Our Words Have Consequences

There was not a word of this for Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nigel Farage, Michael Gove, Jeremy Corbyn, or George Galloway. George was a sitting MP when an attempt was made to murder him, whereas last night Keir Starmer was heckled. That was all. Heckled. By the smallest, and the best behaved, "mob" in history. 

More of it was about Julian Assange than about Jimmy Savile, but the Assange case in general and Starmer's role in particular are never mentioned by polite media. Anything remotely as bad as the undisputed facts of Starmer's involvement in the Savile case would have driven Corbyn from public life altogether, and would quite possibly have caused an assassination.

Far from having been incited by Boris Johnson, the demonstrators had turned out to protest against his policies. Starmer saw them, and he chose to forego both his Police-protected official car as Leader of the Opposition, and the tunnel between Portcullis House and the Palace of Westminster, a tunnel that is not open to the public.

Knowing that these days everyone's phone was a television camera, Starmer chose to make himself the story. How disappointed more seasoned politicians in his entourage must have been that all he got was a bit of heckling. In response, though, numerous old hands from the Cameron and May Governments are now effectively Labour MPs, with the entire Establishment going hell for leather to save Starmer, and by extension to bring down Johnson.

Now, I would love to see the end of Johnson. But unless you thought that Britain was well-governed between May 2010 and July 2019, then you have no reason to vote for Starmer, and every reason to vote against him and Johnson alike.