Starmer: Simply A Shiver Looking For A Spine To Run Up
This sort of thing is happening a lot now. It’s both discombobulating and heartening in equal measures.
Of course, this isn’t the only thing that didn’t happen this week.
Boris Johnson didn’t resign in disgrace, following two years of mayhem, ineptitude, corruption, and unimaginable tragedy.
Keir Starmer didn’t resign in disgrace, following yet another unfulfilling week of being Keir Starmer, and he still has the backbone of a chocolate eclair.
And GB News didn’t manage to pull in more viewers than the God Channel +1 during an ad break at 3.47am.
I did something I don’t do very often last night. No, I’m way past that. But I did take a browse through the mainstream media, avoiding the S*n and Mail, naturally. I even caught a bit of BBC News, where the truth tends to find its final resting place, and about ten minutes of Sky News, of which half was taken up by adverts.
So why put myself through this entirely avoidable misery?
I used to do it quite often during the Corbyn years, mostly so I could offer a few honest, sourced, and robust rebuttals to the unprecedented bullshit they used to throw at us.
You would be amazed how much entertainment you could get from a headline like ‘Corbyn set to become new life-President of his FRIENDS Hamas’, or something on page 2 saying Jeremy spent his Saturday afternoon running around Camden Market snatching elderly people’s handbags, when you know for a fact he spent the entire afternoon volunteering at a local Foodbank.
But on this occasion I thought I would take a look at what kind of media Keir Starmer gets - how they treat him compared to previous other Labour leaders.
A Manic Keith Preacher might tell you that he gets a rough ride from the British press (when he’s not writing for them), whereas a leftie might tell you how Team Starmer writes their own headlines.
It’s not possible for both to be right, and to be honest, neither of them are, based on my very unscientific and limited research.
But the leftie is considerably closer than the supporters of Sir Unelectable, it must be said.
I think it’s fairly widely acknowledged that Jeremy Corbyn faced the most hostile press in the history of British politics. If you can prove otherwise I’m all ears. We know why he faced this hostility - he put the fear of God into the establishment and all those that sail within it.
I can only assume Starmer and his team are continuing the Tory-lite transformation in the hope of picking up some Tory voters, because we are still no wiser as to what his Labour Party stands for.
I think we are getting an idea of *who* the Labour Party stands for, following their plea for billionaires to come and bailout the Party after Keir blew all the cash that Jeremy kindly left for him. Labour will be selling policy influence to the highest bidder, and this may well explain why we have heard so little in the way of credible policy announcements from the Labour Party.
Has anyone at the Labour Party ever sat down and wondered why on earth they are losing more than 250 members, every single day, throughout Starmer’s time as Labour leader? These aren’t just lefties, no evidence exists to suggest it’s just lefties, so why isn’t someone from Labour’s top brass acting?
Can you imagine the British press letting this slide on by relatively unnoticed if Mr Corbyn was draining the Labour Party of more than 100,000 party members and all of the cash that comes with the membership fees? Of course not.
It would be all of the proof that they ever needed to say Corbyn couldn’t be trusted to look after the funds in his his own Nat West piggy bank, so there’s no way you could trust him with the economy of the six wealthiest country in the world.
But not for Starmer, if anything it’s Jeremy Corbyn’s fault that he finds himself in the unenviable position of being not just deeply unpopular, but also flat broke.
Starmer faces little hostility from the British Press because he isn’t a threat to their owners. If Boris Johnson - or whatever Tory ghoul runs for the top job in 2024 - miraculously throws away a massive and seemingly unsinkable majority, and Keir Rodney Starmer becomes the new Prime Minister, not one billionaire will break into a bead of sweat.
Nothing will change.
All of the time we have Keir Starmer mumbling on about embracing the legacy of Scary Blairy, to the delight of nobody but the last of the Blairites who still think Noel Gallagher is cool, Labour is utterly dead and buried. The only way to reach out to Blair is through a ouija board.
I’d go further than that. Labour is utterly dead and buried and they’ve been pushing up daisies for quite a while now. Ask Scotland, ask Northern England, and there’s not much point asking Wales because they were sensible enough to elect a left-wing government.
If a decent and principled person like Jeremy Corbyn couldn’t save the Labour Party I wouldn’t expect a duplicitous and morally bankrupt establishment forelock tugger like Keir Starmer to do any better.
Even with the British press ranging from the mildly critical Torygraph to his own PR operation in the Daily Mirror, Starmer has failed to make any progress whatsoever.
And if the British media aren’t throwing absolutely everything at you there’s every chance you’re not a leader worth having.
And this certainly remains the case with Keir Starmer, the Labour leader that demonstrably lied his way into the top job, and has made an absolute pigs ear of it ever since.
Those making the point that the Labour Party needs “burning to the ground” and starting all over again have a very valid point.
The Labour Party should be a vehicle for change and not a limo ride for the status quo.
The Labour Party should be the engine room for social change, not a playground for billionaire donors.
The Labour Party should be the movement for the working class, not a pair of lips permanently attached to unsightly corporate ass.
Well, I bet that’s brightened your day no end.
Take care guys, and thank you for your incredible support, particularly over the last few days.
You cannot put a price on solidarity.
Until next time,
Rachael
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