Anyone get the feeling of deja vu that Starmer: economically locked into a moribund neoliberal creed, Intellectually unable to negotiate or manipulate his way towards benefiting any sector of the population aside from the ever wealthier top 2%, despised as a consequence by near every other sector of society...to a degree not known since Thatcher before the Falklands war, is looking increasingly desperately at the massive swing the war awarded that bitch and is thus throwing his all into the one area he thinks might reward him too: overseas war?
It is of course patently obvious to any but a fool that the British ability to project military power has fallen off a cliff since then: more Admirals than ships...indeed now apparently the army has more horses than tanks...and against not a junta army of sad conscripts but a highly trained and motivated winning force in the field.
I can't help thinking that this doomed fool is likely to do something seriously stupid because, well, he's in the last chance salon before the horizon of his own obvious historical ignominy.
I'd much rather he continued as the weak ineffectual sad sack of inertia he is until he finally gets the boot, but his 2d cardboard cut-out persona suggests he will instead chose to launch himself with us in tow into a pathetically heroic charge: more horses than tanks remember, against them blazing Russian guns, emm...shovels.
-The man is an idiot: I really expect nothing but the worst.
The candidate created by the higher power became the middle manager for the higher power - such was never in doubt unless, perhaps, in a democracy. More recently, the wild card was only ever whether Starmer was under or above potus. Jan 20 decreed that the higher power acts down directly through Starmer, at least temporarily.
If Starmer were ever “benefitting any sector of the population” he would be the Labor leader he completely eliminated (i.e. as not just leader but also even party member). This would be a very bizarre and highly inexplicable (if temporary) turn of events. By contrast, events as they have turned out, are explicable.
on March 16, 2025, 9:34 am