Starmer’s reverse Midas touch
JVL Introduction
Pretty well everything bad that could happen to Keir Starmer has occurred in a spectacularly short time – and it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bloke. Who on the left has not enjoyed a delicious sense of schadenfreude watching him reluctantly defenestrate Peter Mandelson – precisely the kind of man Starmer wanted on his team, knowing full well who he was and is.
In this article for Novara Media, Washington-based commentator Joe Guinan catalogues the chickens that have come home to roost in the Downing Street nest, a set of disastrous political commitments based on an inability and unwillingness to address the structural crisis of capitalism.
He concludes: “The only question remaining is whether Farage’s Trumpist Reform party fills the breach in our politics left by Starmerism, or whether a re-emergent actual left – in the shape of Zack Polanski’s eco-populist Greens and the nascent left party of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana – can get organised in time to prevent this.”
NWI
This article was originally published by Novara Media on Mon 15 Sep 2025. Read the original here.
Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face
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with Jon Pearce of LFI promoted to Starmer’s headquarters the end is near. Pat MacFadden — deputy-chair of LFI as Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster. How many more are linked to the genocidal regime?
Most enjoyable — haven’t laughed like this for ages. Thanks Naomi, and let’s hear more from Joe Guinan in future. He seems to know the UK even better and more acerbically than we do ourselves!
It was indeed an entertaining read!
I must add congrats to C4 News for exposing the fallacy of Mandelson’s supposed negotiating skills . He has got the UK a really terrible deal, swapping the superficial tariff reduction for a massive handover of £8bn a year to the USA:
https://www.facebook.com/pvwlancs/videos/farrukh-excellent-from-helia-ebrahimi-on-the-uk-us-prosperity-deal-c4news-all-of/1859962548030851/