Keir Starmer actually said something that's true!

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day

Keir Starmer reckons that "if you want change, you have to vote for it", which is interesting given the tepid "more of the same" agenda he’s cooked up with his Labour right stooges.

The first thing that needs changing is the myopic penny-pinching mindset of short-term book-balancing and austerity cuts that has condemned the UK to a decade and a half of economic stagnation already.

Starmer has made it clear that he’s sticking with Tory spending plans, making their disastrous austerity cuts permanent, and continuing with the hopelessly discredited austerity mindset of using "fiscal rules" as an excuse for continued under-investment in the drivers of future economic prosperity.

Is Starmer going to do anything to claw back the wealth looted by corporations and the mega-rich over the last 14 years, and especially during the pandemic and the inflation crisis?

Of course he isn’t. He’s absolutely determined not to reverse any of the Tory tax cuts and handouts for the rich, and he’s even opposed to equalising Capital Gains Tax and Income Tax so that idle speculators pay the same on their profits as workers pay on their wages!

Is Starmer going to reform Britain’s shockingly disproportional voting system that rewards parties with unassailable majorities on 40 odd percent of the vote?

Of course he isn’t given that this inbuilt disproportionality is going to massively benefit him.

Is Starmer going to eradicate the debilitating infestation of privatisation profiteers in Britain’s core infrastructure and services (water, energy, public transport, mail …)?

Not a chance, even though this is exactly what he promised to do as he was lying his way into the Labour leadership. Starmer’s firmly on the side of the water and energy profiteers, and his rail "renationalisation" plan is a fraud that allows the parasitical profiteers to keep siphoning public cash out of the system through ownership of the trains and the rail freight companies.

Is Starmer going to save the NHS through investment like Tony Blair did in 1997?

No, he’s not just going to keep the Tory austerity cuts in place, he’s going to let Wes Streeting loose on our health system to carve it up for the benefit of the private health profiteers who have been pouring donations into the bank accounts of Starmer and his Labour-right allies.

Is Starmer going to combat the soaring rates of child poverty that blight lives in the present and stunt our country’s economic potential in the future?

No. He’s ideologically committed to keeping the depraved Tory Two Child limit in place, a diabolical policy that would cost less to remove than he’s promising to pump into Ukraine’s unwinnable "forever war" with Russia.

Is Starmer going to reverse any of the Tory government’s illiberal legislation to crush trade union power, stymie free speech, obstruct peaceful protest, and allow undercover cops to rape the women they’re spying on with impunity?

No. In fact, given his dictatorial personality and his vitriolic intolerance of dissent, it wouldn’t be surprising if yet another round of attacks on our freedoms and liberties is one of the first things on his legislative agenda.

Is Keir Starmer going to do anything about the total normalisation of political lying that’s delivered diabolical economic consequences and turned British political discourse into an absolute farce?

Of course he isn’t. He’s just as much of a political liar as Boris Johnson. He cheated his way into the Labour leadership on a massive pack of lies, and has continued lying about his agenda ever since, so why would he bring in new standards of conduct that would constrain his own lies and deceptions?

It’s illustrative of the dishonesty behind the Starmer project that they’re campaigning on the false promise of "change" to hide their real agenda of "more of the same".

More of the myopic short-term book balancing that’s done so much damage already; more austerity; more privatisation profiteering; more handouts for the rich; more NHS privatisation; more infrastructure under-investment; more money for "forever wars" while British kids go hungry …

Starmer’s right. If you want change, you have to vote for it, so go out and vote for the alternatives.

Vote Green; vote SNP in Scotland; vote Plaid Cymru in Wales; vote for local independents; vote for Workers GB … because if you vote for "more of the same", just with differently coloured ties, that’s exactly what you’re going to get.

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