Has Jeremy Corbyn Just SEALED Keir Starmer's Fate?

Right, so has Jeremy Corbyn called curtains on Keir Starmer’s career with his calls for a Chilcot style inquiry, almost a tongue twister that, as, just as Corbyn made the calls and condemnations in relation to Tony Blair over the Iraq War, he is again showing himself to be on the right side of history by once again demanding investigation into warfare and warmongering complicity with Israel into the genocide they have been committing in Gaza.
Starmer is functionally screwed no matter what he does here. If he goes ahead with the inquiry then his own comments about Israel’s right to cut off water to Gaza will come out and the not so secret but shh don’t tell anybody what you’re doing guys pep talk at RAF Akrotiri that Starmer gave might come back to bite him too. Will the details of that come out further beyond the now increasingly well known surveillance flights the RAF has been conducting over Gazan airspace and the use of the airbase by the US as well. If Starmer blocks any investigation, he will be accused of a cover up, too many incidents and too many questions going observed and unanswered for, that we deserve to know more about, deserve to know what the UK government is doing for and with Israel, complicity as that very much appears to be and increasingly this will be the more difficult option for Starmer to pursue when it isn’t just Corbyn and others in his Independent Alliance that are making this demand, but more MPs from across the progressive parties and including several members of Labour too, who are also now backing this call. We need an investigation into what you’ve been doing Starmer, so it's your move sunshine.
Right, so that was Jeremy Corbyn there explaining exactly why he wants to see a Chilcot style inquiry into UK actions in relation to Israel and connected with Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, followed by that now infamous clip of Keir Starmer admitting on radio that he backed Israel committing war crimes, though he has denied he ever said any such thing, the truth and Starmer being strangers at the best of times and this proving just that point.
For too long the UK has offered its unwavering support for Israel’s war on Gaza—a campaign now widely recognised as genocide, plausibly proven at the International Court of Justice—and this has exposed the grotesque hypocrisy of Starmer’s regime and indeed that of Rishi Sunak’s before him. As Israel continues its slaughter, displacing over 2 million Palestinians and killing more than 40,000, of which they have been mostly women and children, the UK government has not only failed to condemn these atrocities but has actively enabled them through political backing, military support, and diplomatic cover.
This would of course have never been the case under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, he is a longstanding critic of Western militarism and imperialism and as such last month called for a Chilcot-style inquiry into the UK’s complicity in Gaza’s destruction, a call that is now being supported by dozens of MPs from across the political divide, heaping more pressure on the ever more unpopular Starmer to for once do the right thing. This demand, however could prove politically fatal for Keir Starmer, whose Prime Ministership has been defined by unflinching support for Israel, no matter what war crimes or atrocities it commits.
This demand from Corbyn has evoked parallels with the Iraq War now, which the Chilcot Inquiry investigated and the comparisons are certainly undeniable. Just as Tony Blair was damned by the Chilcot Inquiry for misleading the public and taking the UK into an illegal war, something he is still owed a massively overdue day in court over in my view, Starmer risks being exposed all the ore in this era of social media and political words and deeds being recorded for all to see and for endorsing what the International Court of Justice has ruled a plausible genocide.
Should an inquiry proceed, it would not only scrutinise the UK’s role in Gaza but could also destroy Starmer’s credibility, revealing him as a collaborator in one of the 21st century’s most horrific crimes, to a degree never before seen and the consequences, political and potentially criminal even, would be dire for all concerned.
That isn’t to say this would necessarily be a quick investigation, though. Chilcot took seven years to complete his investigation from announcement through to results being presented and of course having only been commissioned in 2011, years after the Iraq War, it was way overdue even then.
Finally published in 2016, under the then leadership of Jeremy Corbyn though, the report concluded that the UK joined the US-led invasion on false pretences, with no credible evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMDs, that Tony Blair ignored legal warnings that the war lacked UN authorisation, following George Bush around come what may and that the government failed to properly plan for post-war reconstruction, leading to catastrophic destabilisation in Iraq, leading to, amongst other things as we saw, the rise of ISIS.
Chilcot’s findings were damning, confirming what anti-war activists had long argued that Blair had blood on his hands and given the war was deemed to be about regime change, rather than out of any semblance of national security, it was illegal. Jeremy Corbyn, at the time a backbencher, was one of the few MPs who consistently opposed the war. In 2016, he apologised on behalf of the party for going to war on false pretences, there were still those in Labour who defended it even after this though, for example Angela Eagle, who at the time was briefly challenging Corbyn for the leadership warned him not to take revenge against Blair, she of course had voted for it.
Corbyn’s stance cemented his moral authority, proving he was on the right side of history. Now, he is applying the same principle to Gaza by demanding transparency over UK involvement in Israel’s genocide.
The UK’s support for Israel’s war is emphatic. Evidence shows direct military, intelligence, and diplomatic collaboration and of course there has been the clampdown on protest and planning protests here in the UK when it comes to Gaza as well.
For example, there is the clip I showed a moment ago, Keir Starmer, in an infamous interview with LBC’s Nick Ferrari, stated that Israel had the "right" to cut off water and electricity to Gaza, which was a clear violation of international law and Starmer must have known that given his own career as a barrister previously, or at the very least should have known. When challenged, he doubled down, effectively endorsing what amounted to collective punishment, which is a war crime.
Since then, Starmer has refused to call for a ceasefire, having stuck to the absurd notion of humanitarian pauses instead despite pressure from public outrage and censured elected Labour figures for condemning Israel’s actions.
On top of that of course has been the military and intelligence support.
According to Declassified UK, who have been at the forefront of examining UK intelligence flights from RAF Arotiri, the UK has conducted spy plane missions, providing intelligence to Israel, allegedly in the search for hostages held by Hamas, but how Israel chooses to use such information, given their actions across Gaza is highly questionable and ought to be robustly investigated and tested.
Then there have been the US-UK Strikes on Yemen where the UK joined US airstrikes allegedly on Houthi forces in retaliation for their blockade of Israel-bound ships and on Israeli territory in support of Gaza as they have been doing, yet so many of these attacks have been on Yemeni civilians and civilian infrastructure because intelligence on Houthi assets and whereabouts is scant, yet the strikes went ahead anyway.
And then there are the arms exports, where despite the suspension of some arms licences, which came after a concerted effort, the UK continues supplying some military aid, most notably components for F-35 jets used in Gaza bombardments.
And then there is the diplomatic cover, the visits to Israel by Labour MPs and Foreign Office figures, notably David Lammy, to press the flesh with Netanyahu and make it clear who’s side the UK government is on, in no small part likely down to how heavily lobbed they are and something which must also form part of an Chilcot style inquiry should one happen.
Well, Corbyn is absolutely calling for one and a good many MPs seem to have answered the call, though sadly this is still a significant minority those in parliament.
His call has since been backed by more than 30 MPs from across his own Independent Alliance, but also MPs and Peers from Starmer’s Labour itself, Sinn Fein, the Green Party, the SNP and Plaid Cymru, though notably nobody from the Labour right, the Tories or Reform.
Human rights groups have also been echoing demands for transparency.
For Starmer, this is a political nightmare. A robust inquiry would you would imagine, or hope would expose his complicity in endorsing war crimes, caught on film as those have been despite denials and despite him never taking responsibility for anything going wrong, he never apologises for anything. He would have to defend his actions, largely seen as being done at the behest of the Israel Lobby, just as Blair did with Iraq, but with the mountain of evidence being captured in real time throughout Israel’s atrocities, a timeline of evidence will have built up against Starmer’s decisions in a way it never did with Blair.
And as members of labour itself increasingly demand a change of tack and proper scrutiny in governmental decisions taken by their own party’s leadership, so the party could find itself split all the more, the MPs more and more out of alignment with the wishes of the greater party and made all the more remarkable as that is given Starmer’s purge of the left.
Worse still, Starmer cannot escape scrutiny. If he blocks an inquiry, he looks guilty. If he allows one, it seems likely it will condemn him.
History may well be set to repeat itself. Just as Blair was exposed for Iraq, Starmer risks being damned for Gaza, but in a far shorter space of time. Corbyn’s demand for a Chilcot-style inquiry is not just about accountability—it’s about forcing Britain to confront its role as an enabler of genocide and it has to end. This government is out of kilter with the British public and is on the wrong side of history and will be punished at the ballot box for this, along with a great deal of other reasons besides.
We must keep demanding answers, we deserve answers, we deserve to know what is being done in our name by our government in the interests of an occupying power committing genocide, a word Starmer can’t even bring himself to say. Protests, petitions, and electoral pressure can force Parliament’s hand. If an inquiry proceeds, Starmer’s career may not survive the fallout. But more importantly, the truth—about UK-backed war crimes—must be exposed.
Accountability has to start somewhere, here and now is as good a place and time as any now. Is Starmer man enough to face it or will he run away? Do tell me your thoughts in the comments below.
Meanwhile, we should also be asking similar questions of those choosing to still fund Starmer’s Labour right now, given its attacks on ordinary working class people and its apparent complicity in genocide. Why are the trade unions for one still funding them? What are they giving membership dues to a party only working for the very rich these days? Well here’s a video answering that question and why not only should you join a union, but realise it is a political entity as well as a work-based one and take part in the political process there too, more important than ever with the state of Labour under Starmer, check it out as your suggested next watch here. Please do also hit like, share and subscribe if you haven’t done so already so as to ensure you don’t miss out on all new daily content as well as supporting the channel at the same time which is very much appreciated, holding power to account for ordinary working class people and I will hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.