Keir Starmer promised us competent government and grown-up politics. What we’ve got instead, after seven inglorious months, resembles something cobbled together by a gaggle of overenthusiastic socialist college students who’ve just discovered Marx and decided to give the entire nation a taste of their radical zealotry.
The only thing missing is a Che Guevara poster above the Downing Street front door.
Let’s not mince words: Starmer’s government has been a catastrophe. Business owners are reeling, farmers are in uproar, taxpayers are groaning, and the elderly – that sturdy demographic who built this country – feel abandoned and betrayed.
Even the left-leaning media, aka the masters of deflection and deception, are struggling to disguise the palpable public resentment.
Enter Lord Daniel Hannan, the oracle of free-market wisdom and a man whose instincts have rarely failed us. His recent verdict? “I’m starting to think he’ll be out by the end of the year.”
As Keir Stamer's premiership circles the drain, it's clear who runs the show - Ben Habib & Claire Bullivant
Getty Images
When Lord Hannan speaks, sensible people listen – and he’s not alone. Westminster is abuzz with rumours of factional in-fighting and simmering discontent. Labour MPs, usually so adept at parroting the party line, now whisper darkly about Starmer’s waning grip.
Rachel Reeves, that so-called "iron chancellor" who turns to jelly when confronted with economic reality and her embellished past, is reportedly facing the chop.
And if the Guido Fawkes rumours are to be believed, Yvette Cooper - the Home Secretary supposedly charged with securing our borders - is also in the line of fire. Starmer’s official mouthpiece suggests bringing in young, new blood and testing “these rising stars in more prominent roles”.
Rubbish. This is classic socialist playbook stuff: purge the old guard, elevate pliable newcomers, and tighten the leader’s control. Stalin would be proud.
The unions, those perennial puppet masters of the Labour movement, are pulling the strings with all the subtlety of a pantomime villain. They know that Starmer is drowning, and, true to form, he’s trying to take others down with him. His latest gambit: deflect attention from his own shortcomings by offering up his senior lieutenants as political sacrifices. He hopes that jettisoning Reeves or Cooper will stem the haemorrhaging of public trust. It won’t.
Then, there are the skeletons. And my, what a crowded closet Starmer has. The voice coach hired during lockdown; the rumours surrounding his family arrangements; the dubious dealings with his Lord Ally circle; and, looming ominously on the horizon, the inevitable rape gang inquiry that many predict will lay bare the moral cowardice of his legal past. The British public won’t forgive the abandonment of vulnerable girls to political correctness.
This is a government already past its sell-by date. Starmer promised steadiness but has delivered stasis; pledged unity but unleashed chaos; offered competence but governed by crisis.
Business confidence is plummeting, our borders remain porous, and our global standing shrinks with every vacillating foreign policy statement.
In four years, Starmer imagines he can face the electorate with something to show for his tenure. His premiership is already circling the drain. The unions run the show, the economy stutters under the weight of ideological dogma, and his own MPs eye the exit like passengers on the Titanic searching for lifeboats.
Will Keir Starmer last the year? Don’t bet on it. The winds of change are howling through Downing Street, and the captain of this sinking socialist vessel looks increasingly like a man who knows the lifeboats are gone and the water is rising fast.
Whatever happens, it’s why the Great British Political Action Committee stands as our bulwark against the crimson tide of Labour lunacy. We must, without delay, prepare a towering, iron-clad Repeal Act to dismantle their damaging diktats on Day 1. The donkey work must be done now, the ground prepared with Churchillian resolve.
And, crucially, the right-of-centre forces must unite as never before. We cannot allow the splintering of the sensible vote to gift these ideological loons another day in power. The time to act is now, or we risk more years lost to their calamitous social experiments.
