- Sun Feb 08, 2026 9:50 pm
#105660
I’m trying hard to stand fast against the relentless media narrative that Starmer has to go, and it’s not a question of whether, just when, Keir Starmer will be leaving number ten. I don’t want him to go, because I genuinely think he is the best possible Prime Minister the UK could have right now. I also think him being forced out now would be grotesquely unfair. He has never even met Jeffrey Epstein, was not in parliament when Mandelson was leaking information to Epstein, and did not, and could not, have known of it until it was exposed by the US state department’s latest release of the Epstein files. Had it not been, the appointment of Mandelson as ambassador to the USA would quite possibly still be being regarded as a good one at the time.
That said, it could be that Starmer’s jacket is on a shoogly peg, as we say in Paisley. At the very least, the Labour Party should be looking at some succession planning - widely recognised as good business practice. Keir Starmer now has a target painted on his back. If he isn’t brought down now, then this has perhaps shown that it is possible for him to be defenestrated. Unless he very swiftly acquires some down and dirty political skills - the sort of thing he was perhaps hitherto reliant entirely on McSweeney for - he may not be able to fight the cunts in his own party off indefinitely.
"The opportunity to serve our country: that is all we ask.” John Smith, May 11, 1994.
- By satnav