Our Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer is making an interesting reputation for himself. Unfortunately, it’s mostly negative.
During the run up to the last general election he gave us clues about how he deals with facts, truths and lies. He has perfected the art of changing his mind on a continuous basis and getting away with it. Normally such behaviour would result in the electorate rejecting him and his party. However, for Starmer his stars were aligned for success and the Tories did everything possible to lose the last election. To be honest you could have had a donkey leading the Labour Party and they would still have won the last election.
We therefore had ample evidence to showcase what our new Prime Minister might be like in action. A man who disrespects truth, makes things up, mispresents information, and ignores his own statements on policy positions from the past. In power, one would have thought that he might have taken due care not toshowcase this total disregard for truth. However, there has not been a week that goes by when he, or one of his minion front bencher, says one thing and then they do something entirely different.
His reputation has excelled as the man, nay the Prime Minister, whose USP is the art of the U-turn.There are many to choose from, but let’s just consider the following few.
He caught his own MPs off guard when he announced the scraping of the winter fuel allowance. Frankly a totally mad idea given that the amount saved was pittance in the scheme of things, but the backlash from the electoratebeing massive. Day after day the haemorrhaging continued. Party insiders advised Number 10 to make a U-turn, but he was stubborn and was relentless in his pursuit to enforce his now found power. This man was not for U-turns, yet! What we witnessed was the painfuldestruction of a policybeing played out in the public sphere. In the end, the pressure became relentless and he had to make one of his first major U-turns on the winter fuel payment for millions of pensioners. An error of judgement that could have been avoided, if brain had been engaged before ideological madness and a power grab.
However, this frankly was just the starter. The main course was yet to come. For reasons beyond my understanding, the Labour government decided that it would never allow a statutory inquiry into the grooming gang’s scandal. It became clear that not only was this reluctance to avoid the truth about the perpetrators coming out, but even more sinister, it was to also protect Labour councillors, MP’s and Mayors, social care personnel, police officers and others in the justice system. He nearly got away with it, had it not been for Elon Musk. Elon from across the pond made it an international issue. He raised the question that Labour wanted to avoid, and the result was the UK finally woke up and started their own campaign for a statutory inquiry. There was now an emerging consensus from the left to the right of the political spectrum that nothing short of a formal statutory inquiry would be acceptable. Starmer refused, his front bench refused, and during this time of their deliberate interference to thwart the path of justice for white vulnerable girls, the electorate showed their discontent in the national polls. A government with such a massive majority of only a year ago was facing decimation if the polls were to be believed. Starmer could see the writing on the wall, another U-turn was coming but how does he do that without it looking as bad as it was? Well the Casey review came out in time and it exploded the truth about grooming gangs and the connection with professionals from various sectors. Starmer saw his opportunity and hastily Labour announced a full statutory inquiry into grooming gangs. One of the biggest U-turns took place and the whole Labour front bench in the House of Parliament could be seen to be visibly defeated. Labour politicians were left ‘red’ faced knowing that the truth was about to come out, assuming the inquiry is conducted properly (rumours have already started that MP’s, Peers and some others might be exempt from it!) and in a timely fashion.
The polls currently show:
Labour is sinking faster than the titanic on an iceberg of lies and broken promises. The Prime Minister seems to have decided that he is better off travelling to various nations abroad and getting those all-important photo opportunities and be seen as a statesman. Unfortunately, even most of these efforts have resulted in little returns. He attempted to create the European gang of nations that would replace the USA and support Ukraine. Only to find that Ukraine only had eyes for the USA and Trump. And Russia basically laughed off this European chest thumping buffoonery.
His next strategy was to align himself with Trump and shower his support for Israel. The cost, his own MPs showed their contempt for him publicly. As I write this article, his flagship piece of legislation on welfare is now in trouble. More than 100 of his MPs have written to him demanding that unless he changes it substantially, they will vote against. No three-line whip was going to work. After weeks of internal fighting, and the backlash from his own MPs, and of course the electorate, it seems in the final days before the big vote is due, the Prime Minster has relented and will do yet another major U-turn. He is nothing but consistent when it comes to making U-turns.
Only this week Starmer made yet another U-turn on a comment he has made justsix weeks ago. He told The Observer he “deeply regrets” his “island of strangers” migration speech adding, “I wouldn’t have used those words if I had known they were, or even would be interpreted as an echo of Powell”. One wonders, does he even read his speeches before he delivers them with the charisma of lawn clippings!
U-turn Starmer does reignsupreme. The only question remaining, how many more U-turns will it take before the party replaces him with another leader? As it stands, Labour has lost control over illegal migration, the economy, the welfare system, the national debt andthe justice system. Can Labour stop the poll disasters? Can they reverse the damage caused by their ideological madness? Can they get back the voters they have lost? Looking at the future, even though it is some four years away, I have to say I can’t see any bright light for Labour at the end of the tunnel of shame that they have created.
Will the legacy of this Labour government be that of it being the worst ever in its history. Time will tell, I guess.
During the run up to the last general election he gave us clues about how he deals with facts, truths and lies. He has perfected the art of changing his mind on a continuous basis and getting away with it. Normally such behaviour would result in the electorate rejecting him and his party. However, for Starmer his stars were aligned for success and the Tories did everything possible to lose the last election. To be honest you could have had a donkey leading the Labour Party and they would still have won the last election.
We therefore had ample evidence to showcase what our new Prime Minister might be like in action. A man who disrespects truth, makes things up, mispresents information, and ignores his own statements on policy positions from the past. In power, one would have thought that he might have taken due care not toshowcase this total disregard for truth. However, there has not been a week that goes by when he, or one of his minion front bencher, says one thing and then they do something entirely different.
His reputation has excelled as the man, nay the Prime Minister, whose USP is the art of the U-turn.There are many to choose from, but let’s just consider the following few.
He caught his own MPs off guard when he announced the scraping of the winter fuel allowance. Frankly a totally mad idea given that the amount saved was pittance in the scheme of things, but the backlash from the electoratebeing massive. Day after day the haemorrhaging continued. Party insiders advised Number 10 to make a U-turn, but he was stubborn and was relentless in his pursuit to enforce his now found power. This man was not for U-turns, yet! What we witnessed was the painfuldestruction of a policybeing played out in the public sphere. In the end, the pressure became relentless and he had to make one of his first major U-turns on the winter fuel payment for millions of pensioners. An error of judgement that could have been avoided, if brain had been engaged before ideological madness and a power grab.
However, this frankly was just the starter. The main course was yet to come. For reasons beyond my understanding, the Labour government decided that it would never allow a statutory inquiry into the grooming gang’s scandal. It became clear that not only was this reluctance to avoid the truth about the perpetrators coming out, but even more sinister, it was to also protect Labour councillors, MP’s and Mayors, social care personnel, police officers and others in the justice system. He nearly got away with it, had it not been for Elon Musk. Elon from across the pond made it an international issue. He raised the question that Labour wanted to avoid, and the result was the UK finally woke up and started their own campaign for a statutory inquiry. There was now an emerging consensus from the left to the right of the political spectrum that nothing short of a formal statutory inquiry would be acceptable. Starmer refused, his front bench refused, and during this time of their deliberate interference to thwart the path of justice for white vulnerable girls, the electorate showed their discontent in the national polls. A government with such a massive majority of only a year ago was facing decimation if the polls were to be believed. Starmer could see the writing on the wall, another U-turn was coming but how does he do that without it looking as bad as it was? Well the Casey review came out in time and it exploded the truth about grooming gangs and the connection with professionals from various sectors. Starmer saw his opportunity and hastily Labour announced a full statutory inquiry into grooming gangs. One of the biggest U-turns took place and the whole Labour front bench in the House of Parliament could be seen to be visibly defeated. Labour politicians were left ‘red’ faced knowing that the truth was about to come out, assuming the inquiry is conducted properly (rumours have already started that MP’s, Peers and some others might be exempt from it!) and in a timely fashion.
The polls currently show:
Labour is sinking faster than the titanic on an iceberg of lies and broken promises. The Prime Minister seems to have decided that he is better off travelling to various nations abroad and getting those all-important photo opportunities and be seen as a statesman. Unfortunately, even most of these efforts have resulted in little returns. He attempted to create the European gang of nations that would replace the USA and support Ukraine. Only to find that Ukraine only had eyes for the USA and Trump. And Russia basically laughed off this European chest thumping buffoonery.
His next strategy was to align himself with Trump and shower his support for Israel. The cost, his own MPs showed their contempt for him publicly. As I write this article, his flagship piece of legislation on welfare is now in trouble. More than 100 of his MPs have written to him demanding that unless he changes it substantially, they will vote against. No three-line whip was going to work. After weeks of internal fighting, and the backlash from his own MPs, and of course the electorate, it seems in the final days before the big vote is due, the Prime Minster has relented and will do yet another major U-turn. He is nothing but consistent when it comes to making U-turns.
Only this week Starmer made yet another U-turn on a comment he has made justsix weeks ago. He told The Observer he “deeply regrets” his “island of strangers” migration speech adding, “I wouldn’t have used those words if I had known they were, or even would be interpreted as an echo of Powell”. One wonders, does he even read his speeches before he delivers them with the charisma of lawn clippings!
U-turn Starmer does reignsupreme. The only question remaining, how many more U-turns will it take before the party replaces him with another leader? As it stands, Labour has lost control over illegal migration, the economy, the welfare system, the national debt andthe justice system. Can Labour stop the poll disasters? Can they reverse the damage caused by their ideological madness? Can they get back the voters they have lost? Looking at the future, even though it is some four years away, I have to say I can’t see any bright light for Labour at the end of the tunnel of shame that they have created.
Will the legacy of this Labour government be that of it being the worst ever in its history. Time will tell, I guess.