One year of Keir Starmer

Aaron Bastani, on Novara Media, is a shrewd analyst. His view is that, if Labour does badly in the May elections, “Starmer is toast”. I think that he’s right. If he is, then Labour is also toast and I can only see Conservative governments for a decade.

It now looks like Labour will lose the Hartlepool by-election:
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/labour-face-losing-seat-to-tories-in-hartlepool-by-election-polling-shows-3190526

And that it will gain only around 20 seats in the 129-seat Scottish parliament, with pro-independence parties on up to 79 seats:
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scottish-election-2021-new-poll-suggests-alex-salmond-and-george-galloway-could-enter-parliament-as-pro-independence-parties-win-79-msps-3188877

The Labour right needs now to think long and hard about whether its ‘war on Corbyn’ was really worth it. Repent at leisure if you will, but the Labour right needs to repent – and to do so publicly.

It is predictable that the Labour Party will do badly in the local elections. The blame for this is with those in the PLP who smeared the previous leadership and consequently much reduced the electable image of the Labour Party. These include Dame Margaret Hodge and Sir Keir Starmer and a few more.

I say again, in my honest opinion, Keir Starmer is the worst party leader ever, a top-down spiteful oppressor, also a coward (of course), a sly manipulator, untrustworthy, uninspiring, incompetent and counterproductive. As is clear elsewhere, indeed in the posted article, Starmer is being worse than useless.

Daniel Finn’s article is a good analysis in that he demonstrates that Starmer’s first priority was tackling the left not Boris Johnson and the way to do that was through exploitation of ‘anti-Semitism’ though he doesn’t quite draw the obvious conclusion that the Labour Left should have rejected the whole basis of the false anti-Semitism campaign i.e. it wasn’t about anti-semitism – ever.

No one demonstrated that blindness more than John McDonnell who tweeted that ‘on the day we should all be moving forward and taking all steps to fight antisemitism we are suspending JC.’ Momentum issued an almost exactly similar statement.

What the Labour Left seems incapable of doing is to reject the whole anti-Semitism narrative. There never was an anti-Semitism problem. There was a Zionism problem certainly. But to suggest that suspending Corbyn impeded the fight against antisemitism shows that the Labour Left is still incapable of undertanding that Corbyn was removed as a result of a campaign by the British Establishment which used ‘anti-Semitism’ as the vehicle to accomplish it.

In short we have to look at the failures of the Labour Left as much as grin in glee at Starmer’s electoral misfortunes. It was not difficult to understand who and what Starmer represented. Back in February I wrote a blog

Keir Starmer is the candidate that the Deep State & the British Establishment want you to vote for
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2020/02/keir-starmer-is-candidate-that-deep.html

Yet important parts of the Momentum Left actually backed Starmer. There is and has been a comprehensive failure by the Labour Left.

As I have often pointed out. Labour will inevitably have a few paedophiles but does anyone accuse it of having a paedophile problem? When Jacob Rees Mogg can get away with retweeting the leader of Germany’s neo-Nazi AfD Alice Wiedel and making overtly anti-Semitic ‘illuminati’ comments about 2 fellow Tory Jewish MPs we can be certain that it was NEVER about anti-Semitism.

Instead of pointing to the beam in our opponents eye we need to look at the mote in our own.

The moral of the story is that the Labour Right would far rather the Tories than Corbyn had succeeded. That is why the calls for ‘unity’ with Starmer are so pathetic

I thought I’d just check back over the past couple of months to see if there were any specific things that accounted for the gap between the Tories and Labour growing during said period and, as such, did a search on the Sun’s website re >starmer<, but there was nothing that particularly stood out as damaging (which one assumes would have been covered by most of the MSM). But it does seem odd that at the point where Labour/Starmer are even-stevens – having reduced the gap by 20 plus points – that not only did the Labour/Starmer projectory NOT continue, but just stayed at even-stevens for around five months, and THEN began to reverse.

Anyway, I just happened to come across the following article/piece of black propaganda in the process. Bear in mind that Jeremy was reinstated on November 17th, and had the whip withdrawn the very next day, but despite THAT being the case, apparently, according to the Jewish Labour Movement in an article posted on 21 Nov at 0:18 (and no doubt in the hard copy):

'Jewish Labour members warned of ‘growing level of harassment’ after Jeremy Corbyn was reinstated'

JEWISH Labour members have been warned that there has been a "growing level of harassment and intimidation” after Jeremy Corbyn was reinstated to the party.

The Jewish Labour Movement told members in an email that they should prioritise "mental and physical wellbeing first.”

The Sun understands it is the first time leaders have had to send out the type of email.

In the message, seen by The Sun, they warn: “We are alarmed of the growing level of harassment and intimidation taking place within Party structures, which seeks to further diminish and deny the scale and impact of anti-jewish prejudice.”

The email adds: "Do not feel obliged to attend Party meetings if you are likely to experience unhealthy or discriminatory environments.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13258785/jewish-labour-members-harassment-corbyn-reinstated/

Yep, the very moment Jeremy was reinstated all of us anti-semites were back in action again harassing and intimidating Jewish members!

I bet they couldn't stop laughing when one of their number thought of THAT one. As I've said before, evil just lurves being evil!

Keir, who I worked for, for 6 years, only knows the law and football. He is naive when it comes to politics. Has no experience as a trade union official or as a Labour Councillor. He has thrown himself in at the deep end thinking he could swim, and he is drowning.

No matter what the question the answer is
RaV
Rejoin and Vote
In the upcoming leadership election
Red Tories are just as ruthless and will challenge Temporary Embarrassment after May and before conference which will be put back/cancelled
The good news is the vast majority of members are crying out for JC2, the sequel, The Wrath of Socialism

For a brief moment, I thought we were going to be told what Keir Starmer’s political philosophy is. No, the moment passed, and I am, still, none the wiser.

Does – anyone – know what his political philosophy is, or is it being kept a closely-guarded secret, to be unveiled at the most opportune time?

Now, would appear to be that time. I can’t think of a more appropriate time.

As always, Tony Greenstein reminds us that this has never been about real antisemitism, and most of the left has caved in to the false narrative. But being accused of ‘denialism’ is part of the power of this attack and once it took hold it was very much harder to counter than in the early days.

So it’s too late now. Just like it was too late to counter the ‘Labour crashed the economy’ accusation years later although some belatedly tried. Beyond alternative outlets and maybe a few dusty history books, the past 5 years will be seen as the Labour ‘stain of antisemitism’ time, and Starmer its vanquisher, although he should be learning that it’s not going away in Labour, and note that the twitter mob is already going for the Northern Independence Party too on antisemitism.

The Labour Party is a lost cause for the time being but it’s encouraging to see a lot of grassroots activity on the left in other directions.

I have since read the LA4J email of today about the previously unpublished definition of antisemitism which the Labour Party hierarchy has been using in its unjust disciplinary cases. Put simply, it again shows that the campaign of antisemitism complaints has been all about doing down Jeremy Corbyn and similar democratic socialists. The gross abuse of justice also suggests that that Sir Keir Starmer MP has been faking it that he is a qualified lawyer.

goldbach, only this minute seen your 13.15 post (on April 7th), and as I’m sure you obviously know, I was responding to John Bowley’s assertion that Starmer and Co – because of their smearing of Jeremy – were consequently responsible for ‘the much reduced electable image of the Labour Party’, and THAT of course is why I pointed out that THAT doesn’t fit with polling results, so why do you then cite Starmer’s personal ratings? Doesn’t make sense. And John was quite clearly referring to when Jeremy was leader…..

As for your assertion that Starmer’s personal ratings started to plummet on account of him withdrawing the whip from Jeremy Corbyn, surely any negative effect that THAT would have had on his ratings would have happened at the time and during the following week or two, and would NOT continue for the following several months:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_approval_opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election