Prime Minister’s Questions

We have to wonder whether Keir Starmer has any political intelligence, or any common sense, whatsoever. Certainly no Commons sense. This is the second week running he's defended attacks at Prime Minister's Questions (on McSweeney and Mandelson) by saying “Morgan McSweeney helped me to change the Labour party".

He seems completely unaware that masses of people LOATHE the way they changed the party - by bringing back Mandelson obviously, but also by attacking and expelling good leftish Labour MPs, by excluding leftish candidates from parliamentary elections, by promoting very right wing muppets like Luke Akehurst, by inviting Trump to “an unprecedented second State visit”, by a disgusting failure to intervene in the Gaza genocide, by remaining a ‘Friend of Israel' (ie friend of Netanyahu), by allowing his hopeless Chancellor to cut winter fuel allowances, and so much more.

NOBODY asked for these *changes* in Labour politics and policies, and nobody imagined he would do such things. Few people even suspected he would allow McSweeney and his mentor, his puppet master, his Dark Lord Mandelson, to exert such influence over him, over his party and over our country.

Yet still Starmer boasts McSweeney was a key aide in changing the party! Changing it back to Mandelson's original intention - to replace the Labour party with a thing called New Labour, a neoliberal enterprise originally in the hands of the revolting Tony Blair.

These are the things we expected from a Starmer government, a Labour government, and things we clearly didn't get. Any chance of reviving the ten pledges, dear Keir? Or were they always a con, a hoax, an elaborate lie? And don't say conditions have changed, bond markets are dangerous, blah blah. That myth has been well and truly busted.

The same busted fate awaits Labour if the party doesn’t return to its social democratic roots and begins some radical changes that will improve the lives of everyone, especially the least well off. Affordable food and housing, a thriving NHS, a proper care system, a better and fairer system of taxation, a better system of education that’s fit for the 21st century.

Fight for what’s right, Keir Starmer, and not just your own survival. Otherwise it’s doom and a Reform/Tory coalition.

And while you're about it give us the electoral reform the country needs. Proper proportional representation and devolution to the regions.

If you can't do it, Keir mate, step aside for somebody who can.