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davek
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Starmer isn't working – and Starmerism cannot work
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Every word true...
STARMERISM is an attempt to turn the clock back. It isn’t working, cannot work and tolerating it risks disaster for the working-class movement.
It has always been an attempt to turn the clock back. The entire Starmer project was, from his election as Labour leader on a false prospectus, an attempt to undo Corbyn: to drag the unruly Labour Party back to a supposed “middle ground” of support for neoliberal economics and imperialist war.
It has been a project pursued with total ruthlessness: Labour members were, and are, broadly supportive of Corbyn’s manifesto commitments to greater public ownership and redistribution of wealth through progressive taxation, and certainly weren’t happy with the former leader being portrayed as the devil incarnate and cast out of the party, so Starmer had to smash Labour democracy.
His regime has banned debate in constituency parties, suspended those in their entirety when they wouldn’t play ball, and expelled anyone who dared to object. Since coming to power, MPs have found themselves excluded from the parliamentary party for backbench rebellion against child poverty — an authoritarian intolerance for dissent far harsher than anything Tony Blair ever expressed.
The paranoia reflects an underlying reality: Starmer and his acolytes know the majority are against them and must coerce because they cannot persuade. In this sense, the project is about much more than exorcising Corbyn.
It is part of a wider ruling-class effort to reboot the British system so we are back where we were in 2015 or even 2007 — pre-Corbyn, pre-Brexit, pre-bankers’ crash: when the world was one the liberal elite understood and had mastery over.
It is an impossible task. In foreign policy, the “unipolar moment” is gone: the West is no longer economically strong enough to dictate to the world, and its attempts to do so merely alienate.
In domestic policy, the consensus for privatisation and unfettered corporate domination of the economy can only continue to deliver what it delivers already: worsening services and falling living standards.
The two come together because Establishment liberalism is collapsing in the cockpit of imperialism, the United States. It is already defeated there by hard-right nationalism of the Farage type, but the nature of the US-led “free world” forces the ostensibly liberal leaders of Europe to fawn on the demagogic leader of the counter-revolution, Donald Trump.
Labour members fooled into voting for Starmer on the grounds he might be a polished, media-savvy version of Corbyn misunderstood Establishment hatred of the Corbyn project: it was about content, not form, and any leader threatening real reform would have met the same vitriol.
Similarly, the angst now expressed by liberal commentators from the Guardian to Channel 4 about Starmer not having what it takes to see off Farage is off-piste. Starmer is bad at politics, but that is not the root of a problem that engulfs Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Joe Biden too. Liberalism has nothing to offer and populations across the West can no longer be duped.
The labour movement needs to wake up to this. Without a radical change of direction from Labour, Britain will soon be ruled by nasties of the Donald Trump sort, whose hostility to trade unions (see Elon Musk) equals their viciousness towards immigrants.
The Jonathan Freedlands and Robert Pestons wonder if Starmer needs to be replaced. He does, but not because he is incompetent: because his zombie-Blair politics are anachronistic. The political consensus of the 1990s is not coming back.
It’s over a century since Rosa Luxemburg defined the choice facing humanity as socialism or barbarism. It is the choice now, for sure. We can break with Starmer-Labour or we can resign ourselves to Reform UK: there is no middle ground.
peteblue
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Wham's Last Christmas is the Christmas number one for a second consecutive year
Last Christmas tops the festive chart for a second year running, but Band Aid misses the top 10.www.bbc.co.uk
Sorry about this @peteblue your GB news number 1 got bested.
Well I’m not sure why you refer to something called GB news as I’ve never watched it. In terms of the “Freezing this Christmas” track, this appears to have hit home whatever number it is.
So let’s all singalong…
“It’ll be freezing this Christmas, without fuel at home, it’ll be freezing this Christmas while Keir Starmer’s warm. It’ll be cold, so cold, without fuel at home, this Christmas”………….
Oh boy
davek
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More 'growth' news...
UK economy had zero growth between July and September
The downward revision will be a blow to Labour which has made boosting the economy its top priority.
www.bbc.co.uk
Just think Pete, if your Beloved Boris hadn't bungled the Covid response, inadequately protected the elderly and instead "let their bodies pile high", there would be even more pensioners knocking about you could get to have that singalong.
No wonder Starmer keeps knocking it out of the park at PMQs, there's literally an immediate comeback to anything.
No wonder Starmer keeps knocking it out of the park at PMQs, there's literally an immediate comeback to anything.
peteblue
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This is what really happened. Conservative voters didn’t vote Tory and Starmer was presented with an open goal which he won’t get next time…but that’s for the future.
Meanwhile he’s alienating huge swathes of the voters (hence his cunning plan to give the vote to 16 year olds), ruining the economy, with businesses on their knees, recruitment going down, prices going up, while he pays for the ever increasing numbers in the public sector…it’s unsustainable and he and CV enhancing Rachel from accounts will get the blame. I doubt either of them will last another year…..
Ive just liked some of your posts in the GB news thread Pete.
peteblue
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His only comeback is the mythical £22Bn and repeatedly saying “fixing the foundations”. Meanwhile the only foundations that keeps the country going, businesses and the economy, are being shafted……
peteblue
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Thank you, that’s very kind…and did you find any where I said I have ever watched it ?………
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
More 'growth' news...
UK economy had zero growth between July and September
The downward revision will be a blow to Labour which has made boosting the economy its top priority.www.bbc.co.uk
Don’t worry it’s all part of the plan that they’ve had years to think about……
No. 10 confirming today that Starmer is finally going to get a few days holidaying abroad over the new year. Good for him, deserves it after all the graft put in mucking out the stables that the Tories had left festering.
You didn't. But you also pretended you hadn't heard of it, which is clearly not true.
davek
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Ha Ha. They'll 'kin bury him. He's the feller that's handing them another hike in student fees and telling them to take any old tat job or face no benefits...and kids hate establishment scum like Starmer.
That 16 year old vote promise will get back heeled. Turkeys dont vote for Christmas.
davek
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I;m not surprised he's out of the country so often...the population of Britain detest him.
Worst approval ratings ever.
I hear he's popular in Israel though, maybe he could go and live there with his Zionist mates?
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