#SwindonsSundaySermon: Labour’s manifesto proved Starmer’s party is a morally-bankrupt band of muggers

The new right-of-centre Labour Party keep telling us they are going to “get Britain’s future back”, and yet despite ten pledges, six missions. five promises, the same number of fixes, 300,000/34/974,000 (HT Priti Patel) screeching great U-turns, fifteen relaunches, a vague and uninspiring manifesto launch, and an audience with that distended wanker Piers Morgan – (breathe) – I’m still none the wiser to what Keir Starmer and his morally bankrupt band of muggers are really about.

Are you?

Sure we know who the Labour Party stands for:

• Big business that lines the pocket of the Labour Party.
• Lobbyists for aggressive foreign states that line the pockets of the Labour Party.
• Ex-Tory donors, that line the pockets of the Labour Party.

Do you sense a theme here, Labour voters, and especially you, Labour members?

Do you really think your ‘paltry’ £10 a month is appreciated by the party?

You’re just a number to them. They couldn’t care less if your tenner meant buying a bit less shopping. The Labour Party is using you.

Starmer: as dishonest as they come

Keir Starmer started the week of the launch of his own manifesto with some off-the-charts dishonesty by claiming the Conservatives have built a “Jeremy Corbyn-style manifesto” that will “load everything into the wheelbarrow” without explaining how to pay for it.

This is a manifesto that Keir Starmer absolutely supported, without so much as a grumble to anyone that mattered. Why didn’t he raise his concerns at the time? Did he mention his #FBPE-pleasing Brexit policy? I will.

Now Starmer says he was “certain” Labour would lose the election but made “no apology” for backing Jeremy Corbyn at the time.

Corbyn, no longer shackled by the chains of the Labour Party machinery, was unequivocal in his response to the ridiculous opportunist Starmer, accusing the Labour leader of “rewriting history”.

“Get over it and get on with it. He was in the shadow cabinet, he was at the Clause 5 meeting. Both those meetings unanimously agreed the 2019 manifesto, and he was there.”

The thing is, Starmer wasn’t completely wrong. We knew that we needed nothing short of a miracle to win in 2019, and we knew exactly why.

The Brexit betrayal

Corbyn’s Labour had a solid poll lead, even in 2018. Then came the annual party conference where the apparent Europhile Starmer announced Labour wouldn’t rule out a second EU membership referendum with Remain on the ballot.

That was Starmer’s policy, not Corbyn’s. Jeremy Corbyn favoured a “Labour Brexit”, not least because of the obvious impact it would have on the red wall seats that Labour needed to retain to stand any chance of toppling Boris Johnson.

Keir Starmer played a massive part in handing the 2019 general election to the Tories for two reasons. Firstly, he was tasked with getting Corbyn out, and secondly, he harboured his own leadership ambitions for some time.

Starmer’s Brexit betrayal was swiftly backed up by a scam of an ‘antisemitism crisis’, ably supported by threats to quit Britain if Corbyn came to power from the testicle-faced Alan Sugar, and the well-loved* Margaret Hodge with her suitcase packed.

*not in Islington children’s homes and Jewish cemeteries.

Of course, Mr Corbyn successfully campaigned to keep the cemetery intact. Yes, Hodge’s own view was unknown, but this happened under *her leadership* of the council that gave the thumbs-up to destroying headstones and digging up the bodies before having them reburied elsewhere to allow for property developers to make a bloody massive profit.

But when a ‘national treasure’ like Hodge claims someone or another is an “antisemite and a fucking racist”, the people of Britain sit up and take notice. Even more so when the wassername from Countdown and Dirty Den’s killer wife are in full agreement.

It was a scam. A complete work of fiction. And one hell of a smokescreen.

Teaching Margaret Hodge to suck eggs

Meanwhile, Islamophobia in the forever-racist Tory party had become the norm and the extreme right-wing of the Labour Party took great pleasure in racially abusing and mocking Britain’s first ever Black woman to become a member of parliament.

Anyway, what am I saying? This is like trying to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. To readers outside of England this means why on earth am I trying to tell you about something you already know, and most likely know more than me, and has absolutely nothing to do with the aforementioned Hodge being force-fed half-a-dozen free range eggs.

I must admit, I did intentionally miss the live launch of Starmer’s Labour manifesto, simply so I could fast forward through the boring and meaningless bits when I sat down later with a coffee. You can just imagine my disappointment at reaching the end of the broadcast before I’d even managed a sip.

The word of the day was “change”, and what better way of beginning the era of change than having a multi-millionaire CEO Tory donor that wanted to be a candidate for the Conservative Party under the leadership of the economically-illiterate adulterer Liz Truss to get the ball rolling?

The centre piece of this utterly futile Labour manifesto is “economic stability”. To you, me, and a vast majority of the British people this means there will not be any policies that are likely to upset bankers, big business executives, and the obscenely wealthy.

I swear this all sounds very familiar. Perhaps it’s just me…

Now Mr Starmer, about the NHS and immigration…

Labour has also removed the NHS “is not for sale” from its manifesto, although I am absolutely sure this has nothing to do with Labour’s insidious and mutually beneficial relationship with the private healthcare sector.

But then they also proudly committed to 40,000 more NHS appointments each week, so they can’t be all bad if Starmer is willing to put our money where his mouth is, right?

Wrong.

There’s not going to be a huge new investment, they’re just going to “incentivise staff to carry out additional appointments out of hours”. Thank god they’re not already overworked, understaffed, and ridiculously undervalued.

Starmer went on to discuss launching a new “Border Security Command” — just to demonstrate he can out-Farage the leader of the cult of Reform — so refugees can continue to expect to be scapegoated, demonised, and systematically discriminated by the next Labour government under the leadership of Keir Starmer.

Labour claim they want to reduce net migration. They will fail, obviously, but the dog-whistling Starmer knows it’s the sort of nonsense that gets the Rwanda-or-bust vote off their backsides and down to the nearest polling station.

While the last general election was won with the phrase “Get Brexit Done”, Starmer will look to win this general election with the mantra ‘Get Refugees Gone’.

Starmer has also committed to getting the health service “back on its feet”, but quite clearly doesn’t seem to understand the dependency of the NHS on migrant workers.

I don’t think we’ve quite forgotten PFI yet, have we?

Starmer: a ‘change’ I wish to have no part of

There was also some fluff about “Great British Energy”. Starmer told us this new publicly-owned power company will compete with private corporations, but there are no plans whatsoever for nationalising utilities to run them as a public service.

GBE isn’t actually going to supply any energy. It is no more than a public relations con designed to create the impression of nationally-owned energy while still allowing greedy corporations to rip you off and make huge profits at the public’s expense. Simple as that really.

There were no new groundbreaking flagship policies — the “new deal for working people” gives big business an effective veto on policy — and spending commitments were few and far between, yet the deceptive Starmer PR machine wants you to believe the age of beige is all about “change”?

The only noticeable change after 4 July will be the colour of the rosette pinned to the chest of those in power. But ideologically, the two Tory parties are joined at the hip and the only real difference between Starmer and Sunak is around half-a-billion quid in the bank.

If Keir Starmer is being the change that he wishes to see in the world in his cack-handed quest to “get Britain’s future back”, this isn’t a change I want any part of.

Featured image via Rachael Swindon