Posted on 08/30/2024 8:00:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
All year Keir Starmer has been using a reassuring phrase about his inevitable Downing Street tenure in a bid to calm the nerves of those not certain they were keen on it. He debuted it in January, when the Labour leader promised to bring forth ‘a politics that treads more lightly on all our lives’. Starmer used a similar line on the steps of Downing Street on July 5, after becoming Prime Minister, when he pledged to ‘tread more lightly on your lives and unite our country’.
This suggested that he understood the limitations of his ‘loveless landslide’, gained on a sub-34 per cent vote share in a low-turnout election largely thanks to quirks in the electoral system and the obvious exhaustion of the previous governing party. But the first eight weeks of Starmerite rule have delivered the very opposite. His new proposal for a ban on smoking in outdoor places, including pub gardens, is just one policy that treads very heavily on the lives of millions.
There has also been the axing of winter fuel payments for more than 80 per cent of pensioners, the unexpected abandonment of social care reforms that were meant finally to curtail a vicious means-testing lottery – and a series of no-strings, inflation-busting pay deals for favoured public sector groups.
Starmer has also warned voters of a ‘painful’ impending Budget that will bring tax rises, despite having insisted throughout the election campaign that all Labour’s spending proposals were fully funded.
His tribalism has extended into social policy and penal policy too, earning him the soubriquet ‘Two Tier Keir’ for his draconian clampdown on those partaking in August’s riots – or even fulminating unwisely to tiny followings on social media – while turning a Nelsonian blind eye to violent crime at the Notting Hill Carnival...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
The sooner the UK 🇬🇧 kicks Keir Stormtrooper to the curb, the better.
Labour has Failed the UK. Starmer must go! New leadership or Civil War. Will the USA send in soldiers to establish order in the UK? Maybe appoint a Governor General to rule this riotous land? Maybe a Job for Obama?
I know this guy named Cromwell, who would be ideal for this job ...!
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