Inaction in action? The curious case of Keir Starmer
JVL Introduction
We can’t work out if Keir Starmer is missing in action or has simply opted for inaction.
Faced with strikes by RMT and other workers, he was last seen some while ago moving away rapidly from the battlefields of class politics in Britain to a destination as yet unknown.
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have positioned themselves firmly at one end of the class struggle, trying to entice their supporters into adopting ever more extreme right positions.
In the meantime, Britain is effectively without a functioning government in a period of rapidly escalating crisis, and we would expect Labour to be soaring in the polls taking advantage of the sheer chaos and absence of political direction in the government.
But not a bit of it.
There is visible resistance, but not from Labour. Trade unionists are on strike to defend living conditions as inflation soars.
The “Enough is enough” campaign is witness to the vast disaffection on the left, with an estimated two hundred thousand signed up already.
The Don’t Pay UK movement is gaining ground and seeking one million pledges from people not to pay if the government allows another massive energy price hike on October 1st.
As for proposals from politicans as to what might be done, we have a serious recognition of the dangerous situation Britain faces from former PM Gordon Brown, warning of a serious humanitarian crisis and calling on the government to “set an emergency budget or risk a winter of dire poverty”.
Ed Davey of the Liberal Democrats is calling for a halt to an energy price cap increase to avoid “catastrophe”.
And Labour? Where is Keir Starmer, where is his shadow cabinet? What a waste of space!
RK
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We are posting below an article from Skwawkbox showing how various people have characterised Keir Starmer in five words. We could add some others, less printable than those below…
This article was originally published by Skwawkbox on Thu 11 Aug 2022. Read the original here.
#KeirStarmerInFiveWords trends no.1
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I’d suggest everyone who cares about good governance (by ANY political party) should start thinking NOW whether it’s possible to bring in Gordon Brown as a caretaker leader for Labour in the likely event that the Starmer leadership collapses very quickly.
If a suitable caretaker leader for Labour isn’t available then the UK faces a terrifying future. Neither the current governing party nor the only large opposition party will be in a position to form a government.
It’s looking very likely that Liz Truss will win the Tory leadership battle, become PM and the Tory government will then fall apart even more quickly than if the Tories had chosen Rishi Sunak to be their leader. So the general election may be only months away.
Experience of Starmer’s leadership suggests Labour won’t survive financially or as a political party for very much longer. Labour is more likely to fall apart as quickly as the Tories do than it is to be able to fight a general election.
Gordon Brown has a sufficiently strong set of principles and basic decency to try to rescue the UK and Labour even though I much doubt whether he’d want the job I’d like him to do. He could be regarded as one of the more “neutral” candidates for the job that needs doing (as Corbyn, McDonnell or Blair certainly wouldn’t be). And I think Brown has enough sense of fairness and enough toughness to return their voting rights, autonomy and authority to all the Labour membership and CLPs who’ve suffered injustices under the various regimes of McNichols, Evans and Starmer.
Spineless Starmer is a dud.
Most obvious: ‘GONE A -W-O-L
Hated by the bad guys, Jeremy is the problem resolver and genuine leader.
Disingenuous twister Sir Keir is worse than useless, as he persists in proving.
A leading cause of the cost of living crisis is the price of gas. It has doubled and may treble. Britain had ample gas reserves, which were largely burnt off in electricity generation. That was wasteful and hypocritical. Our problems have been worsened by the whipped-up hostility to Russia. Our politicians and establishment media stopped us having low cost Russian gas. The total hostility, when there should have been problem resolving negotiation, shook everything up. Dud Sir Keir played his part in the enforced stupidity.
(he’s in a bloody coma)
Starmer is being told what to say by Mandelson and sometimes it take Mandelson some time to put the words together. I’ve said and posted many times that, Starmer has no political nouse, whenever he’s interviewed, you can almost hear him thinking of an answer, as he waffles on, Zarah Sultana on the other hand, leaves him standing, her speeches in Parliament are inspiring.
In my opinion, Starmer is not going to resign and getting enough Left MPs to oust him looks unlikely before the next election.
When you look at all those things that Starmer has done since being given a safe LP seat, it’s obvious that he’s a Liar, a Fraud and a Traitor to Socialism and the People.
“The curious case of Keir Starmer”
Curious indeed !
Perhaps the words “Trilateral” and “Commission” could go some way to explaining what is going on.