What's REALLY Going on Between Starmer and Farage?

Right, so it’s a bit of video footage that has now been going viral around social media, that following the vote on the assisted dying bill, Keir Starmer made a beeline across the floor of the House of Commons to have a word with Nigel Farage and the whole country has been debating what they said, though for those of us on the actual left, it’s no surprise to see them get along so well, perhaps it was a bit more of a surprise to see Starmer so blatantly do so on camera, filmed as the events happening in the Commons are, televised as all voting is on BBC Parliament.
Well it occurred to me, that, ahead of a planned reboot of his government next week in order to try and repair the damage already done to Labour’s polling in coming up for just 5 months, that perhaps he’s picking Farage’s brains for ideas. It’s not like Starmer has any of his own and hasn’t been chasing right wing votes since he became leader and ditching everything the Labour Party is meant to stand for and when we’ve said he’s ushering in the far right to take government when he’s finally dumped by the nation in 2029, here he is, actively it seems working with them and proving us right.
Right, so that was Keir Starmer hurriedly crossing the floor, though not for the reasons most of us hoped for, to permanently join the Tories where he belongs, but perhaps they aren’t right wing enough, as he made a direct line for Nigel Farage and although the conversation was brief, it was animated, so it was something of significance, given it happened in the Commons, directly after the assisted dying bill. You’ll have noted that Tory MP David Davies was also standing there until it became readily apparent that Starmer was going to ignore him completely, not important to him, only Farage was, but what about?
Suppose it was to do with the assisted dying bill, it’s not like there are enough Reform UK MPs to make any difference to that, successfully passing second reading, making it to the Committee Stage, still unfortunately progressing on it’s way to becoming law, and reaching a point where, well as Diane Abbott said to Victoria Derbyshire who was standing in once again for, but sadly not replacing Laura Kuenssberg on her Sunday morning show, Where Abbott said:
‘We're moving to a situation where it will be cheaper for a GP to get a very ill person to sign on the dotted line for assisted suicide than to find them a place in a hospice’
But Farage actually voted against this and one reason for that possibly, is his relationship with Trump is going all in on abortion bans in the US so he’s saying, telling women on his crackpot social media platform Truth Social, that they will no longer be thinking about abortion. Lo and behold, Farage positions himself here as ardently pro life too, wanting a debate to roll back the abortion limit, which is all very rich considering all 5 of Reform UK’s MPs are men, one of which has a conviction for beating a woman up, now deciding that telling women what they can do with their bodies is something they should be deciding for them.
But where that might mark a difference between Starmer and Farage, there are far more instances where they share common ground and we can go back a ways to see where the relationship between Starmer and Farage was already a thin and a toxic one at that.
Take the General Election. Of all the seats in the country where Starmer could have stood down a Labour candidate, why did he choose Claction?
Farage had already picked his seat well in Clacton for his eight attempt to become an MP, that constituency having previously voted UKIP, but then Labour inexplicably pulled their candidate out of Clacton. Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, who wasn’t likely to win admittedly, but with his colourful fashion sense he was nonetheless a popular figure when out campaigning and a campaign trail clash between him and Farage saw the guy go viral on social media, all of sudden eclipsing posts even by Keir Starmer and this was never going help Farage either was it, or indeed sit well with Starmer’s ego?
Nowhere else in the country did Labour pull a candidate, but Owusu-Nepaul was uniquely pulled out of Clacton and redeployed elsewhere to try and shore up the vote of vulnerable MPs who were deemed at risk, he was packed off to the West Midlands, allegedly in tears that his campaign was brought to a sudden screeching halt for the sake of what was ostensibly just one more body out leafleting. The local Labour Party was incensed that of all people, Labour weren’t going to put up a fight against Nigel Farage. They were fighting the Greens more than Reform UK Ltd’s leader. So was Starmer already cosying up to Farage from then?
We can look at other examples where policy positions appear to overlap as well. Borders. Immigration. That’s taken a pretty hard bashing from Labour hasn’t it?
Deportations are now at an historic high, Border command one of Starmer’s election pledges and one he’s been determined to keep and hasn’t turned out to just be another lie, though of course it has been just as ineffective at stopping desperate people fleeing goodness knows what getting here, people have continued to drown in the attempt, because the one thing that would actually be value for money, would actually put people traffickers out of business would be a safe, legal asylum route. Renegotiation of a returns agreement with the EU on top of that, which would not require rejoining, for those still suffering haemorrhoid attacks whenever someone mentions such a notion, despite the abject failure Brexit has been, no need to clutch your sphincter over such a move, but it would mean we wouldn’t have to house everyone eligible for asylum. Why not do it? Farage of course. The media love him and he’d have a field day with it.
That said borders are only an issue for Farage when it’s poor, desperate people fleeing war or some other event outside their control. If you’re rich he’ll help you come here. For as much as he says he hates economic migrants, what he really hates are the poor ones. He’ll stand on clifftops pointing at small boats coming and bemoan that they’re all full of young men, when that isn’t necessarily the case at all, but if they were rich young men, that’d be completely different.
In the register of members financial interests updates between the 29th October and 11th November, Farage got £40K from Nomad Capitalist LLC for a speaking engagement in Malaysia, once again, serving the people of Clacton well. This is a company that helps economic migrants cross borders, so for all the people buying into Farage’s claptrap about keeping people out, if there’s money in it for him, it seems he’s happy to let them in. If they are people who are rich and want to move somewhere where their money is safer, then Nomad will help them do it and Farage as an MP now, has influence and when the Prime Minister of the country is running across the House of Commons to speak to him, he’s got a helluva lot of it, despite being an opposition MP.
Look at Starmer’s budget, no wealth taxes, but the tax burden placed on businesses which are now making people unemployed, services being underfunded, the assisted dying bill and the lack of safeguards with it giving grave concerns to a lot of people that the disabled, the long term sick, the elderly, and disproportionately those from working class backgrounds are going to be targeted and coerced to have their lives ended rather than be burdens to their families.
Of course the big difference between Starmer and Farage, is that Farage has his followers, his devotees, the media love him and frankly nobody loves Starmer, a man with not a single redeeming feature and whilst the same can said of Farage in all honesty, he has charisma, he is a salesman and Starmer is neither and so we come to the news of what is afoot this week, which is apparently going to herald a reboot of Starmer’s premiership already.
Now he did this numerous times as Labour leader, as he made promises and pledges, broke them and then did a relaunch. He’s now doing it in power, but is Farage an influence here as well?
This news has come with a particularly caustic comment from Professor John Curtice, the pollster bloke, who has nailed on exactly these problems that Starmer has an excerpt from the Independent reading:
‘But polling guru Sir John Curtice has warned that Sir Keir’s government has “hit significant political trouble rather early on in its life”, adding that “the fundamental question is whether a politician who has shown so far absolutely no ability to construct a narrative can suddenly construct a narrative”.
Speaking to The Independent, Sir John Curtice said the government “lacks a story of what it is about”.’
The big reason for that is Starmer doesn’t know and running to Farage, makes you wonder in light of this, whether he’s borrowing one from Farage.
Starmer is setting out what he is calling a plan for change this week, as his polling after 5 months has nosedived having not presented any change to the country whatsoever. He thinks he can still flog this dead horse called change, but the horse has bolted it hasn’t died and nobody I don’t think is going to be taken in by pledges coming from Team Keith on the NHS when privatisation will still be the name of the game, public safety, when Starmer seems determined to paint a target on the country for Russia, energy security, when he’s let bills go up when he pledged to bring them down and social mobility when if you’re poor, he’s going to take your money and if you’re poor and old or infirm, his assisted dying bill will see you assisted to die.
It doesn’t matter what he says, he won’t be trusted, he won’t be believed, you can’t win trust back when you’ve abused it as much as he has. Running to Farage, well it all adds up to the notion that Starmer’s actions are going to herald a Prime Minister Farage in 2029 as the media will enable it, Starmer’s failure to achieve anything drives the Overton Window ever further to the right, and people will be convinced that more and more right wing politics is more and more normal by all of it. Starmer has failed and needs to go, Labour cannot revive it’s fortunes with him in charge and that should be all the more obvious if, despite his massive majority and all the MPs he has at his disposal, turning to Reform UK Ltd appears to be his go to response and we’ll soon see what shape his reboot takes to know whether or not this is true.
For more on the details of that assisted dying bill and why it is so horrific and absolutely needs to be stopped, even if you believe in the humanity of a peaceful end, you absolutely need to watch this video recommendation as your next watch, because this bill is not that, please do like, share and subscribe if you’ve not done so already to help support the channel and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid, Cheers folks.