The annihilation of the UK Labour Party
Since Boris Johnson was elected leader of the UK, British politics became a cross between Monty Python and Fawlty Towers. Just put Boris in front of a camera and hand him a microphone, and you’ll see what I mean.
Boris has even decided to award himself with a new power of calling up an election when he thinks the Conservatives will have the most chance at winning and therefore scrapping a five-year fixed parliamentary term.
Yes, I know this is old news but, in the era when the pandemic takes all the coverage, you want to hear something else, something different. Even political scandal, like dull Downing Street refurbishment, is more interesting. What isn’t dull is that the UK still doesn’t have a good opposition in the parliament. Boris’s Conservatives have it together. Labour and Liberal Democrats don’t. It is like, after every election, another loser party has to step into mess up to their necks. Liberal Democrats under Nick Clegg were first to take up the challenge in 2010, and then again, much later, under Jo Swinson. Now it’s current Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s turn.
So, Boris is to call up an election when he feels like it. The thing is, Boris could win tomorrow, next year or two years from now easily because there are even more Brexiters in the UK now post-vaccine crises in the European Union. There is also significant work Boris and his chancellor ‘Rishi Dishi’ Sunak did with furlough to save jobs since the start of the pandemic. The fast rollout of vaccination is another, despite AstraZeneca’s blood clot nightmare they failed to mention. Maybe just maybe, the out-of-control Indian variant raging in the parts of England because Boris failed to red list India in time to prevent the virus coming over here could damage his popularity, but even that looks unlikely.
When Boris came to power, Labour was led by leftist socialist ¡Hasta la victoria Jeremy Corbyn and his merry men, the Corbynistas. Corbyn was so unpopular he pretty much handed Boris 80 seat majority in parliament, meaning whatever law the government wants to bring in or change, they stand unopposed unless Conservative backbenchers and House of Lords kicks off.
Labour then said Do Svidaniya Comrade Corbyn, hello Starmer, former public prosecutor. He was supposed to change what the Labour party needed and perhaps help them win seats and hold the government accountable. Oh, but how spectacularly that failed. Starmer became a basic Yes Man to the Conservatives agreeing with their policies, and the only time he criticised them was over the refurbishment of Boris’s Downing Street flat. Yes, really.
The truth is Starmer could not disagree with much during the height of the pandemic, as everything Boris did was necessary apart from the late closure of the country in 2020. But what does Starmer stand for? I don’t know. Do you? I doubt it because even former Labour MPs don’t know.
Last week’s local elections have shown just how much people don’t like Labour, giving Conservatives another bunch of majorities, this time locally. The map of England is now pretty much blue. Looking for red would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
And what does Starmer go and do? He reshuffles his shadow cabinet by rotating the MPs into each other’s seats, like a merry-go-round making us all dizzy while we pass the bucket. He did not bring one new face into his shadow cabinet, guaranteeing another loss should Boris call up the early general election. Let’s not forget Angela Rayner getting four jobs. Boris had plenty to say about that in parliament:
I’m sure (Sir Keir) bears this in mind as he contemplates the member, his friend (Ms Rayner) — the deputy leader, the shadow first secretary of state, the shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and shadow secretary of state for the future of work — through the more titles he feeds her, the hungrier I fear she is likely to become.
Doesn’t Starmer have anyone else to promote? Maybe some new champagne socialist eager to prove their worth. The more the current setup remains in Starmer’s Labour party, the more chance the Labour will die out like dinosaurs. Even the Batley and Spen by-election isn’t going to save them. And let’s not forget that Rayner said if she were 18, she’d vote for Boris because he is ‘a bit spicy’ and ‘authentic’. Pass the bucket again, please.
And why is Starmer obsessed with the “woke” agenda? Isn’t the election result enough to show him it won’t work in the UK? Being woke has become more extreme than being conservative or a Brexiter and has swallowed democracies which allowed dictatorial regimes of woke culture to thrive for the benefits of those milking the system.
And if Starmer can’t come up with decent policy, he needs to find a good spin doctor, the likes of Alastair Campbell, who funnily enough, was expelled by Corbyn from the party in May 2019 because he voted for Liberal Democrats in European elections.
Starmer must get rid of Corbynistas and their far-left socialist agenda. He should also ignore the unions whose policies and ideas helped destabilise the Labour party. The world is changing, and the party has to look forward, not backwards; otherwise, they will never again regain their seats.
