Starmer clearly loathes Labour Party members.
He has got rid of a third of them.
He lied his way to their leadership.
Now he flagrantly ignores them, and even sacks MPs who will not obey his own line.
It is, therefore, unsurprising that they appear deeply unenamoured with him. This data is from YouGov and was published yesterday:
Every journalist seems to think Starmer will be gone within a year. So do I.
All that everybody is waiting for is the leak that finishes him off. I am sure it will happen. It's just about timing: someone in the media is waiting for the optimal moment to bring him down. That they will, if he does not go first, is, I think, inevitable now. He is far too disliked and very obviously far too incompetent to survive, and it is that incompetence that makes me quite sure that someone, somewhere, has something on him that will bring his premiership to an end.
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the problem is the anointed one will be an even bigger shill for business, a bigger liar and con artist, whether, Streeting, Jones, Cooper or whoever.
Why put in the “even”.
The reality (as described by the book “Get In”) is that Starmer is a-political. The real power lies with McSweeney & what was the McSweeney-Mandelsohn-B.Liar axis. The reality was that voting in Starmer was voting in a puppet. Of course PMs need a chief of staff or somebody to make sense of what is quasi-organised chaos – but as “Get In” shows it is McSweeney (an Irishman) who is calling the shots.
Thus last year’s election could be characterised as: vote for this bloke with no political beleifs and you will get a zionist-Irishman whose loyalties to the UK are at very best questionable.
I am amazed that Labour party members have not left enmass. They have been sold a manchurian candidate controlled by people (McSweeney ain’t alone) that have zero interest in the welfare of most UK citizens – & indeed act against them (e.g. destruction of the NHS & other UK institutions).
&, in a reprise of Athens in the mid-4th century we have the Macedonians (Deform) lurking in the distance. Wake up LINO members – form LINO 2 something, anything.
Not sure if I should read some Irish-baiting in this response.
I’m not sure if you know but the UK & Ireland have a common agreement whereby we can vote in eachother’s elections when resident in “the other country”.
So McSweeney is more than probably registered to vote in the UK, deregistered in Ireland and thus his political heimat is the UK.
Struggling to understand what the references to Ireland in this post have to do with anything. I also think it’s dangerous to throw around terms like Zionism without having spoken to the object of one’s derision. If you do know Morgan McSweeney and know his views, then I stand corrected and I apologise.
Not for publication:
“they appear deeply enamoured”
Do you mean “enamoured”? Or “unenamoured”?
UN
Corrected
Apologies
Never has so much been needed by this country from so few who are incapable of delivering it.
They are however, on the way to delivering Farage.
My biggest fear is that Reform will jump into bed with the Tory party in some pact or other.
Farage’s dream scenario would be Jenrick as prime minister on a confidence and supply agreement. That would allow him to rule by remote control, with his multiple grifts unaffected by the tawdry restrictions of the Ministerial Code.
Richard, if they loathe Starmer, this can’t be true: “appear deeply enamoured”.
True. The necessary Un has been added. Blame autocorrect.
I can’t remember a more depressing time in politics, and I’m not far off my 70th birthday
It is depressing but we have to believe in the future: *Venceremos* We Will Win!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51LEm0iAL6k&list=RD51LEm0iAL6k&start_radio=1
It is terrible, but I was at Greenbelt Festival and heard Corbyn speak. Whilst I was unimpressed by him it was really lovely to see lots of young people (we were sat behind a large group of very engaged secondary school children, some just 12) there and clearly interested. Our younger generations have become very politically disillusioned and barely bothered vote, so if we can see them engaged,there is hope. I’m also encouraged by what Zack Polanski is doing to engage and communicate to expose the lies we are being sold.
The MSM have given the right far too much unscrutinised exposure, so we need people like Richard, Zack etc who can challenge the lies and show there is another better way.
We have to keep trying.
That is all I can do.
The trajectory the UK is on will not change with the ousting of Starmer. The UK is a very dark place; its government bought and paid for by foreign powers. All they had to do was dangle a few shekels and dollars in front of them.
I don’t dislike Keir Starmer.
I despise him.
I think we were always going to reach this point of disillusionment with the Labour government. I just did not expect it to happen so quickly. Like many others I cast my vote in favour of Starmer as party leader and then PM because I saw him as somebody who could unseat the Tories , which was the most immediate goal on a path towards changing our deeply damaged country. I was prepared to overlook the unambitious manifesto in the cause of getting the Tories out. In 2024 there was no other party capable of doing that. It does not surprise me that keir Starmer is unpopular. It comes, I think, from a combination of an unsmiling personality and a fixation on technocratic solutions. I do not think he is a bad man or even a bad PM. he clearly works very hard. It is just that his personality and the solutions he espouses are not a match for the age we are in. Andy Burnham is popular partly because of his superior communication skills, but also because his more radical policies more clearly match the moment. I agree with most of the things he is suggesting, including PR, a council house building programme, council tax reform, rejoining the EU for instance. His years away from Westminster seem to have made him more capable of thinking outside of the box and I think he would make a better leader of the Labour party in an era of coalition politics. I do not doubt that Starmer has qualities that Burnham lacks also. I wonder how Burnham would stand up on the international stage, for instance. But no political leader is perfect. In defence of Starmer I still rank him as a better PM than Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss or Sunak. It is just that they set such a low bar and we need a vast improvement not an incremental one.
I think you are very generous.
I think he is profoundly bad – a deliberate enabler of the neoliberal path to fascism.
“I do not think he is a bad man or even a bad PM. he clearly works very hard.”
Starmer does indeed work hard in the interests of Israel and the USA, his paymasters, just not in the interests of the UK public.
I also now think that is who he is really working for.
All the failings and dangers of Starmer were self-evident to anyone following events in Labour from 2016 onwards, and even more obvious during the leadership election in 2020.
His “political” weaknesses were evident even in MSM coverage, as they tried to find out what “Starmerism” was and concluded there was no such thing.
His mendacity was clear to anyone listening to his leadership hustings speeches, as he lied about Corbyn being a friend and how awful the Sun newspaper was.
His deviousness was clear during interviews about his refusal to reveal his donors, in particular, Trevor Chinn, at a time when antisemitism was being weaponised brutally to get rid of Corbyn supporters, and Starmer was cynically declaring himself a “100% Zionist unqualified”.
The final unequivocal evidence about what was going on came when the Board of Deputies of British Jews took it upon themselves to be part of the Labour leadership candidate selection process with their appalling 10 preconditions, which they demanded candidates sign. He signed.
Everything “bad” about Starmer has been evident for years – and those manouevering around him or promoting him, knew it. His failure hasn’t suprised me at all, although his callous hypocrisy still makes me very angry. The Forde report told us how bad things were at the heart of Labour so Starmer mothballed it and disgracefully sidelined Forde.
The Labour Party is far worse now than it was in 2020. Left to its own devices, it is incapable of change. It needs radical surgery, possibly euthanasia. It is now well to the right of the wet Tories of yesteryear.
Labour members are worried by Starmer’s inability to move the polls or deliver change in the economy. But he never promised anything other than more neoliberalism. So I don’t know what they are complaining about. If Fa***e wasn’t storming ahead in the polls I suspect they would be content with Labour austerity, PFI, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and demonisation of anyone not in a “hardworking” family, or spending too much time being unwell.
Much to agree with
As a former party member,I am profoundly sad at what is happening to the ‘captive’ Labour Party. I can see that they had to tack to the centre to get elected, but they have made grave errors by moving further to the right, believing quite wrongly that this would consolidate their position. It has done the exact opposite, costing them all credibility with members. Those members that have left are either searching for a new political home or resigned themselves to the wilderness which is approaching with right wing dominance.
In short, Starmer is destroying the Labour Party. Others have answered the question why?
He is either incompetent or a shill for others. As a barrister, we can discount incompetence. So, who is pulling the strings? The people behind his advisor seems to be the inescapable conclusion.
Which devil has Faustus( MacSweeney) sold his soul to?
Corbyn got more votes than Starmer
Why did they have to move to the right?
Ok I dont know the nuances of this, but why cant Labour mps just resign en masse, if they are so opposed to everything that starmer does?
Because they are all wedded to £90,000 plus a year.
Well yes… That will go along way to appeasing any true rebellious action from them.
At least some will be in areas where the Lib Dems have enough support that a defector wouldn’t be all but certain to lose their seat the next time around, and many Labour supporters would be happy to stick with a defector who is risking their job to stand for principles, I’d hope.
Less clear what opportunities there are for others, but the Tories have if nothing else demonstrated that being with a party recently in power is no guarantee of future electoral success, so any Labour MPs with a spine really should be considering the off-ramp right now.