Keir Starmer and the Labour government are a disgrace to the old historical values of the Labour Party. They are completely out of touch with the mood of the nation, authoritarian, hypocritical and using sanctimonious fake virtue to mask some pretty appalling punishment politics even within their first 17 months of being in government. The winter fuel allowance and disability welfare cuts are a huge symbolisms of this. No previous Labour government would have ever have considered punishing the vulnerable like this and it was done on a whopping lie of the “£22bn black hole”. So while Starmer repeatedly wangs on about “fixing the foundations” of the economy, how is it economically fair and indeed morally viable to abolish the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensions yet spaff £30bn on carbon capture machines? This Labour government has already shown itself to be completely devoid of vision and empathy towards the mood of the British people. The country is rotting (largely due to the 14 years of appalling neglect and nefarious policies from the Tory government). The new Labour government had a chance to create a national conversation with the people and really listen and act accordingly to their many valid concerns. Tragically, they didn’t. Instead, they have indulged in the politics of punishment, austerity and misery and communicated by a po-faced Prime Minister who comes across as a modern day equivalent to the pompous, authoritarian Malvolio from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The Labour government is already drowning in backdated hypocrisy of broken promises and bare-faced duplicity combined with an angry divide and rule self-righteousness that only loses friends and alienates voters. And that’s why they are plummeting in the approval polls. Keir Starmer is ignoring the real concerns of people on illegal migration, while falsely suggesting that it will be solved by mandatory digital id (that no one voted for), hammering pensioners (winter fuel allowance), students (increased tuition fees) and family farmers (inheritance tax) while he is trousering north of £750,000 in donations and £100,000 in freebies. It’s disgusting. He promised to clean up the mess in politics and be a Prime Minister with integrity, yet he’s claiming grotesque amounts of freebies, and in that dreadful po-faced manner of his, savagely punishing various communities and group within society whilst repeatedly sanctimoniously lecturing to the public like we are all naughty schoolchildren. He’s now disliked to the point that he’s become a national laughing stock. But hypocritical pomposity on this scale deserves nothing but ridicule. Labour has tragically abandoned its “for the working people” traditions. “The Labour Party” in name has become an oxymoron. It is no longer committed to its original mission of improving living conditions and the opportunities of working people in Britain, standing against greedy corporations and the military-industrial complex, whilst protecting freedom of speech. Instead, it is the exact opposite - it’s in thrall to greedy corporatism and the likes of BlackRock & over inflated payments to net zero based (largely overseas) corporations. John Smith (former Labour Party Leader) once said, “People in Britain today are angry: not just disappointed, not just disillusioned, but angry. They are angry at the state of Britain; angry at the total absence of leadership; angry at the absence of vision; angry at the hypocrisy and double standards; and they are angry at the incessant incompetence of a Government they no longer respect and increasingly despise.” And tragically, his words of wisdom (aimed against the Tory government) could equally apply to Keir Starmer’s government of today.