Can't tell the difference

Got an email from a blog fan this week: “I do think that there is a blog to be done about the Starmer. Given that he seems to imply that he changed the Labour party singlehandedly, how can the businesses [who signed that letter of support] be sure he won’t get bumped out by the left? They need to beware of what they wish for. My cousin once told me that success as a barrister was down to 10% knowledge of the law and 90% acting!”

The problem I have with this critique is that it equates Starmer with actors. Actors are charismatic in one way or another. Starmer? I can’t decide if he’s a bore or a yawn-fest.

I also have an issue with the claim that “he changed the Labour party singlehandedly”. Changed them from what to what? Labour has always been untrustworthy, cringeworthy, and anything but worthy of being in power. They might officially oscillate between soft left and hard left, but they’re always economically illiterate and morally bankrupt. Starmer is claiming he’s not Momentum. Hmm. Wiki reveals that Starmer was editor of Socialist Alternatives, a Trotskyist radical magazine, produced by an organisation which represented the British section of the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency. Do leopards change their spots? I don't think so.

He tried to look tough on the left fringe of his party but misjudged the support Diane Abbott has. You know. Diane Abbott. She signed a letter to the Observer saying Jews don’t suffer racism. No worse than the prejudice red heads experience. Sharp intake of breath through clenched teeth. She claimed an earlier draft had been sent in error. Apologised. Went on some Mickey Mouse course and now thinks she should be forgiven. Angela Rayner has forgiven her. So on what planet has Starmer purged the left?

As well as Labour’s blatant antisemitism, other policies are equally shudder-inducing: VAT on school fees; closer to the EU; Trade Union omnipotence. Scary!

Re VAT on school fees: according to Wiki, Starmer attended a selective grammar school that then went private. He was exempt from paying fees until the age of 16, and his sixth-form study fees were paid by a charitable bursary. He then gained a postgraduate degree at the elite Oxford Uni. What is it with Labour politicians personally benefiting from Tory ideals? Rayner has benefited from Maggie’s council house sales, whether she acted legally or not. TBH, I can’t be bothered to research the full story because that woman isn’t worth my time.

Other examples of Starmer’s hypocrisy include him benefiting from a special pension scheme when he stood down as Director of Public Prosecutions in 2013. Briefly, Starmer is exempt from paying tax on pensions savings over £1m, yet he criticised measures in the 2023 Budget which scrapped the £1m cap on lifetime pensions savings for everyone else. Then there’s Partygate: he lambasted Boris for eating cake during lockdown, yet he and Rayner were photographed eating curry at more or less the same time.

Starmer’s also a Knight of the Realm. Just for doing his job (more later). If he were a true man of the people he’d give it up. But he’s not true and he’s no man. A proper man knows what a woman is. Keir prefers to pander to the extreme transgender lobby and throw real women under the proverbial bus. He also has no respect for the people. The people voted to Leave the EU. Straight out of the EU playbook of repeating the question until they get the answer they want, Starmer advocated a second referendum and xugger the wishes of the people – a good chunk of them traditional Labour supporters. 

Back to Starmer’s job as a lefty lawyer. He was a legal officer for Liberty, a once noble institution that lost its way and became a subversive mouthpiece, more interested in undermining Britain than Venezuela. He has been accused of failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile. He and his apologists say failing to prosecute Savile wasn’t his fault. Sorry, Starmer, but the buck stops with the boss, and you were the boss at the time. Crying that no one told you isn’t good enough. You should have known Savile was being investigated and you should have demanded to be kept informed. I’m not saying Starmer is a paedo-sympathiser, I’m evidencing that he’s not a good leader and fails to take responsibility. His nemesis, Boris, apologised for Covid deaths when they weren’t his fault. He manned up. Starmer doesn’t even know what a man is. A man is not a woman, so if he doesn’t know what a woman is …

I’ll end with those businesses who have apparently signed a letter supporting Labour. Darling Kemi Badenoch, who knocks (leopard?) spots off Abbott and Rayner, did a hatchet job on that particular exercise: no current FTSE 100 bosses signed that letter! The ex-Heathrow boss proved during his tenure to be not business-savvy. The Iceland boss switched from desperate potential Tory candidate to Labour supporter overnight. Was it sour grapes because the Tories saw through him and wouldn’t offer him a safe seat? So when my blog fan asks, “How can the businesses be sure he won’t get bumped out by the left?”

I doubt anyone will notice any difference.