What next for Starmer?
After a completely humiliating thrashing at the local elections, Starmer has woken up. This year he's shown himself to be ruthless. Not a ruthless focused leader - he's more of a toothless sheep. He's completely ruthless at throwing people under the bus. He's completely ruthless at saving his own arse and blaming others for his failings. The electorate have clearly sent a message they are not happy with Labour or Starmer. The sheer scale at which traditional Labour heartlands have swung over to the apparently far right Reform party is staggering. Whatever the Left medicine is that Starmer has been prescribing is not going down with the Left voters. So has Starmer learnt anything from this? Well not really. He's calling the huge defection and voting for popularist parties as a protest and popularist noise. The irony is not missed on me. When he "wins a landslide - it's a clear mandate" and is not popularist but when it's anyone wins it is popu...