Starmer pictured NOT backtracking for the first time ever

  • Post last modified:April 21, 2024
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Keir Starmer is infamous for back-tracking, flip-flopping, and U-turning. In a newly unearthed picture, however, a flip flop-free Starmer appears to be boldly moving forwards, and yet still people are criticising him:

It’s likely that twitter.com has cropped the above image, so here it is in all its unsettling glory:

What on Earth is going on?

Labour’s perverse reverser

First things first, let’s establish if Starmer is indeed moving forwards in the image. Rayner certainly is, and given his position in front of her, you’d assume that Starmer is also travelling in that direction. The problem is his awkward, ungainly stance. He has the posture of an action figure that’s been plonked on the floor, and as such it’s very difficult to tell what’s going on.

It could be he stopped to look back; he could be mid-U-turn. Potentially this is the Starmer-Bot 3.0, and those things on his feet have wheels on the bottom, allowing him to zip forwards despite standing like a stick puppet with a fully-inserted stick.

Perhaps we’ll never know which direction he’s travelling in, but there is one thing we can be certain of.

Those. Fucking. Things. On. His. Feet.

They are absolutely not acceptable, as many people have pointed out:

As people have pointed out, those aren’t hooves, and they’re not cowboy boots either; they’re actually rigger boots. For those who don’t know, rigger boots are a type of pull-on safety boot worn by construction workers. It’s unclear if Starmer is on his way to a construction site, but you’d have to assume not, and that this is an instance of grafter ‘stolen valour‘.

After all, the only thing he’s ever constructed is an elaborate web of lies and broken promises.

Feels like he only goes backwards

At this point, Starmer has backtracked on pretty much every position he held five years ago. He’s reversed so much that he feels like one of those ‘bizarro’ supervillains who exist as the perfect inverse of the superhero they’re mirroring:

In June 2023, Politico compiled an already out-of-date list of Starmer’s key U-turns. Said list includes:

  • Abandoning several proposals to renationalise key services (despite support for such policies remaining incredibly high).
  • Un-abandoning his pledge to “end outsourcing” in the NHS.
  • Distancing himself from the trade unions he once claimed to support.
  • Abandoning his aim to retain EU free movement.
  • Not only abandoning the pledge to remove Universal Credit, but having his work and pensions secretary claim they “actually agree with the concept behind” it.
  • Abandoning the plan to abolish tuition fees.
  • Ditch any serious pretense of fighting climate change.
  • Abandoning his pledge to increase tax for the top 5% of earners.
  • Scrapping his pledge to get rid of the undemocratic House of Lords.

For a long time people criticised Starmer for failing to hold to the 10 Pledges which won him the Labour leadership race. He eventually responded by scrubbing those pledges from the internet:

Starmer’s latest stance has seen him abandoning the pro-EU crowd he used to shape Labour’s disastrous Brexit position in the 2019 election:

We’ve reported a great deal on Starmer’s regressions:

Labour is advocating (or has advocated in the past 12 months) for positions which are:

These positions are simultaneously:

Horsing around

Arguably, a politician wearing the wrong shoes isn’t newsworthy. That’s not an argument we’re making. However, there’s a line that shouldn’t be crossed, and that line is allowing these pampered, overpaid elites to stride about as if they’re on their way to their forklift licensing exam.

Featured image via LBC





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