This archaic method of British democracy — soon to be disowned by the Tories in opposition when they realise proportional representation will award them enough MPs to fill at least one minibus — has left the right-wing Daily Mail telling their crayon-wielding ‘readers’ the best way to keep the Labour Party’s widely-predicted massive parliamentary “Starmer supermajority” in-check: tactical voting, Tory/Reform-style, in the general election.
I’m not entirely sure why Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, is particularly concerned by the prospect of a Labour government under the leadership of Mail columnist Keir Starmer, who describes watching a nuclear submarine being built as a “humbling experience”, and any possibility of a wealth tax was ruled out by chancellor-in-waiting, Rachel Reeves some time ago now.
Birds of a feather flock together.
But then maybe Rothermere — whose great-grandad posed for a selfie with Adolf Hitler — remembered Keir Starmer’s long-abandoned ten pledges and thought it was best not to take a chance on Starmer keeping his word.
Entirely understandable.
Anyone but Labour
The best way you can ensure Keir Starmer’s “supermajority” isn’t quite-so-super is by following this very simple guide.
- Attend your polling station on 4 July, not forgetting your identification. The elite love a bit of disenfranchisement.
- Look at the list of candidates on offer and do not vote for the Labour, Conservative or Reform candidates.
- Vote for someone like an independent left-wing socialist, and if this isn’t possible, vote Green.
The Labour Party is starting to go big on insisting you must vote for Labour if you want to see the back of the Tories.
This is absolute bullshit. Labour will win the 2024 general election with a comfortable majority without your vote.
The reason the Labour machine doesn’t want you voting for an independent or Green candidate is nothing to do with seeing Starmer over the finishing line and everything to do with ensuring left-wing candidates cannot build a modest support base to attack Labour from in five years time.
Starmer doesn’t need your vote
Labour doesn’t need your vote. Labour doesn’t deserve your vote. Keir Starmer is a pillar of the establishment. I repeat: Labour does not need or deserve your vote.
Being fractionally less dishonest than the deplorable and discredited Conservative government really isn’t a massive selling point to the politically homeless.
Starmer’s assault on true Labour Party values and the contempt for the people that stand by those values has been utterly galling. The Labour Party has become an amoral and vindictive sham under the leadership of the toolmaker’s son.
Joseph Stalin purged the Soviet Union of all his opponents in order to rule the country through despotism. Keir Starmer purged the Labour Party of all of its socialists in order to rule the country through despotism, from the traditional conservative right.
To his credit, Mr Stalin didn’t refuse to axe the two-child benefit cap that is set to impact an extra quarter-of-a-million children in 2025.
Assange: a case in point
On a separate but absolutely related point, I must say I was absolutely delighted to hear of the long-overdue release of the Wikileaks founder and journalist, Julian Assange.
Assange has been a defining case for the left, and it is worth remembering that even when Starmer — a slavishly loyal asset of the British security state — was pleading for left-wing votes during the Labour leadership contest in 2020, he took the most conservative position imaginable and aligned himself with the fascist Donald Trump.
Starmer’s steadfast loyalty to the British and American establishment has never been in question. This isn’t a conspiracy theory that’s been scribbled down on the back of a fag pack.
Keir Starmer served as a member of the highly-secretive Trilateral Commission some time between March 2017 and October 2018. He departed at some point between April 2021 and June 2022.
Matt Kennard of Declassified UK revealed that while Starmer was publicly playing hero to the People’s Vote Ltd cause he was also moonlighting with the Trilateral Commission, serving alongside two former heads of the CIA.
Another Kennard exposé revealed when serving as the Director of Public Prosecutions between 2008 and 2013, Starmer was in Washington three times while in charge of Assange’s proposed extradition to Sweden.
This cost the public purse £21,603.
The Crown Prosecution Service — England and Wales’ public prosecutor — has now deleted all of their records relating to Keir Starmer’s trips to the United States.
Kennard goes on to say:
During Starmer’s time in post, the CPS was marred by irregularities surrounding the case of the WikiLeaks founder.
A complicity of silence on Starmer and Assange
I do hope a British journalist has the common sense to nail Starmer over his part in the scandalous treatment of Julian Assange, but I won’t hold my breath, and I equally hope an overwhelming majority of British ‘journalism’ hangs its disgraced head in shame for its complicit silence throughout this grave miscarriage of justice.
Kennard has been quite brilliant in his quest to hold truth to power. He has gnawed away at Starmer like a dog with a fresh bone.
Shortly after Starmer lied his way into the top job, Kennard sent the new Labour leader an astonishing letter asking him about his links to the British and American national security establishments.
The letter, which contained five pertinent questions for Starmer unsurprisingly went unanswered, so Kennard published it as an open letter.
The questions were:
- Why he met the head of MI5 for informal social drinks in April 2013, the year after he decided not to prosecute MI5 for its role in torture?
- When and why did he join the Trilateral Commission and what does his membership of this intelligence-linked network entail?
- What did he discuss with then US Attorney General Eric Holder when he met him on 9 November 2011 in Washington DC, at a time Sir Keir was handling the Julian Assange case as the public prosecutor?
- What role did he play in the Crown Prosecution Service’s irregular handling of the Julian Assange case during his period as DPP?
- Why did he develop such a close relationship with the Times newspaper while he was the DPP and does this relationship still exist?
Labour: no justice, and definitely no peace
These questions, first asked four years ago, seem particularly relevant following Julian’s release. But shifty Starmer, born and raised to be an establishment-pleasing flunkey, knows how to stay silent on the greatest issues of our times.
Just ask the children of Gaza.
Keir Starmer quite clearly isn’t going to put justice at the heart of how he governs, he is a Tory after all. But when Starmer boldly claims “country before party”, which country is he referring to?
If Starmer meant us, in little Blighty, he would be providing a vision of how he would house the homeless, feed the hungry, offer dignity to disabled people and save our NHS from the corporate clutches of American privateer vultures instead of foolishly employing Tory policies to deal with one Tory-made crisis after another.
There isn’t a force on this earth that’s going to make me change my mind about the American/Israeli asset, Starmer.
Starmer lies as freely and brazenly as Boris Johnson ever did.
While we have seen the British electorate aren’t particularly bothered if their Prime Minister speaks fluent bullshit — providing he has a bit of charisma, scruffs up his hair, and says a few preposterously long words every now and then — Starmer has the charisma of a rusty scaffolding pole, a tub of Brylcreem in his briefcase, and repeats three-worded soundbites that mean absolutely nothing to anyone.
Vote Labour, get despotism, and get the British and American establishment’s security state at its very worse, working against the interests of justice around the world.
Featured image via Rachael Swindon
