Posted by Keir Starmer has now been Prime Minister for one miserable year. Yet it feels like a lifetime. One year of misery inflicted on the public who didn’t vote for so many broken promises. And it’s hardly a surprise that the Labour government’s approval ratings are now only at 14%. The Labour Party used to campaign for the vulnerable and disenfranchised while calling out corporate greed. But Keir Starmer and the Labour government have tragically abandoned its “for the working people” traditions. “The Labour Party” in name has become an oxymoron. They are no longer committed to their original mission of improving living conditions and the opportunities of working people in Britain, standing against greedy corporations and the military-industrial complex, whilst protecting freedom of speech. Instead, the Labour government are the exact opposite – in thrall to greedy corporatism while being authoritarian, hypocritical and using sanctimonious fake virtue to try and mask some pretty appalling policies even within their first year of being in government. Removing the winter fuel allowance for pensioners and cutting welfare from the disabled are symbolic of this. No previous Labour government would have ever have considered punishing pensioners and the disabled like this. So while Starmer repeatedly wangs on about “fixing the foundations” of the economy and a £22bn black hole (which he knew about before the election – as stated by him even in May 2024), how is it economically fair and indeed morally viable to cut £1.6bn by abolishing the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners yet spaff £30bn on carbon capture machines and £30bn to Mauritius on the Chagos deal? But it’s not just the winter fuel allowance. This Labour government has already shown itself to be completely devoid of vision and empathy towards the mood of the British people. The country is rotting (largely due to the 14 years of appalling neglect and nefarious policies from the Tory government). The new Labour government had a chance to create a national conversation with the people and really listen and act accordingly to their many valid concerns. Tragically, they didn’t. Instead, they have indulged in the politics of punishment, austerity and misery and communicated by a duplicitous po-faced Prime Minister who comes across as a modern day equivalent to the pompous, authoritarian Malvolio from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The Labour government is already drowning in backdated hypocrisy of broken promises and bare-faced duplicity combined with an angry divide and rule self-righteousness that only loses friends and alienates voters. And that’s why they are plummeting in the approval polls. Keir Starmer is hammering millions of pensioners and disabled people while he trousered north of £750,000 in donations and £100,000 in freebies. It’s disgusting. He promised to clean up the mess in politics and be a Prime Minister with integrity, yet he’s claiming grotesque amounts of freebies, boasting about meeting BlackRock and in that dreadful po-faced manner of his, savagely hammering the disabled, farmers, fishing communities and pensioners whilst repeatedly sanctimoniously lecturing to the public like we are all naughty schoolchildren. He’s now disliked to the point that he’s become a national laughing stock. But hypocritical pomposity on this scale deserves nothing but ridicule. John Smith (former Labour Party Leader) once said, “People in Britain today are angry: not just disappointed, not just disillusioned, but angry. They are angry at the state of Britain; angry at the total absence of leadership; angry at the absence of vision; angry at the hypocrisy and double standards; and they are angry at the incessant incompetence of a Government they no longer respect and increasingly despise.” And tragically, his words of wisdom (aimed against the Tory government) could equally apply to Keir Starmer and the Labour government of today.
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