Keir Starmer gave his big New Year speech, and it landed like a lump of lead.

As This Site reported on January 2, Starmer was appealing for disillusioned stay-at-home voters to turn out for the next general election, warning that apathy could keep the Tories in power.

This Writer knew it was going to be bad when I saw this post on ‘X’:

Nobody with any influence was going to take it seriously, then – and how could they, when the Labour leader who has been lying to the nation since before he was elected to that post in 2020 bemoaned the fact that people don’t trust politicians any more?

There was a bit of guff about offering “fundamental change”, but how fundamental was it, really?

If all he has to offer are warmed-over Tory policies, then he has nothing to offer at all – and even the media representatives at the event picked up on this:

We’ll come back to the Green Party momentarily, but let’s examine a couple more elements that put the seal on Starmer’s shame. First, his failure to act properly with regard to Peter Mandelson’s relationship with paedophiliacs’ pimp Jeffrey Epstein:

As soon as Mandelson’s alleged connection with Epstein became known to him – which may have been before it was public knowledge – Starmer should have acted to find out the facts, and done whatever was necessary to safeguard the reputation of Labour. He didn’t.

It is now years since we discovered the Tory whips had a file covering the illegal activities – many of them sexual – of a large number of that party’s MPs. Is it realistic to believe that Labour does not have a similar dossier? And if Labour doesn’t, isn’t this a failure on Starmer’s part? He should be ensuring that nobody represents his party who isn’t as pure as the driven snow.

Secondly – and not mentioned at the event – is the inherent hypocrisy of Starmer’s message, appealing for voters who may have turned away from Labour to come back and support him. It suggests a selective amnesia – forgetting that he is the Labour leader who pushed so many of them away:

Yes, people have found another party to support. Which party?

That’s right – the Green Party is the preference for disillusioned former Labour members and supporters – and deputy leader Zack Polanski was quick to capitalise on that:

I have seen – and responded to – some arguments that the Greens don’t have enough support, from silly, silly people:

The argument supports the status quo that merely passes power between two sets of politicians that are equally corrupt, allowing them to divide the prosperity provided by the world’s sixth largest economy between them while leaving nothing for the rest of us.

And it puts far too much influence in the hands of the polling companies, who are mostly run by people who support right-wing politics. What makes you think they will ever admit what the majority of people in the UK really want?

Starmer reckons it doesn’t matter what he says or how he is criticised, because voters don’t have an alternative – and supporters like “Jank”, above, seem keen to prove him right.

How about we all spend this year proving both of them wrong?

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