Why do Starmtroopers insist on rewriting history?

If Starmerism is so good, why do his shadow cabinet ministers and his Starmtrooper acolytes have to completely rewrite history to justify it?

This week we’ve seen the utterly bizarre spectacle of Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves portraying herself as the new Margaret Thatcher, and promising an economic "take off" like 1979.

What Thatcher actually delivered after she won in 1979 was the worst recession since WWII, soaring inflation, and a literal doubling of the unemployment rate.

Thatcher was profoundly unpopular in her first term and was only saved from electoral defeat by the jingoism of the Falklands War, and by the sabotage of the Labour right who helped her keep power by splitting off to form the SDP (Labour right sabotage tactics that were repeated in 2019 by the now defunct CUK squatters).

But this ahistorical Thatcher revisionism isn’t the only part of British political history Starmtroopers feel the need to completely rewrite.

Apparently they now want people to believe that Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, Tony Blair, and Keir Starmer had identical politics, and they’re telling us this ahistorical nonsense in the most glib and patronising tone possible.

Here’s an extract from Labour’s 1945 manifesto, which refers to Labour as a socialist party:

And here’s a quote from Clement Attlee himself:

Can you imagine Starmer talking about "the evils of capitalism" or proposing public ownership of utilities and core industries as the solution?

Of course not.

Can you imagine Clement Attlee or Harold Wilson ever saying that "Labour are the real conservatives" like Starmer did?

Of course not.

Clement Attlee’s post war government founded the NHS; dramatically improved pensions and the social security system; introduced Legal Aid; built literally hundreds of thousands of council houses; and nationalised energy, water, coal, steel, rail and more, all while rebuilding Britain from the destruction of the Second World War.

Harold Wilson’s Labour governments were not as economically transformative, but they continued public ownership; improved the social security system; built social housing; and maintained near full employment.

The idea that this is the exact same brand of politics as Tony Blair is beyond absurd.

Blair deleted Labour’s commitment to public ownership; outright refused to reverse disastrous Tory privatisations (rail, water, energy); and actively expanded the deranged privatisation agenda by privatising Air Traffic Control (pretty much the perfect example of a natural monopoly) and through deluded PFI economic alchemy schemes.

Blair refused to even reverse the destructive Tory policy of flogging off social housing at way below its real value, while banning councils from reinvesting the money in new social housing.

And there’s absolutely no doubt that Starmer is even further to the right than Tony Blair.

Starmer’s ripped up his deceitful leadership election pledges to renationalise water and energy; his economics minister is a delusional austerity fanatic who spouts economically illiterate baby talk; unlike Blair Starmer is unconcerned about child poverty to such an extent he won’t even reverse the depraved Tory two-child policy; and his health minister Wes Streeting won’t shut up about how he’s going to rip the NHS open for the benefit of his private health mates.

It’s beyond absurd to claim that the guy who wants to rip the NHS to bits for the benefit of private health interests has identical politics to the great Labour Prime Minister who founded the NHS as a public service.

You’d have to be braid-dead stupid to accept the pretence that the guy who won’t even reverse the most damaging Tory privatisations is functionally the same as the guy who nationalised whole swathes of the UK economy.

It’s unbelievable that these people actually want you to believe that a Labour leader who is bankrolled by £millions in capitalist cash has the same politics as the one who used to warn about "the evils of capitalism".

And it’s absolutely ridiculous to paint the guy who has spent the last four years waging a bitter factional war against genuine socialists in the Labour Party as an ideological bedfellow of a man that Starmer would have marginalised and hounded out of the modern day Labour Party for his unmistakable socialist principles if he were alive today.

The disturbing reality is that truth is as alien to Starmer and his aggro-centrist acolytes as it ever was to Boris Johnson and his backers.

Starmer brazenly lied his way into the Labour leadership and his Starmtroopers seem to see themselves as some kind of Orwellian "Ministry of Truth" with the job of completely rewriting British political history to suit their leader’s right-wing authoritarian, pro-austerity, pro-privatisation agenda.

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