Impossible To Support - Replacing One Tory With Another Isn’t Change

Policies are many, principles are few, policies will change, but principles never do. 

Unless you are Keir Starmer, of course, because his principles shift with the changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea. 

I put this blog out last Sunday. The tweet has been seen 230,000 times, the blog has been read more than 30,000 times, and more than a thousand people left comments. 

Many of the comments were just a simple “No” to the question, “Do you trust Keir Starmer and the Labour Party?”, and many of the replies were from deeply frustrated mouth-foaming Starmer supporters.

Touch a nerve, did I? Glad to hear it. 

I’m not sure how many times I need to repeat this, but I will keep saying it until the end of time. 

If you think ushering in a Labour government under the leadership of the knight of the realm Starmer is somehow getting the Tories out you are utterly fucking deluded. 

You are replacing a shower of right-wing Tories with a moral-free, vacuous, establishment-hooplicking, right-of-centre, business-as-usual bunch of fraudulent opportunists. 

Getting Labour in and the Tories out won’t improve my life. Will it improve yours? Probably not. 

Now listen carefully, Mr or Mrs ex-Lib Dem voter who swears blindly they supported Jeremy Corbyn through thick and thin - despite “not really agreeing with him on everything”. 

You joined the Tories in a coalition government in 2010. You swapped the ‘carrier bag tax’ for harsher benefit sanctions, you supported austerity, you helped the bedroom tax become law. 

In 2015 you refused to hold your noses and vote for Ed Miliband’s very-pro Europe Labour Party. In 2017 you joined in with the Tory smears of Jeremy Corbyn, and in 2019 you told us that Jo Swinson was going to be the next Prime Minister. 

And don’t even get me started on that fucking People’s Vote monstrosity that seemed more concerned with the removal of Jeremy Corbyn than the future relationship between Britain and Brussels. 

And now you, of all people, insist we are “Tory enablers” for refusing to get behind a socially-conservative Murdoch-columnist like Keir Starmer - a man that is sponsored by private healthcare investors, you know, the kind of people that bleed your NHS dry and avoid paying taxes on their immoral billions while your gran is writhing in pain on a trolley in a hospital corridor for three days? 

Who do these ludicrous individuals think they are? Literal Tory enablers telling us to vote for a Tory to get rid of the Tories? 

Get back into your box of shame and guilt and wind your damn necks in.

Don’t get me wrong. I detest those fucking Tories in government with a healthy passion. I have spent years trying to shine a light on the corruption and cronyism, and I will continue to do so. 

But that doesn’t mean I, or we should simply roll over for the pro-apartheid, pro-privatisation, anti-socialist Starmer, does it? Of course not. 

Why would I give my support to a member of Trilateral Commission - a knight of the realm who has more in common with a billionaire in Davos than a bricklayer in Derby? 

Why would I give my support to the leader of a party that tried to stop women from talking about claims of sexual harassment? Isn’t that what the blue Tories do? Sign here and never say another word about it? 

Why would I give my support to a cacophonous quisling like Starmer? He isn’t even committing to tinkering around the edges. The failed system will be safe in the hands of the leader of the opposition to the socialists. 

You can accuse me of ideological purity as if it’s a bad thing, I really don’t mind. Now is not the time for timidity. Call it whatever you like, but we need socialism now, more than ever before. 

I always thought I would be ecstatic if I lived to see the Tories twenty-plus points behind in the polls, but I’m not. 

The perilous state the Tories find themselves in is to be celebrated, of course, but I’m far from ecstatic because I am convinced the alternative isn’t really much better than the corrupt cabal in government today.

“But they're not the Tories”, just doesn’t win me over. I want better than that, if not for me then for my children, and their children too. They deserve hope, they deserve to have the same chance of fulfilling their ambitions as the kid that went to Eton.

Keir Starmer is the absolute epitome of a politician that says, “these are my principles, if you don’t like them I have others”. 

When it comes to style you should swim with the current, but when it comes to principles you have to stand like a rock.

Remember, this is the same Keir Starmer that wanted to abolish the monarchy. 

This is the same Keir Starmer that wanted the UK to quit NATO. 

This is the same Keir Starmer that laughably claimed he still sees himself as a socialist. 

Have I mentioned the ridiculous ten pledges? The £15 an hour minimum wage that he now refuses to support? How about Freedom of Movement? 

Keir Starmer is a dangerous liability, a disingenuous fraud, and yet another politician that you trust at your own peril. 

Spam-in-a-suit Starmer’s Labour Party is an authoritarian cesspit, infected by elitism, infiltrated by Tories, and once again the embodiment of a political party that will put the greed of the bloated establishment before the needs of a truly broken society.

Keir Starmer is without moral rectitude. He is a deceiver, utterly duplicitous, a political confidence trickster. He is the human equivalent of a participation award, it’s like he is almost impossible to underestimate. 

Keir Starmer, a man with the backbone of a chocolate eclair, is the establishment's latest useful idiot, and that simply means he serves absolutely no purpose to us whatsoever.

Until next time, 

Rachael 

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