Warning: inane banal statements about British politics ahead. Reader discretion (and evasion) recommended.
Keir Starmer is facing the first attack on his world-famous integrity and consistency as Prime Minister. It turns out he has been accepting freebies for him and his wife. Because the money isn’t enough, or because he’s been doing it for ages and nobody complained (well, nobody important) and to not do it would stick a target on his back or something.
God it is so putrid. Here we are with the British State up to its neck in genocide and climate catastrophe-causing around the world. Here we are as Western civilisation (“it would be a good idea”) pisses away the last vestiges of a skerrick of a sliver of a whiff of a chance to salvage something from the ruins. We are watching (causing) the Sixth Extinction (which includes US, FFS) in real time.
But all this would be too difficult – for cognitive, advertiser, time, career etc reasons – for the meatpuppets who call themselves journalists, “thought leaders” and politicians to try to comprehend and then communicate.
So instead they will yap yap yap. And then wonder why they are held in such contempt.
And here we are.
As the Corbynistas will point out at any opportunity, Jezza got more votes in 2019 than Keir did in 2024. Such are the vagaries of tactical voting.
Everybody knows the war is over, everybody knows the good guys lost. We can try to stoop and build ’em up with worn out tools;
Or we can Cocker Protocol it. It all comes out the same in the end.
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Hi Marc, I hope you are keeping well. I tried to respond to this post via WordPress but it wanted my password, whish I had forgotten. I tried to reset my password but it kept going back to the start. What I wanted to say was – Corbyn also got a higher % of the vote than did Starmer.
One has to wonder, does Democracy as we know it really work in the interest of the people?
I’d suggest a quick look around the world indicates the answer is NO.