Labour MPs have capitulated to Starmer and the Labour whips and voted against having an inquiry into whether the Prime Minister misled Parliament over Mandelson’s appointment as US Ambassador. This shows both Starmer’s weakness, lack of integrity and a man desperate to hold on to power when in fact, he does not have any.On the doorstep ahead of the upcoming election, he is seen as incompetent, with numerous U-turns and poor judgment regarding the appointment of Mandelson; you do not have to be a rocket scientist to have worked that out. Starmer also lobbied to get his former communications director an ambassadorship. He went on to build his prime ministerial team based on gratitude to McSweeney and the Labour Together for his rise to Labour leader and then Prime Minister, either of which he would have got with a bag over his head anyway.
The whipping of his MPs is a clear sign of weakness, and his time as PM is running out; if not in the next 24 hours, it will be 24 hours after the 7th of May. Keir and his coterie did win a decisive majority in the 2024 general election, though on only 33% of the vote. The only memorable part of Keir’s campaign was the constant reminder that his dad was a tool maker. The manifesto was slim, and he and his McSweeney-led coterie had no vision for a country that has been on a declining trajectory for decades. When in power, Keir again grasped onto growth, for which he has no clear plan other than talking about AI and the “national interest.” Well, if he really believes in the national interest, he would resign now.
Look, no one liked the” Ides of March” approach to Prime Ministers that the Tories took, but credit where credit is due, they did not” F” about when it came to saving their political futures. I respect that a lot of first-time Labour MPs feel they owe their electoral success to the Prime Minister, but they forget that politics is a contact sport, and sometimes you have to beat up on your own. Do you not remember the 2024 US election and Biden’s refusal to stand down? Read my blog
If Labour are to stand a chance in the 2029 election, the Labour Party need a new leader and can no longer afford to prevaricate. In addition, any new leader needs to be honest and lay out a clear vision of a future where AI is not just an opportunity but a threat to social cohesion, break free from the regulatory capture of X, Amazon, Chat GPT, Microsoft, Google, get on top of a geopolitical context that is both disruptive and fluid, and decide whether growth the economic mantra of our time should be undermined by a new economic imperative, redistribution. Why, because this is a country where 23% of adults have less than £250 in savings. The next leader also needs to understand that politics is a participative process, so my advice is to read Darren McGarvey’s book The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Has Wrecked Britain.
On the issue of the genocide in Gaza alone, I would have removed Starmer for his failure to call out the genocidal actions of the current Reich in Israel. Yet he and his government went after octogenarians who supported Palestine Action, ill-informed boy bands, and Bob Vylan for chanting “Death Death to the IDF.” This is an IDF who have committed war crimes on a grand scale. He has condemned people who chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” when it is the Israeli Government and its zealot allies who are actually conducting “ FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA NOT A PALESTINIAN WILL BE SEEN” in both Gaza and the West Bank. He was on the Today programme saying he would clamp down on pro-Palestine protests and the language used at them, like “Globalise the Intifada.” Intifada is an Arabic term meaning shaking off oppression, referring to periods of Palestinian mass civil disobedience against Israeli control and not a violent call against Jewry worldwide. The pressure from Israeli lobby groups is forcing governments to ban this phrase, which would be illegal under the ECHR. The rise in antisemitism can partly be laid at the feet of Starmer for being unable to use the word genocide to describe the actions of the Israeli Reich in Gaza, and the Board of Deputies of British Jews, who said that using such a word was not helpful; they, in turn, should listen to Peter Beinhart and B’Tselem. Just to be clear, there will always be idiots at marches. Here, did we ban the phrase” Up the IRA” at anti-Brit marches, and did we not have an intifada against apartheid?
The next leader needs to stop focusing on the nut case across the Atlantic and build bridges and infrastructure with its European allies, in addition to focusing on defence, energy security, food security, bio security and on an economic model that puts redistribution at the top of the economic agenda.
Finally, Keir may have been a good Director of Public Prosecutions and a human rights expert (though even this skill set was poorly exhibited), but he has never exhibited any leadership qualities. His success in becoming the leader of Labour and then on to become Prime Minister was not due to his charisma, his vision, or his leadership qualities; it was the incompetence, stupidity, and failures of others, from Jeremy to Boris and all the PMs in between. He was the human rights advisor for the Northern Ireland Policing Board when I was an independent member of that board, and to be fair, he did a great job, but never exhibited any charisma, political ambition, or antennae. Sorry, we have got what it says on the tin, at best, a permanent secretary in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Sunei Sharma
1st May 2026 ( my birthday)
The Gob 
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