Sir Keir Starmer: Labour Is Back In The Pockets Of The Establishment












It’s Sunday morning, and I often put my thoughts out to be considered, and why not? You’ve got Marr and Ridge, of course. But you know it’s going to be the establishment friendly crap aimed at the middle classes, and by the end of it, you feel mentally exhausted by the cliquey excuse of an interview that you’ve just witnessed. 










My advice? Why don’t you switch off the TV set, and do something less boring instead? (I reckon you’ve got to be at least late 30’s to appreciate that last line).


One question I would like to see asked by these mainstream presenters, and it’s a question I see on my Twitter timeline frequently: 


Why Isn’t Keir Starmer’s Labour 20 Points Ahead? 


I mean that genuinely. It’s not (much of) a dig, but more an observation. 


Yes, the centrists, plotters, saboteurs, and the Starmeramas all told us how we would be 20 points ahead of the Tories with any other leader than Jeremy Corbyn. 


Yes, they told us how we were up against the weakest government ever, while failing to mention how Corbyn’s Labour were comfortably ahead shortly after the 2017 election and polling at 45%. Obviously they won’t mention that, because it was at that point they decided to step up the disgusting onslaught of smears towards Corbyn, his team, and much of the membership that dared to identify as a socialist. 


So, let’s pretend the last 5 years didn’t happen for a moment. S*n-approval seeking Starmer took the reigns in April, put his staff in place, and built his own Shallow Cabinet. Yes, shallow. He has had time to make his mark. Yes, there has been a small improvement in Labour’s polling. This is to be expected for a few reasons, but the clearest reason is simple to identify. If the establishment and the media aren’t threatened by you, they’ll go easy on you. Starmer currently poses no threat. 










If the establishment doesn’t attack everything that you do, make up lies about you, harass you on your doorstep every day, discredit you, smear you, and hold you to a higher level of accountability than the government themselves, you ain’t no Labour leader, bruv. 


Have a quick think about what has happened since Sir Keir ended up where he is. 


Think of the utter decimation of the economy. 


Think of the grieving of tens of thousands of families - many loved ones would still be alive had the clueless ditherer Johnson acted sooner. 


Think of the absolute shambles of the A-level results. 


Think of Cummings taking his wife for a birthday jaunt, while the rest of you stayed home, to protect the NHS, and save lives. 


Think of the honours list that Johnson put out. Tory donors and Labour saboteurs picking up their £300 a day. 


Think of the PPE scandals, not just the failed supply to the front line, but also the scandal of the purchasing. New companies set up, with Tory links, picking up millions and millions of public money. The corruption is fucking blatant. 


This is the worst government in living memory. 


They got voted in off of the back of a 3 word sound bite and a slaughtering of the opposition leader. Johnson is talentless, which seems to be a common theme when it comes to the Etonian conveyor belt of politicians. 


Johnson has his core supporters, like most political leaders, but when you take what I’ve mentioned above into account, does it not concern people that the Tories would still most likely walk away with a majority government if we held a General Election tomorrow - despite the absolute horrific shitshow over the last few months? 


Surely the Labour Party should be a mile ahead? This isn’t Theresa May’s government, or even Cameron’s. This is Boris Johnson’s right-wing government, the most god awful government we’ve ever had, and Starmer is simply getting nowhere. 











Had the many online supporters of ABC (anyone but Corbyn) told you that we would be a country mile away from the sunlit uplands of being 20 points clear, then they would’ve been correct. Instead, you find yourself 28 points away, because they got it wrong. Most of them didn’t really care anyway, it was simply about getting rid of Jeremy Corbyn. 


So why isn’t Keir Starmer’s Labour 20 points ahead? Don’t give me any waffle about Corbyn toxifying the brand. That was achieved by anti-socialists, and Starmer has had plenty of time to get out there and make his own mark. 


In my opinion, nobody knows what he stands for. His own shallow cabinet struggle to name any policies, on live TV. He is tarnished by his ultra-Remain stance. He has allowed a deeply unpleasant racist atmosphere to develop, while claiming to cure the party of antisemitism. ‪There are no excuses whatsoever for selective anti-racism. Get a fucking grip‬ . 


He has political minnows across his front bench, with only Angela Rayner and one or two exceptions having anything in the way of passion. Talented MPs such as Clive Lewis and Dawn Butler have been sidelined in favour of Rachel Reeves and Someone Or Another you’ve never heard of.


But most critically, for me, he has failed to hold the government to account for the catastrophe that they have unleashed on Britain. In fact, he has found himself supporting the government when they needed opposing the most. 












The Labour response to the refugee crisis has been utterly appalling. Everything they do seems to be grotesquely centrist, veering rightwards to avoid being called names by the press. 


How many focus groups does Starmer use? Every response seems to have been dreamt up by the Tony Blair Institute. When a reaction is expected and needed, Starmer seeks an answer from a fucking think tank. 


Pathetic, weak, and embarrassing. 


I care about his mum’s donkeys about as much as I care about the astonishingly unimaginative trolls that pollute my timeline with their personal attacks. I don’t care what school he attended, and I don’t care what hair gel he uses. While tittle-tattle is great fun, it won’t stop our rapid slide in to the pits of Tory hell.


I care about Starmer’s utter failure to hold this government to account. 












I care about his acquiescence to the government, while they unleash a tsunami of death and devastation on the British people.


Does anyone really think Sir Keir Starmer’s lighter shade of blue approach will win over a nation coming out of a decade of austerity, Brexit, and the huge economical fallout of the Coronavirus crisis? 


You do? Don’t be so fucking soft. 


People will be looking for something a bit more radical than the beige thinking of Team Starmer. They will want change, and a Labour Party under blue management will be offering a fluffy brand of conservatism that won Labour 8.6 million votes in 2010, and 9.3 million votes in 2015. 


For the record, that Corbyn chap picked up 12.8 million votes in 2017, and even after 2 years of smears thrown around like confetti, and some quite unbelievable sabotage, he still accumulated 10.2 million votes in 2019. 










At a time Labour needed to progress with clearly popular policies, they decided to not just regress, but slam on the brakes and swerve to the right. 


When Keir Starmer’s Labour sit 20 points clear of the Tories, across several polling organisations, I will happily say, “look how wrong I was in 2020”, but until then I’ll continue to point out their glaring inadequacies, hold the government to account where the opposition fail to do so, and continue to ask… 


Why isn’t Keir Starmer’s Labour Party 20 points ahead?


See you again soon.

Rachael.


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Comments

  1. Centrism is DEAD - just spin! Neoliberalism with a slighter bigger public sector is why we currently rank 40th in Europe for Economic Growth, even before the Pandemic. Starmer is Establishment through and through and a very inexperienced Politician of NO charisma and NO Ideology - he is "Blairish" at best, a philosphy well past its sell by date, as we have learned about the Failings of Neoliberalism - overly dependent on dishonest spin!

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  2. Angela Rayner might appear to have compassion, but her dismissal of Jeremy Corbyn in favour of Keir Starmer didn't back it up.

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  3. Starmer might as not bother to be in a political party just needs to hand his CV in to the Civil Service Ltd. and wait to see if he gets an interview.

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  4. Starmer might as not bother to be in a political party just needs to hand his CV in to the Civil Service Ltd. and wait to see if he gets an interview.

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  5. The inclusion of Jess Phillips and the chameleonesque way Rayner has profited from the downfall of a great man, is the main reason I left Labour. We desperately need an alternative.

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  6. Starmer's chosen perspective is to be the detached, circumspect bystander who eschews conflict, criticism and policy. He observes and waits. His emptiness is his strategy.

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  7. You are of course completely correct on every point you've made.
    We all had a chance to make this country better for the vast majority, but unfortunately the very real powers that be made sure that didn't happen by inflicting the cruellest of modern day witch hunts upon Mr Corbyn, happily aided and abetted by those from within the Labour Party itself including of course Starmer.
    Until turkeys stop voting for Christmas I fear we'll have to endure more of the same.
    Keep up the great work.

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  8. Not to mention Starmer himself is possibly racist himself (given his "BLM is a moment" jibe on live television) and possibly transphobic (given he has TERFs Jess Phillips (who is also the trifecta of all the worst elements to spawn from feminism: white feminist, TERF and SWERF) and Rose Duffield in his inner circle).

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  10. Rachel, I really think you are flogging a dead horse if you are still hoping for a Labour Party as a vehicle for Social Justice. Starmer & his ilk have more than demonstrated their disdain for a socialist/progressive agenda of any substance and anyone that promotes those ideals. I agree with your points, other than waiting or hoping for the party ( I’ve spent 25 years as an activist; elected to CLP ECs & Chair of Momentum Medway) to see the light. I resigned my memberships a few months ago.
    Why not join the likes of Chris Williamson in a new “Left Alliance” (TUSC for example) which is being organised at grass roots & taking shape? Coalitions are the way forward.
    You would be an asset to the cause.

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  11. Simples! He is a Cnut and everyone knows it.



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  12. I can't believe someone else thinks the same as me. Corbyn was abused and sabotaged from within ( where is the inquiry), then the likes of Starmer and co turned the Referendum result upside down alienating the majority of Labour voters in the so called RedWall. How else could you see the working man voting for not least the Tory party but a Leader like Boris to boot.
    There needs to be a total clear out of the Labour party from the top down.
    Where is the next Leader going to come from? There is no one .

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  13. All political parties are run by the establishment, Zio- protocol/ far right, tax dodgers, Oligarchs, Corporations, warmongers...

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  14. The dying rants of the looney left

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    1. By someone from the Alt Right lunatics.

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