Following modern politics has become a form of self flagellation. Australia has blown a tyre and veered dangerously to the right. Give us an effective ICAC now!
Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.
Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.
On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.
And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.
But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.
History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.
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I was just reminded of this when we were talking about a comedian this weekend
I was in St Kilda with a young female relative who was 14 at the time (around 2010). She's a pretty girl, but she was then very obviously a young 14'ish. We were waiting for ice-cream and comedian was clearly checking her out, in an obvious and creepy way
She was made so uncomfortable by his lip-licking and leering that she told me and came to stand behind me. I fixed said comedian with a targeted death stare and only after I then started deliberately moving towards him, did he stop his obvious 14-year-old-girl lechery
Whatever else anyone says about him, he's also a revolting, predatory creep
I am an Israeli citizen, and I sincerely hope people around the world will hear this: I oppose this terrible government with all my heart, especially Ben-Gvir, one of the worst ministers in Israel’s history. I, along with many Israelis, suffer from this government more than anyone and long to see it replaced.
In four months, Israel will hold elections. I will do everything I can to help remove this terrible government and bring a better one for the country and society. A government that will repair the damage left by the current one and rebuild Israel’s relations with the free world.