Young Labour and, especially, Labour Students have always been set up to give the party’s hard right more influence – but Starmer’s collaboration in Israel’s genocide is too much even for them
The youth section of Starmer’s ‘Labour’ – the ‘Young Labour’ section was taken over by the party right in 2022 when the right seized control of Young Labour’s communication channels for not being sufficiently sycophantic to Keir Starmer’s eagerness for war with Russia and his rush to side with then-Tory PM Boris Johnson over Johnson’s ‘partygate’ scandal during the Covid lockdown.
Young Labour for decades only ever existed as a shell for the right to seek influence over party bodies, so much so that in 2019 Labour’s national executive voted to wind it up entirely before it was revived under Starmer.
But it appears that for both groups, kowtowing to Starmer’s collaboration in Israel’s genocide in Gaza – which has slaughtered more than 430,000 Palestinians and is starving 1.8 million more – is too much to stomach. The number of young members had already collapsed under Starmer by more than two thirds from the 100,000 he inherited – and those who remain are in revolt, with those at Warwick Labour Club publicly supporting the defection of a local councillor to the new left-wing ‘Your Party’ over Starmer’s collusion in Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Rather than change direction and stop aiding the shredding of international law and the bodies of Palestinian children, Starmer’s faction has gone to war on young members who refuse to toe his obsequious line on racist Zionism, including a right-wing Labour MP calling a young member’s employer to tell them not to trust their employee because they had not agreed to go on a paid ‘study’ trip to Israel. As the New Statesman put it:
Behind the scenes, rumours have circulated that students have been warned against speaking out on Gaza, with the threat of reputational damage or future career jeopardy. Youth committee members describe being strongly cautioned by HQ staff that speaking out on this issue could damage their reputation and credibility. These warnings were even given to senior, well-established youth figures who have spent a long time working in an unpaid capacity for the party. In one case, a young member’s non-Labour employer was contacted by a senior backbench MP, who warned the employer to be “wary” of the student, and to “not trust them” after they were unable to attend an organised study trip to Israel. Others have allegedly been offered secure jobs after graduation if they toe the party line (Labour strongly refutes this claim).
Senior figures within the – still right-wing – sections say they are afraid of speaking out because any dissent means being labelled as, oh the horror, a Corbynite, and they accuse Starmer and his hangers-on of Stalinist treatment of any who dare criticise, even constructively.
Starmer’s weakness and pettiness has long been clear to anyone on the left, especially those who resist the genocide and the Starmer regime’s collaboration in it. But now even the Blairite youth who still remain in the party are downing tools and even leaving, depleting the tiny youth membership even further.
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Maybe those youths had a revelation similar to this?
https://youtu.be/MjQvDZ90DoE?si=8dSUYEN0TR59O8ZY
Meanwhile, what will the zionist without qualification make of the chairman of the world zionist organization ratting out on israel??
https://youtu.be/KDSosFTkXAM?si=8eW2MKoY4O-xR-9M
Let’s hear it, keef…😏
Looks like the situation is even worse than that, Toffee.
Just where is Keef’s lone supporter defending his war criminal icon?
Not a peep!
We are not even getting the pathetic dead cat slapped on the table distraction.
You just can’t get the sycophants these days.
Sometimes in life, you have to stand up for what you believe in. The dictatorial “seniors” are frightened of people with principles, as Corbyn amply demonstrated.
Yup, when even next-generation Blairites are sick-to-their stomach with heir-to-blair Starmer’s grotesque genocide-acquiescence, “the market” might be trying to tell him something…
And – like all extremist neoliberals – Starmer knows ‘markets’ are dangerous and unpredictable until they are rigged and controlled – but look, he can’t even do that right!
Indeed.
The “correct” mantra today – courtesy of Palintar’s Peter Thiel – is that ‘competition (ie. open/free markets) is for losers!”
Starmer and the regime behind him will be shitting bricks on this:
1 – They instigate an “Organise” faction to take control of the (already) inherently right-wing Young Labour National Committee;
1a – Membership shrinks from 100k+ to barely 30,000.
2 – The remaining 30k is horrified and dumbfounded by their party “leader’s” unquestioning support for a racist, imperialist venture called ‘Israel’, and this even caused,
3 – the defection of a local Labour councillor to the new left-wing ‘Your Party’.
Bricks are being shat in the Starmer camp. Mega big ones.
Well done Grace Lewis, the 22-year-old Labour councillor for Coventry’s Westwood ward, for resigning from the Labour (in-name-only) Party on 1 August 2025 to join Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s embryonic political movement, ‘Your Party’.
Starmer, McSweeney etc would probably have had no inclination of this until their preferred newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, spelt it out for them: ‘Labour loses first councillor to new Corbyn party’. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/01/labour-loses-first-councillor-to-jeremy-corbyn-your-party/
There’s only one good thing about Starmer. Pre 2020, there were quite a few folk who thought “Leadership” was defined as “dictatorship,” and as Corbyn was the antithesis of dictator, then he “was no leader.” Starmer personifies dictatorship within and without the Labour Party. Folks have become aware in large numbers that having a man insisting the UK backs his favourite, genocidal, foreign government, purely because he is personally beholden to it, that he loves facial recognition, that any protest is wrong and is actually “terrorism” because it opposes his view, and that no matter whatever happens to the economy, the folks who financed his election must be looked after whilst the poor, the young, the old suffer. I think this partly explains why so many now pine for the healthier style of Corbyn. I am reminded of the time I moved from being Head of one school, to head of another, and took the voluminous rule book, and struck out the majority of the rules. Children will willingly accept NECESSARY rules, but they rebel against pointless ones. Adults are the same, and having rules/laws just because some power crazed individual thinks things will be perfect if only 100% of the population are mini-mes of himself turns them off the arrogant plonker.
“and that no matter whatever happens to the economy”
Hang on to that observation. Because the Crash Test Dummy has not one but two “favourite” regimes:
Here’s Alex Krainer from almost a year ago:
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-coming-collapse-of-britain
“A sudden deterioration, which developed during the course of this year [2024] seems to be related to the Western powers’ impending military defeat in their proxy war against Russia. Britain has been the principal cheerleader and sponsor of that conflict, and she seems to have gone “in over her head.” In addition to providing at least £7.5 billion in military aid (nearly $10 billion), Britain gave another £5 billion ($6.5 billion) to Ukraine in financial support.
Furthermore, Britain has also guaranteed multiple tranches of World Bank loans to Ukraine and many British financial institutions have purchased billions’ worth of Ukraine’s bonds. Others made extensive direct investments there.”
i.e. If Ukraine defaults on those loans the UK as guarantor, along with British financial institutions, ends up responsible for those debts. Which could be anything from a further additional tens of billions above and beyond that already directly given which currently stands today at around 19 billion Euro’s..
Krainer continues in detail the consequences of the UK’s financial over-commitment in keeping Project Ukraine afloat included not only these unspecified loan guarantees, which could well be double that 19 billion alone, but also that the Bank of England lowered the UK’s credit standards, accepting junk bonds as collateral, to maintain liquidity in order to prevent a systemic collapse of the UK economy back in late July/early August 2024 when 404’s due debt repayments to the World Bank were rescheduled with the UK as guarantor. (Which is why Zelensky was in London following the new management of the Project* and why London’s fingerprints were all over the now failed Kursk offensive)
Think about that. The British establishment were and remain prepared to collapse the UK economy to guarantee their Azov Nazi proxies in Ukraine keep going.
Which suggests that the Alaska meeting tomorrow is likely causing a lot of sleepless nights in those quarters. What, to cite just one example, is that 100 year deal that Starmer brokered with Ukraine before Trump entered office worth to offset the British Establishment’s investment in Ukraine if most of the valuable land and resources – or even all of Ukraine, ends up as a neutral entity outside the control of the Western Oligarchy?
What if there is some agreement out of Alaska – either immediately or further down the line – which returns Russia’s frozen/stolen foreign assets? Where will the UK find the money to service the debt it has guaranteed to the WB for an economy which has either collapsed, or which has seized to exist as a viable State?
When Ukraine is lost, the talk about Farage being the next PM may well be premature. With the likelihood of an IMF appointed Financial Commissar a distinct possibility?
*See post below>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
See former Tory MP Andrew Bridgen’s short interview clip prior to the 2024 “election”
https://x.com/ABridgen/status/1789726877839405417?lang=en-GB
Bricks are being shat in the Starmer camp. Mega big ones
Well they have set themselves a 1.5m new homes target…
The way things are going 1.5 million will likely be the cost per home.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08/12/could-2008-happen-again-part-2/