The idea that Starmer and his government being dishonest and incompetent is a ‘shock’ is… interesting
Keir Starmer’s ‘Labour’ government is the ‘most unpopular incoming government of all time’ and is considered ‘incompetent’ and ‘dishonest’ by the public in a ‘shock’ new poll. The only ‘shock’ in that finding is, of course, the idea that it’s a ‘shock’ that the public sees Starmer and his Starmeroids as useless and liars.
The findings, based on analysis of recent by-election results as well as questions to the public, found that only 12% of the public think Starmer’s government has shown any success in its first six months and 56% hold the ‘incompetent’ and ‘dishonest’ view, more than double the number that thinks Starmer and co have any honesty or competence – now that number still looking at Starmer and thinking ‘Well there goes a trustworthy fellow who knows what he’s doing’ is a shock.
Even more think that Starmer’s government is screwing up the NHS badly than that he’s generally incompetent, with more than two-thirds concluding that Wes Streeting’s prescription of more privatisation, posing non-doctors as doctors and forcing punitive measures on people with mental health issues and medication on people with weight issues is not the right course of treatment – no shock there either:
And the review of council seats found that Labour’s popularity has only deepened since Rachel Reeves’s budget in November, with its mass assault on the poor, the disabled, the sick, elderly and vulnerable and on public services. Wow, who’d have ever imagined.
Reeves, of course, has since been accused by people who worked with her of making up her job experience as a bank economist, so what could possibly have gone wrong?
Skwawkbox and others have been warning people of Starmer’s dishonesty and uselessness (except as a saboteur) and the danger he represents to our whole nation and to all the world’s oppressed peoples since well before he even conned his way into the Labour leadership. What’s happening now is definitely not a ‘shock’ here.
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” And the review of council seats found that Labour’s popularity has only deepened since Rachel Reeves’s budget in November, with its mass assault” ~ UNpopularity surely? NFP
NFP = Not For Publication ! Meant as a correction to the text of the article. This also NFP!!
It was to be expected. Leopards do not change their spots; if Starmer and the Right of the Party were going to be benevolent they would not have crucified Corbyn. That was obvious; once in power they would be just as bad, if not worse than the Tories. We on the Left need to find a loud voice, because a further tragedy will unveil soon with a landslide victory for Reform. Many are falling for their siren voices in blaming immigration.
But but but ….14 years of black holes.
A question for the 12%…WHAT ‘success’have the rodents achieved?
Just a single instance will do.
250 Racist and willfully blind MPs – either that or they can’t spell Israel:
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1994663/ayatollah-prosecuted-for-genocide-of-own-people
“The signatories to today’s campaign highlight the regime’s long history of crimes against humanity, from past massacres to ongoing atrocities, as documented by UN mandate holders and human rights experts.
They criticise the international community for turning a blind eye to Iranian atrocities, a failure that has emboldened the regime to intensify its repression and crackdowns with impunity.”
He said he was a Zionist, WEF first member and supported the war in Ukraine and everyone is surprised at him implementing pro Israel, Ukraine and WEF policies. ffs smh
The May local elections aren’t far off, New New Labour are in for a major reality check.
Oh dear the cuckoo being found out
Democratic Wacka Mole
No matter who you vote for the same fuckers get in
Bought and Paid for by the same people
If we were serious about democracy then the first thing we would do is create our own Bank
Economics can be defined as a noun and a verb – and right now they are very different
Starmer’s government has also made it abundantly clear that it opposes nuclear disarmament.
In order to help change that, please ask your MP to sign Jeremy Corbyn’s Early Day Motion on the subject:
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/62446/mutual-defence-agreement
Meanwhile, the mouthpiece jess phillips, defender of abused women everywhere – yes, THAT one – has refused a national inquiry into grooming gangs.
Can’t be because she’d be accused of Islamophobia, or worried about the wafer-thin majority phillips has in a seat with a large Muslim demographic
Nah. Not a bit of it.
It’s because we’d soon find out exactly how worse-than-fucking useless keef was as DPP (in case you didn’t already know that he was once the chief prosecutor in England & Wales…And his dad was a toolmaker, too).
Not that the greasy slimy bastard is any better at being PM, like.
Disgraceful.
I was just hearing on a podcast that Britain could be the first among the G7 economies to capsize and plunge into a deep crisis. The Ukraine debt is going to be our undoing.
This hedge fund manager/market analyst said he couldn’t help noticing that the UK’s public finances aren’t subject to the same level of scrutiny as those of other nations. His view is that things are a whole lot worse than the UK government is admitting and hence the need to keep it deliberately hidden, alongside the expansion of the government’s “Orwellian” control freakery.
He talks about the “human sacrifice” that our UK monetary managers are happy to make on the pretext of filling the alleged £22bn “black hole”, and that knowingly freezing at least 4000 pensioners to death by taking the winter fuel allowance away is only the beginning, also commenting that Britain now has the highest cost of energy in the world.
The UK economy is teetering on the precipice of a very steep graph of the downward variety, it seems.
Whilst in the world of market analysts and hedge funds this crisis will likely be seen as an ‘opportunity’, it’s certainly not going to be the same experience for those at the sharp end who will be that “human sacrifice”.
Could this be the source, JulieT? (Part 1)
https://substack.com/@alexkrainer/p-148160997
Part 2:
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-britain-part-2
Yes DaveH – it was indeed Part 2 of Alex Krainer’s illuminating explanation of just how bad things are (I had arrived on the site by a circuitous route!). I am far from an expert on economics but Krainer certainly indicates that the UK economy is on track for something of a meltdown any time soon. Whilst he is looking at things from a hedge fund management and investment point of view, I think it connects well with how many of us are experiencing Starmer’s economic policy choices in our daily lives and how these fit into the current wider UK and international politics.
There’s a lot of other stuff in that video but the explanation of the timing of the Covid pandemic stands out – another super-sized bail-out for the banks just when the system is cracking under its own weight. And then there was the bit about Boris practically ‘predicting’ the Ukraine war …
seems there’s a lot I didn’t know!
If you are curious about the economics, JulieT, Michael Hudson is the go-to source.
Here’s a taster from earlier today:
……and, of course, Western/EU/UK energy policy is merely accelerating the economic collapse:
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/europes-downward-spiral-accelerates
The Starmer Government – like his neo-liberal globalist counterparts in the rest of Europe – is a dead Government spinning.