And the Starmer show trials go on. A woman from Moston in Manchester has pleaded not guilty to a charge of violent disorder at Manchester Crown Court. Barbera Barker, 52, is accused of buying eggs which were thrown by protesters outside of a hotel housing asylum seekers in Manchester on 31 July. She has been bailed and her trail has been pencilled in for February 2025. At least she had the sense to plead not guilty.
The PM has seen his popularity collapse since winning the General Election less than two months ago. Labour may have a large majority in parliament, but the figures tell a different story. Starmer won the election, but he didn’t do so well in his own seat of Holborn and St Pancras.
The Labour vote was only 18,884, down from 36,641 in 2019. The turnout in his constituency, mirroring what was happening around the country, also collapsed. In 2019, 56,000 voted, while the turnout in 2024 had fallen to 38,000. Nationally, Labour’s vote of only 34 percent was the lowest of any governing party since the First World War.
Jeremy Corbin, the Labour Party leader in 2019 and a ‘friend’ of Starmer, received 24,120 votes at the GE, nearly 6,000 more votes than that of #TwoTierKier. Gary Gibbon of Channel 4 said that he is the leader of an unloved landslide party. And this is a party that has promised the electors ’10 years of pain’. Pre-election promises must be ditched because of a “£22 billion black hole.” Add to that his decision to means test the Winter Fuel Allowance, depriving millions of pensioners a measly £300 quid.
At a press conference held in the Rose Garden of 10 Downing Street, Starmer (who it seems has to constantly read from his notes while making a speech), blamed the recent anti-immigration riots in seven of our most deprived towns and cities on ‘populism’ and Tory misrule over the past 14-years.
Speaking in his nasal, monotone voice, Starmer also managed to invoke images of ‘Nazi’ salutes and swastika tattoos at the Cenotaph. Really? No mention of mass migration changing whole communities, grooming gang’s preying on White children, or Islamic terror attacks. Instead, all we got was left-wing bile against a fictitious far-right.
Remember, this was after only 52 days in the top job, a ‘honeymoon’ period when most newly elected governments are still basking in the glow of voter approval. Starmer and his comrades were seemingly caught on the hop by the extent of public anger over immigration, both illegal and legal.
Like a rabbit caught in a car’s headlights, his eyes wide with fear and continuously looking down at his notes, the PM gave the appearance of a man under pressure and one not quite in control. This was not the media savvy premier confident in his own leadership or his cause.
It has also emerged that a peer donated nearly £20,000 to help the Labour leader with a pre-election makeover. Waheed Alli, the former chairman of ASOS and a member of the House of Lords, donated £16,200 for “work clothing” and an additional £2,485 for “multiple pairs of glasses,” as noted in the latest update to his register of interests.
This news became public days after Starmer was seen wearing a £500 hoodie from luxury French fashion house Sandro. This posh hoodie retails at £519 at Harrods – and this was while he was meeting voters in Brighton and pledging to tackle the cost of living crisis. What a hypocrite.
So who is Sir Kier Starmer? Is he a Marxist, Trotskyist, or as the journalist Peter Hitchens alledged, a Pabloist? I must admit that until recently I had never even heard of the term ‘Pabloism’. Outside of a small circle of Marxist loonies, I would hazard a guess that 99.9 percent of the British population will be similarly unaware. Yet ‘Pabloism’ is an extremist political sect that has now got its feet under the table of 10 Downing Street.
Having been involved in racial Nationalism and street politics for many years, I was intimately acquainted with the myriad Marxist organisations that we have encountered on the streets. These fringe grouplets were forever fighting and falling out over the minutiae of Marx and Trotsky. So it came as a bit of a ‘lightbulb’ moment recently when I viewed a video about the politics of Kier Starmer.
The video features an interview with Peter Hitchens, the Daily Mail columnist and self-confessed former Trotskyist, speaking about the Prime Minister. Starmer had previously been referred to by the Mail on Sunday as a “Posh Trot” in an attempt to expose his “radical past”. Hitchens ‘reveals’ that Sir Kier is a ‘Pabloist’, a breakaway sect from the Communist Fourth International (FI).
Michel Pablo was the pseudonym of Michalis N. Raptis. A Greek citizen born in Egypt in 1911, he became a controversial and innovative Marxist leader. By the 1950s, he was one of the most prominent leaders of the Fourth International. The Fourth International (FI) had been created as a new global Communist organisation, after Stalin’s rift with Trotsky.
“The success of the (Stalin-led) Soviet Union in establishing a number of client states after that conflict led Pablo to the conclusion that Communist Parties were, contrary to Trotsky’s beliefs, still capable of leading anti-capitalist revolutions. The success of Tito and Mao confirmed this, in his view. This led to him putting forward an idea of “deep entryism” (entryism “sui generis” (“of a special type”)) where Trotskyists would join mass Communist Parties and seek to influence their development without revealing their politics openly. This idea did not go down well among some and the FI continued a process of splits and infighting, a tradition that continues to this day among Trotsky’s adherents.”
However, this idea didn’t sit well with everyone, leading to ongoing splits and conflicts within the movement. The infighting among Trotsky’s followers has persisted over the years, continuing a long-standing tradition of division within the group.
In the mid-1980s, Starmer was a member of Socialist Alternatives Editorial Collective. Socialist Alternative was a badly produced magazine where articles on the future direction of the Labour Party and the miners’ strike sat alongside adverts for revolutionary communist organisations and reviews of books on Rosa Luxemburg, the German communist and Spartacist leader. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were executed after their arrest by Freikorp officers on January 15, 1919.
The most powerful position in the British government is the Prime Minister. As the head of Her Majesty’s Government, the PM is the de facto leader of the country and is responsible for appointing the Cabinet, advising the monarch on the dissolution of Parliament, and setting the domestic and foreign policy agenda. We have been warned.
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