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Sir Keir Starmer and his band of buffoons in the Labour Party have been in power for just shy of three months. They were hardly my first choice for government, and indeed they were hardly even the nation's first choice either, with a little over a third of the electorate having voted for them, in the lowest turn out in a general election since 1918, but with the degree of unpopularity that the Tories, and especially Rishi Sunak, evinced in the populace, and the damning reality of two-party democracy, most people who voted Labour did so out of a visceral hatred of the Tories and a total lack of any other viable alternatives that any other party, including Reform, presented to them, a sentiment that was touched upon in earlier articles.

 

Over the past fourteen years, successive Tory Prime Ministers and successive Tory governments have done incredible and immeasurable (though not yet irreparable) damage to this nation. While the much-maligned policy of austerity in the years immediately following the 2010 general election was fobbed off on Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats, leading to (along with their failure to remove tuition fees as promised) his party losing the vast majority of their seats in 2015, the privation that the population suffered during it was as a direct consequence of Conservative policy. The disastrous saga of Brexit saw Cameron's resignation and May's convulsive tenure, in which the vote to leave the European Union became more of a political tool than government policy, culminating in her own resignation following a hung parliament in 2017. Johnson managed to return a majority in 2019 because of his pledge to 'Get Brexit Done', but the two deciding factors that led to the Brexit vote in the first place, those being immigration and political sovereignty, have worsened since the Tories' victory over Corbyn's Labour Party.

 

Voters, rightly, felt that they had been betrayed by the Conservative Party and the wider political establishment. Immigration, both legal and illegal, is now running at record levels (over 1.6 million visas were issued to foreign nationals and their dependents last year; nearly 150,000 have crossed the channel in small boats since 2019) and any notion of sovereignty over our borders is laughable so long as our government remains beholden to the rulings of the ECHR and the requirements of the 1951 UN refugee convention, which was enshrined in EU law in 1954. The Rwanda deal turned out to be a total waste of money with not a single 'asylum seeker' sent there, with more and more crossing the channel every month and none repatriated. As well as the widening of our already-porous borders, voters recollected the government's catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic, with even Chris Whitty recently claiming that the government 'overdid it', that led to the mass printing of money, the worst inflation in living memory and the almost complete cessation of economic activity, all presided over by, of course, the Rt. “Hon.” Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak. The housing crisis has deepened, due to several factors, such as the massive increase in the number of people requiring accommodation as a result of immigration, the recent increase in interest rates by the Bank of England making it even more inaccessible for first time buyers, and inflation gradually eking away at people's savings making it impossible to lay down a deposit. The NHS is in the worst state it ever has been, haemorrhaging money like never before, with waiting lists longer than ever before and quality of service lower than ever before.

 

With all the damage that the Tories have done to this nation in mind, it is perfectly understandable why voters would turn from the Tories and seek an alternative. After all, how could things possibly get any worse?

 

Due to the two-party nature of our democracy, that alternative was inevitably Labour, which was for many the only way to get Rishi Sunak and the Tories out of office and out of mind. Starmer was viewed rather favourably by the electorate, but in just three short months he has seen his approval rating utterly plummet, to a level lower than even Sunak had at his most unpopular.

 

Perhaps the watershed moment was his response to the disorder in early August, in which the pain and fury that was displayed in the riots as a response to the disgusting, animalistic and truly evil murder of three little girls by a second-generation Rwandan immigrant in Southport named Axel Rudakubana, was denounced by Starmer as “racist” and “Islamaphobic”. Instead of trying to understand why the British people were so furious about this act of terrorism or trying to alleviate the public's concerns regarding immigration, Starmer insisted that the rioters would 'feel the full force of the law' and empowered police forces across the country with the tools to comb through thousands of social media posts to find and arrest people that were essentially political opponents of his. Once arrested, they were informed that they would be held on remand indefinitely unless they agreed to enter a guilty plea when seen at court, with many, completely understandably, agreeing to do so. It was not only the rioters that felt the weight of the law pressing down upon them. Those who were described as 'keyboard warriors' and thought to be 'stirring up hatred', according to the Met. Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley, were also arrested and charged with “hate speech” offences.

 

Naturally, our prisons are already at maximum capacity, so the government instituted 'Operation Early Dawn', releasing a prisoner for every rioter or wrongthinker that plead guilty to ensure that there was space for them. Hilariously, or horrifyingly depending on your particular political dispensation, some of those released under this scheme have been arrested and charged for the exact same crimes that they were incarcerated for in the first place. All that for people angry about the murder of three little girls, people concerned about rising levels of immigration or people considered to be spreading 'misinformation' by the government's own standards. Whatever the average person's views on the riots, Two-Tier Keir's response to them was viewed incredibly poorly, as evidenced by the collapse in his approval ratings throughout the month of August.

 

The Labour Party pledged to 'stop the boats' in the run up to the July election, but there has been no reduction at all and no deportations whatsoever, not to Rwanda or to the “asylum seekers'” home countries. Winter fuel payments for the elderly have been scrapped, the justification being the '£22bn black hole left by the Tories', which is simply Starmer's way of deflecting any criticism away from himself or his government towards those on the opposite bench, a defining characteristic of any two-party democracy. Outdoor smoking is set to be banned in pubs, something that was not discussed in the run up to the election, nor was asked for by absolutely anybody before, during or after it. There has been no start at all on the pledge to build 1.5 million new homes, which would not even cover the increase in demand we have seen as a consequence of immigration over the last few years or that we expect to see over the next few. Energy bills will increase by 10% in October, despite the rate of inflation having reduced from 20% to around 2% over the last year, and no clear justification has been provided for this by the government. All of these financial woes culminating in Starmer's assurance that the October budget will be “painful”.

 

And of course, there is the 'Frockgate' scandal, in which the Labour frontbench was found to have accepted gifts worth hundreds of thousands of pounds each from various donors, most particularly from Waheed Alli, made a life peer at the behest of Tony Blair in 1998. Pensioners who do not know how they are going to heat their homes this winter are watching their television sets as the Labour frontbench asserts that, providing they declare their freebies, no wrongdoing has occurred. Free Gear Keir defends free hospitality at Arsenal games despite the fact that many people would never even be able to afford a single ticket. Foreign Secretary David Lammy defends his freebies because others received more. Health Secretary Wes Streeting goes so far as to call his and his colleagues receipt of these gifts a 'noble pursuit'. High ranking politicians such as Deputy PM Angela Rayner and Emily Thornberry swan off on holiday while this is occurring, dancing behind DJ decks, seemingly as a way of insulting the British people. They are behaving like corrupt Roman senators, who view themselves as being above the people, but no amount of bread or circuses is going to alleviate the concerns that the public now have about them.

 

The future of this nation under a Labour government is undoubtedly bleak. The resentment that the public feel regarding their rulers (not their leaders, as is the expected descriptor in a democracy) is undoubtedly going to foment more protests and may well even evince further riots. At some point, the public is going to believe that life was better under the Tories, and with Robert Jenrick emerging as a potential leader in place of the former bookies' favourite Kemi Badenoch, the notion that Tories were finished in July 2024 may well prove to be false. The Labour Party will doubtlessly lurch from scandal to scandal over the next few years, siphon more and more money away from the British people through a litany of new taxes, and cram more and more people into the country through both legal and illegal migration. If Starmer's popularity becomes much worse, and it will following the October budget, he is going to face calls from many to resign, perhaps even to call another general election.

 

With the Tories currently in disarray and still maligned by the masses, the Liberal Democrats with no position but 'we aren't either of them' and Reform espousing the same social, political and economic principles that have brought the British people to their knees, where else can the British people look to for political salvation but to a party that pledges to revolutionise the political system in such a manner as to ensure that it puts the interests of the British people first?

 

Where else can they look but the National Rebirth Party?

 

By Harry Jackson

Printed in Rise Britannia October 2024