Starmer’s Labour CRUMBLES IN JUST WEEKS!

Right, so just seven weeks into the job and Keir Starmer’s Labour is in complete and utter disarray, it is falling apart so fast, it’s approval ratings now so dire, we could well be looking at one of the fastest collapsing governments in history, though I fancy to myself that Liz the lettuce Truss is probably safe with that title. However the caveat amongst all of this is that we have had very little by way of voting intention polls thusfar, not perhaps a massive surprise given we are only 7 weeks into a new government, but given the collapse in approval polls you’d imagine those that commission the pollsters to do their polls, they don’t do it for free after all and certainly they are commissioning approval ratings polls, might be interested to see how bad the situation is versus other parties, because the drops in approval both for Starmer personally and Labour itself are absolutely massive, making a complete mockery of their sad belief that carrying on like George Osborne economically and a return to Blairism would be popular.
Right, so Starmer’s Labour are collapsing and although many of us surmised that that would be the case once people finally realised Starmer is just another lousy Tory tribute act, and would break his word and his promises, that his manifesto would prove worthless, that he conned his way into power just as he conned his way into the Labour Party leadership, I don’t think anybody thought the fallout would come quite as quickly as approval rating polling is indicating it is. However perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised, when there has been zero good news, zero change as was promised being put forward to be delivered on once Starmer took the keys to Number 10 and formed a government.
But in just seven weeks it really has been issue after issue being rolled back on and polling is in no uncertain terms appearing to very much reflect public mood.
Let’s start here not with Keir Starmer for a moment though, but his sidekick and the economic brains if we can call her that, questionable who she’s running the finances of the nation in the interests of of course, Rachel Reeves. Rachel Reeves in no small part should of course take a good chunk of responsibility for where the party is polling at right now in terms of approval. Claiming the state of the nations finances was worse than she thought, despite the Office for Budget Responsibility having made these public some 6 weeks before polling day has blown up in her face as this was very quickly pointed out. She still looks hell bent on reinforcing this already debunked myth come the budget, which may end up so doom-laden if Labour think things are bad now for them in terms of numbers, they’ll almost certainly get significantly worse, especially since one of the rumours being most talked about in terms of the budget being further attacks on those on benefits, despite many of them being in work, so low paid they have to have it topped up, but it’s a narrative Reeves has ben talking about for years now, being tougher on benefits than the Tories and she’s now in a position to make good on that threat and given she is married to a man who has been a long time civil servant in the Department of Work and Pensions under the Tory administration, Nick Joicey, you haver to wonder why she feels so averse towards people who need extra help in life and whether he has been some influence on her over that. Either way, choosing to do that whilst consistently dismissing the notion of a wealth tax, choosing as a Labour Chancellor, the party supposedly of the workers, no matter how low paid, who should actually be championing that they just get better paid, to punch on down on such people in preference to taxing the rich more, in deference to those same wealthy elites who might well also be Labour donors these days is horrible optics, justifiably condemned.
That is just scratching the surface of the awfulness Starmer’s Labour though and that of Reeves herself. Her fiscal rules, combined with a refusal to consider that wealth tax to free her hands to spend where needed, have meant she has made other appalling choices, typing her hands with her own nonsense made up economic justification to push ahead with cuts and not invest in services and they will remain the justification for what else is still to come and be announced, despite the harm we can already see these rules doing, because they will of course continue to do harm for as long as Reeves insists on sticking by them. Fundamentally they equate to a need for cuts and any investment needing to come from private finance and that will affect everything, every aspect of government and the running of the country.
Starmer’s Labour is militantly standing by them too as we’ve seen with the matter of the Tories two child benefit cap. This has to stay according to Starmer and Reeves, they voted against a motion to lift it and they have suspended 7 of their own MPs for a minimum of 6 months for daring to vote to lift a million kids out of the poverty they and their families are trapped in after 14 years of Tory misrule.
We thought that was cruel enough but following that was the removal of the winter fuel allowance to 10m pensioners, and that has been followed up upon almost immediately with the news that Labour have also screwed us over on our energy bills just as the Tories did, allowing them to rise by 10% when they said no more rises and indeed that’s a double whammy on pensioners particularly. Now Labour’s answer to that is that any pensioners entitled to Pension credit top ups to the UK’s abysmally low state pension, should apply for those instead. Well how is that saving money then, if you’re going to drive the benefit bill up and all as Rachel Reeves delights in sharpening her axe to deliver more benefit cuts to come?
The same senselessness can be applied to making those living in social housing pay even higher rents to pay to build more affordable housing, that although it’s called affordable, may be completely unaffordable given that the rent can be up to 90% of open market rate. To cover those higher rents, housing benefit will obviously have to rise and as I covered in another recent video the Tories tried this twice in their last stint in power and failed too.
Then there is the bungled handling of the riots, which has widely been seen as a complete failure on Labour’s part, when this should have given them ample reason to condemn the politics of hate and the language of division, but of course under Starmer they haven’t been able to because he’s indulged in it himself. Demands that Bengali’s be deported, continuing the language of hard right Tories and Reform UK Ltd that the boats must be stopped, when once upon a time Starmer spoke of making the moral case for migration, yet another lie.
Refusal to renationalise energy instead letting our bills soar, refusal to renationalise water despite sewage dumping, a dire need to clean up and bosses taking massive bonuses and Labour just let that continue too. All of this and I haven’t even mentioned Israel, the arms sales, the unshakable support for Netanyahu’s regime, David Lammy on his second trip out there already and attempts to block arrest warrants we’re now left wondering when or if they’ll ever come after British attempts to stop them, both under the Tories and Labour despite promising not to try and block them, then breaking their word on that, then going back on it again. Flip flop Starmer might be a favourite refrain of the right wing and not lefties like myself but you can see why it sticks.
All that and not even two months in power yet It’s little wonder Labour and Starmer are on the ropes in terms of approval ratings.
Starmer’s approval rating has plummeted by 24 points in just a month according to Opinium, in a poll out on the 19th, which compared to a poll by Yougov on the 8th, which showed Starmer’s approval ratings down 7 points on just a week prior to that. That was considered a rapid fall only eclipsed by the demise of Liz Truss, the latest poll shows that having accelerated.
As far as Labour itself goes under his tenure, the picture is virtually identical. According to YouGov, in a poll also out on the 19th, Labour’s approval ratings have fallen by 19 points. Now if you look at polls like I do, searching for trends, there’s not a great deal to look at in terms of trends here, but actually we’re past the point of that because normally in such polls you only see the numbers shift over a similar timeframe by a little bit and we always have to bear in mind that anything + or – 3 points is typically assumed to be within the margins of error. We’re talking drops of 19 points for Labour in 3 weeks and 24 points for Starmer himself over a month. That is so fare outside the margin of error as to not be worth considering, its clearly really bad.
Of course we have to bear in mind these are approval ratings and not voting intention, plenty might still vote Labour despite not liking them, but another set of stats has come out too which have reflected significant bad news for Labour as well and that is in terms of it’s own membership and all the policy above of course reflects who Labour prefer to represent under Starmer and Reeves, but whereas that was their choice in the beginning, membership collapse over the last year has been so severe, it may no longer be a choice, as this excerpt from Skwawkbox explains:
‘Labour has admitted it is only kept afloat by the money of the mega-rich, after yet another massive fall in party membership numbers – to a level lower than its peak under Ed Miliband and far below the almost 600,000 when Jeremy Corbyn was leader.
According to its latest official figures, the party suffered a net loss of 37,000 members, 9% of its total, by the end of 2023 compared to a year earlier – the biggest year-on-year loss since 2003 when Labour haemorrhaged members during Tony Blair’s illegal war in Iraq. Even the claimed latest membership of 370,000 is suspect according to party insiders, as Labour under Keir Starmer has long padded its figures by continuing to count lapsed members – and its records were long in chaos after outsourcing led to a massive hack and the freezing of its membership administration systems…
And the party has inadvertently admitted that it is only propped up by donations from the super-rich. Party general secretary David Evans has said that the party losing less than the expected £2.5m during the general election campaign was because of “an increase in high-value donations”. Under Corbyn, large numbers of ordinary people chipped in what they could afford – so many that Labour’s debts, grown huge under previous leaders, were wiped out.’
Now reliant on the wealth of the rich to keep the party afloat. That doesn’t sound like a healthy membership at all, and losing 9% of that membership in just the last year, the largest year on year membership collapse in 20 years, not seen since Blair’s second term, well it shows Starmer’s Labour has been rotten from the inside out for a while, but now in power, that rot is becoming a lot more public, is spreading so much faster than it did under Blair and could see this administration collapse a lot sooner than anyone could have imagined. A party this new to government should not be this hated this soon and they are only going to make matters worse for us and themselves going forwards. These are mad numbers and no party can survive sustained drops like this if they carry on and I think that budget that is coming up could prove catastrophic if Labour don’t wake up to themselves. That massive majority won’t protect them for long, especially with so many new MPs realising their careers could prove remarkably short lived without a shift and shifting Starmer and Reeves out will begin to look more and more attractive to them.
Right now donors are speaking louder than anything else to Starmer’s Labour, not just those funding the party, but funding MPs too – the lobbyists. The more members abandon the party, the more reliant on donations the party becomes, so all of us being sacrificed to the fossil fuel lobby, with our energy bills set to surge again, well, look at who in Labour is getting funded by this particular set of lobbyists and wonder no more about why Labour has broken it’s promises. Country before party is possibly the biggest lie Starmer ever told, get all the details in this video recommendation here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.