own credible opposition - one that would hold Boris Johnson to account, build on the popular progressive socialist policies that saw Labour come within an inch of pulling off the greatest election shock in recent history, and essentially, bring the Labour Party together. 

So how’s that going? 

I’ve never known an opposition leader to offer so very little in the way of opposition. He isn’t holding the government to account and has failed to do so throughout the pandemic. 

As for the socialist policies, they’re non-existent. It was Labour policy to increase corporation tax, in fact, it was also the first of his ten pledges. He ditched this commitment at the first available opportunity and he is supporting the government’s tax rises on the low paid. 

Do you get the feeling you’ve been played here? 

As for bringing the party together? Where do you even begin to start? 

If he is an authoritative and unifying leader, I may as well admit to being Beyoncé, because you’ll believe absolutely anything if you’re willing to think he is somehow bringing the party together. The church may well be broad, but the only pews being sat on are all positioned on the right. 

There are many reasons for Starmer’s growing unpopularity. 

A divided political party rarely wins an election. If you are the chief cause of the division, the public will punish you. 

You’ll also find that very few people know what Starmer stands for. They see him as a fence-sitter, an opportunist, and ultimately, a Tory. An opposition needs to offer an alternative, not more of the same nonsense that has left us where we are now.

Starmer also continues to surround himself with grotesquely inept individuals. I must admit, the only reason I thought Jeremy Corbyn hired Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Jonathan Ashworth, was to try and keep the ‘soft-left’ placated. Ashworth is the Poundshop Ashley Peacock (former Coronation Street character). Listening to Starmer drone on can be a truly painful experience, but listen to Ashworth for ten minutes and suddenly Hastings looks like a nice place to visit, Laurence Fox’s vocal range is compared to Freddie Mercury’s and the thought of a one-way trip to Dignitas has a similar appeal to a free first-class world cruise, being fed grapes by a loin-clothed Danny Dyer. 

Starmer himself fails to inspire. Listen to a speech of his if you can stomach the insipidity of it all. There’s just nothing. There are times I find the man so boring I actually struggle to find anything to take the piss out of. 

I challenge you to watch any speech throughout his very short political career, without feeling the need to reach for the Zopiclone. 

You will find more charisma, and depth, in a freshly-prepared burial plot than you will in Starmer. He is worse than the worst supply teacher imaginable. He has the likeability of a bailiff and the authenticity of a pair of $12 ‘Nike Air Max’ from Wish. 

If you cannot inspire people you cannot lead people. A good leader listens, but Starmer only listens to Focus Groups, Think-tanks, and his donors, looking to purchase some policy direction. 

He does not possess the ability to bring people with him, because he simply isn’t one of us. And when he tries to behave like one of us he comes across as an embarrassing centrist Dad. This may well go down a storm in Surrey, but in Swindon they’ll just keep voting for the Tories that they’re already familiar with. 

Leaders always have something about them. I think it’s a combination of the things I’ve just mentioned in this blog. 

This next bit is going to be a pain to write. 

Love him or hate him, Tony Blair had something about him. Remember when he did that “People’s Princess” speech, shortly after the death of Diana? Whether you liked it or not, he knew exactly what to say and exactly how to say it, and he made it look believable. 

We all know how it ended up for Blair. His legacy is one of orphaning hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. He serves a greater purpose to Bahrain than he does to Britain these days. 

How about Gordon Brown? I wasn’t a fan, and I’m still not a fan, but I’ll acknowledge he did have a certain presence about him, he was a big beast, if you like. 

Ed Miliband, still a Shadow Minister today, saved his best performances for after his five year spell as Labour leader, often popping up on social media with barbed wit and cracking putdowns. I’ve always thought of him as a likeable guy, maybe a tad awkward at times, but once he embraced a slightly softer version of austerity, he was done for - and Starmer is heading the same way. 

And Jeremy? He had it. He had something about him. His fiercest critics wouldn’t ever admit it, but they were attacking because they feared him. Back in 2017 we started to cut through. Had the General Election been two weeks later we would probably be in the fourth year of a socialist government led by Jeremy. 

A political party leader could only pull in a crowd of 10,000 on a wet night in Gateshead if they had something worth saying. As John Prescott said, “We never pulled crowds like this in 1997”. 

Can you imagine Keir Starmer walking on stage at Glastonbury, dressed in his best wax jacket, M&S chinos and Dunlop Wellington boots? 

Do you think 100,000 people would hold up banners with his name on? Do you think the crowd of all ages would chant his name as he addresses an adoring audience? 

They banners would read “#ReinstateJeremyCorbyn”, “Get Starmer Out” and “Piss off flagshagger”. Thousands would slow-chant “Keith Keith Keith”, and the £35 bottles of Aqua Pura would go flying. Carnage.

Jeremy had it. He was the real deal, authentic, compassionate, and quite simply the best Prime Minister that we never had, and the beauty of that last statement is nobody can prove me wrong. 

Something else Jeremy had that Starmer lacks is a competent and proactive team surrounding him. Starmer doesn’t have a Karie Murphy, which is a blessing for his opponents. Murphy was Jeremy’s firewall. Jeremy’s office was packed out with decent and kind-hearted people - I’m speaking from personal experience. 

Starmer might actually be dangerous if he had a Karie Murphy. While Starmer was embracing People’s Vote Ltd, Murphy was trying to stop Labour from caving in to the second referendum ultras, because she knew, and put on record, that a movement away from the 2017 Brexit position would end in electoral oblivion for the Labour Party, particularly in the parliamentary seats known as ‘the red wall’. 

She wasn’t wrong. 

Starmer has surrounded himself with weakness. Starmer always needs people to agree with him, and not challenge his authority. You’ve probably seen the mass suspensions of CLP chairs for having the audacity to pass motions of support for Jeremy Corbyn. 

Starmer has made a big deal out of his anti anti-semitism credentials, yet he has overseen the suspension of numerous Jewish Labour Party members for the ‘crime’ of being left-wing socialists. Er, hello? Why isn’t this worthy of being dragged across the front pages of the gutter press? Shouldn’t someone from the BBC be camped on Keir Starmer’s doorstep? What about a Newsnight special? A rally in Parliament square? A Panorama investigation? Shouldn’t Labour start saving up for the six-figured compensation payouts? Where there’s blame, there’s a claim, right? 

Why isn’t Starmer held to the same level of accountability? He is a fucking disgrace to the Labour movement and the many greats that have stood before him.

Honestly Keith, your selective anti-racism is a hideous example of exactly what and who you are. Have you bothered to see how many Black, Asian, and ethnic minority Labour Party members - many of whom joined the Party under the leadership of the peace-prize-winning anti-racist Corbyn - have cancelled their direct debits? 

The real question is, does he actually care? 

The Liverpool mayoral contest, describing the Black Lives Matter movement as a “moment”, the vile racism contained in the Labour leaks report which clearly doesn’t concern him as much as the leak itself, the Labour Muslim Network condemning Islamophobia in Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, the suspension of left-wing Jewish socialists, the blatant dismissal of talented BAME women MPs on his own benches, and what *exactly* has the Knight of the Realm done towards securing the freedom of Osime Brown? 

Get a load of that Starmer! This is *your* Party, and your mess. Where would you be in the polls if you wasn’t an establishment torch-bearer?

How fucking dare you tell us Jeremy Corbyn was the problem. Look what you’ve done Sir. You have created a cesspit. You and your flag-waving numpties did this. 

Starmer needs to go, obviously, but the left needs to organise, and soon, or you’ll end up with worse than Starmer, which you might find hard to believe, but you will.

Anyway, I need a cup of tea and then I’m going to take a look at the latest shenanigans on the Twittersphere. Knowing my luck, Keith has resigned and I’ve just rattled off 2,200 words for absolutely nothing. 

But I’d happily take it. 

Take care, and enjoy your day as best as you can. 

Rachael x

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