Starmzy: Gang Signs & Prayer?

If you must vote in the Labour Leadership Election, then at least have the decency to vote for Keir Starmer, and kill off the Labour Party once and for all.

Most Labour MPs have been opposing the Government's economic policy from the right for five years, and in Starmer they would have their standard-bearer against Boris Johnson's infrastructure and investment programme, leading them in a chorus of "Who's going to pay for that?" on behalf of what is now their party's overwhelmingly middle-class electorate and entirely middle-class membership.

Far from rebuilding the Red Wall, Starmer would lose Labour a further 50 seats in Wales, the North and the Midlands. At the same time, he would demolish Labour's Black Wall by inviting BAME London to vote for a former Director of Public Prosecutions. What next, a former Metropolitan Police Commissioner? 

Labour has already decided to make itself beholden to an ethnic minority, but not to any of the dozen or more that mostly voted for it. No, it has made itself beholden to an ethnic minority that has mostly voted Conservative for more than 30 years.

The Black Wall would be harder to paint Blue, but disgusted mass abstention, and support for local Independents fielded out of the same disgust, could deliver the Conservative Party seats that had previously been as unpromising to it as anything along the Red Wall had been before 2019.

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