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Frances Ryan is a token socialist that The Guardian gives space to for the sake of appearances, she gets to say rather obvious things as a salaried opinionator that other inhabitants of the chicken coop cannot squawk about. Today she asks is Keir Starmer deliberately trying so hard to woo tory voters that he would rather not have traditional Labour voters anymore.
Well duh. Frances is obviously begging the question here, for she is a sharp lady and knows the answer perfectly well.
Sadly Frances spends the rest of the article lost in the peculiar brain fog of Guardian-speak, mired in the fantasy that this serial liar, moral vacuum and careerist Tory chancer will transformer robot himself into a socialist once elected.
Starmer and his cronies have strained every sinew to rid Labour of its socialist principles and membership, this isn’t a misguided strategy – it is who they are! Happily beholden to lobbyists, the mauve morons are no more than marketeers for an empty sold-out brand.
Just as humanity faces existential crises like climate change, biodiversity loss and fascism, Starmer’s crew of careerist freeloaders, spads and focus group ghouls will scratch at every Blairite crypt and Thatcherite tablet for ideas, because they lack any moral compass of their own. Starmer will show millions of embittered voters that they have no hope of representation anymore, paving the way for a far-right demagogue like Suella Braverman or worse.
Don’t take my word for it – just listen to but a small selection of what these people say and do.
- Starmer could barely keep his hands out of his trousers as he intoned with delight that if the Labour left didn’t like the changes he had made…they-could-leave. Many tens of thousands have.
- Few will forget Starmer saying that Israel had the ‘right’ to deprive Gazan’s of food, water and medicine (then predictably lying about it and trying to create and exploit a photo op at a mosque to cover his tracks).
- Starmer’s cuddles with the Murdochs, Davos, the royals, Blair, big business, Israel and the U.S are well documented and highlights include his role in railroading Julian Assange and plotting to sabotage Labour’s election chances in 2019.
- Who will forget David Lammy saying that Labour couldn’t lift a finger to save the children of Gaza from slaughter, agony and starvation because well…it would damage his career and if they did the right thing now it would signal to the lobbyists that they might do the right thing in government – a position backed up disgracefully by Emily Thornberry and Lisa Nandy.
- Angela Rayner allowed a man to be kicked out of a public meeting because he had words to say about Gaza – the man had lost his entire family there and brandished photos of the dead, but she didn’t think he deserved the courtesy of being listened to.
- Kate Osamor had the whip suspended because she dared to draw the obvious parallel between the Nazi holocaust and the genocide in Gaza and had to crawingly apologise. Her comparison is now widely shared and deemed plausible by the International Court of Justice, the United Nations and many human rights and aid organisations.
- Andy McDonald also had the whip suspended for innocently wishing at a rally for peaceful coexistence and justice for both Israel and Palestine.
- Jeremy Corbyn had long since been kicked out of the Labour Party for saying that anti-Semitism has been weaponised for political gain – which is just telling the plain truth of it. If you tell the truth or try to object to Israel’s genocide you are ‘investigated’ by Labour and either muzzled or driven out. Roll along with genocide and the Israeli lobby and you are rewarded as Lammy and Thornberry et al know well.
- Rachel Reeves (one eye on Starmer’s job) pitched herself as Labour’s version of Thatcher. David Lammy called Thatcher ‘a visionary’ (echoed by Starmer naturally).
- Wes Streeting said that ‘lefties’ (they feel confident enough now to position the very idea of being left-wing as ideologically alien to The Labour Party) would not derail Labour ‘reforms’ of the NHS. No prizes for guessing what those ‘reforms’ will be – an open invitation for vulture capital to carve up the NHS roast for private profit.
The Guardian wails this morning that young voters are turning away from Labour because of Gaza and climate change – fancy that! The kids are alright, they don’t want to vote for genocide enablers nor to help Starmer sell out their futures to corporate power.
Why on earth would anybody vote Labour now? Starmer has reneged on every single pledge he made in his leadership election and I guarantee you that the sole purpose of the forthcoming Labour manifesto will be to signal to Israel, the U.S. and all the usual suspects that they are ready to govern in the interests of the already wealthy and powerful.
The next election will be a non-event. Starmer will be helicoptered around selected photo-ops a la Boris Johnson and will blather vacuously about ‘change’, gritting his teeth as he tries to disguise his hatred of ordinary voters (especially ordinary Labour voters). The corporate media will smooth his path to victory for they know they own him and control him. Once in Downing Street Starmer will drag the UK into whatever environmental and warmongering madness the U.S. has planned next. His goals are to join the ‘big club’ that Tony Blair is in, to make a fortune and to have a foundation named after him.
You cannot defeat the tories by voting for another bunch of tories. At the next election vote for The Green Party, or an independent, Screaming Lord Nuisance or the tooth fairy but don’t vote for the tories – whether their rosette be red or blue.
Both tory parties will drag us in the abyss once in power and pave the way for god knows what afterwards. I pray the UK can step back from the brink and break out of the corporate media patrolled duopoly before its too late…and the nation is lost to endless wars, a fascist dictatorship and a police state.
Hi John.
I’m writing this on a personal note, not intended for publication.
I’d like to say how much I enjoy your articles. They are perceptive, uncompromising, clear, to the point and well written. Your use of language is masterful.
I would dearly love to make a financial contribution; but, as a pensioner struggling to get by on benefits, I’m unable, unfortunately.
I could possibly be accused of nit-picking or being pedantic by questioning a phrase in your most recent article (about Labour, Starmer et al) in which you say “god knows”. I know it has become fashionable to demote God to the status of deserving only a lower case ‘g’, but surely writers don’t have to actually believe in the reality of a supreme divine being to write the proper noun “God” with a capital G. Of course, this punctuation rule would not apply if one is writing about “a god” or “the god of ….” (i.e., if it’s being used as a common noun).
After all, everyone know that Gandalf is only a fictional character, yet know one would dream of writing his name as “gandalf,” would they?
That aside, your excellent writing is ground-breaking – the very opposite of trend-following. Long may it continue.
With all good wishes,
Dave
thank you friend for your kind words – I tend to vacillate on my capitalisation of God and god. It rather mirrors my agnostic soul I think but your point is well taken. Take Care.