Furious voters want an end to politics as we know it. By Allison Pearson in The Telegraph, telling us what she really thinks about Kier Starmer. The UK is just a few million immigrants ahead of Australia.
The British never liked Keir Starmer. Labour’s landslide victory in July 2024 was a furious rejection of the Conservatives (who added millions of migrants to the UK population against the express wishes of their own voters) not a ringing endorsement of the north London human rights lawyer and his dreary public-sector MPs spouting their idiot lanyard babble.
But the size of the Prime Minister’s majority gave him an arrogant sense of entitlement. We are witnessing it now as, Führer-like, he hunkers down in his Downing Street bunker claiming that he will “go on governing” in the national interest, which he has confused with his own.
Dislike swiftly curdled into loathing after the Southport massacre on July 29, 2024, when three little girls were savagely murdered. The new PM turned up in the shell-shocked northern town, ignored the distraught crowd, many of them in tears, nervously plonked down a wreath and scuttled off to the sound of jeering. “We called him ‘19 Seconds Keir’,” a relative of one of the injured children told me, “because that was how much time he gave us.” Starmer dashed back to London for a drinks party at No 10 — the first of many tone-deaf acts by that strange, soulless man.
The aftermath of Southport found Starmer in his comfort zone — railing against the “far-Right” while deploying legal process (Sir Keir hasn’t met a process he didn’t like). Instead of addressing the rising tide of public anger about the damage uncontrolled immigration had done to Britain, he visited a mosque. Of course he did. “Islamophobia” (and preserving the Muslim vote) has always been a more pressing concern for Starmer than the safety and wellbeing of the majority population. …
Ordinary people got the message. Starmer despised the white working-class, traditionally Labour voters, because too often they didn’t share what he insisted on calling “British values”. Values which had been forged, not in the guts and the soul of the native people, but inside the rarefied world of human rights law, where lavishly rewarded lawyers oversaw the persecution of our brave veterans, obstructed the deportation of terrorists and rejected asylum seekers while conspiring to give away sovereign territory. Because we were the bad guys. (Even typing that, I can feel the fury rising within me like a blood-dimmed tide. How DARE they.)
If you didn’t share that warped liberal guilt, if you resisted Starmer’s mantra that “it is British to be diverse, and that is the essence of Britishness” (speak for yourself, you pompous plonker!), you were “intolerant”, “racist” and probably jumping aboard a “far-Right bandwagon”.
Clearly, the Left’s multiculturalism project was in big trouble. It had caused unprecedented division and sectarianism in our heretofore harmonious society. It had led to a covering up of the rape and torture of thousands of white girls, blighting whole areas of towns and cities and placing enormous pressure on public services. But anyone who objected could now expect to have their collar felt for a “hate crime”. …
Keir “diversity is our strength” Starmer rapidly became the most unpopular prime minister since records began. Can’t think why. Chants of “Keir Starmer’s a w—er” echoed around football terraces up and down the land. In Northampton, Ray Connolly, Lucy’s husband who was then a Tory councillor, was canvassing in a café full of disenchanted Labour voters who were ranting about the PM. “Why do you hate him?” asked Ray. “Because Starmer’s not for the British,” one man replied. A million words of professional political analysis could not have put it better. The Prime Minister was not for the British.
And so on May 7, the people took their revenge. And how. They voted for Reform UK in astonishing numbers.
If I had to come up with two words to explain what happened last Thursday, they would be these: immigration and unfairness. The British have an acute sense of fair play. It has been violated over and over by a Labour Government (and before that by the Tories) that puts the foreign and the idle before hard-working people who must go to the back of the queue in their own country.
Why are 1.5 million migrants allowed to claim Universal Credit at a cost of billions? How the hell did 48 per cent of social housing in London end up being occupied by people who were not born in the UK?
Only this week, we learnt that the Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed that “additional spouses” in polygamous marriages are being given a 4.8 per cent boost to their benefits, which “would most likely be for husbands with multiple wives”. This is a Christian country. Polygamy is not only illegal, it disgusts us. Do they not mock us, ladies and gentlemen? Do they raise taxes on families with two parents working all hours, who struggle to make ends meet, to subsidise their indolent neighbours flaunting stuff they cannot afford?
Fighting words. Someone is going to lose big time in the upcoming fight — the time for compromise is over.