Keir Starmer's "Patriotic Economy" is meaningless

If Keir Starmer is unwilling to combat the all malign foreign influences in Britain his latest propaganda line about Labour running a "Patriotic Economy" is meaningless nonsense.

On a visit to a housing development in Shropshire Keir Starmer claimed that Labour is going to make Britain a "Patriotic Economy", a new propaganda line that’s he’s repeating frequently and Labour are briefing to compliant news outlets to lazily copy into their pro-Starmer puff pieces.

Starmer hasn’t provided any clear explanation of what differentiates his so-called "Patriotic Economy" from the diabolical economic mess Britain is in now, other than vague platitudes about how "British families would reap the rewards".

What are the policies that Labour are going to pursue to make Britain’s economy so "patriotic"?

Are Labour going to boot foreign governments and overseas profiteers out of our core infrastructure and services and return them to British public ownership?

No. Starmer has made it absolutely clear that he has no interest in repatriation of overseas-owned water, energy, mail, health services, schools, or transport. The overseas profiteers are staying, and we all have to keep paying inflated bills to make sure they get their cut.

Are Labour going to revoke the literally thousands of "Golden Visas" that the Tories handed out to a rogue’s gallery of Russian oligarchs, corrupt Corrupt Chinese officials, families of African dictators, oil rich middle-eastern tyrants, multi-national corporate looters, and the like?

No.

Is Starmer going to ban British politicians from taking freebies and donations from foreign states and individuals linked to those states?

No. The case for clamping down on dodgy foreign donations couldn’t be clearer after the £millions in dodgy Russian cash pouring into the Tory party, but Labour clearly won’t do anything about it given their shadow cabinet’s addiction to Israeli donations.

Are Labour going to do something about the chaotic Chinese government ownership of British Steel (like make them file their accounts properly rather than pouring £billions in public funds into the operation)?

Apparently not.

Are Labour going to ban people hiding their ownership of UK property assets via dodgy tax-haven trusts and shell-companies?

No.

Are Labour going to stand up to the multinational corporations that use financial engineering to shift the profits they’ve made in the UK into low tax jurisdictions?

No.

Is Starmer going to ban overseas media moguls and hedge funds from owning British newspapers and television stations?

No, he’s too busy sucking up to them and promising to deliver more of the hard-right Thatcherite economic agenda they want.

Is Starmer going to stop taking foreign policy instruction from the United States and actually take a strong independent stance against Israeli genocide, Saudi Arabian human rights abuses, etc.

No. Obviously not.

Is Starmer going to stand up to the denationalised corporate and financial business class that have looted £billions out of the economy while the rest of us have been stuck with a decade and a half of stagnating real-terms wages, austerity ruination, failing public services, and the catastrophic erosion of the social safety net?

No. In fact Starmer and his economics minister Rachel Reeves won’t shut up about how they’ve invited these people in to write Labour’s economic strategy for them!

Are Labour going to reverse Tory austerity ruination and actually invest in the drivers of future economic prosperity so the UK stops crumbling into disrepair, and falling ever further behind other countries?

No. Starmer and Reeves are just as hooked on the economic crack cocaine of austerity penny pinching as the Tories.

All Starmer is prepared to offer to substantiate his "Patriotic Economy" is a claim that Labour would build more houses, which you’d have to be profoundly gullible to take at face value given his litany of other binned policies and broken pledges (renationalisation, green investment, House of Lords reform, right to roam, two-child policy, scrapping student fees, higher taxes for the richest 5% …).

So if Starmer isn’t going to do anything to confront greedy foreign interests or put British interests first, and the only substance at all to his "Patriotic Economy" is another one of his frankly unbelievable policy pledges that does absolutely nothing to combat all these malign overseas influences in Britain, what’s it really all about?

It seems highly likely that Starmer’s simply been told to use the phrase because some focus group has found that it plays well with certain demographics.

It’s not meant to mean anything.

Britain’s been carved up and given away to overseas interests while the greedy rich have been allowed to use all kinds of financial trickery to stash an estimated £570 billion in offshore accounts, and Starmer has no intention of doing anything about any of it.

He’s probably just been told by some obnoxious policy wonks that gullible people like the sounds of these empty meaningless words, so that’s why he’s using them.