Actions speak louder than words

Keir Starmer has been spouting rhetoric about racism in Nigel Farage's party ranks, but a look behind the scenes reveals that he doesn't have a leg to stand on when it comes to racism or Farage.

Keir Starmer’s brass neck was on display again when he publicly chided Nigel Farage with accusations that he’s failed to deal with racism in his party ranks, before gloating about changing Labour to "make the culture right".

Here’s a reminder of the changes Starmer has made since he lied his way into the party leadership:

In one of his very first acts as leader Starmer rigged the nomination process to exclude women, socialists, and people of colour from the leadership election process to succeed himself. Under his new rigged rules every person of colour who has ever stood to be Labour leader would have been excluded, as well as all but two women too!

Under Starmer’s vicious leadership Labour has spent years invoking the age-old antisemitic trope of the “self-hating Jew" to systematically accuse non-Zionist Jews of being antisemites in order to drive them out of the party.

After the Labour Leaks exposed a festering culture of racism and abuse on the Labour right, Starmer commissioned the Forde Report which found that Labour was becoming a "Hostile Environment for people of colour" and made 165 recommendations to sort it out. Starmer then booted the report into the long grass, and ignored Martin Forde’s complaints.

Starmer has also ignored concerns from various Black and Asian Labour MPs about racism within the party.

There was the horrific bullying of Labour MP Aspana Begum orchestrated from within the Labour ranks by her ex-husband and a cadre of Labour right-wingers.

Consider Starmer’s vindictive year-long punishment of Diane Abbott for an extremely poorly worded letter to the Guardian, while Starmer’s Labour right allies have been allowed to get away with racist outbursts, spreading antisemitic tropes, sexual harassment, drunken disorder, and even heaping praise on one of Britain’s most notorious Nazi-glorifying antisemites!

Earlier this year Keir Starmer and the Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle deliberately triggered a tsunami of Islamophobic hate and conspiracy theories in order to cover up their collusion over Starmer’s sabotage of the SNP’s Gaza ceasefire motion.

After scores of Muslim Labour politicians quit the party over Starmer’s genocide complicity, one of his inner circle gleefully briefed the press that the resignations were the party "shaking off the fleas". Nobody has been disciplined for this bigoted outburst, and rumour has it that the person who said this has been selected as a parliamentary candidate in the general election!

Just the day before his criticism of Farage’s handling of racism, Starmer whipped up a racist storm himself by demonising Bangladeshis as he fulminated about asylum seekers.

None of this is intended as a defence of Farage’s Reform party and the racist filth spewed by its candidates and activists, but with a track record as obscene as Starmer’s, surely he hasn’t got a leg to stand on when it comes to chastising other parties for racism and bigotry?

But to make matters even worse, there’s the fact that behind the scenes Starmer and his mob are intent on giving Nigel Farage a free run at the Clacton constituency by blocking Labour’s own candidate from campaigning.

Apparently Labour’s 27 year old candidate in Clacton Jovan Owusu-Nepaul has upset Starmer’s inner circle by "upstaging" Starmer with his viral media posts and a GQ interview about his fashion sense.

As a result Owusu-Nepaul has been ordered to stay out of the constituency he’s contesting. Furthermore local activists have been banned from producing election materials and accessing party databases, and they’ve even been blocked from accessing their own social media accounts!

According to a party insider who spoke to the Guardian Owusu-Nepaul "was getting more retweets than Keir Starmer. The officials were furious with him and said he was distracting from Starmer’s campaign".

So there you have it.

When Starmer’s in front of the TV cameras he’s happy to have a hypocritical pop at Nigel Farage over racism in the Reform ranks, but behind the scenes he’s stamping down hard to erase the political future of a young black lad in a pique of jealousy, and giving Farage a free run at a parliamentary seat in the process.

And surely actions speak louder than words, don’t they?

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