Keir Starmer’s Labour won’t stand up for UK – too busy drowning in sleaze | Personal Finance | Finance
PM Keir Starmer is particularly fond of trumpeting his values. He boasted that Labour would be a party of integrity and decency, contrasting himself with the sleazy and scandal-ridden Conservatives. Labour’s shrinking band of supporters still insist he’s fundamentally a good man, but the facts suggest otherwise. This is a man who says whatever suits him at any given moment, then just as easily walks it back. Here’s a quick list 25 whoppers he’s expected us to swallow. There are many, many more.
During the election, Starmer repeatedly promised no new taxes on working people, pledged to support businesses and farmers, and looked 1950s WASPI women in the eye and pledged to compensate them. All of it reversed after the election. The same pattern repeats again and again, and yet he’s still described as a man of principle. Was it principle to block US strikes using British bases only to approve them days later?
This Labour Party is drowning in sleaze and scandal but they’re just as bad as the Tories. If not worse.
Fish rots from the head, and Starmer himself is showing the way. Estimates suggest he accepted more than £100,000 in gifts, including football and concert tickets, more than any other political leader in recent times. He also negotiated himself a super-generous pension that nobody else gets, funded by taxpayers.
Since taking power Labour ministers have stacked up scandal after scandal. Tulip Siddiq resigned over family corruption in Bangladesh. Former deputy PM Angela Rayner went after shewriggled out of paying stamp duty on her luxury seaside pad. The scandal may even thwart her attempts to replace Starmer as PM, although in today’s Labour Party, it might help.
Rushanara Ali evicted tenants from her property then greedily readvertised it after hiking the rent by £700. Hilariously, she was minister for the homeless.
Louise Haigh failed to disclose a 2013 fraud conviction when she was appointed transport secretary. Josh Simons commissioned a dirty dossier to smear journalists investigating Labour finances. He’s gone, with Starmer sneakilyusing the Iran war as cover to sneak out the news. And I haven’t even got to Peter Mandelson yet.
Not only was Mandy happy to hang out with known paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, he even fed him state secrets hot off the press. It’s set to be the worst political scandal to rock Westminster in 60 years.
