Starmer’s Labour: Doom and Bust.

Can you remember one of the many things the saboteurs and plotters from the hard-right of the Labour Party used to say to us on an almost daily basis between 2015 and 2019? 

“Britain needs an opposition”. 


Did you think I was going to say something about being 20 points ahead under anyone but Jeremy Corbyn? That too would be a fair point. The last time I bothered to check Starmer’s Labour were 12 points behind the worst government in living memory, and some 32 points behind the promised land. 


Now, I’m sure some of you are expecting me to tell you how desperately we need to replace Keir Starmer with Jeremy Corbyn, but that ship has sailed. 


Mr Corbyn hasn’t held the Labour whip for eight months, the NEC has a pro-right majority, and it will take nothing short of a miracle for any left-leaning candidate to even be able to get on the ballot. 


The Labour Party should be a vehicle for societal change, but this Labour Party, this cowardly and unpopular Labour Party, is simply a roadblock to any meaningful and desperately needed progression. 


A Labour Party that has no place for Ken Loach but has plenty of space for Tony Blair really isn’t a Labour Party for the many - unless centrism and misleading a country into an illegal war happens to be your thing.


So this isn’t about Jeremy - we’ll save that for another time - this is about Keir Starmer and the inexcusable vandalism he is inflicting on the Labour Party, both morally and financially. 


Britain *really* does need an opposition right now, but I’m afraid this Labour Party is doomed, because it stands for nothing, speaks for no one, and only has enough cash to pay next month's wages.


Covid, dodgy supply contacts, bodies piling high, sleaze, NHS turbo privatisation, basic rights stolen, racism, one rule for them, cronyism out of control, herd immunity, 1,600 healthcare staff dead, a pathetic insult of an NHS pay rise, here, have a shiny badge and a clap, that’ll pay the bills. 


Britain needs an opposition. 


While the plotters were briefing the S*n and the Mail Jeremy Corbyn was busy inflicting the most Parliamentary defeats on a government by an opposition leader since records began. Labour’s former front bench had genuine fire whereas Starmer’s front bench has the fire of damp Swan Vesta. 


Did you see Dawn Butler tear into Boris Johnson? That was the former Labour front bench, not this bunch of Tory-lite unknown nod-alongs that would be out of their depth in a drop of sweat.


You see, we had 75% of Labour’s own MPs, the entire Tory Party, the Lib Dems and a vast majority of the British media saying “Britain needs an opposition”, while Jeremy and his Shadow Cabinet were busy forcing the government into countless u-turns. 


That’s what being an opposition is about. Holding the government of the day to account. Starmer’s Labour is only interested in holding socialists to account. 


Please, supporters of the monotonous Starmer, tell me, what has your man done? What has he achieved in his sixteen months in charge of the Labour Party? 


Make it good, make it real good. 


Let’s start on the basis of the Labour Party being the democratic socialist party that it claims to be. 


No laughing at the back please. 


Democratic? What is democratic about suspending good socialists for being good socialists? What is democratic about telling CLPs what they can and can’t debate and vote on? What is democratic about suspending CLP chairs for passing motions calling for the parliamentary whip to be restored to Jeremy Corbyn? And what is democratic about coronating a right-wing NEC chair when it was due to go to the left? 


This isn’t democracy. 


Can you imagine their idea of a democratic country if this is their idea of a democratic political party? Telling you what you can and can’t talk about? 


This is another reason why Starmer’s Labour wouldn’t even win the wooden spoon prize in a knobbly knees contest. We live in a democracy, not much of one, granted, but the people decide who governs the country.


The electorate will take one look at Starmer - and whatever abysmal dross the Tories put forward in 2024 - and it will simply be a case of ‘better the devil you know’, and Starmer will lead his Labour Party to another heavy defeat. 


Am I wrong? 


Have you seen *any* evidence to suggest Keir Starmer has even the slightest chance of defeating the very worst of what the Tories put forward? Johnson, Gove, Patel, Sunak, erm, Michael Fabricant - they will all trounce this Labour Party.


Have you seen *any* evidence to suggest the Labour Party has unified under the leadership of Keir Starmer? You cannot put “unity” and “Starmer” in the same sentence and expect anyone to take you seriously. 


The Labour Party is divided. It’s not just a case of left and right at loggerheads - this runs much deeper. 

Starmer isn’t “the right”. His strings are tugged and pulled by the right, but Starmer himself is a centrist dad, leaning towards social conservatism. 


The right had absolutely no problem with Starmer becoming Labour leader last year, firstly, because it kept the left out, and secondly, it meant they had a candidate that would do as they’re told. 


The Labour right see Starmer as a patsy, and they’re correct. Starmer is simply keeping the LOTO seat warm (it wasn’t the most comfortable seat I have ever sat in, I must admit) until the right can decide who they want to replace the permanently-in-crisis and utterly unpalatable knight of the realm.


So what is to be made of the financial crisis ripping through the Labour Party? 


General Secretary, David Evans, says they only have enough money to pay next month’s wages. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t, who knows? 


But how hard will it be for a wealthy ex-Labour leader and former Prime Minister to come along and ‘rescue’ the Labour Party, through some random company, and insist they want a certain leader and a certain policy direction? 


After all, this is how lobbyists do their thing, but they usually aim for a bit of policy clout. So how about ‘buying’ your own political party, through various individuals and factions, but all reporting back to the great blood-stained warmonger? 


In a day and age when a marrow-growing man of peace such as Jeremy Corbyn is seen as a threat to national security and an orphan-producing corpus animatum of a c*** like Blair is seen as the calm, moderate voice of the many, absolutely *anything* is possible. 


So we can say with certainty that the current atmosphere around the Labour Party leadership is one of impending doom. 


When, Sir, not if. 


Maybe the Labour Party is close to going bust? Again, your guess is as good as mine, but I do know it wasn’t that long ago that Mr Jeremy Corbyn left the Labour Party finances in a considerably healthier state than what they are today. For the record, I believe it was around £13.5 million to the good. 


I ask you this, as a former Labour voter, if Starmer cannot simply look after the finances of the Labour Party how on earth can he be trusted to look after one of the worlds most globalised economies with a GDP in 2020 of nearly TWO TRILLION POUNDS? 


Now, I appreciate the finances of the Labour Party isn’t quite the same as the finances of the 6th richest country in the world, if anything, looking after Labour’s cash should be a million times easier, right? 


If I can think like this, as a former Labour voter that knows the Labour Party is the only viable alternative to the English Tories, what do you think a Laboursceptic working class Tory voter would think about Starmer and Evans’ financial ineptitude? 


Bankrupt or not, this Labour Party went into moral bankruptcy some time ago, and burning it to the ground and starting all over again might be the best thing for nearly everyone concerned. 


Just not for the millions and millions of us that want and need a real Labour opposition to go on and become a real Labour government, and that is never going to happen under a false Labour leader. 


Enjoy your day, and thanks for reading. 


Rachael x




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