- Mon Jun 22, 2026 3:47 pm
#112698
Watching Keir Starmer delivering his notice of resignation out side the front door of number ten, I felt disgusted, saddened, and angry at the grotesque unfairness of what has been done to a fine leader and the best PM the UK has had in twenty years. It just seems so wrong - apart from anything else, the Labour Party just doesn’t do this sort of thing . Fuck knows, we tried to do it when the party was led by an incompetent charlatan who was taking the party to the brink of electoral extinction , and it didn’t bloody work then. The Tories used to do it every six months, and look where it got them. Why on earth are we doing it now to a deeply principled leader of immense integrity and decency who, unlike JC, at least has the pragmatic nous actually to pay attention to the concerns of his parliamentary party ? Have we learned nothing ?
Finding it very hard to accept, but I dare say that’s Realpolitik.
For probably only the second time in forty years, I’m considering ending my membership of the party.
"The opportunity to serve our country: that is all we ask.” John Smith, May 11, 1994.