Just 12 months. That’s all he needed. And in that time, Keir Starmer took his massive majority and through a mixture of cowardice (the welfare bill), a deep affection for strangers (record migrants) and a love of freebies (grey suits), his days as Prime Minister are now ticking away.
Normally, a Labour leader fighting for his life would cheer me up no end. But the humiliation of Starmer will mean that to hang on to No10 he will not be handing out the orders anymore but will be receiving them from the newly empowered MPs who want to spend, not save.
So, to accommodate the new power brokers, he will have to take a major turn to the Left. He always gave the impression that he came from the Right of his party. He won’t be making that mistake again.
The fact he bowed so low to the PIP posse he won’t be saving £5billion he will save bugger all. Since that money had been baked into the Reeves' finances, it has to come from somewhere.
We all know who that someone is - you and me.
Our taxes are to go up later this year because the Parliamentary Labour Party have decided that the ‘’poorest in our society’’ are entitled to our money even if they are suffering from acne, obesity or have a drink problem.
It’s a racket. Mention the word disabled, and instinctively, you think of wheelchairs, but half the claimants are receiving money for mental health issues. We’ve all got ADHD. I certainly have. But I’m not receiving PIP.
Unusually for Starmer, he saw the way the UK’s benefit bill was going and decreed it should be cut.
His MPs, all working for charities, trade unions and the like, thought otherwise, and they won. Tonight, Starmer’s a dead man walking.
Keir Starmer's replacement will at least send Labour to the grave with a smile on his face - Kelvin MacKenzie
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And it won’t only be him looking for work at the M&S canteen. Before winning, Reeves sold herself as a friend of business who wanted to balance the books without tax rises. That lasted about ten seconds before she found a £22billion black hole- the only hole was the one between her ears.
The effect has been to send unemployment up and productivity down- the NHS is 18 per cent down on last year. Thanks to Starmer throwing his hand in on both the welfare cuts and the winter fuel allowance, Reeves knows she’s on borrowed time. She can always go back to her call centre.
Also heading out on her wheelchair will be Work and Pensions Secretary Minister Liz Kendall, who brought the bill to Parliament.
In the next shake-up and she will have to spend more of her time with her wealthy boyfriend in his £4million home in Notting Hill. Imagine she will be delighted.
I don’t think anybody realises what a nightmare this defeat is for the government and the people.
The government can no longer get spending cuts through the government, and yet we don’t create any wealth to be used to cut the bills.
We literally face four years of looking out the window and hoping for the best. And keeping our fingers crossed that Nigel Farage has some solutions.
Starmer himself won’t get four years. Difficult to push out a Labour leader (much easier if he were a Tory) but there will come a moment even a numbskull like him will know it’s time to go.
As things stand, he’s already the most unpopular Prime Minister in modern times (worse than Liz Truss), and anxious MPs looking at their small majorities will want a winner to take his place.
Starmer won’t be missed. Either in the Labour Party or elsewhere. I’m sure he will be welcomed back to his Chambers with open arms. They love a good liar.
Who will follow him? Angela Rayner’s people were bigging up her chances in the Mail on Sunday last week, saying when the Welsh and Scottish results come in next May, they will be such a disaster he will quit and she’s ready to take over with a bunch of Commons lefties behind her.
Reform would get in with an even bigger majority were that to happen. Even dim-as-you-like Labour MPs know that, so my money would be on Wes Streeting.
He will still lead Labour to a massive defeat, but will do it with a smile.
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