Starmer’s Labour suffer INSTANT backlash!

Right, so I didn’t think it would take long for much of the British public to realise they’d backed another wrong’un by getting behind Keir Starmer, but polling that has come out, personal approval ratings it has to be said, not voting intention at this point, though that will be interesting to see if my thoughts are somewhat borne out by that when it does come. Well it’s not good news for Starmer and Reeves and frankly why should it be given how they’ve started their time in government, but two weeks into the job, if you’d said to me their personal approval ratings would drop as far as they have, I’d have called you a little over optimistic, because they haven’t just dropped, they’ve fallen through the floor. But perhaps after 14 years of the Tories being in charge, these two clowns promising change, but delivering none at all, just continuity Tory, bear out just how angry and fed up the public is with their living standards permanently being sacrificed to appease the wealthy donor class. Perhaps that’s how the rich should be viewed – they’re the political donor class, they don’t have to pay taxes like us, a far craic of them, because they fund political parties, but whatever you look at it, they’re getting the polling they deserve for their actions and the future for the UK looks all the scarier, because of the vacuum they’re leaving behind.
Right, so polling. Two weeks into the new Labour government, you’d be hard pressed to notice much difference between the Labour of today and the 14 years of Tory rule, we’ve just binned off. Our living standards are not being helped, Reeves has claimed the economy looks worse than they thought and digs out the old George Osborne playbook of blaming the party that was in power before over that, despite the Office for Budget Responsibility having shown what the state of the country was, the nations finances, 6 weeks previously. We all knew, leading up to Rachel Reeves’ financial statement, that if she claimed things were worse than they thought, that meant they were either lying, or they hadn’t read the OBR report. Either way, it’s dishonesty or incompetence and we know the consequences of such statements invariably lead to cuts and the cuts of course that Reeves and Starmer are choosing to make or keep, involve starving kids by keeping the Tories cruel two child benefit cap, freezing pensioners by stripping 10m people of the winter fuel allowance and tax rises being lined up on the horizon, as, despite saying there would be no tax rises and always hiding behind her fiscal rules to justify her every financial decision, she’s now saying they are unavoidable, how convenient now that you are in power! We’ve seen all of this before:
Still every inch a smug git. Well I did say Reeves had invoked the George Osborne playbook, even George Osborne thinks so! Still think you’re getting change? Well fewer and fewer people are in your company.
Let’s have a look at this polling then anyway and as always the Stats for Lefties Twitter account produces excellent graphics pointing these out, so here’s Keir Starmer, Sir Kid Starver, according to Opinium and in the space of two weeks his approval rating has dropped from +19, to +3, a massive 15 point drop. Give him a year, his polling will be floating at around the same level as Peter Mandelson’s crypt at that rate. Honeymoon’s over then! That I don’t think should be a huge surprise. Starmer was already not well liked going into the election, the more people saw of him over the last 4 years certainly, the more people ended up disliking him. It’s borne out in the General Election results as well when you look at the number of votes Labour got, fewer even than Jeremy Corbyn got in 2019 and the worst actual turnout amongst the electorate, confronted with a choice between Starmer and Sunak to run the country, since the end of universal suffrage, more than 100 years ago. Labour won despite their leader, not because of him and certainly when you consider the honeymoon period of his oft quoted predecessor Tony Blair, his honeymoon period lasted years, though I’d argue that might have been lessened if he had social media to deal with, however, he had been an MP since 1983, by the time he became PM in 1997. He was a seasoned politician whatever you think of him, and Starmer only entered politics in 2015 and got promoted beyond his ability too fast and his cluelessness is only on show all the more now he’s PM. Nowhere to hide, every scumbag act you take will get called out. Even rubbish Tories like Theresa May had a honeymoon period of several months, it really does underline how poorly thought of – and justifiably so – Keir Starmer is.
If we look at the handling of the riots we’ve been seeing, as a test of Starmer’s leadership, having taken days to raise his head above the parapet, and then producing a pathetic speech, 49% of the public according to YouGov think he’s handling it badly, compared to just 31% who think he’s doing OK.
The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is apparently faring even worse amongst the public however, only 23% think she’s handling the riots well, compared to 43% who don’t. That’s where getting interviewed by your own husband gets you though I suppose!
As for Rachel Reeves, the presumed brains behind the Labour regime, coming out as a wannabe George Osborne has been even more damaging as far as approval ratings go. The number of people who approve of her has declined slightly, been broadly stable, but the number of people who disapprove of her has shot up, resulting in her seeing an even bigger drop in overall approval than Keir Starmer, falling 22 points in two weeks. Aping the Tories might be attractive to Tory donors, but where it puts off those who have supported Labour ostensibly, those at least who hoped she’d be different, she’d be change, the approval ratings show she’s been rumbled as otherwise. Equally as much as she copies the Tories here, many Tory voters will never vote Labour out of a sense of tribalism, so where you’d think she’d be popular amongst them for copying Osborne, she’s even more hated. In fact even they look like they wanted change too, as Stats for Lefties claim her disapproval amongst Tories has risen to over 60% now. People expect Labour to be better than the Tories, even other Tories it seems, and the Starmer regime just isn’t.
Perhaps this will set off alarm bells, perhaps a U-turn will come before the budget in the autumn, but her actions right now aren’t pointing to that. Freezing pensioners rather than asking the rich to pay a bit more is totally Tory. The desperately needed rebalancing of the economy isn’t going to happen and all the same flatlining and misery as living standards fall will continue instead and just to underline Reeves adamantly staying the Tory course right now, as this morning, it’s broken that Reeves is blocking the National Audit Office from investigating the Tory created Special Economic Zones and the 8 Freeports despite a damning report from just last April, citing there was a complete lack of transparency where these zones are concerned, that there was a concern they would not deliver value for money for taxpayers, making a mockery of Reeves claims to be fiscally credible, her fiscal rules nowhere to be seen here and that not even the Nolan Principles of public life were applied to the administration of these zones: Selflessness, integrity, accountability, objectivity, openness, honesty and leadership out the window, much as many of us might opine can be said of Starmer and Reeves themselves. Expect those approval ratings to keep on dropping you absolute weapons.
People are not stupid. They can see where they’re being conned and Starmer and Reeves have been conning people all the way, into believing they were something different from the Tories when actually they aren’t. Both main parties are basically the same now. No new ideas, no degree of competence and for years they’ve been promised some light at the end of the tunnel by the Tories and are getting the same from Labour now. Tighten our belts again, things will get better we promise, despite having well over a decade to get accustomed to the idea, that that isn’t going to happen. We can’t keep cutting stuff and expect it to still work. We can’t keep hammering the poor, working or not, and leaving the rich alone because it’s inherently unfair and people can see it. Governments constantly saying how broke the country is, yet we’re somehow still the 6th richest economy on Earth. Well how do those two statements go together? They don’t. The rich have all that wealth, wealth inequality is off the charts and no incoming government will tax them on it, because both are basically owned by them and we’re trapped in an electoral system where we can’t free ourselves of either of these sponsored parties working for the rich and never for us. It’s no wonder Elon Musk is winding Starmer up saying civil war is on the horizon – I hope not – but history speaks of where these things can end up leading when we keep repeatedly getting failed by those in government.
Alternatively, a third party comes out from behind these two despite the electoral system. People will not go back to the Tories in any meaningful way as various awful people vie to replace Rishi Sunak, but Labour increasingly, looking at these approval ratings and with no sign of changing course, look set to be a single term government and who that third party is, will largely depend on the media. Who will they platform? Who will they promote? Well, they will promote whichever third party, best fits the establishment again, and we already know who they push and that will shove this country even further to the right. The parties we should be looking at, will never get platformed. The Greens are the obvious choice to set this country back on course, but they’ll never get the coverage because they never do, it’ll be Farage, that’s the vacuum in politics, Starmer and Reeves are opening up, for a populist to come in and say he’ll fix and then make matters even worse still, our human rights would go out of the window for one, the racism and riots we’re seeing now, would likely be as nothing we’d see going forwards. People will make these choices if their living standards are continually abused for the sake of letting ridiculously rich people get even richer. An alternative will be sought, but the only alternative we’ll be offered, will turn out, yet again, to be more of the same. We all owe it to ourselves to become more politically switched on, to question what we’re told and not just accept it and I think the continuing fall in living standards could push that one way, but equally could go the other, as another establishment shill in waiting, just as Starmer and Reeves did, told people one thing and then deliver another. They are getting punished for it, there’s the warning, will any politicians listen?
Meanwhile for as much as the media are complicit in delivering us donor friendly political leaders, they’ve also played a not insignificant part in the UK riots, excusing the perpetrators in no small part, just as Labour abandon the Leveson Inquiry Part 2. Another reason to be disgusted at Starmer and Co. Get the details of that story here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.