Keir Starmer’s government lacks ‘verve’ and has a tendency to buckle under pressure. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone that disagrees with these statements. But these opinions have been revealed in the latest tranche of documents relating to arch-Blairite Peter Mandelson’s appointment and then, after revelations of his close ties to deceased rapist and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sacking.
For Mandelson, he wanted the Starmer government to go faster and further in attacking the working class. Starmer’s hand has only been stayed due to the threat of mass anger being expressed by workers and young people across the country. Starmer does buckle under pressure – the pressure of the big bosses and the bond markets to keep their profits safe!
One Labour MP anonymously described the release like adding a scratch to a car that has already been totalled. Starmer is toast. But as the files reveal, the Labour Party is rotten to the core. We need a real working-class alternative. A party that doesn’t have shadowy business lobbyists stirring up trouble and looking after the interests of the rich. One that will fight to break the power of big businesses and the banks and put the working class in power.
