I Wonder How The Labour Party Will Disappoint Us Today?

I often take to Twitter and ask the question - “I wonder how the Labour Party will disappoint us today?” - and with very little effort, they always manage to find a way of causing shock, bemusement, outrage, horror, and the kind of deep disappointment you remember as a youngster when you wanted a pony for Christmas, but you ended up getting My Little Pony. 

Scarred. 

I’m not intentionally setting them a challenge or anything like that, but the Labour leadership always comes up with the goods, or maybe in their case, the bads. 

If causing disappointment was an Olympic sport, Starmer would be a gold medalist. 

From blindly following Harriet Harman’s instruction to abstain on the Tory Welfare Bill in 2015, to resigning from Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet just a year later, accompanied by a resignation letter so lame the kindest thing to do would be to euthanise the piece of paper it was typed on. When you was younger, did you ever write a letter to your teacher, pretending to be one of your parents, explaining why you’ve not been at school for the last couple of days? It had that kind of authenticity about it - much like the man himself. 

But Starmer, the gold medal winning disappointment, wants to own the silver and bronze medals too. 

Jeremy, being the kind soul that he is, gave Starmer another chance as the Shadow Brexit Secretary, but of course, the Don of disappointment, the leader of letdowns, decided to create his own Brexit policy at Labour’s annual Party Conference. 

“Nobody is ruling out remain as an option”, or something like that. That’s all that was needed to destroy the trust that Jeremy Corbyn earned from the electorate in 2017, when his Labour Party pledged to abide by the result of the EU referendum. 

Scheming Starmer deserves another gold medal for that one. I read his script, it was an act of sabotage. Starmer was bright enough to realise the Remain cause was electoral poison. Keir Starmer was a key player in the downfall of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour. 

It’s hardly a shock the dishonourable disappointment now leads the Party, for that was how it was meant to be. The Labour Party is well and truly back in the pockets of the establishment, and that is largely thanks to Sir Keir Starmer. We’ll give him the silver medal. 

But bronze is still up for grabs. What else can the malevolent mistake do to disappoint us? 

We could talk about his support for Boris Johnson’s government throughout the global pandemic? 

You see, I’ll be the first to acknowledge the difficulties faced by an opposition leader during a time of national crisis. You don’t want to be seen to be unnecessarily critical of the Government, while also not coming across as being overly supportive. It’s a fine balancing act. 

But the award-winning letdown didn’t even attempt to seek a balance, because he thinks Daily Mail voters will vote for him if he offers Johnson a free pass. Tory backbenchers have caused Johnson more opposition than Starmer. Piers fucking Morgan has done a better job of getting answers from the political elite than Starmer. That’s how rubbish he really is. 

While the footballer Marcus Rashford fought and won several battles to feed the poorest and most vulnerable children in Britain, Keir Starmer was demanding our children, and their teachers, were sent back to schools, no ifs and no buts, without a hint of an effective test and trace system in place.

Is the disappointment sinking in yet? 

In the 28 days following the return to schools in September the R-rate increased by 24%. That means more infections, and inevitably, many more tragic deaths. 

You, Sir Keir Starmer are utterly complicit. 

You should’ve been challenging Johnson to ensure schools were safe, not challenging the Etonian scarecrow to get our children back to schools as quickly as possible. 

That’s your bronze medal in the bag, letdown Keith. 

But the disappointment doesn’t end there. 

Do you remember the ten pledges? On that very same leaflet/online meme the forensic failure said he was going to make “the moral case for socialism”. How’s that going, Starmer fans? 

He meant to say he was going to make “the moral case for destroying socialism”, I’m absolutely sure of it. Never mind, I’m sure his loaded lobbyist backers can get a new batch printed up for him. 

Can you imagine the Duke of Disappointment putting the same levels of effort into attacking the Tories as he does into attacking the left of the Labour Party? 

Who knows, Labour might even be twenty points ahead if they had ABK (Anyone But Keith). But no, they struggle to even draw level with the most disastrous monstrosity of a government in living memory. 

Still not disappointed? 

How about calling the global Black Lives Matter movement a “moment”? I’m sure you’ll tell me how he took a knee in his office (I genuinely dropped a damp biscuit on that same floor once) - but come on, could he look any more awkward if he tried? It was horrendous, a PR disaster, a poorly-advised token gesture, but no great surprise. 

Why am I not surprised? Because Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has it’s very own hierarchy of racism. Ask Diane Abbott. Ask the Labour Muslim Network. Ask the thousands of BAME comrades who have left the Labour Party. 

You must be feeling the deepening disappointment by now, surely? 

One of Jeremy Corbyn’s many achievements during his time as leader of the Labour Party was his willingness to ensure democracy and free speech was a right of each and every single Party member. 

How’s that going with Brylcreemed bodger?

Only yesterday, the secretary of Liverpool Walton CLP, Alan Gibbons, received his suspension notice from illegitimate General Secretary David Evans. 

Alan, one of the best campaigning forces you’ll ever come across in the Labour movement, didn’t get the courtesy of a reason for his suspension, just a bog standard suspension letter. 

Could it be down to the fact that his CLP was just one out of the 100+ CLPs expressing their support for Jeremy Corbyn and declaring no confidence in the Starmer and Evans regime? Probably. 

I don’t think Starmer and Evans realise the anger this has caused. 

They will soon enough. 

See, I’ve not even mentioned the constant abstentions, his treatment of left-wing Jewish socialists, the briefings to Murdoch media, the false pleas for unity, the disastrous swerve to the right, the deeply humiliating attempt to secure the Tommy Robinson vote, the failure to call out white supremacy for what it is, the treacherous treatment of Mr Corbyn (we’ve got the receipts), the abandonment of principled leadership, and I’ve not even touched on his advisers, because he doesn’t like talking about his staff in public, unless you’re Rebecca Long-Bailey. 

Is that enough disappointment for you now? It’s certainly more than enough for me. 

Usain Bolt - Champion sprinter. 

Lewis Hamilton - Champion F1 Driver. 

Liverpool FC - Champion Football team. 

Sir Keir Starmer - Champion Letdown.

Here’s the thing. When Rupert Murdoch calls the next election you’ll have Team Starmer thinking the left will just fall into line, because Keith is the lesser of two evils, right? Keith’s people hope to follow the Biden tactic of offering the candidate that’s not quite as detestable as the other. 

They will be thinking incorrectly. Mr Corbyn inspired us, you, Sir, disgust us.

The least worst option isn’t good enough for me, it isn’t good enough for you, and I’ll be damned if I play any part in delivering another pro-establishment, pro-warmongering, pro-apartheid, anti-Socialist government. 

Her Majesty’s Official Opposition should be offering a genuine alternative, instead of wondering how they can out-Tory the Tories. 

Brexit is an expensive disaster, but we are where we are. Much of Britain is grieving, for many of our losses have been unnecessary and unexpected. Our economy is absolutely shattered, hundreds of thousands of people are losing their jobs while their bosses take advantage of generous loans from the government. 

Does Dr Disappointment QC really believe ‘more of the same’ will provide the radical solutions we need to recover from this period of disaster? His fence sitting, stand for nothing - stand against nothing approach isn’t even a sticking plaster. It’s as beige and bland and pointless as Starmer himself. 

It’s hardly surprising Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project is gathering massive support from the left, because when we look over at Keir Starmer’s Labour Party - lost someone between the Lib Dems and the Tories -  we see no representation, no opposition, and so much disappointment I could actually write a blog about it. 

Take care my friends, thank you for your ongoing support of my little rants x 

Rachael 

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