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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@TheRealJamieKay As a kid living in an Indian household (in England).. I used to make a sandwich consisting of:
1. Two slices of white bread.
2. Crunchy Sun Pat peanut butter.
3. Sliced cucumber or raw carrots (depending on what we had).
4. A dollop of Patak's hot Mango pickle.
Mr LG @LGUK and Mr Samsung @SamsungHelpUK@SamsungUK Please can the pair of you get together to sort out your updates. My LGC1 Oled has never liked my Samsung Q990D soundbar, but for the last 6mths hdmi drops on Atmos content. Hard reset both and new certified High-speed cables
@LGUK@SamsungHelpUK@SamsungUK Now the C1 is playing up when switched on with a spinning wheel and needing to press a button on the remote to come out of the screen saver clock mode
Since watching The office in 2005, through to Afterlife, and everything in between (including the comedy club in GTA4) I was extremely happy to get a chance to finally see the great @rickygervais in person tonight, trying out some new material (which was very funny).