Keir Starmer and money: he’ll carry on enjoying lots of it but you’ll have to wait before any government he runs will give you a sniff of it.

Tory austerity will not go away under a Keir Starmer-led Labour government, he has warned.

Starmer says he will continue to impose “huge constraints” on public spending if he becomes prime minister:

This could create a problem for him – because many voters have had more than enough of being deprived of the necessities of life by politicians who have diverted huge amounts of money into their own pockets.

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Economist Richard Murphy has been running a poll, asking – well, see for yourself. Vote if you feel like it:

Never say “never”, of course; Starmer is only saying he won’t raise public spending if the government has to borrow hugely more than it takes in tax, because he doesn’t want to increase debt and/or inflation (at least, This Writer expects those to be the reasons).

His mission (he likes missions) over the first period of a Labour-led Parliament, then, should be to establish ways of boosting spending on what the public needs, either by diverting it from places it should not be going (ending corruption), by closing tax loopholes to ensure that tax avoidance and evasion by the super-rich is ended and they fund the services that help to make them so rich, or by supporting policies that increase the wealth of the whole nation, starting with the poorest of us.

There is just one problem that could stymie all those good ideas, and here it is:

He’s Keir Starmer.

If you were still planning to vote Labour at the next general election, that should be enough reason to turn elsewhere. Do your homework, find out who’s available in your constituency, and vote for the policies that will help you.

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