Starmageddon: The Greatest Tory Enabler Of Them All

This probably won’t be particularly pretty if you happen to be a supporter of the current leader of the ‘opposition’, Keir Starmer. 

This is the first Sunday morning in quite a while where I haven't stood in a field, usually in the pouring rain, cheering on my son and his football team. I think their season officially ends next week, and warmer, drier weather awaits. 

Did you know, Mary Shelley was 18 when she wrote the short story which would later become her first novel, Frankenstein? 

Perhaps you already know an 18-sided shape is called an octadecagon or an octakaidecagon? Just think how useful that bit of information might be. 

The creases on your right hand might seem boring to you, but look carefully and you can see  the number 18 in Arabic: ١٨ . I hope you looked. 

So why am I going on about the number 18? 

If you didn’t already know, the latest poll landed just yesterday, and it puts Keir Starmer’s Labour Party a massive and deeply humiliating 18 points behind the government of Boris ‘150,000 dead’ Johnson. 

This is 18 points behind a government clinging on to an impressive vaccine rollout that had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with them or their private cronies. This is down to the excellence of our greatest socialist creation, the National Health Service, and the incredible individuals all over the country, trying to vaccinate a population that seem to have simply forgotten about the tragic failure to lockdown in time back in March last year. 

Have people *really* forgotten all about the rampant cronyism, the reprehensible lack of PPE for healthcare staff? I mean, the Tories even tried blaming health care professionals for misusing the PPE! 

Have you forgotten about this avoidable culling of our loved ones, or is the stand-for-nothing, speak-for-nobody Starmer that fucking unpalatable you’ll forgive and forget the political establishments response to the Covid crisis as if it was all just a bit of bad luck for dear old ‘Boris’? 

The mind absolutely boggles. 

This isn’t just a staggering 18 points behind, this is a shocking 38 points behind the promised land, the sunlit uplands, where the Labour Party would be 20 points ahead of the Tories with anyone but Corbyn. 

We told you it was bullshit then, and a couple of years later, surprise suprise, it’s still bullshit! 

Where are you now Tony Blair? Why aren’t you popping up in every single TV and radio studio like a boyband promoting their new album, demanding Keir Starmer stand down from his position because of his abysmal failure to take the Labour Party forward following the disappointing but predictable 2019 general election catastrophe? 

Tony Blair is a fucking hypocrite. Scrap that. He’s a hypocrite warmonger that is happy to pay for his lavish lifestyle with the filthy money of human rights abusers. Why is his opinion, in 2021, treated like it’s a message from God? I grimaced when he got behind the Remain campaign, because it would be disingenuous relics like him that would end up losing it for us.  

Look at Jonathan Ashworth, for example. He went on the TV a few days ago to tell us he can’t tell us what Labour stands for because it is a fucking secret! A secret? Sweet Jesus, they had the nerve to call *us* a shambles?

How Jeremy tolerated that duplicitous careerist toad for so long is anyone’s guess. 

My guess isn’t very exciting. 

Some friends know I did a question and answer thingie with Jeremy a short while ago, you can find a bit of it in video form on my Twitter timeline, talking about the hostile media he faced. 

He also spoke about the coup, and the lack of PLP support, and I will get some more released  in the near future for you to hear - but one point he made was his attempts to bring people together from the hallowed centre ground, the soft left, and so on. Basically, he was trying to pull of a virtually impossible balancing act, due to the nature of the hostility from the PLP. 

This is one of the few things Jeremy and I wouldn’t agree on, because he is a genuinely nice guy and he tries to encourage everyone and anyone to be the best they can possibly be. Me? They would’ve been out on their ears the moment the anonymous briefings began.

You cannot function as an effective opposition with an ineffective Shadow Cabinet. 

Jeremy was surrounded by some good people - John, Becky, Dawn and Diane, for example - but for every act of loyalty from the good people we had 5 acts of sabotage and treachery from some not-so-good people. We were fighting a losing battle every single day.

So how do you think Keir Starmer will get on with a Shadow Cabinet packed to the rafters with utterly inept lobbyist-fodder tripe? 

That poll should give you a rough idea. Labour have plunged to just 28%, and this is more than 4% below the apparent disaster of the 2019 general election. Labour would get completely obliterated if a general election were to be held tomorrow. 

These lesser-spotted Starmer supporters that pop up in your notifications from time to time…  They call you a “Tory enabler” without even the slightest hint of irony. Their golden boy Keith, the great saviour of moderate politics, is an absolute disaster, and his presence alone is just about all of the enabling this rotten Tory government will ever need. 

Starmer is a gift for Johnson. You knew with Jeremy he would take the principled position on everything. Even now, while unambitious Starmer is committing to halving child poverty - so we ‘only’ have more than 2 millions kids walking the breadline - Jeremy is involved in the right to food project, which means no child will ever go hungry, by law. 

Can you see this very basic difference between centrism and socialism? Between ambition and ambivalence? 

This “For the many” thing was so much more than a soundbite. It was a realistic ambition, one to give hope to the millions of people left behind after more than a decade of (blue) Tory rule. It was a vision to bring people together, to learn to appreciate and celebrate the true value of community, to respect our differences, and work together for the greater good. 

What you have now is a donor-driven, focus group-friendly, lobbyists lunch date, guided by a chap with the charisma of a camel's toe nail, detached from its membership, drifting away from its core voters, with less policies than UKIP, and not a single clue as to how they’re going to put it right, and pretty damn quickly. 

If only somebody warned them this was likely to happen… 

Take care guys. 

Rachael x 

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