Completely agree. His delusion continues to the end. He stands there spouting about his great achievements, whilst announcing his resignation which was brought about by incompetence. Unbelievable.
Alan, shouldn't Matt spend more time getting the message out to potential voters and less time talking to adoring supporters, already 'in the bag'? How many of these good points about Starmer were on the leaflets pushed out in Makerfield? Obviously very few, which is why Reform failed MASSIVELY and we now have something even worse.
M.B., I did note your earlier comments and I expect that you're feeling more than vindicated now. I did think that you were raising valid points for message propagation.
I frequently fail to understand the political motivations of my fellow citizens; being a member of the 'crinkly' community I have now lived through 2½ Labour administrations and each time they have completely wrecked our economy via their insane tax & spend policies. And after 2010 the Conservatives joined the party. Why on earth do people continue to support and/or vote for these lying imbeciles?
As far as today is concerned I listened live to Starmer's resignation address and it was 100% delusional.
And given the current state of the UK economy is doesn't really matter who succeeds 2TK - there is no money left so unless policy significantly moves rightwards the worst is yet to come.
Because Labour's client electorate make money out of them; public employees, millions of them, do very well out of Labour, as do those who are unemployed and on benefits, so Labour are probable guaranteed 25% of the electorate as a starting point. Maybe it is time to stop those who do not pay income tax from voting?
I won't listen to his resignation speech as I can't even bear to listen to him, or the garbage that comes out of his lying treasonous mouth. Sadly we will have to put up with another pro European, pro migration, pro woke, big taxing clown ( I'm still going to have a few beers to celebrate Herr Starmer going though 😉🍻)
I despise Starmer. I despise him for lying about Brexit before the election and then taking us back in. I despise him for destroying Britain's farming industry. I despise him for appointing the psychopath Milliband and his lunatic Net Zero religion. I despise him for his two-tier policing and judiciary. I despise him for dragging his feet over the grooming gangs enquiry. I despise him for the massive tax burden. But most of all I despise him for branding ordinary working-class people who were rightfully angry over the brutal murder of three little girls as 'far-Right thugs', thereby deliberately inflaming the tensions. When Starmer perfunctorily went to lay a wreath at Southport he could have spoken to the crowd of mourners gathered at the scene, and told them that he understood their grief and anger. He could have told the rioters that he empathised with their anger, but rioting would solve nothing but he would do all that he could to stop this vile deed happening again, but he did not, he denounced them as The Far-Right and told Muslims that he would protect THEM. The man was so out of touch with ordinary people it was laughable.
Agreed, but I wouldn't say Starmer is out of touch with British working class people. Quite simply Starmer despises us, regards us with complete and utter contempt. They all do. It's why they literally couldn't care less about children being raped, tortured, and murdered as a result of their policies, and they will happily cover up those crimes if they think it will help keep them in power and implement their ideology. 👍
Really good article. What concerns me is the utter stupidity, ignorance and cupidity of the electorate: we have a huge problem here. 'Population decline'. Only of the Anglo Saxon indigenous population who are reproducing at 1.2 per woman with the requirement for a static population of 2.1 per woman. Unlike the immigrant population who are reproducing at the rate of 2.9 per woman and sometimes in households with multiple wives. It is a question of simple mathematics as to when we lose our country to Islam. The only thing we all agree on is that we need change but that word means vastly different things to different people unfortunately. Burnham wants to borrow more and increase the size of the State and that will lead to a financial crisis.
I want my country back. We must have a Reform government.
To beat the unemployment crisis we must, after getting rid of the illegals and non contributors, go back to the old tax system.
Bring back the married couples allowance. Bring back the tax children allowances. Raise wages so that woman do not have to work but can stay home and look after the home and the children.
This was always fair.
This would open up the jobs market and help bring down unemployment.
I could think of a hundred more things but that would be a start. I have not long to live but I so worry for my children and grandchildren.
Matt thank for all you do.
I play your speech at the Cornwall conference at least once a month to give me hope.
I completely agree, Matt. Good riddance to Starmer, but his departure changes nothing. Andy Burnham could be worse. Labour may find that they have exchanged King Log for King Stork.
I don't think there is any doubt he will be worse. And he's their last throw of the dice, they don't have anyone left after Burnham (don't forget he was beaten by Milliband and Corbyn)
Utterly sickened by the scenes at Manchester train station and Burnham being treated as a rock star .
I hope a general election isn’t called until the deluded fools greeting his undemocratic ascension to the office of prime minister like the coming of a messiah have a chance to realise how bad he really will be .
Socialist policies will only drive the country further into the mire and deeper into entrenched immigration
As a legal immigrant of British parents, I have been in the UK since late 2020. In these last 6 years No.10 has had a revolving door through which has passed Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer and soon another one. That's 5 prime ministers in 6 years and look at the state of the nation!
I agree Matt. I am so glad Starmer has resigned for so many reasons. If Burnham is thought to be the best Labour have got and if, as expected, his honeymoon is short, then maybe, just maybe, more people will realise that socialism is not a recipe for success.🙏
That sounds all too optimistic. As a previous comment has mentioned, think of all the public service employees - in the millions - and all those on benefits that will be supporting Labour in an election because they are the recipients of Labour largesse. I despair for this country. No Labour government since WW2 has left the country in a better state than when it came to power. They all ruin the economy and squeeze the productive middle classes that make the wealth of the country.
I have lived through many Labour governments unfortunately, none of which I voted for, but each time it is hell and the country is worse off. My fear at the moment is the right is split between Reform, Restore and the Tories and because of that we are letting Labour in again. The right needs to sort itself out or we are all doomed forever. Labour politicians have never learnt that punishing success eventually leads to failure for all.
I will treat your article as his true leaving speech rather than the waffle he came out with!
I am satisfied that he has left but only because Labour lose a bit more legitimacy as a party and because, as Makerfield (the posh end of Wigan) shows, there are still some nostalgic Labour supporters who live in the nicer areas of the North who are insulated from most of the problems Labour's policies have caused. It's in the rougher, neglected areas that Reform make more ground.
Surprisingly, there are still some who believe that there is a Labour party worth saving and that if we could just have 'proper socialism' this time then it will improve peoples' lives. Some still believe that Labour represents working people and that it actually cares about English people.
It is only when Burnham fails too that enough dyed in the wool Labour fans will disbelieve it. Starmer's failure alone wasn't enough.
They have used up all their ammo now though.
Burnham will have lots of ideas involving spending more money and distributing it 'more fairly' but that is all they know, tax, spend, redistribute. Burnham has no idea how to grow an economy nor does he want to. Like the other centralists, he just wants to decide which groups deserve to be favoured and out of those groups, who gets what.
Like the others, Burnham just wants power and control.
Well he can have that, but it will come with a large dose of accountability. At a time of no money.
‘Kier Starmer has gone. Britains Crisis has not’. Quite!
He’s left as he ruled: a lying hypocrite.
That speech just shows how utterly awful that man is. Not a word of truth in it.
Completely agree. His delusion continues to the end. He stands there spouting about his great achievements, whilst announcing his resignation which was brought about by incompetence. Unbelievable.
Hopefully the wretched Lord Hermer of The Chagos Islands will also resign or be booted out before he can undermine the country anymore!
That would be a bonus !
Prosecute him for his treasonous behaviour towards the Chagos people and our Vets. Can we hang for treason?
Completely agree,Matt. On the button as always
Alan, shouldn't Matt spend more time getting the message out to potential voters and less time talking to adoring supporters, already 'in the bag'? How many of these good points about Starmer were on the leaflets pushed out in Makerfield? Obviously very few, which is why Reform failed MASSIVELY and we now have something even worse.
M.B., I did note your earlier comments and I expect that you're feeling more than vindicated now. I did think that you were raising valid points for message propagation.
Thank you.
I frequently fail to understand the political motivations of my fellow citizens; being a member of the 'crinkly' community I have now lived through 2½ Labour administrations and each time they have completely wrecked our economy via their insane tax & spend policies. And after 2010 the Conservatives joined the party. Why on earth do people continue to support and/or vote for these lying imbeciles?
As far as today is concerned I listened live to Starmer's resignation address and it was 100% delusional.
And given the current state of the UK economy is doesn't really matter who succeeds 2TK - there is no money left so unless policy significantly moves rightwards the worst is yet to come.
Because Labour's client electorate make money out of them; public employees, millions of them, do very well out of Labour, as do those who are unemployed and on benefits, so Labour are probable guaranteed 25% of the electorate as a starting point. Maybe it is time to stop those who do not pay income tax from voting?
Maybe voter fraud is more significant than you realise?
Not least because most council admin people are left leaning, being on the gold plated public payroll.
I won't listen to his resignation speech as I can't even bear to listen to him, or the garbage that comes out of his lying treasonous mouth. Sadly we will have to put up with another pro European, pro migration, pro woke, big taxing clown ( I'm still going to have a few beers to celebrate Herr Starmer going though 😉🍻)
I despise Starmer. I despise him for lying about Brexit before the election and then taking us back in. I despise him for destroying Britain's farming industry. I despise him for appointing the psychopath Milliband and his lunatic Net Zero religion. I despise him for his two-tier policing and judiciary. I despise him for dragging his feet over the grooming gangs enquiry. I despise him for the massive tax burden. But most of all I despise him for branding ordinary working-class people who were rightfully angry over the brutal murder of three little girls as 'far-Right thugs', thereby deliberately inflaming the tensions. When Starmer perfunctorily went to lay a wreath at Southport he could have spoken to the crowd of mourners gathered at the scene, and told them that he understood their grief and anger. He could have told the rioters that he empathised with their anger, but rioting would solve nothing but he would do all that he could to stop this vile deed happening again, but he did not, he denounced them as The Far-Right and told Muslims that he would protect THEM. The man was so out of touch with ordinary people it was laughable.
Agreed, but I wouldn't say Starmer is out of touch with British working class people. Quite simply Starmer despises us, regards us with complete and utter contempt. They all do. It's why they literally couldn't care less about children being raped, tortured, and murdered as a result of their policies, and they will happily cover up those crimes if they think it will help keep them in power and implement their ideology. 👍
Really good article. What concerns me is the utter stupidity, ignorance and cupidity of the electorate: we have a huge problem here. 'Population decline'. Only of the Anglo Saxon indigenous population who are reproducing at 1.2 per woman with the requirement for a static population of 2.1 per woman. Unlike the immigrant population who are reproducing at the rate of 2.9 per woman and sometimes in households with multiple wives. It is a question of simple mathematics as to when we lose our country to Islam. The only thing we all agree on is that we need change but that word means vastly different things to different people unfortunately. Burnham wants to borrow more and increase the size of the State and that will lead to a financial crisis.
We should be prosecuting those with multiple wives.
I want my country back. We must have a Reform government.
To beat the unemployment crisis we must, after getting rid of the illegals and non contributors, go back to the old tax system.
Bring back the married couples allowance. Bring back the tax children allowances. Raise wages so that woman do not have to work but can stay home and look after the home and the children.
This was always fair.
This would open up the jobs market and help bring down unemployment.
I could think of a hundred more things but that would be a start. I have not long to live but I so worry for my children and grandchildren.
Matt thank for all you do.
I play your speech at the Cornwall conference at least once a month to give me hope.
Not all women want to stay at home and look after the home and children. Women should be able to choose to work if they want to pursue their careers.
I completely agree, Matt. Good riddance to Starmer, but his departure changes nothing. Andy Burnham could be worse. Labour may find that they have exchanged King Log for King Stork.
I don't think there is any doubt he will be worse. And he's their last throw of the dice, they don't have anyone left after Burnham (don't forget he was beaten by Milliband and Corbyn)
Replacing Starmer with Burnham will be like having chocolate sprinkles instead of hundreds of thousands on your ice cream.
Unfortunately the ice cream is still made from smoked camel dung....
So we should also be wary of the “chocolate” sprinkles?
Try eating the chocolate sprinkles off an ice cream without getting any ice cream in your mouth.
It's irrelevant what the sprinkles are made of 🙂
Hopefully the wretched Lord Hermer of The Chagos Islands will also resign or be booted out before he can undermine the country anymore!
Hermer's type do not resign - they have to be forced out.
Utterly sickened by the scenes at Manchester train station and Burnham being treated as a rock star .
I hope a general election isn’t called until the deluded fools greeting his undemocratic ascension to the office of prime minister like the coming of a messiah have a chance to realise how bad he really will be .
Socialist policies will only drive the country further into the mire and deeper into entrenched immigration
Likewise.
As a legal immigrant of British parents, I have been in the UK since late 2020. In these last 6 years No.10 has had a revolving door through which has passed Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer and soon another one. That's 5 prime ministers in 6 years and look at the state of the nation!
I agree Matt. I am so glad Starmer has resigned for so many reasons. If Burnham is thought to be the best Labour have got and if, as expected, his honeymoon is short, then maybe, just maybe, more people will realise that socialism is not a recipe for success.🙏
That sounds all too optimistic. As a previous comment has mentioned, think of all the public service employees - in the millions - and all those on benefits that will be supporting Labour in an election because they are the recipients of Labour largesse. I despair for this country. No Labour government since WW2 has left the country in a better state than when it came to power. They all ruin the economy and squeeze the productive middle classes that make the wealth of the country.
I have lived through many Labour governments unfortunately, none of which I voted for, but each time it is hell and the country is worse off. My fear at the moment is the right is split between Reform, Restore and the Tories and because of that we are letting Labour in again. The right needs to sort itself out or we are all doomed forever. Labour politicians have never learnt that punishing success eventually leads to failure for all.
How come its the women who can see the wood for the trees. While the .en are dashing here there and everywhere
Hang on a minute—and why is it that such a large proportion of women, particularly younger ones, vote left and bonkers left??
Its women who were/are voting for the Greens so women are not always clear-eyed.
I will treat your article as his true leaving speech rather than the waffle he came out with!
I am satisfied that he has left but only because Labour lose a bit more legitimacy as a party and because, as Makerfield (the posh end of Wigan) shows, there are still some nostalgic Labour supporters who live in the nicer areas of the North who are insulated from most of the problems Labour's policies have caused. It's in the rougher, neglected areas that Reform make more ground.
Surprisingly, there are still some who believe that there is a Labour party worth saving and that if we could just have 'proper socialism' this time then it will improve peoples' lives. Some still believe that Labour represents working people and that it actually cares about English people.
It is only when Burnham fails too that enough dyed in the wool Labour fans will disbelieve it. Starmer's failure alone wasn't enough.
They have used up all their ammo now though.
Burnham will have lots of ideas involving spending more money and distributing it 'more fairly' but that is all they know, tax, spend, redistribute. Burnham has no idea how to grow an economy nor does he want to. Like the other centralists, he just wants to decide which groups deserve to be favoured and out of those groups, who gets what.
Like the others, Burnham just wants power and control.
Well he can have that, but it will come with a large dose of accountability. At a time of no money.
Spot on.