Labour Party PM Keir Starmer is trying to show Britain how right-wing he is. But that’s not making him any more popular. And his performance on social media right now is a perfect representation of that.
Keir Starmer: roasted, rounded upon, and ratioed
The prime minister has been writing for disgusting corporate rags like the Sun and Daily Mail in a clear show of who his target audience is. But it’s Reform UK and its far-right Tory bedfellows who have been reaping the rewards of Labour’s disastrous neoliberal resurgence under the thoroughly unpopular Starmer.
Reform’s corporate elitist Nigel Farage is already more popular than Starmer. And one survey from the last week suggests Labour is haemorrhaging votes to the right as it fails to provide Britain with the urgent action it needs.
The governing party, just months after gaining power, has dropped to become the third party in British politics. It’s now behind the Tories, whose devastating collapse last year handed Labour an easy victory, and Reform, which wasn’t even a party a few years ago.
In the Mail, he launched a cheap attack on environmentalists who just years ago were a central demographic for Labour. Rather than blaming the privatising policies of previous governments or the massive levels of inequality in Britain, he has once again tried to deflect blame away from the powerful culprits responsible for the country’s woes.
And in response to his cynical sloganeering, he rightly got ratioed, with people criticising his hypocrisy, his inaction, and his gaslighting:
— Andrew Fisher (@FisherAndrew79) January 23, 2025
‘If you don’t like my principles, I have others!’ pic.twitter.com/KV6n7cD4xq
— The TV Grump (@TheTVGrump) January 23, 2025
Johnsonian sloganising from a man who is just as much in his donors' pockets and no less of a liar.
Despicable.
— EthicalRenewal – Rational morality (@EthicalRenewal) January 23, 2025
So why are you blocking the building of hospitals?
— Liz Ward (@mLizWard) January 23, 2025
Backing billionaires
Backing Blackrock pic.twitter.com/9kjXIkl5mw— Martin Burslam 🕷 🟨🟥 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 (@NeonLuvBar) January 23, 2025
The developers are the blockers – banking land in order to control supply & maximise profits. And you're doing nothing to tackle that.https://t.co/8cpGrle7ko
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 23, 2025
Hi Keir, will you back these builders, rather than the blockers trying to stop them giving us flood-preventing, drought-reducing, biodiversity-increasing infrastructure *for free*? pic.twitter.com/ANxvL5ISrU
— Paul Powlesland (@paulpowlesland) January 23, 2025
You're backing big business over communities you Tory.
— Steve Clarke 🎸🎵🎶🍺🍻 (@Gaudd) January 23, 2025
He’s not going to win
Many left-wingers have, of course, long felt disgust at the way Starmer has put Labour back in the hands of corporate lobbyists while supporting genocide. But there were also right-wingers ratioing him, showing that his attempts to court the right are futile.
He won’t beat the right at their own game, because who would vote for a cheap imitation when you can have the real thing? And he won’t win a second term, because he’s constantly sticking two fingers up at left-wingers and others who so desperately wanted change in the last election.
Featured image via the Canary
