Starmer: Hellbent On Factional Supremacy To The Detriment Of Us All

Have you seen the lesser-spotted Starmer supporter recently? 

Two and a half years away from a general election, and they’re already measuring up the curtains for Number 10 Downing Street. They truly believe the morally bankrupt leader of the Labour Party has suddenly caught the imagination of the British public, but in reality the only thing Starmer has successfully caught in recent months is Covid-19.

Bless them though. 

A couple of polls in the last week have indicated a slight lead for the Labour Party. Not the twenty points you were promised - that isn’t going to happen unless you take the fieldwork from an audience made up of Focus Group directors and Starmer’s immediate family. 

But this lead of 1-2 points hasn’t arrived because of Starmer’s ability to land a hefty blow on Boris Johnson’s criminally awful government, because Starmer couldn’t land a hefty blow on a leaf. 

This lead hasn’t arrived because of Starmer’s radical solutions to the gargantuan levels of inequality and soaring poverty, because he doesn’t possess any solutions in his armoury - only dishonesty, no cohesive commitments, and a personal hatred for socialists that makes Jacob Rees-Mogg look like a trainee ‘Corbynista’. 

This lead hasn’t arrived because the public suddenly see Keir Starmer as the next Prime Minister, because they really don’t. His own personal approval ratings are appalling, because he lacks genuine likability, he has the charisma of Johnson’s right testicle, and every time he stands up to address yet *another* fucking ‘relaunch’ I want to pick up my TV, drive it to parliament and yeet it straight through a window.

I hate to break it to the cult of Keith, but somebody needs to tell them Mr Starmer has only just sneaked in front of Boris Johnson’s shitshow of a government because of Boris Johnson and his shitshow of a government. 

All jokes aside, surely a decent leader of a credible opposition should be so far ahead of this government the bookmakers shouldn’t be taking any further bets on the outcome of the next general election? 

But the reality is so very different. The bookies favourite to be the next Prime Minister is Rishi Sunak, a man that is wealthier than the rest of the Cabinet combined.

Starmer has odds of 5/1, and while that might excite some of the Starmer diehards, he is also a 5/1 bet to leave his job in 2022. 

Let’s go back to July 2017 for a moment. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour sat eight points clear of the Tories on 46%. We can also go back to December 2017, and once again, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour sat eight points ahead of the Conservative Party. 

Theresa May’s government was absolutely diabolical, granted, but how does the government of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson compare to that of the Maybot? 

I have yet to see a shred of evidence to suggest Johnson’s literally corrupt administration is anything other than the worst government in living memory, and the only reason they are not dead and buried is because they are faced by the worst opposition in living memory, headed up by a snivelling tool of the establishment. 

You see, we managed to get eight points ahead by being an effective opposition. People knew what the Labour Party stood for under Jeremy Corbyn - whether you liked him or not. 

Corbyn’s Labour inflicted more Parliamentary defeats on a government than any opposition in history, surpassing a record once held by Ma*garet Th*tcher, of all people. 

This was what opposition was about. Not just disagreeing with the government for the sake of it, but demonstrating how things can be done differently, to the benefit of the many. 

We sat eight points ahead, despite the most toxic, vicious and utterly hateful campaign from the British Press, briefed by the equally-hateful backstabbing Members of Parliament that had somehow managed to pass themselves off as politicians with real Labour values. 

Again, why the fuck isn’t static Starmer pulling miles and miles ahead of the Tories? 

Think about it: Sleaze, Paterson, Covid, Contracts, Death, Poverty, Destitution, Corruption, Cox, Brexit, Foodbanks, Civil liberties, Cummings, Johnson, Patel, Gove, Raab, blah blah blah. 

Why isn’t Starmer dragging the rotting corpse of the Conservative Party through Westminster like a man that is utterly convinced that he, Keir Starmer, will be the next Prime Minister?

The Manic Keith Preachers are welcome to celebrate when they can tell me why their supreme leader spends so much time opposing the lefties within the Labour Party, but so little time opposing the government. 

Keir Starmer allowed the Tories to get away with economic murder. 

I have said this before because it’s true. Any opposition leader having to oppose a government during a national crisis - a global pandemic in this case - faces a difficult balancing act of offering robust but fair criticism, and supporting the government when it is in the national interest to do so. 

Honestly, it is one of the most difficult places an opposition leader can ever find themselves in. 

But there was no attempt at balance. Starmer happily stood his Labour Party alongside Boris Johnson, and when the morgues began to overflow - evidently down to Boris Johnson’s inability to lock down soon enough - Starmer gifted Johnson a free pass and turned his attention towards the socialists. 

This isn’t opposition, Mr Starmer, it is an unforgivable betrayal and an utterly disgraceful abandonment of leadership. The history books will note your complicity. 

Believe me, a few pre-scripted lines at the PMQs Pantomime - that probably sounded much better when he practiced them - hurled at a permadrunk scarecrow of a Prime Minister, doesn’t mean you’re an opposition. Oh no you’re not. 

Even since I started writing this I’ve come across a new YouGov poll that puts the Labour Party two points BEHIND Johnson’s sleazy, iniquitous Conservative Party. 

Imagine being behind a government that looks like it will strip you of your British citizenship if you dared to tweet your support for Palestine. 

Imagine being behind a government that is so bad, so miserably fucking bad, that it manages to give one of the most senior jobs in government, to the former unofficial envoy for Tel Aviv, Priti Patel, and nobody blinks an eye. 

Imagine being behind a government so tarnished by corruption, lead by a nefarious Prime Minister that would give Al Capone a good run for his money, where the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care holds shares in an American healthcare firm. They are bent.

And imagine being behind a government so talentless, so painfully fucking defective, without a single redeeming feature that it can cling on to, and still think you’re somehow heading in the correct direction. 

I don’t know about you, but I frequently think about the Corbyn years, 2015 - 2019, and if I had a magic socialist wand and I could go back and change anything it would be how we responded to the thoroughly dishonest claims of antisemitism that were levelled towards Mr Corbyn, his supportive MPs, and thousands upon thousands of left-wing Labour members. 

Just to be clear, antisemitism existed within the Labour Party, just like it exists in the Conservative Party, and just like it exists in wider society - and we all agree, antisemitism is vile, hurtful, and it must be eradicated. 

To be equally clear, numerous allegations of antisemitism were malicious and entirely fictional, which allowed the problem to be vastly exaggerated by the saboteurs within the Labour Party, and the permanently dishonest establishment media. 

You cannot appease those who will settle for no less than the destruction of your movement. But we did. Too easily and too often.

It was a scam. 

That’s the biggest regret for me. But not the only one, because I’m now disappointed in Jeremy for not allowing second-job-seeking Starmer to ply his trade with Mishcon Lana Del Ray, or whatever they’re called. 

On a full time basis. 

Wrap up warm. 

Rachael x

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