In the run-up to the July general election, Keir Starmer and his ‘top’ team were repeatedly interviewed by the media, and to a man, they repeated the banal slogan that in Labour people will finally have a government where ‘the grown-ups’ are back in charge.
As is usual for Marxists, they seemed to believe that if you repeat a slogan often enough, people will start to believe it. Hence the parroting of the meaningless ‘working people’, ‘my father was a toolmaker’ (and guess who’s the tool), and the pledge that most sticks in the gullet: ‘Country first, party second’.
Sir Keir Starmer, Mr. Blandness personified, asked for our votes on the basis that he wasn’t Boris Johnson, Michael Gove or Rishi Sunak. His friendship with Jeremy Corbyn, an unapologetic Marxist and the person under whom Starmer served as a Shadow Cabinet minister, has led to questions over his political judgement. Starmer became Labour leader in April 2020, after Corbyn stood down.
Jeremy Corbyn was finally expelled from the Labour Party earlier this year. Since his election as the Labour leader, Starmer has made a concerted effort to disassociate himself from his predecessor. He has succeeded in ditching many of the more extreme policies that he previously supported under his ‘friend’.
But there exists an aspect of Starmer that is little known nor widely endorsed by the majority of his ‘working people’. This pertains to his (and the Labour Party’s) backing for Sinn Fein and the concept of a united Ireland.
“The public have lost confidence that this government can deliver the Brexit deal Britain needs. Labour are now the grown-ups in the room. Not acting for narrow political gain. But in the national interest.”
Keir Starmer writing in The Times newspaper in 2017.
Another of his ‘friends’ is Martina Anderson, who hails from the Bogside in Londonderry. She was born into a well-known Irish republican family, even though her father was a Protestant. She became involved in the Irish republican movement in the late 1970s before going on to join the IRA as a volunteer.
In the mid-80s, a young and upcoming socialist lawyer became an advisor to the Northern Ireland Policing Board. He continued in this capacity when Anderson, who is now a member of the Sinn Féin Assembly, was appointed to the policing board. The appointment was particularly contentious, as it came at a time when peace in Northern Ireland was still fragile, following the IRA’s assassination of over 300 police officers.
As a teenage IRA terrorist in the 1980s, she was convicted of several terrorist offences, including plotting to make explosions, and was given a life sentence in 1986. She was also convicted of possessing a firearm and causing an explosion six years prior after being arrested at the scene of a bombing in Londonderry. On 10 November 1998, Anderson was released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
She was among those who congratulated Starmer on his victory in the 2020 Labour leadership race, a public endorsement which left him deeply embarrassed. In 2021 and 2022, Starmer sought to hide additional meetings with Sinn Fein, but was once again surprised when Mary Lou McDonald, the leader of Sinn Fein, tweeted regarding their “very constructive meeting.”
The Belfast Telegraph carried an article by a former colleague of Starmer on November 16, 2024, revealing that in the ’90s he was in favour of a united Ireland, but now wants to keep the Union ‘at all costs’. In the 1980’s Starmer was on the editorial board of a Marxist magazine called Socialist Alternative. This tatty rag slavishly followed the ideological line pursued by all the other ‘progressive’ media in supporting the Irish Republican cause.
Unfortunately for Mr Blandness personified, every one of his election soundbites doesn’t bear closer inspection. They are just meaningless slogans, thought up by cynical party hacks to fool the public, to be jettisoned after they have served their purpose. Fortunately, it seems that the mask is slipping, and a majority of the public don’t like what they can see.
To Starmer and Labour, anyone who gets in the way is simply seen as collateral damage in their war to change Britain forever. This includes pensioners, the farmers, anyone who believes that mass immigration has been a disaster. Furthermore, it encompasses all those who assert that in Britain, we should have the freedom to express our thoughts, be that on social media or in print.
This is the ugly face of the totalitarian spirit that dominates the party that started out fighting for the rights of the working class. Starmer and his comrades consider the freedom of expression to be more dangerous than the unrestricted importation of murderers and terrorists.
The sooner they are all consigned to the dustbin of history, the better.
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