#SwindonsSundaySermon: Starmer’s tanking is a threat to us all

This utterly dishonest and thoroughly inept Labour Party government, just seven months after its victory by way of default against a deeply loathed, corrupt Tory government, has already crashed and burned – in no small part thanks to Keir Starmer.

If the consequences of Labour’s abject failure to govern with a degree of competence and integrity where not so dire I would enjoy laughing at them, not entirely dissimilar to the way they laughed at us while the pro-Israel Labour right smeared and plotted against the democratically elected former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

Distracted at home and abroad

I must admit, it has been hard not to become distracted by events across the pond. It’s not every day a modern-day tangerine tyrant openly declares his intention to ethnically cleanse an entire population, is it?

I’ve even heard BBC reporters using the word “relocate” or ‘resettle’ to describe Trump’s plot to shit all over the Middle East and tear up every page in the book of international law.

A word such as “relocate” would suggest the Gazan population might have some sort of say in their destiny. Being forcibly displaced isn’t optional. Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity. This isn’t up for debate on the say so of a neofascist real estate salesman.

The United States of America is no longer a dependable ally. It hasn’t been for some time. Starmer knows this, all he needs to do now is openly admit it.

But Starmer is afraid. Being isolated from the EU is one thing, but cutting off ties with the neofascist American government is a whole new shit show altogether for the jellyfish, Starmer.

Back in the mother of all parliaments, Kemi Badenoch (apparently she’s the Tory leader) and Keir Starmer traded blows over Gazan refugees at PMQs.

Both of the horrible little racists are more than happy to licence the sale of weapons to the colonial outpost of Israel for the purpose of genocide, but they’re not so happy when a handful of Gazans seek refuge in Britain.

Spot the diff… Oh.

What is the difference between a Ukrainian woman and child fleeing a dangerous war zone and a Palestinian woman and child fleeing the same desperately perilous situation?

In the eyes of a sensible, compassionate human being, absolutely nothing whatsoever. But from the viewpoint of an institutionally racist British elite, defending persecuted genocide victims that just so happen to be Muslim isn’t going to win you many votes in the red wall heartlands of Gammon-upon-Tees.

Sad, no doubt. But absolutely true.

I really don’t want to hear about Ukrainian people being more in line with “British values”, because we haven’t had a British government with genuine values for the vast majority of our lifetimes.

If British values are in-line with a former Soviet state that suffers from a bit of a Nazi problem, and a brutal pariah racist endeavour that suffers from a hell of a Zionist white supremacy problem, we’re probably best not to be shouting about British values from the nearest rooftop.

Once again, the Assisted Dying Bill has also been in the headlines.

The ideology is the issue

There is something particularly ghoulish about seeing parliamentarians putting so much effort into ending people’s lives when they have done so very little to assist people with living.

I cannot support something that leaves disabled people feeling like they are some sort of burden on society. I cannot support something that will be used to exploit disabled people by unscrupulous individuals whose motivation is purely financial gain.

A responsible government should be looking at ways to improve the lives of disabled people, not ways to cut their benefits, snoop through their bank accounts and force them into unsuitable, low paid work, before issuing them with a fucking death warrant.

I’ve said this so many times, and I will most likely keep saying it until I’m blue in the face, via ‘Dignitas UK’.

The name of the political party is absolutely irrelevant. The ideology is the issue. Look past the name, the colour of the rosette, and look past the leadership.

I had my epiphany many years ago, and that was one of the key reasons as to why around twelve million of us voted for Jeremy Corbyn’s brand of Labour, back in 2017, several years after the current chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, pretended to be a high-flying economist.

Reeves — predicted by many to replace Keir Starmer when he throws away that huge majority in a few years time — is beginning to make the economy-crushing Kwasi Kwarteng look like John Maynard Keynes.

Starmer: will he even last that long?

The Chancellor has always come across as an unlikable careerist with the charisma of a butt plug, and despite her position being utterly untenable in most walks of life, Reeves is most likely to survive whatever is thrown at her, because the establishment will always look after their own.

The bar of acceptable behaviour in office has been considerably lowered over the last couple of decades. Successive Labour and Tory governments have demeaned the privilege of public service at the very highest level.

Corruption, incompetence, criminal dishonesty, cronyism, a burning hatred of poor, disabled, and working class people, warmongering, scandalous expenses – I could be talking about any government from any period over the past forty years.

Political chaos has been normalised by the likes of Blair, Cameron, and Johnson. Truth never shines from hearts filled with corruption and lies.

If you expected something just slightly better from Keir Starmer and his lightweight government, or maybe you still hold out some hope that things will only get better, I’ll try not to be the one that disappoints you, because you’ve got another four long years of Keir Starmer’s clusterfuckery to do that for you.

If he actually lasts that long.

Featured image via Rachael Swindon