Starmer Crisis: From Bad To Worse… To Utterly Diabolical
Not because I’d forgotten about them - far from - I just thought there weren't many more barrels the personality-free potato and his band of hapless halfwits could possibly scrape.
But how wrong I was.
Starmer hasn’t just scraped the bottom of the barrel - he has cut his way through the bottom of it and buried himself and his Party at least six feet under.
If Hartlepool was a disaster, Chesham and Amersham was a lamentable cataclysmic catastrophe. It was worse than that in reality.
Humour me for one moment. Had Jeremy Corbyn gone into a by-election and achieved Labour’s worst result in 100 years, wouldn’t I be writing about the departure of Jeremy Corbyn today? What if Mr Corbyn did so badly at that by-election he ended up losing his deposit? Even the most loyal of Corbyn supporters would struggle to spin their way out of that one.
But here we are. Starmer remains unchallenged, despite 2 resounding defeats in 2 consecutive by-elections and despite being closer to twenty points behind than twenty points ahead.
People are looking at Starmer and the Labour Party and they’re not liking what they see.
It’s not just a case of nobody having a clue what they stand for these days, but also a case of nobody particularly caring what they stand for.
The online presence of the Manic Keith Preachers is minimal. The few that do pop up tend to be condescending, abusive, and they sneer at you, just like a Tory would sneer at you. These are supposed to be Starmer’s foot soldiers. His grassroots activists. These are the people apparently selling Starmer’s ‘vision’ to a global audience of billions.
So it’s little wonder Starmer has completely lost the online battleground when his activists spend more time mocking people than what they spend on promoting their leader and his vast array of life-changing policies.
To give you an idea, a Tory will call you all sorts such as “lefty tosser” or “Commie”, that kind of thing. I think most of us can tolerate a bit of that. But the Starmerrhoids tend to go with “grifter”, “scrounger”, “you’re a man”, “benefit cheat”, “fat bitch”, and other charming insults.
Of course, this derogatory behaviour isn’t exclusive to Starmer’s handful of fans - far from - there are many other strange little factions on Twitter that ‘play the woman, and not the ball’, and to be honest, it’s really quite flattering.
My timeline is a testament to what I do. If you are incapable of challenging my politics you are of no interest to me, and most of my friends.
We’re about our movement, we’re about socialism.
The only movement Starmer represents is an uncomfortable bowel movement, and the only socialist banner I can ever see him enthusiastically standing under will be the banner of corporate socialism.
622 votes. Seriously?! I read something about the local Labour group having more than 622 Labour Party members. If you cannot convince your own party members to vote for your candidate, how on earth do you expect the general public to climb on board HMS Starmer? It’s just going to happen I’m afraid.
Starmer’s own team has immediately crumbled following this second humiliating by-election culling in the space of just six weeks. At the time of writing this he has lost two senior advisors within a few hours of each other, and I’m told others will be heading for the exit door in the near future.
Do you see the pattern here? The Hartlepool humiliation was the fault of Angela Rayner - at least that was the initial spin coming from Starmer’s own people - and the remaining balance of blame was shared amongst Jeremy Corbyn, Meghan Markle, me, the people of Hartlepool for not being able to see past Saudi Paul’s disingenuous fucking awfulness, Thelma Walker, the sunshine, the moonlight, and yes, the boogie.
They can’t blame it on the good times, because there simply hasn’t been any good times for the unlikable centrist dad during his fourteen months of blandishment-free “we support the government” joke of a leadership.
And the Chesham and Amersham by-election catastrophe is the fault of the advisers, going by the instant departures, and to a point, it is, but the accountability begins at the top, because it is Starmer who chooses his advisors, and he chooses which advice to take, and which advice to ignore. Chesham and Amersham is Starmer’s to own in the same way it would be for Mr Corbyn had he also just dragged the Labour Party to its worst by-election defeat in 100 YEARS.
Describing it as an ongoing car crash simply wouldn’t do justice to the colossal failures of this awful wretched shambles of an opposition. This is like a pile-up the length of the M25. Yes Keith, a world really does exist past the Roadchef at Watford Gap Services.
The problem with Starmer’s leadership is Starmer.
It’s not particularly difficult to see this from outside of the establishment's broad church. We can all see that he has the charisma of a sun-faded deckchair. We can all feel the cringe with every staged photo opportunity.
Why the fuck did you give the Labour Party to this unappealing arrogant bottom-feeder? I wasn’t a member, I had no say, but please remember when the time comes, and it will, your vote is powerful.
They had high hopes for Sir Keir. If the Tory Party somehow capitulated they knew their offshore shenanigans would be perfectly safe with Starmer, because his first priority would be to protect the wealth of the few at the expense of your families quality of life, because that’s what Tories do, be they red, yellow or blue, and I haven’t seen any evidence to convince me otherwise.
Some reports are suggesting a senior Labour Lord from the right-wing of the Labour Party will be calling for Starmer to go, if and most likely when Labour and Starmer lose a third consecutive by-election in Batley and Spen. To me, this sounds like media talk for “someone get the crowbar and release Mandelson from the Crypt”.
But if this does happen, what have the left got to put forward? Zarah Sultana? Jon Trickett? Ian Lavery? Whoever the left decides on they must decide soon. A campaign can be won and lost before the official campaign even kicks off.
Give the left a fearless candidate and we promise you a fearless campaign.
Just ask Jeremy.
Give the left a candidate with common-sense socialist principles and we will come together to give them the best possible chance of removing Keir Starmer and facing down the inevitable challenge from at least one candidate from the vast selection of the utter horrors over on the Labour hard-right.
Most of us agree, Keir Starmer is a liability to the Labour Party and an obstacle to socialism. But he is a liability that we can dispose of, and he is an obstacle that we can, and must overcome.
Have a great day, and thank you for reading.
Rachael x
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Brilliant and funny, the comedy that is Labour is the gift that just keeps on giving!
ReplyDeleteCan I nominate Richard Burgon or Diane Abbott for leader as I'd hate the comedy to stop!
Oh yes Zarah but maybe she should be kept back til after the next election. To waste such a talent on the present Labour shit show would be a tragedy.
ReplyDeleteBesides she might be leading a new real socialist party by then.
There is, of course, historical precedent. At the Newbury by-election in 1993, the LibDems took the seat from the Conservatives on a 27.8% swing, with Labour receiving 1,151 votes, or 2%. The same pattern held later that year at the Christchurch by-election, with Labour receiving 1,453 votes, or 2.7%, as a swing from the Conservatives to the LibDems of 38.6% handed them the seat. Labour went on to win an enormous victory in 1997. I'm not saying that Starmer is Blair, or that the national political situation is comparable, etc. However, people are not stupid, and saw the best opportunity to have an MP other than a Conservative was to vote LibDem, even if they'd rather a Labour MP, or even were actually Labour members. I don't think you can tell much at all about Labour nationally from the Chesham and Amersham by-election.
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