As UK prime ministers go, it seems Keir Starmer could use a lesson in self-awareness – like this one, delivered after he spent 90 minutes telling other MPs he wouldn’t change anything he’s done in his first months in government.
The BBC tells us he defended changes to farmers’ inheritance tax, hikes to business taxes and cuts to winter fuel payments.
He insisted he was still committed to getting the UK growing faster other G7 members. Told that economic forecasts suggested this was not going to happen, he said they had not taken some future policy changes into account.
And he said he couldn’t think of a single thing he has done wrong.
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One could be forgiven for thinking that Starmer is living in a fantasy world inside his head – because he probably is.
Politics website Another Angry Voice has already stepped up to prick his bubble and bring the castle he has been building in the air crashing down, listing no fewer than 20 howling mistakes. Examples include:
1. Economically sanctioning kids
One of Starmer’s very first acts as Prime Minister was to purge seven Labour MPs for daring to vote in favour of scrapping the Tories’ obscene, poverty-spreading two-child benefit cap. One of the good things New Labour did between 1997 and 2010 was to combat the unacceptable scourge of child poverty, but Starmer demonstrated his hostility to poor kids in virtually his first act as Prime Minister.
2. Endorsing genocide
Keir Starmer said that Israel has the “right” to collectively punish Palestinians in Gaza by turning off their water and energy, and blockading food and medical supplies. It doesn’t matter how much his acolytes pretend that he didn’t state that Israel has the right to defy international law and commit war crimes, that’s what he said, and his subsequent actions (continuing to arm and support Israel, providing diplomatic cover, cosying up to Israeli genocidiers) demonstrate that he’s absolutely fine with war crimes, as long as it’s his pals committing them.
3. Mugging pensioners I (WFA)
Confiscating the Winter Fuel Allowance from millions of pensioners living on as little as £11,000 a year isn’t just stupid from an electoral perspective, it’s also economically absurd too. Pensioners spend most of their extra income back into the economy, stimulating demand and job creation. Siphoning the cash you’ve mugged from pensioners to Zelenskyy means the cash gets burned away on foreign battlefields.
4. Mugging pensioners II (WASPI)
Before the General Election Labour MPs like Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner courted WASPI women by pretending that they were on their side, and that they’d help them get back the money that was stolen from their state pensions. Then, despite being advised to compensate the WASPI women, Labour has just denied them compensation with the absurd excuse that the government can’t afford to pay back the money that was stolen from them.
19. Private water profiteers
Since privatisation in 1989 the private water profiteers have siphoned off £72 billion in profits, while loading up tens of £billions in debts onto the debt free water companies they were sold at an infinitesimal fraction of what the infrastructure would have cost to build from scratch. Furthermore they’ve realised that it’s much more profitable to pump raw sewage into our rivers and coastal waters than do their job and make sure it gets treated. The public hate these polluting, profiteering bastards and renationalisation is an open goal for Starmer. However Starmer’s on the side of the privatisation profiteers, so his pledge to renationalise the water profiteers is in the bin, and the public can just go and screw themselves as far as Starmer and his mob are concerned.
There are, of course, many more.
Feel free to write in with some of your own favourite Starmer mistakes.
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Keir Starmer could use a lesson in self-awareness – like this one
As UK prime ministers go, it seems Keir Starmer could use a lesson in self-awareness – like this one, delivered after he spent 90 minutes telling other MPs he wouldn’t change anything he’s done in his first months in government.
The BBC tells us he defended changes to farmers’ inheritance tax, hikes to business taxes and cuts to winter fuel payments.
He insisted he was still committed to getting the UK growing faster other G7 members. Told that economic forecasts suggested this was not going to happen, he said they had not taken some future policy changes into account.
And he said he couldn’t think of a single thing he has done wrong.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
One could be forgiven for thinking that Starmer is living in a fantasy world inside his head – because he probably is.
Politics website Another Angry Voice has already stepped up to prick his bubble and bring the castle he has been building in the air crashing down, listing no fewer than 20 howling mistakes. Examples include:
There are, of course, many more.
Feel free to write in with some of your own favourite Starmer mistakes.
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