I Cannot And Will Not Vote For Keir Starmer’s Labour

This week’s local elections will go a long way towards deciding the futures of both Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer. 

I would suggest the results are likely to reflect how people feel about Boris Johnson, the partygate scandal, how Covid has been handled so abysmally and the soaring cost of living crisis. 


While potholes and wheelie bin collections will be a priority for a number of voters, the majority will place their votes in judgement of the criminal, Boris Johnson. 


Starmer *must* make huge gains on Thursday night. The anti-Johnson sentiment should be enough to see the Labour leader make at 1,000 council seat gains overnight. 


Anything less than a convincing victory for Starmer and a crushing defeat for Johnson will be an absolute disaster for the Labour Party, no matter how the Starmerrhoids attempt to spin it. 


So let’s look at the numbers for Thursday.


In England, more than 4,000 councillors in 146 councils are up for election in cities including Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and all 32 London boroughs. 


South Yorkshire will also be voting for a regional mayor and 1,000 parish councils will be electing about 10,000 councillors.


All seats in 22 local councils will be contested across Wales, where people can vote from the age of 16, unlike England where you are unable to vote until you are 18. 


Up in Scotland, voting is open to anyone over the age of 16, in all 32 local authorities. 


So it is a huge night, with thousands of council seats up for grabs. 


The Tories are in bother, be in no doubt of that, but they deserve to be, because this grotesque criminal government of incompetent thieves cannot be allowed to go unpunished at the ballot box. 


Johnson is expecting an electoral massacre of Tory councillors - they will take the hit for the deeply unpopular Prime Minister - and while the pre-prepared speech will acknowledge his disappointment and profound sadness at the loss of these councillors, he will be quietly content knowing the political landscape may well look very different by the time the next general election arrives. 


I’ll tell you what else is criminal, and that is the fact that is most likely to be the characterless beige zephyr of immateriality Starmer that will benefit from an anti-Boris Johnson election. 


Nobody has a clue what Starmer truly stands for, mostly who he stands for, and that’s certainly not the low paid nurse, the Universal Credit claimant, the worker stood on a picket line, you, me, or 95% of the British population. 


Starmer is another establishment bootlicker. I couldn’t give an arse what colour his rosette might be, that doesn’t mean anything to me when Britain needs a genuine alternative to the Conservative party, and that is something Starmer’s Labour quite simply isn’t.


Here’s the thing. I have friends who have been out campaigning for Labour, including councillor candidates, and they have my full respect. They are still of the belief that it’s better to fight for change from within, and they have every right to do so. 


I am of the belief that handing over your membership fees to fund Project Mandelson is something of a sin. You may as well give it to a needy charity, or join a political party that best serves your core beliefs. 


Or maybe you’ve heard the exciting announcement from the former Labour MP and Labour NEC member, Laura Pidcock? 


Laura is the National Secretary of The People's Assembly, and for the first time ever you can now JOIN UP to become a member of The People’s Assembly! 


You’re supposed to click on the bit where I put “JOIN UP” - that’s why I did it in capital letters.


You will be hearing a fair bit more about that from myself and some friends over the coming days and weeks, but I really do encourage you to check out Laura’s video and sign up to become a member of the People’s Assembly, and help us take this wonderful movement forward. 


To be honest, if the People's Assembly had candidates standing at these elections I would happily be out there campaigning for them, because they are unashamedly anti-austerity and vociferous opponents of Boris Johnson and the Conservatives. 


Basically, the polar opposite of the pointless stand-for-nothing Starmer, the Labour leader that has routinely failed to oppose the nightmare in Downing Street anywhere near as much as he opposes the socialists in the Labour Party. 


I cannot vote for this Labour Party. I know they’ll do reasonably well on Thursday, but I don’t give my vote to a party or person because they’re predicted to make huge gains, as that would make me no better than Starmer himself, the man that abandoned any recognisable glimpse of a principle in the quest for power, and media acceptance. Revolting sellout.


I’ll never vote Conservative, of course, my conscience means more to me than shoving two fingers up to the chameleon Keith. 


But please, ask yourself this:


Can you really put an X next to the Labour candidate knowing the direction of travel the party is heading in? 


Can you really put an X next to the Labour candidate knowing the party leader has swapped any form of principled leadership for a bit of support from the Daily Mail and Rupert Murdoch?


Can you really put an X next to the Labour candidate knowing the party has abandoned ‘for the many, not the few’ and replaced it with, for the donors, and fuck all for you? 


Can you really put an X next to the Labour candidate knowing they are fielding candidates in council seats that actively worked against Labour winning two general elections, lumbering us with a hard Tory Brexit and the worst government in living memory? 


I cannot and I will not.


I haven’t got much in this world, Mr Starmer, but my principles remain intact, whereas your principles are no longer, because your style of leadership revolves around piss-poor soundbites that mean less than nothing to me and many others.


I used to believe that any Labour government was better than a Tory government, and maybe it still is, but there’s just absolutely zero evidence that suggests my life and your life will be any better under a government led by Keir Starmer.


People aren’t putting their faith in Labour, Mr Starmer, they are showing their disgust and disbelief in the criminal Johnson.


I’m really sorry if you don’t like my honesty, Mr Starmer, but to be fair, I don’t particularly like your lies.


Didn’t the Lib Dems used to be the natural home for the mid-term protest vote? This mantle now belongs to Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. 


Ed Miliband, remember him? He gained more than 800 council seats in the mid-term local elections, yet just a couple of years later Miliband picked up just 30.4% of the vote at the 2015 general election. 


The 2019 Brexit general election disaster saw Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour pick up 32.2% - nearly 2% more than Ed Miliband’s 2015 defeat - but you know 2019 will be rubbed in your face forever more, while we pretend 2010, 2015, and 2017 never actually happened, for different reasons. 


I hope you all use your votes, because one of the greatest dangers to our future is apathy. But I absolutely understand why the thought of voting for any of the three Westminster establishment cabals seems as attractive as the thought of Boris Johnson in his birthday suit. 


Keep hanging in there folks, hope will be coming, when you least expect it. 


Rachael



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