We don’t know when it will be or exactly how it will happen, but there’s no question now that Keir Starmer’s premiership is finished. He’s a dead man walking, which is unprecedented for a PM who’s only been in power for 14 months.
But understandable when you realise there’s barely been a week since Labour stormed into No.10 that his government hasn’t been engulfed in some major scandal. There’s barely been a week when he hasn’t lied about what his government has done or is going to do.
Never in 50 years has there been a prime minister who is so monumentally unsuited to the job and whose star has plummeted quite so fast and so disastrously.
Thanks to Starmer’s incompetence, his embarrassing lack of judgment, and his total lack of political nous, Labour won’t get back into power for the next 25 years. And just like the Tories, they will 100 per cent deserve their oblivion.
The final nail in Starmer’s coffin was hammered home last week when it became clear he’d been told about the fatal allegations (and emails) against Lord Mandelson days before he was sacked and a day before he stood up in parliament and gave “Petie” his wholehearted support.
He might have survived the grubby Mandelson saga had it been a catastrophe in isolation. But it wasn’t. It was the latest in a long line of cock ups that have made clear to everyone in this country that Starmer just isn’t up to the job.
His premiership has been defined by incompetence, and after every catastrophe, his defence has always been that “he didn’t know”.
Keir Starmer just put the final nail in his party's coffin. But hold off popping the cork - Carole Malone | Getty Images
He said he didn’t know about the more serious Mandelson allegations before he stood up in the Commons last week and gave him his wholehearted support. He said he didn’t know about the allegations against capital gains tax cheat Angela Rayner.
He didn’t know about the allegations against a whole host of his other ministers who’ve had to resign in disgrace.
This is the man who’s forever shoving down our throats what a fantastic prosecutor he was, in which case, how did he not immediately see that Raynor and Mandelson couldn’t be defended? Not in any way, shape or form. Yet he did it anyway.
How didn’t a top lawyer know that with Mandelson’s past, he should never have been given the Washington job in the first place?
Even now, he refuses to sack our dud of a Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, who sobs in the Commons chamber and whose gross incompetence has taken this country to the brink of ruin.
Nor has he stuck to a single promise he made to the British people when he was begging for their votes and promising to clean up politics.
Time and again, he’s made it clear that he cares more about the rights of illegal migrants than he does about the rights of the British people. Britons can go homeless and live on the streets, while people who come here illegally and will never contribute anything to this country get new houses.
The biggest problem for Starmer has always been that he’s not a leader and has no political instincts, which is why, after just 14 months in Government, his own MPs see him as a joke and a liability.
He’s never listened to the fears of the people who catapulted him to power. And he’ll have learned nothing from Sunday’s Unite the Kingdom march, where 200,000 people (some say up to a million) came from all corners of Great Britain waving flags and banners to reclaim their country, to protest about out-of-control immigration, about the death of free speech and the murder of Charlie Kirk.
But most of all, they were protesting about what Starmer and his bunch of incompetents have done to this country.
And what this march showed was that public anger and discontent are way stronger than this idiot Government could ever have imagined. And it’s only going to get worse.
And isn’t it funny that the hard Left has been screaming that the people on that march were all far Right racists hell bent on violence. The reality is that there were just 23 arrests.
Compare that to a few weeks ago and the Notting Hill Carnival – which the Left described as a joyful celebration of culture – and there were 423 arrests, and 60 police officers were injured.
I don’t suppose Starmer could be bothered to listen to derisive chants of those marchers about how useless and hopeless he is. He’d have been locked away in his little echo chamber, blaming everyone – but himself – for the disasters that have befallen him.
And that’s been the problem. He’s never listened to the British people. Not from Day One. Instead, he has patronised and lied to them.
Even now, he has no clue about what they think, feel or need. Nor does he see that his government is weak and useless, and that the fatal weakness at the heart of it is him.
He never saw Reform coming. He just kept dismissing them as racists and bigots and not serious people. Now the Reform Party is 10- 15 points ahead of Labour in the polls and is expected to win by a landslide at the next election.
Starmer’s problem has always been that for years, he has existed in an elitist Left-wing bubble. He boasts that his working-class family was never anything of the sort. He bangs on about his dad being a toolmaker when his Father actually owned the tool factory. There’s a difference.
And this week, as the turmoil about his premiership rages, we have the Leader of the Free World coming here – a trip that could have brought Britain so many advantages, yet we know with Starmer and his mob in charge – all of whom despise Trump -nothing good for Britain is likely to come out of it. What a waste!
But this week the talk is of who’ll replace Starmer when he eventually goes, and the current hot favourite is “King of the North” - Andy Burnham, who is Manchester’s mayor.
But have people forgotten that boring Burnham ran away to Manchester because twice he’s thrown his cap into the ring to be Labour leader – and twice he’s failed. He came fourth in the race in 2010 and second to Ed Miliband in 2015. And if he can’t beat the loon Miliband, he’s never going to be the man to stop the boats, secure our borders and get Britain back onto its feet.
Burnham is a decent bloke. Unlike Starmer, he has morals and principles, but that doesn’t make him Prime Minister material. Twice, his own party has rejected him as leader.
He’s just a nicer version of Starmer, and he’s only a contender now because everyone else is so bloody dreadful!
But the knowledge that Starmer’s reign will soon be over is no comfort to millions of desperate Britons who are bracing themselves for a budget that is likely to tip many over the financial edge.
Yes, Starmer will soon be finished, but so will many of those people who trusted and put their faith in him!