{"id":86309,"date":"2025-09-30T08:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T07:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=86309"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:24:52","slug":"starmer-is-disliked-even-by-his-own-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/30\/starmer-is-disliked-even-by-his-own-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer is disliked, even by his own members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starmer clearly loathes Labour Party members.<\/p>\n<p>He has got rid of a third of them.<\/p>\n<p>He lied his way to their leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Now he flagrantly ignores them, and even sacks MPs who will not obey his own line.<\/p>\n<p>It is, therefore, unsurprising that they appear deeply unenamoured with him. This <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YouGov\/status\/1972693570759909757?t=9YgnLNoL13JiSkV4OWSv-w&amp;s=03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data is from YouGov and was published yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-86310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-30-at-08.15.23-550x705.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-30-at-08.15.23-550x705.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-30-at-08.15.23-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-30-at-08.15.23-768x985.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-30-at-08.15.23-312x400.png 312w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-30-at-08.15.23.png 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every journalist seems to think Starmer will be gone within a year. So do I.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/30\/starmer-is-disliked-even-by-his-own-members\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86314,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86309\/revisions\/86314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}