Starmer's Big Speech Promises Nothing but Misery!

Right, so Keir Starmer this morning made his first major speech since becoming Prime Minister and we all knew it was going to be doom and gloom, we all knew it was going to be all about blaming the last Tory government, we all knew he was going to lay out a load of claims that he was going to have to make tough choices in order to set the country back on course and that things would have to get worse before they got better. Every last bit of it was nonsense, because these aren’t tough decisions Keir Starmer is making, these are the easy choices. There’s nothing easier than just carrying on exactly where the Tories left off, there’s nothing easier than punching down on those already with the least and for Starmer to claim those with the broadest shoulders must carry their share of the burden when we know he’s already chosen to take the path of starving kids and freezing pensioners, this speech was a complete disaster and no wonder it is coming unravelled as quickly as it is.
Right, so it’s more austerity for all of us, such is the message from Keir Starmer in his, well hardly widely anticipated first major speech since becoming PM, but we knew he would make one and we knew it would be as bland, boring and insincere as every other speech this plasterboard offcut of a politician has ever made, where he is a completely uncharismatic version of David Cameron and Rachel Reeves is an even more compassion and sympathy devoid version of George Osborne, because the same choices they made, the choices of austerity are being made again now, when it did nothing but fail the country, fail the economy, fail every service we all rely on and we can’t continue to put up with more cuts, more failure because we’re at the point where services will just completely collapse, unable to function any further.
But above everything else austerity is a choice and following on from 14 years of it, it is absolutely nothing like the change Starmer promised and it is anything but the making of tough decisions, when there is literally nothing easier than just carrying on making the same easy ones, placating the people who have your ear, the rich, the elite, the lobbyists and inflicting more misery on those without one iota of the same level of influence, the ordinary working class people, the very people the Labour Party was created to serve but should now be more obvious than ever, that that party has well and truly been infiltrated, taken over and absorbed into another soulless husk of a political party there to meet the interests of the establishment and nobody else.
It's very easy to choose to keep kids in poverty, it’s very easy to strip winter fuel payments away from pensioners, all people with scant influence on the national political scene outside of the once every 5 years trip to the ballot.
We didn’t get this nonsense rhetoric in 1945, when massive housebuilding, the health of the nation in the creation of the NHS and social security were formed, the rich paying their share, the restoration of the country requiring it. Now it is required again and there is no leadership to provide it, the guy who would have set things straight in 2017 and 2019 with the vision and the policies to do so was smeared as a social pariah and racist instead, yet now we’re supposed to celebrate the guy who is still talking up getting tough on migrant gangs to stop the boats, and who threw Bengalis under the bus during the election campaign to score cheap political points and who is ardently on the side of Israel as they commit genocide, but no, the jam making Corbyn was the bigger monster right? Not the guy who has literally taken £76,000 in free gifts from establishment interests who just says he’s on our side but does nothing to demonstrate it?
If Starmer was serious about stopping the likes of migrant gangs, then he’d open up a safe, legal route to asylum and just put the lot of them out of business. That’s a tough decision though, That’d invite criticism from the Tories from Farage and Co, that’d require making the moral case for migration and selling to the public the benefits of net migration rather than acquiescing to the right wing, to the mainstream media, too many of whom are plastering migrants across their front pages every day just to sell their rancid hate rags. The easy decision for Keir Starmer is to just join in and so that is what his policy and his rhetoric in this speech does.
He told us he’s not afraid to take the unpopular decisions, but who are they unpopular with? Not the rich. The rich will agree with all of this, they’ll agree with more austerity, they did so well out of it last time after all. The unpopular decisions are going to be with the general public, but we don’t matter now. He’s had our vote, we can sod off and suck it up now as far as he’s concerned, an easy decision to make when it’s only the media moguls and the donors who he really cares about going forwards. The unpopular choices, the tough choices, and we still don’t know much about what these will be, this softening us up ahead of October’s Halloween nightmare budget as it’s shaping up to be the more they harp on about it, but they are only ever tough on us, they are only ever unpopular with us. Targeting the poor and powerless is always, always, always the easy option for a politician to take and it is a sign of cowardice, it is a sign of fearfulness, it is a sign that those making these choices are bad leaders, that they won’t stand up to powerful vested interests, they bow and scrape to them instead, they take their money instead, they take their freebies and their positive headlines and their pats on the head. This was therefore one of the most spineless speeches I’ve ever heard a politician give, but there are those who loved it. Cue James O’ - poxy – Brien:
That Starmer is boring is the only accurate thing that liberal berk got right because this isn’t getting the country back on it’s feet, it’s copying exactly what has been attempted for the last 14 years by the Tories. It’s no different the same people are being punched down and James O’Brien joins in in that by saying you must hate Britain if you aren’t with him. No James, He hates us, that’s why he is making the easy choices to get the country back on its feet and will fail in doing that because he won’t make the tough decisions, he won’t tax the rich and I’m frankly minded to ask what exactly it is about the ordinary working class people of this country you hate so much? In your own scraping deference to a man you might call boring, but who you clearly and unabashedly support regardless of that? What is it exactly you have against people wanting slightly more for themselves than to scrape a measly existence all their lives until they shuffle off this mortal coil in quiet ignominy?
Dare to hope for better times means you hate Britain, who knew I was so unpatriotic, how about you folks watching this?
The talk of a black hole in the public finances in reality is just a black hole at the heart of those in government, a black hole where the hearts of those in government ought to be and with such a massive majority as Starmer has, the ability to make changes to benefit the country and society is there. That, despite that massive clout he has he is still too afraid to do anything any different to the very Tories he loves to attack who came before him.
Starmer’s speech has, looking at social media responses afterwards, reminded a lot of people of Lord Farquaad’s speech from Shrek, the some of you may die, but that is a price I’m willing to pay speech, because fundamentally that’s the reality. Starving kids, we’ve already seen the return of Victorian era diseases under the Tories but Labour will make the easy choice to continue. Freeze pensioners, perhaps they’re seen as too much of a Tory voter base. On the flipside though, Oasis are reforming, so perhaps Starmer can console himself his tough decisions on such things and his upcoming budget with free tickets from a donor winging their way to him very soon.
It's one scandal after another for Starmer’s Labour but the scandal of claiming to make tough choices when in actuality they are the easiest decisions Starmer could make really is the most subversive one in recent days, but there is another one at the heart of all the austerity Starmer is selling us as a tough decision on his part today that I covered just the other day, stopping the Tory gravy train just long enough for Starmer and Co to get on board as this video recommendation will tell you all about as your next suggested watch and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.