YOU may have noticed that pretty much every week the newspapers announce that Sir Keir Starmer hasn’t got long to go.
Even the ones that like him reckon the same thing. And yet every week he doesn’t go.
He stays there, in 10 Downing Street. Emerging every few hours to say something banal and meaningless. In that voice of his. The voice of a robot with bad sinus trouble.
Other people around him go, at his command. But not Sir Keir. He stays there with his packets of Sudafed.
But now there are two very pressing reasons why he has to go. And must leave office.
The first, his party’s result in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Labour finished a dismal third, behind Reform and those utterly mental Greens.
The second — and more important — is the rockets raining down on Tehran. Which we knew nothing about until they started falling. And which Starmer has yet to say he fully supports.
Let’s start with the Gorton and Denton by-election. In an effort to save his hopeless leadership, Starmer prevented the Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham from standing. That was unforgivable from his party’s point of view.
But it may not have made much difference. Because we keep seeing from by-election to by-election that Labour cannot win no matter who they put forward.
And when the lefties gather together to decide who they have to vote for to beat Nigel Farage’s Reform, it is NEVER Labour.
Remember, Gorton and Denton was solidly Labour. Always had been. And so when Reform came marching along it should have been Labour who Farage’s opponents turned to. But it wasn’t. It was the ludicrous Greens.
OK, one reason the Greens won is because they hoovered up the Muslim vote. The Greens are basically a party which supports Hamas and any vile government which hates the UK. It is also a party which doesn’t know what a woman is. They are extremists.
Somehow this suited the Muslim voters just fine. But it also suited quite a lot of the white left-wing voters.
And my big fear is that this might happen in a general election. The left gang together and decide that it’s the awful Greens, not Labour, who are best suited to fight Farage and co. That will be the end of the Labour Party. And pretty dangerous for the country too.
Do you want that breast-whispering madman Polanski as PM? Bizarre as it seems, it COULD happen. That should be enough to chill your goolies off.
Starmer should take responsibility for Gorton and Denton. Accept that as the Prime Minister with the lowest popularity in British political history, he has become a noose around the neck of his party.
With him in charge, it is now evident that the party can win nothing. It wouldn’t even win the egg-and-spoon race at a primary school.
His leadership has been an abject failure.
Now, it used to be said that, while Sir Keir had been about as much use as a eunuch’s foreskin domestically, he had handled foreign affairs quite well.
You can’t say that any more, though. His stance on the American attack on Iran reeks of cowardice and indecision.
So, in truth, did his earlier decision to ban the US from using any of our own air bases to mount their attack upon the Mad Mullahs of Tehran.
Starmer was worried about the legality of any such attack. And as a consequence, the bombing took place without us being on board.
Now there’s no doubt in my mind that the US action is technically illegal.
And we have been reminded of that by the half-witted United Nations General Secretary, the former hard-left Marxist Antonio Guterres. But for once, at least, that is beside the point.
For 47 years the Iranians — or Persians — have suffered under the world’s worst government.
A vicious and tyrannical religious dictatorship which has enslaved 80million people. Which sponsors terrorism worldwide, including against British subjects and dissidents living here. And which is working towards building a nuclear bomb.
Now the Yanks and Israelis could abide by the letter of the law. They could do nothing until after the plutonium has been loaded into the warheads. And then where would we be?
Last night the PM decided to let the US use our bases — but only for the limited purpose of destroying missiles. It is a legalistic fudge which shows he is more scared of breaking the rules than liberating the Iranians and stopping that awful country’s nuclear programme.
And it suggests to me that Sir Keir Starmer simply isn’t cut out to lead this country.
We have let the Americans down when they needed us, too. Now, OK, our first duty should always be to our own people. Their safety.
But stepping aside from this action loses us important influence in Washington. And shows a lack of resolve, too, a shortage of spirit.
But then that’s Sir Keir, innit? He has performed in much the same way when it comes to Ukraine.
Always talking a good game. Saying how much we support them in their fight against the Russians. But when it comes to action . . . um, you know, not so much.
The war against Iran may be the defining moment of this century so far.
Sir Keir knows the world would be a much better place — and the Iranians a much happier people — if we got rid of the Mullahs.
And yet he sits there paralysed with fear. Hoping that someone else will do the dirty work. Once again sounding off about how horrible Iran is, but not being prepared to do anything about it.
It is the same problem with our defence spending. He talks the right game, about how we must spend more.
But at the last Budget, defence was hardly mentioned at all.
And there is no chance we will be paying five per cent of our GDP as the defence chiefs insist we need.
So for all these reasons, Starmer should go. Give his party a fighting chance at the next election. And spare us the misery of the Greens.
And leave us with someone in charge of the country who leads with conviction and bravery.
I KNOW it sounds odd, but the real winner of that Gorton and Denton by-election was Kemi Badenoch.
The Tories got hardly any votes – one of the worst performances by a Tory candidate in 200 years.
But in a way, that didn’t matter because the poll showed two important things for Kemi.
First, that Reform seem to have hit a ceiling and may be on the slide a little.
They expected to win that seat and fell way short.
Kemi’s Tories are catching them up in the polls.
And second, nobody is in any rush to vote Labour.
Kemi has three years to turn awful poll ratings into victory.
And do you know what, she might just do it.
MORE and more of these loathsome little cretins are going to have the light of scrutiny trained upon on them after that by-election.
It now transpires that the Green Party spin doctor, Abi Wilkinson, denies that any Jewish women were raped by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023.
Even the United Nations concedes multiple rapes took place.
But Abi won’t see it, because she’s another Hamas groupie who is reluctant to accept the truth.
