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The polls don’t get any better for Sir Keir Starmer’s government. It has even managed to achieve a score of -48 on the NHS. An extraordinary rating for a Labour government.
Starmer himself is 4/5 with Ladbrokes to NOT be Prime Minister when the next General Election is called. An incredible situation for a Prime Minister who won a landslide victory less than a year ago, albeit one that was caused by a quirk of the first past the post system and a low share of the vote on a meagre turnout. He actually got fewer votes than Corbyn did in 2019.
This government is holed below the waterline. On these numbers, it is very difficult to see how it can do anything other than limp along for a few years before it inevitably sinks.
Now for the final instalment from the article I’ve recently been quoting from
In opposition, Starmer vowed to provide a Government in which ‘truth means something and where honesty is at the heart of everything it does …honesty and integrity matter.You will always get that from me.’
How hollow these words sound now from a man leading a Government which after less than a year in power is already a stranger to the truth.
The country has had untrustworthy governments in the past from Harold Wilson’s Labour administrations of the 60’s and 70’s to Boris Johnson’s government at the start of this decade.Whatever their achievements it was always wise to perform an independent audit of everything they said.
But in 55 years of covering politics close up, I have never felt it necessary to accuse any government, on the Left or the Right, of congenitally telling untruths.
Now, for the first time, I do.The Starmer Government has taken the lying, the gaslighting and the deceit to a new level.
It has become endemic in everything it does – and it’s getting worse.It corrodes public trust which once lost, is impossible to rebuild.
Starmer is heading down a dark road from which, as he will soon discover, there is no return.
good luck to allStarmer is a total waste of space.
Unfortunately, we live in a first past the post “democracy”.
The alternative is Farage.
Therefore, you vote Labour, or the party most likely to defeat Reform in your seat.
I think it is appalling those people were “asked” to stand behind these speakers, not one of them looked comfortable and then to be splashed across our screens for millions to view.
The more I know the less I understand.
I don’t quite understand why people can see how Trump treats the poor in his country [and pretty much everyone else to be honest] and yet many people in this country seem to think that the solution to our problems is to elect Trump supporting mini me Farage. His Reform councils are even adopting Musks solutions to cut public spending [which were grossly exaggerated in their effectiveness if they were effective at all]. I’m so old that I would like to say well, I won’t be around to see what a Reform government will inflict upon my country anyway but, alas I have children and grandchildren who will pay the price.
I think it is appalling those people were “asked” to stand behind these speakers, not one of them looked comfortable
It’s not the first time it’s happened but this was a particularly egregious example. Thoroughly tacky utilising of those who have proper jobs to bolster the bland pontifications of politicians
It reminds me of the presidential election conventions they love so much stateside but with ‘what the fk am I doing here’ faces and uneasy body language replacing all the tawdry yee-hah hoopla, baseball caps and placards
Agree RTB. I hope no one was forced to participate in this dismal PR stunt, which has backfired spectacularly and brought Reeves nothing but thoroughly deserved ridicule.
I won’t post it here because I am not a huge admirer of him but the comedian Andrew Lawrence has done a video pretending to be one of the workers. Even he couldn’t miss this open goal. It is on YouTube if anyone wants to watch it.
A rare bit of good news for Starmer. Although it might be more of a consequence of the unpopularity of the SNP:
Perhaps Welsh Labour, floundering in opinion polls, might want to refer to Plaid Cymru as SNP (Wales) in view of Caledonian dissatisfaction.
I bet Starmer had a right chuckle over his cornflakes this morning after Labour’s win in Hamilton , was Farage there to celebrate that one…..
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
Labours class war has hit a new mean and despicable low.
Feeling empowered by Starmer & his Government NHS trusts are now on record for depriving children of the care they need and deserve.
Are we talking about people from abroad arriving here for free treatment and disappearing without paying?
nope!
We are talking UK citizens who live, work and pay their taxes here.
The dreadful crime they commit is that their children attend independent schools and in the view of some are not entitled to help.
good luck to all
I have edited to read ‘feeling empowered’No idea why Labour couldn’t have simply abolished WFA above a certain threshold in the first place. Could have saved an awful lot of bother and it was such an obvious thing to do. No pensioner on £35k plus needs it, even now I’d argue it’s too high but it’s a step in the right direction.
As for Labour’s ‘class war’, the story you are referring to has been shown to be a load of rubbish as usual. For a start the Act that it relates to was brought in in 2014 (i’ll let you work out who was in power). The service is provided to state schools by local authorities and is therefore only available to those in the state system. Perhaps those running the expensive private school should communicate the rules better to their high paying customers. I’d double check everything you read from that source from now on, seems they like to hide the truth.
Braver, imo, to admit you’ve made a mistake than to carry on with a flawed idea for fear of criticism.
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