Just How Much Further To The Right Is Keir Starmer Willing To Stoop?

I really cannot believe we are here again. I slowly convinced myself to turn my unbridled ire towards the Conservative party as the week went on. 

The obvious topic for most bloggers would be the permacircus surrounding the disgraced liar, Boris Johnson, but how many different ways am I supposed to call a liar, a liar? 

Seriously, if you need me to tell you that Johnson is a vandalistic, malicious compulsive liar - a man that defecated all over our sham of a democracy and is a fucking insidious deceiver without a moral fibre throughout his repulsive carcass - I’m not sure where you have been for the last few years.

But then I changed my mind. After all, if you never actually change your mind what’s the point of having one? 

But this sudden rethink was foisted upon me by, surprise surprise, the leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer. 

Starmer’s slip backwards in the polls hasn’t gone unnoticed at Labour HQ, and the “20 points ahead” memes are beginning to resurface. 

Starmer, a squanderous and unprincipled chancer with the charisma of driftwood cannot blow a 36 point poll-lead, surely? 

He’s having a bloody good go of it. 

I thought Keir Starmer might eventually run out of room for manoeuvre on the right, mostly due to the likelihood of the Tories managing to win back some of the anti-refugee vote, following Cruella Braverman’s recent jaunt to Rwanda. 

The obvious thing for Starmer to have done in response to the Tory recovery would be to look leftwards towards the vast swathes of the politically homeless, look up the word “socialism”, and act upon our most basic values of compassion, dignity, and solidarity. 

But no, Keir Starmer wants the Daily Mail readers onside despite the tabloid continuing to salivate over Boris Johnson on an almost daily basis. 

Tony Blair’s former advisor, John McTernan recently claimed that Keir Starmer has made the Labour Party a safe place for Thatcherites to come home to. 

As much as I hate to say it, McTernan was right, proving even a broken clock is right twice a day. 

Starmer said on Thursday:

“The rule of law is the foundation for everything. 

Margaret Thatcher called it the ‘first duty of government’ – and she was right.” 

The first duty of any Labour leader, Keir Starmer,  is to never gleefully praise Margaret Thatcher. 

Keir Starmer shouldn’t need telling that the way to tackle crime isn’t by lavishing praise on Thatcher, but by eradicating poverty, increasing job and housing security, and funding education sufficiently. 

Keir Starmer wants to portray his leadership as being just as tough on law and order as Margaret Thatcher. 

But Starmer didn’t mention how the former Tory Prime Minister lavished money on policing yet crime rose consistently throughout her period in office and policing controversies over issues such as complaints, violence, race

and accountability soared. 

Thatcher was never right. 

Keir Starmer’s Labour no longer selects the best candidates to serve their local communities. It’s now a case of who you know and how connected you are to the rich and powerful. 

For example, the Scarborough and Whitby selection shortlist resulted in a former director of lobbying for BT, Alex Towers, being welcomed onto the shortlist with open arms while socialist candidates such as Lauren Townsend - who works for the CWU and are currently in dispute with BT - are left to one side, because Starmer’s Labour hates socialists more than they hate Tories. 

Keir Starmer was elected leader on a promise to make Labour a 'real opposition'. Does it feel like we have a real opposition, nearly 3 years into the age of beige? 

Starmer has consistently failed to push back against the most right-wing government in living memory because he agrees with much of what the Conservative government does. 

Another example of Starmer’s stitch-up Labour was to be found in Leicester, this week. 

The Labour Party went and dropped a staggering NINETEEN sitting councillors in what I can only describe as an act of utter contempt for the communities that elected these councillors to serve them. 

Starmer’s socialist cleansing obsession may well please his establishment string-pullers, and it might even earn him another column on page 26 of the S*n, but what purpose does it serve to the millions of people having to decide between a bath or beans on toast? 

Keir Starmer is supposed to be the leader of a democratic socialist party. Choosing to associate with an anti-state right-winger like Thatcher makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. 

What hope is there when our voting system forces us to choose between an utterly incompetent Labour Party and a blatantly corrupt Tory party?

We need a ‘none of the above’ option on our ballot papers because I’ll be damned if I give my vote to the least worst choice of 2 right-wing parties. 

The Starmer supporters will tell you that it will be all your fault if the Tories get back in without even stopping for just one moment to consider the leader they are telling you to support is indeed a blue Blairite Tory that is hellbent on protecting the wealth of the rich and powerful. 

Starmer is now taking a huge risk by appealing to the Thatcherite Tories to support the Labour Party because they already have a Thatcherite Tory Goldman Sachs Prime Minister that they will support when the chips are down. 

The only question that remains now is just how much further to the right is the reprehensible Starmer willing to stoop? 

Until next time, 

Rachael

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