Keir Starmer tries to drum up support ahead of local elections 2026 (Image: Getty)
I can only assume Mrs Starmer will today be pulling down the suitcases from on top of the wardrobes in No 10, dusting them off, and ruefully starting to fill them.
Because her husband’s tenure in Downing Street is surely drawing to a close.
Tomorrow will see the Labour Party justly savaged in the local elections, and Welsh and Scottish assemblies.
There will be blood on the carpet. Buckets of it.
One can only assume the party has wargamed the best coping strategy- blame Starmer for everything and kick him out before announcing a fresh sparkling clean Labour Party under Angela Rayner – who has only been hounded from office in disgrace once… so that’s alright then.
All of which might work out fine for the Party but it will do nothing to stop the Labour boot which has been stamping on the face of this country for almost two years.
It will mean three more years of bloated welfareism, crippling taxes, woke-ism, humiliation on the world stage, spiralling illegal immigration, economic incompetence, and idleness being more lucrative than industry.
These are truly dangerous times for poor Britain.
Starmer’s failings have been both legion and calamitous: it’s hard to know where to begin?
Maybe the hounding ‘non-doms’ which saw 16,500 millionaires flee the UK in the first year of his Parliament, or the hounding of private schools with a VAT hike which saw thousands of ‘just coping’ middle class families transfer their kids to already overcrowded state schools while freeing up our excellent private schools to cater for the children of Russian oligarchs and the like.
Or maybe Reeve’s National Insurance hike which has seen recruitment fall almost 15% year on year – and that is before the impact of Angela Rayner’s workers rights bill which only came into force on April 6 but has caused 37% of employers to stop recruiting.
Or how about awarding striking junior doctors almost a 30% payrise, and giving striking train drivers around 15% (taking a Tube drivers pay-packet to £80,000).. Hardly a disincentive to down tools.
Meanwhile, under the hand of our befuddled Chancellor Britain’s economy has flatlined, and we have a welfare economy so obscenely bloated that 600,000 households make more money lazing around at home than going out to work. For the first time in history the Government spends more on those Brits who aren’t working than it raises from those who are. And that is with the tax take at the highest level since the years immediately after the Second World War.
As the entrepreneurial millionaires leave Britain in their droves they are replaced by unskilled, largely illegal, migrants. This does not seem a fair swap.
God help us if Angela Rayner takes over (Image: Getty)
Then there is the EU. First Starmer shafted our fishing industry giving access rights to the EU and asking for nothing in return.
Now our Brexit-hating PM looks ready to capitulate on the £1bn-a-year the EU is demanding for access to its markets. With friends like that…
Then there is the way this Government has allowed a vicious anti-Semitism to fester in midst. In truth it has always been there, particularly in the Green Party and Labour Party. But even those who knew it was wrong were afraid of calling it out because they were so terrified of looking a bit racist.
So they – the police and the Government – let the hate marchers peddle their racist filth with impunity, and did nothing.
Hand-wringing non-Jews thus made anti-Semitism ‘about us’, about how we would look, about how we would feel.
When we should have been ruthlessly stamping out the hate – and perhaps some people who are now dead would still be alive.
It is a shocking legacy. And in truth that is only the tip of the ice-berg.
Tomorrow’s results will further undermine the legitimacy of this woeful, second-rate Government.
It is time for a new leader. Not a change at the top of Labour.
One who loves Britain rather than loathing her, one who thinks unity is our strength not diversity, one who thinks the ‘British community’ should take precedence over all others.
Good luck finding one on the ballot paper.