Starmer's Labour In CHAOS As Resignations SKYROCKET!

Right, so the great Labour exodus of elected officials and members continues in the run up to local elections just under a month away, the staunch refusal of the governing party of red Tory liar Keir Starmer and those slithering in his wake meting out he most callous and cruel policies, the political choices they have chosen to make, the war on the elderly, on children on the disabled as cut after cut is meted out. They claim at the same time we’re all feeling better off as the minimum wage rises, as if it hasn’t done so every year since its inception, as if it is something special they have done, whilst our bills explode, the cost of living worsening and they grin and smile and say don’t you feel better? It is a government of sociopaths, but it is a government set to pay a heavy price too, with polling collapsing already and with scathing remarks being left by quitting councillors and one particular resignation it has to be said is as hilarious as it is damning, because I’ve never seen one like this before!
Right, so amid cruel cuts and Tory policies dressed up as change, when the only change in reality is the colour of the tie being worn and with local elections just a month away, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is haemorrhaging members, councillors, and supporters at an alarming rate and he deserves ever bit of it. Progressive politics died a death when he came in, he has lurched so far to the right—embracing austerity, welfare cuts, and policies more brutal than even the Conservatives dared implement—that long-standing members and elected officials around the country are abandoning it in disgust and they just carry on as if this is the right way, Starmer even deluding himself that the local elections will show people are behind his party, when they’re only behind you in so far as they’ve put on a bloody great pair of Doc Martens to boot you out of power with. These defections are a damning indictment of a leadership that has betrayed its core values, alienated its base, and left the party in freefall.
Across the country Labour representatives are quitting in protest at Starmer’s leadership, some defecting to alternative left-wing parties others staying on as Independents and as people bear the brunt of all of the political cruelty and ineptitude we face, it won’t be Labour they turn to.
The most explosive issue driving resignations is Labour’s embrace of brutal welfare cuts, which have left many lifelong members asking: What is the point of a Labour Party that punishes the poor? Labour is supposed to be the party of the working class after all, instead it now positions itself as the party of work, putting themselves on the side of the bosses and not ordinary working class people, whether they are in work or not, , not supporting people into work but coercing them into it whether they are fit and able to or not, all supposedly in the name of growth, when it is ordinary people spending their money in their communities that drives economic growth and this rancid government does everything to make all of us worse off instead. Their drive for growth will fail, you cannot cut your way to growth, the Tories tried it, it failed and now this shambles under Starmer are proving Einstein’s definition of insanity by doing it all over again.
In Wales, Councillor Anthony Wedlake of Wrexham Council has quit the party, declaring the now oft used refrain of: “I have not left Labour so much as Labour has left me.” He has defected to TUSC in a direct response to Starmer’s decision to slash disability benefits—a move Wedlake described as “morally indefensible,” and a reason given by a great many of those quitting the party at this point, as utterly inexcusable as they are. Wales has long been a Labour stronghold, has long been seen as representative Labour values yet Labour stand o nthe cusp of losing control of Wales for the first time since devolution carrying on as they are.
Kent County Councillor Karen Constantine, a Labour member for over four decades, has also quit, another long standing member of the party, all the more damaging as her resignation is as a result. She has quit in despair, stating: “I cannot, in all conscience, remain in a party that is implementing policies which will cause real harm to the most vulnerable in our society and therefore is again emblematic of the sheer scale of the disgust the cuts to disability benefits is driving amongst ordinary emmbers and local and regional representatives. Constantine’s departure like Wedlake’s is symbolic of a wider trend—loyalists who joined Labour to fight for social justice are now watching in horror as it morphs into a vehicle for austerity and social justice goes out of the window.
In Greater Manchester, Tameside councillor Gary Ferguson has resigned, accusing Labour of “pursuing policies that are more right-wing than the Tories.” Who’s going to argue with that point? Especially as we saw Wes Streeting the Health Secretary stand up in Parliament and jeer at the Tories in conection with disability cuts that Labour were doing things the Tories only dreamed of doing, because even they weren’t this cruel and that is no word of praise for the Tories at all because how many people died on their watch as they slashed social security? Streeting berated them for not going as far as Labour is.
Ferguson’s comments highlights the abject stupidity of the route Starmer has chosen to follow, the led by the nose political pygmy that he is in that by trying to out-Tory the Tories, Labour has alienated its own voters without winning over Conservative supporters, the Tories are perversely recovering somewhat, but I’ll come to those polling figures in a moment.
Perhaps the most damaging consequence of Labour’s rightward shift is that former members are now actively campaigning against the party for other parties, still campaigning for social justice, still campaigning for ordinary working class people, it is just the case that Labour is no longer the vehicle for that and in my view is the biggest obstacle to it.
Paul Ainscough is one such example. A former Croydon Labour councillor and prospective parliamentary candidate even, he is now standing for the Green Party in 2026. Given the Greens’ recent successes in local elections there, two councillors elected in 2022, Labour should be deeply worried about losing left-wing votes to them, that they really oughtn’t be losing at all if Labour were still following their traditional values, instead of having sold out to vested interests.
There is another resignation I want to bring up though, because for me I think this is a first, and frankly this could only happen to Keir Starmer, where an entire building has quit the Labour Party.
In what I think is a delicious moment of comedic irony, the Whitstable Labour Club, established in 1978, has officially disaffiliated from the party, rebranding itself as the Whitstable Social Club. How the hell does abuilding quit the Labour Party? Well the entire committee resigned, stating they could no longer associate with a party that had “abandoned working-class people.” When even a building – in effect at any rate - rejects Labour, it’s clear the party is in existential crisis and if you’re still hanging in there when even bricks and mortar are walking away, what is your excuse? Head with rocks?
But as much as resignations like these are damning, it is electoral consequences of Starmer’s leadership that will become impossible to ignore and where he is boasting about the local elections, I believe he could be facing an historically bad night and every bit of it 100% deserved. Recent Westminster polling has just placed Labour in a distant third, behind both the Conservatives and Reform UK, proving the point so many of us on the left have been saying, that Starmer’s drive to the right is going to put this country in the hands of fascism come the next election. Where Starmer might be talking things up, behind the scenes even he must know things aren’t looking good. Aside from managing to undemocratically call off some local elections, up to 13 of his own cabinet ministers are at risk of losing their seats come the next General Election even as things stand now. Scalps that could be taken include Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner, Shabana Mahmood the Justice Secretary, Bridget Phillipson the Education Secretary, Ed Miliband, possibly Labour’s biggest sell out to Starmer’s vision, Chancellor Rachel Reeves, DWP boss overseeing those disability cuts Liz Kendall and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, who could then perhaps join her husband Ed Balls on Good Morning Britain instead of being interviewed by him.
Keir Starmer’s Labour is no longer recognisable as a party of the left. By embracing austerity, slashing welfare, and purging socialists, lets not forget that one, he drove us away, told us this is a changed party and if you don’t like it, there’s the door, which we took along with our votes though, Starmer has created a hollowed-out, Tory-lite entity that satisfies nobody except the super rich and the party donors who get ever richer, sucking the wealth of the country out of the economy. The mass resignations—from councillors to entire Labour clubs—demonstrate a grassroots revolt against a revolting leadership that has lost its way.
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