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You can't do the impossible

Another Angry Voice
Feb 07, 2025

Keir Starmer won the 2024 general election by default thanks to the collapse of the Tory party, but it’s been downhill ever since, largely because he’s been trying to do the impossible on more than a dozen different fronts simultaneously.

You can’t create a sense of optimism about your leadership when you tell everyone that 'things will only get worse'.

You can’t control inflation without curbing capitalist profiteering.

You can’t fix Britain’s crumbling infrastructure without removing the debilitating infestation of parasitical privatisation profiteers.

You can’t create economic growth by attacking the living standards of the less well off.

You can’t even try to reverse Britain’s economic decline without replacing austerity ruination with investment economics.

You can’t fix the public finances by economically sanctioning the sick and disabled, when you’re using a sieve to collect taxes from the mega-rich.

You can’t build a better future with depraved policies that condemn hundreds of thousands of kids to destitution and limited opportunities.

You can’t pose as a morally upstanding leader when you rake in cash and freebies from dodgy donors, and endorse a livestreamed genocide.

You can’t pretend you’ve cleaned up the Labour Party when you appoint a friend of the world’s most notorious child sex trafficker as your ambassador to the United States.

You can’t beat the extreme-right by copying and legitimising their xenophobic rhetoric.

You can’t expect anyone to trust a word you say when you keep ripping up all of your pledges and promises.

You can’t deal with the housing crisis without building way more social homes, and confronting the exploitative slumlord class (including the ones in your own party).

You can’t fix the NHS by letting even more privatisation profiteers run amok in it.

You can’t blame big bad Vlad Putin for excessive energy bills when everyone knows you’re letting the private energy companies rake in obscene profits.

You can’t expect to win elections when you use your power to repeatedly attack pensioners, and enact policies that your party’s traditional voters absolutely hate.

You can’t pretend that everything is going well when you’ve attempted multiple re-launches already.

You can’t fool people into thinking you’re doing a good job by saying you can’t think of a single mistake you’ve made, when you’ve become the human incarnation of the Sideshow Bob rake scene.

You can’t turn around your failing fortunes when you’re such a thin-skinned tyrant that you punish, marginalise, and expel anyone who dares tell you where you’ve been going wrong.

It’s not just that most of these things are exercises in futility, it’s the fact that Starmer and the horrible Labour right goons he’s surrounded himself with are completely out of touch with reality, and a vicious bunch of bastards to boot.