Starmer’s New Low: 24 Hours of Inexcusable Shame

I’ll start with a few simple questions. 

What kind of Labour leader turns up at a banquet, sponsored by the S*n tabloid, grinning like a beige Cheshire Cat, just a couple of years after insisting he wouldn’t even so much as speak to the Murdoch-owned gutter rag?

What kind of Labour leader claims they will be ‘boycotting’ the World Cup, just to watch it at his private Westminster suite, with an arms manufacturer that has shifted a reported £15 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since they began their war on the people of Yemen? 

And while we are on systematic human rights abuses, what kind of ex-human rights barrister masquerading as a Labour leader would declare Israel not to be an apartheid state, despite the overwhelming evidence presented to us from multiple human rights organisations?

Even the United Nations Special Rapporteur, Michael Lynk, said in his report to the Human Rights Council:

"Apartheid is not, sadly, a phenomenon confined to the history books on southern Africa". 

And what kind of a Labour leader delivers a speech on immigration that is endorsed by the head hategoblin, Nigel Farage, who proclaimed, “Labour are now to the right of the Tories on immigration”?

We don’t need to wean ourselves off migrant workers, but we do desperately need to cut ties with neoliberalism, and stop falling for the divisive hogwash that is frequently peddled by the likes of Farage and the equally-repugnant Daily Mail. 

The current Labour leader said: 

"Our common goal must be to help the British economy off its immigration dependency. To start investing more in training up workers who are already here."

The previous Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said:

“Pitting British workers against migrant workers fragments an otherwise united and powerful working-class, to the benefit of those who exploit them.  And dividing skilled workers from “unskilled” workers legitimises harsh – and often inhumane – restrictions on those who do not meet the state’s arbitrary criteria”. 

I’ll tell you what kind of Labour leader attends a S*n banquet, watches football with arms dealers, and receives praise for his immigration plans from Nigel Farage all in the space of 24 shameful hours. 

An establishment bootlicking Tory named Keir Starmer.

And that wasn’t all. 

The Spectator is the oldest surviving weekly magazine in the world. It is owned by Frederick Barclay, who also owns the Daily Torygraph. 

The Spectator has been historically liberal in its outlook but is proudly politically conservative. Past contributors include Enoch Powell and Rod Liddle, and Boris Johnson was the magazine's editor for six years.

So what happens when the leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer, wins the Spectator politician of the year award? 

Starmer gleefully accepted his award, of course, as did Rachel Reeves who won the chancellor of the year award - despite not actually being a chancellor.

I have no idea who voted for these awards but I’m guessing they’re not students of democratic socialism. Politician of the year? Keir Starmer? Pull the other one. 

If awards were handed out for not being Boris Johnson or Liz Truss the Spectator may well have a point, because Starmer’s Labour are only leading in the polls because they’re not the Conservative party. 

As you probably know, Starmer stepped up to collect his award to the sound of whooping clapping Tory MPs, because when it comes down to it, they’re all Tories. 

Starmer isn’t ashamed of his deep bond with the Conservatives, recently saying: 

“I’m on very good terms with many, many Tory MPs. I’m not ashamed about it and I’ve got very good friends who are Tories and they’ve been very, very good friends of mine for a very, very long time and long may that last.” 

Starmer freely admits he has kissed a Tory, but that doesn’t shock anyone that’s been paying close attention over the last couple of years because Starmer has been shamelessly kissing the establishment’s arse in public for all to see. 

The supporters of Starmer will call you a “Tory enabler”, and your political ideology is described as “far-left”, despite democratic socialism being a mainstream ideology in most civilised societies.

The “far-left” the Starmerites speak of gave you the NHS, the welfare state, and council houses - do you remember them? Their neoliberalism has given us war, poverty and worsening inequality. 

If “far-left” is the go-to insult for the right-of-centre ideologues I will gladly wear the badge with pride. I’m not ashamed of having morals. Compassion is contagious. 

The supporters of Starmer are telling us to back their Tory, and if we don’t back their choice of Tory we are actually Tories for not backing him. 

What a load of fucking nonsense. 

I can’t get behind a morally vacant loser like Keir Starmer. Why would I? You cannot put a price on true principles. 

Somebody needs to tell these centrists cosplaying as leftists a very simple fact, and I reckon now is as good a time as any. 

Look at the misery. Look at the destitution. Look at the corruption. Look at the criminality. You did that. You enabled three Prime Ministers in as many years. You preferred Boris Johnson’s Tories to a progressive democratic socialist Labour government under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. 

It genuinely sucks to be you. 

The hope we once had has been replaced by despair, and socialism has been shunted out of the back door while Spectator Starmer opens his front door to arms dealers, the S*n, tax avoiders, the lobbyists, and the friends of Jeffrey Epstein. 

We have already got one load of principle free, privatisation-embracing, poor-hating, anti-working class, freeloading, apartheid-supporting, blatantly corrupt gaggle of blundering subhuman effluent in government, so why would we want even more of the same, dressed in a red rosette? 

Starmer has many Tory friends, he writes for the Mail, Torygraph and S*n, he receives praise from Farage and enthusiastic applause from Tory MPs, and why? 

Because Keir Starmer is a Tory. It’s not particularly complicated. 

The Labour Party now stands as the Tory 2nd XI party and if you think otherwise you’re either way too high or utterly deluded I’m afraid.

It’s very easy for me to pin the blame for Labour’s shift to the right on Keir Starmer, so I will. But he isn’t doing this alone.

The Labour Party Chair, Anellise Dodds, made an appearance on Sky News on Friday morning to talk about the nurses strike claiming “no-one supports strikes. Strikes show negotiations have broken down”.  

But Dodds is absolutely wrong. 

By the end of 2023 it is expected that nurses will be 20% poorer than they were in 2010, and staff food banks are now commonplace at NHS hospitals up and down the land. I certainly support their strike. 

And I am not alone because nearly two-thirds of the public support the nurses strike. 

Once again the Labour Party has betrayed low paid workers in an attempt to keep the media moguls onside. Disgusting bunch of frauds. 

If an abandonment of principles is the only way to gain power it’s really not a power worth having. 

I genuinely feel sorry for people like Zarah Sultana and Ian Lavery. Both are good socialists, trapped up in a bad anti-socialist and pro-establishment Labour Party.

How much more blatant does Keir Starmer need to be before the lesser-of-two-evils fan club realise their boy is a Tory? 

I’m not making it up. The evidence is there for all to see, and if you are refusing to open your eyes to the reality of the choice between a Tory or a Tory, there’s every chance that you are a huge part of the problem. 

This has been Starmer’s darkest week by some distance, and the Labour leader would do well to remember he will be judged by the company that he keeps. 

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you are in no way a socialist or of the left if you support Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. 

In fact, you are quite literally a Tory enabler. 

Until next time, 

Rachael

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