Ten Pledges, Five Missions, One Liar

What does it tell you about the state of the Tory government when a deeply untrustworthy, morally defunct, control freak quisling with the charisma of a swing-bin like Keir Starmer and his tragedy of a Labour Party can routinely command 50% in the polls? 

Being less dishonest than the deplorable and discredited Conservative government really isn’t a massive selling point to the politically homeless. 

It’s really nothing to do with ideological purity, or some sort of lifelong loyalty to all things Corbyn and absolutely everything to do with demanding transparency and accountability from a Labour leader that abandons a promise as frequently as Boris Johnson abandons his offspring. 

I know what a small number of you are thinking. Something like, ‘why doesn’t she have a go at the Tories?’, yes? 

To answer the question directly and honestly, Keir Starmer is a Tory. 

If you look at things simplistically it’s easy to think Labour are on the left and the Tories are on the right, but that’s blatantly and demonstrably a load of old codswallop. 

The Tory party you see today sits somewhere on the hard-right. They are Steven Yaxley-Lennon in suits. The only real difference between the extremists on the right and an unhealthily large cohort of today’s Tories is a platform to preach from and a second, third, or possibly even fourth job. 

This shift, started by the ERG back in the days of Theresa May has left a large void on the ‘soft’ right, and that’s where the Labour Party has parked its tanks, for the foreseeable future. 

They call themselves “liberals”, “moderates”, “progressives”, and “social democrats”, but when you take a moment to look at what they stand for - or who they stand for - and I’m afraid they are just plain and simple right-of-centre Tories. 

Is it unreasonable to ask these people what first attracted them to the Tricom membership holding, Apartheid hugging, pledge burning, member purging, Murdoch licking, disingenuous neoliberal, Starmer, without being told it is actually YOU that is the “Tory enabler”?

We know all about Keir Starmer’s 10 pledges, the fluff about Corbynism without Corbyn, the promise to argue, and I quote, “the moral case for socialism”, so why would we believe a single word the boring beige bullshitter is saying now? 

Let’s take a look at just one of Starmer’s “missions”. 

I’m assuming someone at the trendy Islington focus group is keen on playing Fortnite (that’s a shoot ‘em up computer game to those of us that grew up with the a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and an Atari 2600), 

“Build an NHS fit for the future”. 

Wow. 

Keir Starmer, and his Blairite weasel of a shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting have BOTH received big donations from a private healthcare investor. This is beyond doubt. They had every opportunity to return the money but didn’t choose to do so. 

So let’s not pretend Keir Starmer is going to put the health of a nation before the wealth of a donor, because this isn’t how capitalism works. 

Platitudes for patients, profits for privateers. 

The only way the Labour Party can build an NHS that is fit for the future is by ensuring all private contracts aren’t renewed, a fair double-digit pay rise is offered to NHS staff, and record levels of investment are put into recruiting and training more doctors and nurses. 

If Labour’s big NHS plan includes long-term private healthcare involvement it will be abundantly clear they haven’t learned from the critical mistakes of the last four decades of Tory rule. 

And why would Labour really change very much? As I keep telling you, this Labour Party is a million miles closer to the Tories than it is to where you would expect a Labour Party to be. 

Starmer can call them pledges, missions, commitments, promises and cast-iron guarantees all he likes, but they mean absolutely nothing when by his own admission he would break these meaningless slogans if it puts him just one small step closer to power. 

So what is Starmer’s word really worth? Not a damn thing.

What does Starmer the betrayer need to do to convince you that he’s utterly full of shit, or do these easily-pleased people enjoy being lied to by the political class? 

The latest poll I have seen puts Starmer’s Labour some 21 points ahead of the Tories, and you could be easily fooled into believing this big lead was down to Keir Starmer and his vision for Britain. 

But the painful truth is hard to admit for the supporters of the Labour leader, because they desperately want power - not to save us from going down the cost of living plughole - but to stick two fingers up to the left, because they actually despise us far more than they ever will the Tories. 

You see, Starmer could list his pledges and missions in blood on an ancient scripture at the altar of St. Tony of Blair, or he could simply just get them engraved on to a fucking great big lump of stone that’s around the size of Barney the Dinosaur on steroids, and I still wouldn’t believe a word of it, because Keir Starmer is a fraud and a liar.

A promise is only as strong as the person that makes it. Do you see Keir Starmer as strong? Bullies aren’t strong, they are the weakest of the weak. This man bullies Jewish pensioners for the crime of being left-wing. 

A politician like Keir Starmer is way too quick to make commitments and just as quick to abandon them. Haven’t we had enough of this make it up as they go along style of politics by now? 

Perhaps Starmer has gone down the path of Napoleon Boneparte and believes his key to success rests upon promising everything and delivering nothing, as the only thing he has delivered so far is the likely loss of Islington North to the independent prospective parliamentary candidate, Jeremy Corbyn.

We found out in 2017 and 2019, as Nye Bevan said, “the right-wing of the Labour Party would rather see it fall into perpetual decline than abide by its democratic decisions”, so what does Keir Starmer actually expect from the left? 

Starmer said himself, if you don’t like the direction of travel the party is taking, you know where the door is. 

Genuinely, if you have a single socialist bone in your body you do not have a place to call home inside the liar Starmer’s Labour Party. 

Trust Keir Starmer at your peril. His quest for power has no room for principles and honesty, just more unachievable, wishy-washy falsehoods. 

Starmer only has one real mission, and that is to tighten the one-party state stranglehold to the benefit of the rich and powerful, so you are left to pick between the lesser of two evils, which is still evil, however you wish to spin it. 

While the war between the centre-right neoliberals and the right-wing neoliberals is somewhat beyond our reach there remains many smaller battles - such as the fight for Islington North - still to be won.

And win them, we will. 

Until next time, 

Rachael 

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