Starmer’s Labour: The Bottom Of The Barrel Is Now Visible

Let me start with this. 

The best of humanity is in our empathy and our compassion. It's when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it's almost incomprehensible. 

Be the best of humanity.

Anyway…

After a week or two of talking about the Festival of Resistance, and the absolute nightmare that is the cost of living crisis, the supply of goods crisis, the Covid crisis, the NHS crisis, the energy supply crisis, and the prospect of soaring inflation as we head into 2022, it’s time to return to familiar ground.

The Labour Party conference was supposed to be Keir Starmer’s big moment. 

Most of us that were unfortunate enough to catch  a bit of Starmer’s big reset speech found him to be utterly irksome and unbelievably mundane. Not because we can’t stand the bloke, but because it was a substance-free maudlin speech that pleased absolutely nobody outside of his own circle of ‘yes people’.

But the media knew best, didn’t they? 

“The crushing of Corbynism”. 

“Sweeping out the left”. 

“Prime Ministerial”. 


“Serious opposition once more”. 


“His dad was a toolmaker”. 


This is what happen when you shamefully write for poisonous hate-rags like the S*n and The Daily Mail

This is what happens when you open up your conference to the S*n and GB News. 

This is what happens when you get into bed with hatemongers, phone-hackers and refugee-haters. 

This is what happens when you take the Labour Party away from the fee-paying members, and whore it out to tax-dodgers, privateers, and anyone with enough wealth to buy their own slice of influence.

I have to admit, even I thought the pointless plodder would get a bit of a morale boost, and possibly a boost in the polls, not because of the speech, but because of the way it was sold to the British public by the media. 

So, we let the dust settle for a bit, wait for the Tories to have their shindig in Manchester, and then take a look at how things stand. Have the Labour Party managed to get anywhere nearer to being twenty points ahead? 

The short answer is no, absolutely not. 

Why? Because Keir Starmer is demonstrably fucking useless, and worse. This is obvious.

In fact, the latest poll I looked at had Labour DOWN 1 on 30% - a full 13% BEHIND Air Miles Johnson - which repeated at a general election would see Labour do WORSE than the “disastrous” result at the 2019 general election under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. 

See, the general public aren’t quite as naive and one-dimensional as team Starmer likes to believe. If we can see a leader that will break his promises at the drop of a hat, so can they. If we can see a leader that was elected on a ‘soft Corbynite’ ticket, only for him to lead on a near-Blairite ticket, so can they. 

Blair was elected for a couple of simple reasons. Support for John Major’s government was collapsing, and Blair was fresh-faced and popular. For reasons unbeknown to me, Johnson’s government isn’t collapsing. It is riddled with disaster and multiple crises, and in normal times (whenever they were) this government would be long gone, but they enjoy a comfortable poll lead over Labour and most tragically, would win a general election tomorrow. 

As for being fresh-faced, it’s not for me to judge, but I can give you an idea of his popularity, with his latest personal approval rating sitting at a staggering MINUS 44%. 

Can you imagine how much worse that minus 44% would be if Starmer had the Mail calling him a “hard-left terrorist sympathiser”, day in, day out? 

I certainly can. 

We sat back and continued listening to those who apparently know best. They’re actually paid to know best, they’ve got a blue tick, what could possibly go wrong?

“Just wait until Starmer gets up and down the country and people get to see him in person.”

We’ve waited

“Real politics resumes in September and I think there’s a fair chance that not long afterwards, Starmer will start seeming like the PM-in-waiting again.” 

How long afterwards? 

To give you an idea of just how dreadfully Starmer is doing: I started writing this shortly after the YouGov poll was released - showing the Labour Party to be 10 points behind the Tories. I haven’t even managed to get to the end and another poll has been released putting Starmer’s lacklustre Labour a massive 13 points behind. So of course, I have to go back and change half of it. 

So it turns out Starmer’s awfulness even makes writing a blog just that little bit more difficult. 

I’ve lost count of the amount of dreadful days and weeks now, but this week has been a particularly embarrassing shitshow for Starmer, whether it be trying to drive a HGV and failing miserably, the horrific polling, or the deputy mayor of Camden - literally the borough in which Starmer’s parliamentary seat lies - defecting to the Green party, citing Starmer’s lack of ‘coherent vision’ and the fact that Labour no longer aligns with her “core values of social justice, equality, and environmentalism”. 

Starmer cannot even muster up a decent attack on Johnson, during a time of multiple crises, choosing instead to tell the Prime Minister to “get a grip”. How fucking lame is he? This is so painfully pathetic, but so sadly predictable at the same time. 

I’m sure he was a shit-hot barrister at some point in the past, but he is a shit and deeply unpopular Labour leader at this point right now. 

Starmer’s ‘future candidates programme’ is the latest in a long line of factional stitch-ups. This is yet another promise broken by the prolific liar. He said there wouldn’t be any candidate impositions, yet here we are, watching the conveyor belt of centrist crap drop-off one Starmer clone after another. 

The first ‘future candidate’ I noticed works for a cross-party think tank, and he was a literal bag carrier for Theresa May in Downing Street during the Corbyn years. The second one had a Twitter timeline that could easily be mistaken for Starmer’s own Twitter, such is their commitment to pedalling Keith’s cobblers.

David Cameron did something similar. He had an ‘A-list’ of future Conservative candidates, including the David Icke tribute, Louise Mensch, and Priti ‘Pol Pot’ Patel, so don’t ever let anyone tell you these imposition stitch-ups are a bad thing, right? 










I look at this version of the Labour Party - Keir Starmer’s Labour Party - and fear for the millions of us that need a *real* Labour government - not this diluted Conservatism. 

Starmer’s Labour Party has absolutely no right to call themselves a “Democratic Socialist” Party. A truly Democratic Party would give control to the majority of its members, not the Party elite and those who fund them. 

At least 120,000 people have left the Labour Party. 

That’s around 20,000 more than the entire Lib Dem membership, and 80,000 less than the Conservative Party. If this 120,000 felt there was a cause worthy of supporting, they could be an incredibly effective force for good. This 120,000 will grow, because Starmer is the Captain of the sinking Labour Party ship, and more and more members will jump off before HMOO Labour is no more than a few floating deckchairs.

How can a vital organ such as democracy carry on living inside the body of this gerrymandering Labour Party? 

It can't, I'm afraid. 

And while the Labour Party still has many good Socialists that still passionately believe the Labour Party is the only viable vehicle for societal change, the reality suggests this Labour Party is unashamedly anti-Socialist, and just another set of expensive suits that have signed up to keep the flame of capitalism burning brightly, at the expense of the poor and the working classes.

The Labour Party is the first barrier we face. How on earth can you even begin to think you can get the Conservatives out of government if you’re unable to get the Conservatives out of the Labour Party? 

But remember: the higher you build your barriers, the taller we become. 

Until next time, 

Rachael x



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