Substandard Starmer: A Victim Of His Own Dishonesty
The public don’t seem to particularly like him, nor do they seem to trust him. There is no evidence of Starmer offering a realistic alternative to the horror that is Boris Johnson - if anything, it’s beginning to look like there isn’t a Rizla paper between them - particularly when it comes to being a donor-guided sycophant of the establishment.
And the lies. What about the lies?
We know Boris Johnson is a compulsive liar. Even the sheep that put Johnson in Downing Street in 2019 know their man is fluent in prolific bullshit, in fact, they seem to like being lied to, because he’s just “Boris being Boris”.
Call him Johnson. Not Boris. He’s not your mate, he’s not a big cuddly teddy bear, he’s not a lovable eccentric. Do not humanise the treacherous sociopathic sloth. He is a dangerous liability.
Johnson will use a lie to try and take care of the present without any consideration for the consequences in the future. If lying was a job, Johnson would be more affluent than Bezos.
But we expected a little bit better from the lacklustre leader of ‘Liebour’.
Say whatever you like about Jeremy Corbyn - everyone else has already - but if you are going to be truthful with yourself you would acknowledge Mr Corbyn was, and still is, honest and principled.
But this cannot be said of Keir Starmer, because he is a Tory puppet wrapped in red. The lie with Starmer begins the moment you believe he represents Labour values. He doesn’t. The lie goes even further when you believe Keir Starmer is a Democratic Socialist. He isn’t.
Show me Starmer’s Labour values. Show me examples of his Democratic Socialism. I’m not hard to find.
You won’t, because you can’t.
Let’s take a quick look at Starmer’s shadow cabinet reshuffle for a moment. The mainstream media lackeys spent most of the day telling you how Labour looked ready for government again. The rest of their day was spent waiting for a call from team Starmer, because Angela Rayner needed briefing against.
Put your feelings towards Ms Rayner to one side for a moment, and look at this politically. Rayner was delivering a big speech on Tory corruption, and she’s got reporters asking her what she knows about the shadow cabinet reshuffle - which turns out to be absolutely zero.
Imagine not telling your deputy leader your plans to herald in the arrival of the Labour hard-right to the very top table, because that is exactly what Mishcon De Starmer has done.
Yvette Cooper, Wes Streeting, Rachel Reeves, Lisa Nandy and David Lammy. What on earth was Starmer thinking?
The only thing the Tories need to worry about with this cabal of second-home-flipping, Blairite-worshipping, poor-hating, nuke-friendly, widely-ridiculed quockerwodgers is being out-Toried, because hell is likely to freeze over before any of the aforementioned managed to scrape up a single leftist idea between them.
Shadowing doesn’t involve imitating.
The massively dishonest leader, Keir Starmer - a man that said he is willing to lie to get into power - lied his way to securing the Labour Party leadership.
Here is what Starmer said when he was hoodwinking the soft-left into voting for him, back in January 2020:
“I have always been motivated by a burning desire to tackle inequality and injustice, to stand up for the powerless against the powerful. That’s my socialism.”
Did you vote for Keir Starmer in the belief he would take the ‘good bits of Cobynism’?
After all, he did clearly state:
“A radical Labour government is needed now more than ever. Inequalities of every type – in power, education, health and wealth – have become ingrained in our society.”
Keir Starmer lied, the real Labour Party died.
This Labour Party needs to be brutally honest with themselves here, but Starmer has realised Plato was right - honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
The result from Thursday’s Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election is being presented to you as a huge endorsement of Keir Starmer. Starmer himself said it was a “strong” result for the Labour Party.
Spoiler: It wasn’t.
As my friend Cornish Damo pointed out on the little bird app, Labour picked up its lowest vote tally in Old Bexley and Sidcup since the seat was created in 1983. A strong result?
I mean, have you seen the state of this government right now? One disaster and crisis after another isn’t just a case of the mid-term blues. They are the worst government in living memory, without a doubt.
If Starmer really was cutting through I believe a bit more than 10% of the entire constituency electorate would’ve gone out and voted for the Labour candidate. But they didn’t, and the only reason the Tory majority was cut was because of swathes of pissed off Tories staying at home.
We know this, the Tories know this, and Keir Starmer knows this. You’re not good enough, Sir Keir, you’re simply not up to the job. If you cannot land a hefty blow on this crumbling government now, while Johnson is on his knees, I don’t think that you ever will.
The biggest loser of Thursday night was democracy. Johnson and Starmer are voter repellents. We cannot stand liars, we will not campaign for liars, and we will not vote for liars. Our corrupt political establishment is an archaic fucking shambles.
Just for the record, the Labour candidate picked up 6,711 votes. Corbyn’s Labour achieved 14,079 votes in 2017, and 10,834 votes in 2019. So tell me again how the Labour Party is going from strength-to-strength under the leadership of Keir Starmer?
It’s a bit of a fucking disaster really, isn’t it?
It hasn’t all been bad news for the Labour Party this week though. Children’s homes and Jewish cemeteries across Islington can breathe a sigh of relief following the much-welcomed announcement from Margaret Hodge, confirming she doesn’t plan to stand for re-election the next time around.
Mission accomplished.
Young Labour certainly ruffled some feathers on Friday evening following the release of a damning statement regarding their future campaigning and canvassing - a hugely important and sizeable part of Labour’s election campaigning machine.
It started by saying:
“Young Labour will no longer campaign, organise or canvass for candidates, Cllrs or MPs who fail to stand by workers, do not respect picket lines and do not support trade unionists right to industrial action.”
Who else can Starmer’s Labour disenfranchise before the weekend is out? This is extremely embarrassing for the Labour leadership, even more so when you consider how Jeremy Corbyn filled so many young people with hope for the future, hope that we can do things a better way, and more and more young people became politically engaged for the first time in their lives.
But they look at Keir Starmer and see what we see. A disingenuous posh boy chancer that wouldn’t know the difference between YouTube and a test tube. Ask Starmer what he thinks about Stormzy and he will tell you he prefers it when it’s snowy.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. What Starmer presents to you now, today, is the antithesis of hope.
The Labour Party is an utter tragedy. Some good people remain within the party, personal friends, and I applaud their optimism and respect their belief that they can change the party from within.
It goes both ways. They know I wholeheartedly believe the Labour Party is no longer a viable vehicle for societal change, and this is why.
The left had a huge opportunity to change the structures of the Labour Party, much like the right of the party are doing now. But we didn’t.
We spent too much time apologising when it wasn’t necessary to do so. We allowed ourselves to become overwhelmed by maliciously false claims of antisemitism. We failed to grasp internal initiatives such as Open Selection. We had literal Blairite saboteurs in top positions in Jeremy’s shadow cabinet. We only realistically had the full support of 15 MPs.
I say “we”, because no one individual is to blame. We lacked the ruthlessness required to ensure the Labour Party was a proud democratic socialist movement for good for at least a generation. We had the chance.
The right learned from our mistakes, and within less than 2 years the Party is firmly back in the establishment stable. They’ll never risk another Jeremy Corbyn.
That’s why I think the Labour Party is finished.
Starmer isn’t going to suddenly veer to the left. The Labour Party of Miliband and Balls was prepared to match Tory austerity, Pound-for-Pound, just a bit slower. Starmer aspires to be this brand of the Labour Party.
A Labour Party that pretends to speak for the many, while taking the cash from the few.
A Labour Party with a plunging membership and a sub-zero bank balance.
A Labour Party hellbent on opposing the socialists in the Labour Party, rather than the Conservatives in government.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar, and Keir Starmer isn’t very good at anything really.
Until next time,
Rachael
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