Damned united
VOTERS who handed Labour a landslide election victory had every right to believe Keir Starmer when he promised to end years of Tory chaos and infighting.
Not even 18 months later, Downing Street is in the grip of a suicidal paranoia and a Government civil war has exploded.
What possessed Starmer and his advisers to go public about an alleged plot by some MPs to replace him with Health Secretary Wes Streeting?
It’s a desperate look for the Prime Minister to claim only he and Chancellor Rachel Reeves can maintain market confidence and protect Britain from impending economic collapse.
This botched attempt at defusing the “coup” has served only to weaken Starmer while boosting the reputation of Streeting, who pleads total innocence.
The PM’s claim to MPs that he is captain of a united team was rightly met with laughter.
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Some will say Starmer has been badly advised and that his team’s handling of the leadership threat makes even hapless BBC bosses look like masters of spin. But HE should know better.
After all, he is only in Number Ten because voters were sick to death of five Tory Prime Ministers in six years as the warring party forgot about fixing the country’s problems and fought each other instead.
Today the public is furious once more at the sight of Labour’s factions tearing themselves apart while their lives are getting worse.
Thousands have lost jobs or seen their pay swallowed by inflation. Taxes are going up and growth is near zero. Four million are on sick benefits with no requirement to work.
And because of repeated capitulations to left-wing MPs, Labour now has NO plans to slash welfare spending.
Instead, it actually wants to spend billions MORE restoring benefits for large workless families.
The NHS remains on its knees and Ed Miliband is being allowed to sacrifice UK industry on the altar of Net Zero.
And still the small boats arrive.
With his party fourth in the polls, it’s all a very far cry from the “change” Starmer promised.
And we haven’t even yet had the Budget, likely to be one of the most brutal — and, to some, the most economically stupid — of modern times.
What a pathetic mess the PM has made for himself.
Broken-hearted
THE senseless murder of Garry Newlove in 2007 by a teenage gang became an unwanted symbol of Broken Britain.
In the years that followed, his courageous widow Helen, whose death was announced yesterday, set aside her grief to campaign for all victims of crime.
Britain still has much which needs fixing. But Baroness Newlove’s selfless work showed why we should never stop trying.
