Keir Starmer plumbs new depths of vacuity as he offers a grab bag of hollow right wing tropes and dog whistles in this Observer piece – in doing so he reveals that his idol is not Tony Blair after all – but Donald Trump.
Trump’s reactionary promise to ‘Make America Great Again!’ has been modified by Labour’s spadocracy into ‘Make Britain Think Big Again!’
Labour’s strategy is to avoid policy and spending commitments, sparingly wheeling out charmless Starmer to reassure the oligarchs and the Tory press that protecting the already wealthy is their sole priority.
The Labour leader never tires of professing his fealty to vulture capitalism and cloaks his naked hostility to socialism and the working class behind salvos of empty phrases and even emptier promises.
Here is the latest batch of phrases that ChatGPT has told him to say – all these in one paragraph and all designed to cheer Rupert Murdoch and befuddle ordinary voters:
- hope that comes with the promise of a fresh start
- tough choices
- iron-clad fiscal rules
- demonstrating our prudence
- shattering the class ceiling
- reimagine Britain
- plans for higher skills
- a proper industrial strategy
- regional innovation
- give Britain the electric jolt it needs
- caring a lot more about growth
- creating wealth
- kickstarting a spirit of enterprise
- dream of a brighter future
Sir Keir muses that people might be worried about public services, acknowledging that they have been ‘run down’ – but Keir is very anxious to convey that what public services need isn’t public investment, but ‘reform’ via hollow catch phrases like “modern, innovative and focused squarely on the people who use them”. We can all guess what kind of ‘reform’ Sir Keir has in mind – so look forward to another round of fire sales to corporate interests.
Time for another paragraph of slippery focus group slogans to disguise his plans to privatise what remains of our public services via :
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- properly thought-through rewiring
- big shift in mindset
- strategic, long-term approach
- empowering those on the frontline
- bespoke services that work for people
- moving away from the highly centralised
- a prevention-first approach
Sometimes the phrases merge into sentences like random bits of Lego – for example, get down to the polling station plebs and vote for this:
“There is no trade-off between reassurance and hope; spending money carefully and bold reform; knowing that we can only build something better if we first put down rock-solid foundations.”
How inspiring!
Keir Starmer is a right wing Tory who aches to join the oligarch class, become super rich and have a foundation named after him – like Blair and Clinton and all the rest. He doesn’t give a fuck about you, in fact he simply cannot disguise his contempt for and resentment of the working class.
Starmer hasn’t the wit or the inclination to put much effort into even pretending that he cares about anything beyond himself. Starmer’s team know this perfectly well which is why they limit his public appearances as much as they can.
At the next election Starmer will flit to various carefully restricted stage managed press events across the nation, parroting meaningless and vacant phrases. He will hide his distaste for democracy behind his blank dead eyes and that plastic face – grinding his teeth in private about how he hates even these limited encounters with voters.
Once elected Starmer will scuttle quickly back to Westminster to finally gut what remains of the NHS and to serve the interests of the U.S., Israel, corporate lobbyists and of course himself. Starmer will not be the new Tony Blair – he will be the British Donald Trump.
But you can vote for him if you want.
Starter is just doing his job. The so-called ‘Labour’ Party is just a convenient stopgap for the system until the tories greed and lying gets forgotten again. This has been the parties role ever since I can remember, which is 70 odd years. I don’t know what porkies Angela Rayner has to tell herself to stay as deputy, but I hope she gets let down gently.