At the beginning of February, I wrote a diatribe for FSB in response to the government’s dismissal of the petition to repeal the Climate Change Act 2008 and Net Zero targets. Having got up a head of steam I felt I should review our Glorious Leader’s performance so far to see if he justifies the salary that we taxpayer’s give him. Is he, Keir Starmer (VCNHFG2TK*), really the worst Prime Minister leading the worst government in living memory or does he have any redeeming features. After all, we’re all human, aren’t we?
What you are about to read is a collation of all the tit-bits* I have picked up from a variety of sources over the last few weeks. I’ve merely brought them together to create a rough timeline of why this man and his party have become so hated in such a short space of time. Before this year is out, he may begin to regret ever becoming Prime Minister. We can but hope so.
It all started when Rishi Sunak (where’s he now?) called a general election several months before he really had to. As I’ve said before, I think he did it because he was privy to what was in the pipeline and decided that he wanted nothing to do with it. His government may have been hapless, incompetent and treasonous, but I don’t think he was viscerally hated in quite the way that Starmer now is. The country was just sick of the betrayals and wanted to get rid of the Tories. Enter Kier Starmer and the Labour Party with 411 seats in Parliament based on 19% of the electorate, a loveless accidental government if ever there was one.
We’re now into March 2025 and the country is reeling. Christmas had been a commercial flop, there’s an air of gloom and we are almost certainly in recession as thousands of mobile, wealthy entrepreneurs leave the country. Starmer and his government have lost any support they might have had at record speed. He is despised in Labour heartlands and his government has become even less popular there than the government of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. To call him a practical Stalinist is a bit harsh on Stalin. He’s more of a Ceausescu, a functionary elevated to a level beyond his capabilities.
With only 1 in 5 of the electorate voting for them, this government really needed to do some things that would resonate with the public so they could attract a bit more popular support, but it blundered right from the start. And kept on blundering. At least it did in the eyes of overwhelming majority of the public, but maybe not in those of their true masters.
The popular view amongst its opponents and many dissidents is that Starmer would be the puppet of Tony Blair. Blair had come right out of the trap straight after the election and told the government in a Sunday Times article what it should do. According to Blair, it needed to bury “woke”, get tough on migration, get tough on crime but go full speed ahead on adopting AI and digital IDs. What happened was that Starmer went his own way, failing to take Blair’s advice. Sue Gray, his Chief of Staff, may have had some influence as she, apparently, is no fan of Blair. In early August he rowed back on the adoption of AI.
Then Southport happened.
The nation now saw exactly what sort of man it had as Prime Minister. His speech in response to the protests and riots was the speech, not of a Prime Minister, but the speech of a government lawyer, the speech of a former Director of Public Prosecutions. He attacked the ‘Far Right” as if some sort of far-right organisation was behind the protests instead of people who were simply outraged at the horrific, disgusting crime that had just been committed and who knew they were being lied to. The man is a lawyer who believes in the Rule of Lawyers.
What happened next took people’s breath away as a thousand were arrested, many of them for social media posts. They had ‘fast-tracked justice’ which was no justice at all with some judges clearly playing to the camera to make political points. No juries were involved, and sentences were unduly harsh for what were, in many cases, minor misdemeanours. These were show-trials in kangaroo courts.
Next, he cancelled the Winter Fuel Payment for the great majority of pensioners and followed that with the suggestion that there would be a ban on outdoor smoking at hospitality venues. There was an immediate backlash from an industry that was already struggling and saw that as a measure that would finish it off for good.
Then he had to weather the exposure of the Lord Alli expenses affair in which he ‘followed the rules’ but nonetheless was forced to pay back £6,000. It didn’t stop there as Alli, a homosexual multi-millionaire, was said to be Mrs Starmer’s dresser and he seemed to have a key to the back door of No 10 giving him, a wealthy Labour donor, direct access to Starmer himself. Starmer had also been using Alli’s apartment during the summer of 2024 so that his son could ‘do his GCSE revision’. Believe that if you like.
The controversy over Alli also dragged Sue Gray in and it was revealed that her salary was more than the Prime Minister’s. She resigned, or ‘was resigned’, saying that she didn’t want to become a distraction to the detriment of the government. This may have been a turning point at which Starmer started to lean back towards Blair’s advice.
The next milestone was Chancellor Reaves’ Hallowe’en budget when she plundered private pension funds and family farms for Inheritance Tax, about which I have already written. It now threatens to abolish the state pension’s ‘Triple Lock’. At a stroke, Starmer’s government alienated pensioners, whom they’d promised wouldn’t be a target for savings, and farmers. The planned IHT raids on family farms, however, are fully in line with Great Reset aims and are a land grab. It is reported that BlackRock has a $100m fund sitting waiting to buy British farmland put up for sale to pay IHT. This is very much a part of ‘You’ll own nothing and be happy’.
The sign that Blair was indeed back on the scene was during the CoP 29 climate beanfeast at Baku in November, when Starmer met him while Blair was there in his role as adviser to the government of Azerbaijan. Shortly after that, Starmer made a speech on migration stating that the previous Tory government had been conducting a radical open borders experiment which is perhaps the only true thing he has said. All of a sudden, he was trying to present himself as a patriot, outflanking both the Tories and Reform from the right. He had about as much credibility as a prostitute protesting her virginity to a stag party on boat race night.
He then got careless. After Christmas he picked a fight with Elon Musk about free speech on ‘X’ having already antagonised the incoming 47th President of the USA by sending 100 activists to assist Kamala Harris’s campaign for the Presidency. This would have ensured that Trump and his team would not look kindly on his choice of Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the USA. In retaliation, Musk decided he would continue talking about the Muslim rape gangs in Britain, something which is rather too close to the bone as far as Starmer is concerned. After the cuts to welfare, he gave more billions to Ukraine and signed an absurd 100-year pact with it.
The next thing that happened was the trial which didn’t happen, that of the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana, which had been re-scheduled for the same day as President Trump’s inauguration in the hope that not too many people would be paying attention. Fat chance, especially after it had been revealed that everything some protestors had been jailed for saying back in August had turned out to be true. The accused’s plea was changed to ‘guilty’ at the eleventh hour so the whole business of how he came to be born here, how his parents came here, their history in Rwanda and who helped them to settle in Britain would not have any light shone on it. How very convenient.
What was astounding was that, instead of addressing the actual situation of this youth and his monstrous crime, we had this government talking about on-line knife purchasing, the ‘Far Right’ and ‘incels’ as Rudakubana became the ‘Amazon Killer’. Information came to light about his internet searches that led to strong suspicions that he was not so much motivated by Islam as by a hatred of white people. We had proof that he is, in fact, as evil as his photograph made him look when it was reported that he had said that he was glad that the three young girls were dead. Were it not for modern emergency medicine, several more would also be dead. Instead, they just have life-altering injuries and life-long psychological damage.
While this was going on Starmer has revealed himself to be some sort of a psychopath himself. He expects, he said, to be in power for ten years. Is this a hint about forthcoming electoral gerrymandering by giving the vote to migrants and 16-year-olds? We cannot put it past him given that his deputy, the ridiculous Angela Rayner, has granted some councils the power to cancel elections ahead of a forthcoming local government reorganisation.
In unrelated events, the former brief Prime Minister Liz Truss has been giving some long-form interviews to podcasters in which she has revealed that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom does not call the shots. Well, we know that anyway but it’s still nice to have it confirmed. Boris Johnson has said pretty much the same thing in an interview with the Spectator. There are higher powers who give them instructions. So now our suspicions about what happened to him while he was in hospital, supposedly with “Covid”, have been strengthened (where are those nurses ‘who saved his life’? They haven’t been heard of since).
It begins to look as if Starmer, the Trilateral Commission member, has been picked to do a job, to carry out an agenda. However, if it turns out that he becomes too much of an embarrassment, he’ll be gone. ‘They’ did it to Truss; ‘they’ can do it to him.
For now, he seems to be back ‘on message’, certainly as far as AI is concerned. The government is pushing ahead with an AI plan which looks as if it has been copied and pasted from the work done by the Tony Blair Institute. Digital ID will be brought in by the back door, piecemeal. Young people will have to prove their age to buy such items as knives as well as alcohol and tobacco. The next thing to become digital may be driving licences and we are virtually there with electronic passport gates. It’s a short step from facial recognition at the border to doing it by phone app. Once there are a number of such apps on people’s smart phones they will be combined and it’s job done.
Millions of people already use the NHS app which clearly will be a major part of this creeping process. I can only echo the advice of Debi Evans at UK Column who is a former senior nurse and former government health advisor - if you have it, delete it.
The relationship between Britain and the United States is important in the New World Order and this an area where Starmer may be a liability. He is already at odds with President Trump over the Chagos Islands but one area which may pull them together is the Middle East and a revival of the Abraham Accords which were agreed during Trump 1.0. The work for them was done by Jared Kushner who seems to be Trump’s Middle East brain and - Tony Blair. The Accords, it is reported, were as much his idea as anybody’s. If Blair doesn’t co-operate in this area as Trump’s proposals for Gaza develop, this could be when Starmer is brought down because of the threat to the so-called ‘special relationship’.
The connections here that might prove to be more concerning in the long run are the so-called ‘Tech-Bros’ who are on board now with Donald Trump, particularly Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, who is strong on digital ID and has talked about individually tailored mRNA medical products. Ellison is the biggest funder of the Tony Blair Institute. No wonder Blair is driving digital ID.
All that aside, on the domestic scene, matters just keep getting worse for Starmer. We have now heard about his having had close contact with a female voice coach (nudge nudge) during the lockdowns. Not that it has done any good; his delivery is as wooden and irritatingly nasal as ever.
On top of that, to add to the revelations from Raja Miah about the Labour party’s collusion in the Oldham rape gangs in exchange for Muslim block votes, news has emerged that primary school children in Southport are still having Islam foisted on them in lessons with visits by imams scheduled. The insensitivity of this fair takes one’s breath away.
His visit to Washington to meet Trump was, on the surface, an anti-climax. Following J D Vance’s speech to the European Security Conference in Munich, which reduced at least one grown man to tears, some were looking forward to a similar shellacking of the British visitors by the Trump/Vance combo, preferably in public. It didn’t happen. Everything seemed cordial with Trump astonishing us by saying he accepted Starmer’s Chagos giveaway with it all set off by Starmer’s creepy pawing at Trump’s sleeves. Of course, we don’t know what was said behind the scenes.
Days later it was Zelensky’s turn in the Oval Office and what a show that turned out to be. After a very public spat, the order of the boot was applied to his rear end and no deal signed. He came running to Britain and into Starmer’s waiting arms for a big sympathetic hug and a meeting with Macron and other European so-called leaders including Ursula Von der Leyen, the lady of the broomstick rifles. Now we have Starmer calling for a ‘Coalition of the Willing’ to come together and put European troops and aircraft into Ukraine as peacekeepers after an agreement has been reached to end the war. NATO troops in Ukraine, the prospect of which was one of the things that drove the Russians to invade in the first place. Brilliant. I don’t think that will fly with the Russians. Still, it lets him posture self-importantly as a leader in Europe which is what he wants above all.
The man is delusional. He talks of raising Britain’s defence expenditure from 2.3% of GDP to 2.5% when anyone with any appreciation of such matters knows that if we wish to re-arm it will take at least 5%. We have an army that will fit into Wembley Stadium and still leave room for a few regiments of the French Army, a navy literally with more admirals than ships ( many of which can’t put to sea) and an air force that will struggle to put a hundred fighter jets into the air and no, repeat no, missile defence system anywhere in our islands. This is what he talks of ‘standing up to Putin’ with and of ‘being at a crossroads in history’.
This is what government by lawyers, academics and social workers looks like. They live in a fantasy world in which they’re going to defend Ukraine’s remaining territory while being unwilling and unable to defend our own. They’re going to flush more of our taxes in Zelensky’s direction while failing to keep pensioners warm, fix the potholes and ensure cheap, reliable energy for all. But what else can we expect of this nasally-challenged ‘yooman’ rights lawyer masquerading as a Prime Minister. He really would have been far better cast as Mark Darcy’s punch-bag chamber-mate in a Bridget Jones movie.
So, what is there to look forward to next? The smart money is on the unravelling of Rachel Reaves’ budget with falling interest rates pushing bond yields upwards again, then looming national bankruptcy following a collapse of the pound, just as happened in the 1970s when the UK, then under the Callaghan Labour government, had to go cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund. The Blair/Brown governments of 1997-2010 at least took 13 years to run out of other people’s money. This lot will probably do it in under 13 months.
With Starmer’s approval ratings continuing to tank he is now way past the point where there is any way back for this toolmaker’s son. It’s a question of when he goes, not if. Speaking of toolmaker’s sons, I can think of no better way to wrap this up than with this little ditty which I came across, ‘The Ballad of a Toolmaker’s Son’ from Trevor John and Defiance Records.
* VCNHFG2TK = VoiceCoachNeverHereFreeGearTwoTierKeir
* Tit-bits refers to crumbs and seeds put out on the bird table for blue tits, great tits, long-tailed tits and any other variety of tit which happens to be attracted.