Starmer nails his true colours to the mast.

George Monbiot: “Across my long and largely futile career…”

Keir Starmer's identity crisis

Keir Starmer is a walking, talking political identity crisis. Starmer is a man - at least we assume that’s what he is. We have not verified his biological sex. We see him using the men’s toilets (at least that’s what I assume) and playing football with other people who appear to be (unverified) men. Ok, let’s put it this way. Starmer is an unverified man, or at least, appears to self-identify as a man. I tell you what, for the sake of clarity, I’m just going to refer to him - or them - as a person.

Starmer is a person who lied to Labour Party members to win their votes to become the elected leader of the Labour Party. He made a series of pledges to enact socialist, progressive policies. All of which he’s reneged on. As leader of the Opposition to the murderous, racist liar Boris Johnson, Starmer went out of his way to consistently support the Tory government.

His entire strategy was to remove any possibility of mistaking him for a Labour leader, and one former Labour leader in particular. If anything he was even more right wing than Johnson. Crucially, he had no responsibilities and therefore appeared more competent and professional than Johnson. Having established himself as a Tory clone, Starmer was able to position himself as the “change” candidate against the dripping wet washout Rishi “carry on” Sunak. It was no contest. Starmer won by a landslide and had a mandate to do exactly as he was told by his advisers/handlers.

I see people complaining now that Starmer has no policies, no principles, no political beliefs. Yet his entire career, and certainly his entire election campaign, was built solely on the pursuit of power. Pledges, promises, missions, principles, beliefs - they’re all for losers, people who identify as something or other. Starmer’s handlers positioned him as a nobody. A no-one. Someone no one could possibly identify with. Someone who could win votes from Tories in Tory seats dressing to the right, from Labour voters in Labour seats dressing to the left, and from Liberal voters in liberal seats dressing to the right again but this time wearing orange underpants. Hell, he even won votes from Scottish Nationalists wearing a tartan dress and no knickers.

It was an amazing and amazingly brilliant election-winning strategy. But it does mean that we have a Prime Minister who panders to the electoral threat from the right. It does mean we have a PM who is obsessed with people’s genitals, and whether they had them at birth. And it does mean that we have a leader who eats three Shredded wheat for breakfast every morning just to look tough for Reform voters even though he has a severe gluten intolerance. Hence Starmer’s persistent strained facial expression and his whiny voice.

Every outdoor seating area in the public realm is littered with beer bottles and cans, laughing gas canisters and other drug paraphernalia.

Probably not what local homebuyers here signed up for with the marketing lure of “canalside living”.

A round picnic table with three glass bottles is set in a grassy area near a tree and adjacent to a street with parked cars and a brick building with balconies.A round picnic table with empty bottles is set on a grassy area near a canal and surrounded by trees.A playground with wooden structures and benches is set in a grassy area with nearby trees and parked cars.

Not sure where this came from, but it’s where we’re at.

A cartoon depicts a young girl asking her father about people starving in Gaza, and he responds by telling her to be quiet, labeling the question as antisemitic.

Interesting the way this story is framed as if award-winning BBC journalist Jeremy Bowen has committed a heinous crime, associating what he has consistently reported with the ludicrously banned documentary Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone.

“One night, I opened my front door to such a strong gas smell I actually thought someone was trying to gas me and I rang the police”.

More on wtf and why.

Woken at 1 am by the sicky sweet smell of petrol wafting in through our open bedroom window.

(From the quoted article)

As US lawyer Dylan Williams notes:

This Netanyahu quote reported by an Israeli outlet constitutes prima facie evidence of:

  1. the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against a civilian population; and.
  1. intent to kill to destroy, in part, a national or ethnic group—elements of the crime of genocide.
This smoking guns proves Netanyahu's genocidal intent.

It's been reported in the Israeli media - but not in the wider Western media.

Why? 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/this-sm...

The invasion destroyed their hopes that Russia might become a normal, non-violent country.

A normal, non-violent country like the USA, the UK, Israel, France, Germany…?

Podcast art of Next Year in Moscow by The Economist

The Economist’s Next Year in Moscow is an incredible podcast series. (So is Scam Inc).

Well, what do you know?

A news article headline claims that Liz Kendall stated young people may be encouraged to join the army to reduce youth unemployment.

the UK will give £3 billion a year of military support until 2030/31 and “for as long as needed to support Ukraine”.

Britain’s Labour government announced plans on Tuesday to cut more than five billion pounds ($6.48 billion) from its welfare budget by 2029/30

No plans for conscription…