https://anotherangryvoice.substack.com/p/is-keir-starmer-actually-one-of-our
It's hard to believe, but there are still some Keir Starmer true believers out there!
Another Angry Voice
Mar 23, 2026

"I wonder if Keir Starmer is actually one of our most popular PMs ever" muses the pro-Starmer account on BlueSky.

I needed to stop and check through the account’s posting history to ensure it wasn’t some kind of parody account "doing a bit", but it actually seems sincere.

So let’s take this statement in good faith, and see if it’s possible that Starmer is actually one of the most popular Prime Ministers ever, and that "it’s only the media, the pollsters and the [right-wing] numpties that speak badly about him".

Could it actually be true that ordinary people "are very happy with the improvements he is delivering on a daily basis"?
I’m not making it up. Someone actually said this, and they’re not a parody account

Media

There is a case to be made that the UK media is extremely biased towards the political right, and that there’s an ongoing effort to boost the extreme-right into power, especially from the billionaire-bankrolled, impartiality-smashing GB News propaganda channel (AKA Reform TV).

It’s true that Britain’s right-wing dominated media defied public opinion to clamour for the UK to join in with the global economy trashing Israeli and US attacks on Iran, portraying Starmer as a coward for his decision to limit the UK’s involvement to just allowing the US to use UK bases to launch attacks on Iran.

It’s actually one of the few occasions that Starmer’s stance has more-or-less aligned with the views of the British public, and right-wing media outlets absolutely slammed him for it.

The problem is that it’s not just the right-wing media outlets that are disillusioned with Starmer’s performance as PM. Much of the fiercest criticism has actually come from the minority of liberal and left-wing outlets.

Starmer’s economic assaults on pensioners and disabled people were criticised by left-wing media; his diabolical "Island of Strangers" speech was criticised by left-wing and liberal journalists; the Mandelson-Epstein scandal was largely pursued by left-wing independent media until it got so big the mainstream media couldn’t ignore it any longer; his wilful complicity in Israel’s live-streamed Gaza genocide has been vehemently criticised by left-wing and liberal media sources; his refusal to move away from Tory austerity penny-pinching towards strategic investment has been heavily criticised from the left; and his efforts to politicise English and Welsh courts by scrapping the ancient British right to a jury trial has been condemned by liberal and left-wing outlets too.

Yes, the dominant right-wing media outlets will always be biased against a Labour government, no matter how much Starmer and his ilk attempt to maintain the regressive economic status quo, or imitate far-right anti-immigrant xenophobia. However it would be beyond absurd to pretend that media criticism is only coming from the right.

Polls

Keir Starmer’s polling numbers are absolutely diabolical. He’s even more unpopular than Boris Johnson during the partygate scandal, or Liz Truss when she was setting fire to the national economy!

A recent YouGov poll indicated that an extraordinary 67% of 2024 Labour voters are not planning to vote Labour at the next general election.

It’s quite something to pretend that polling companies like YouGov, Ipsos, Survation, BMG and Opinium are somehow guilty of "speaking badly" about Keir Starmer, for reporting their findings that Starmer is deeply unpopular, and dragging the Labour Party down with him.

Labour’s astonishing loss in the safe Gorton and Denton by-election to the Greens suggests that there must be some truth to the polls; that there’s widespread disillusionment with Starmer’s leadership amongst left-wing traditional Labour voters; and that his naked attempts to woo the extreme-right with austerity economics, welfare vandalism, and anti-immigrant xenophobia simply aren’t working.

It’s actually cult-like behaviour to dismiss facts and evidence (Starmer’s unpopularity; Labour’s catastrophic polling numbers; the humbling Gorton and Denton by-election defeat …) as if the people and organisations highlighting these issues are guilty of "speaking badly" about the dear leader.

Right-wing numpties

Much like the media situation, it’s true that "right-wing numpties" tend to speak badly of Keir Starmer.

Starmer remains deeply unpopular on the right, despite his electorally catastrophic strategy of chasing away scores of traditional Labour voters for every "right-wing numpty" voter he wins over with xenophobic anti-immigrant rhetoric; continued austerity ruination; and his steadfast refusal to bring vital national infrastructure like water and energy back under public control.

The problem for Labour is that Starmer has chased away millions of traditional Labour voters with his insistence that people should "leave if you don’t like it".

Are all of the people shifting their allegiances to the Greens, Corbyn’s Your Party, the SNP, and Plaid Cymru all "right-wing numpties" too?

Because if the claim is that it’s "only the media, the pollsters, and right-wing numpties" who are critical of Keir Starmer, that’s the absurd implication that’s being made.

Are people "very happy"?

How do we even attempt to answer this question without referring to stuff like polling numbers and electoral results, because they’re apparently part of some orchestrated conspiracy against Starmer’s excellent leadership?

If polling figures and electoral results are part of the anti-Starmer conspiracy, perhaps we could turn to anecdotal experience?

Are you happy with Keir Starmer’s leadership?

Do you feel like Starmer has been delivering sufficient "improvements"?

Do you even know anyone who is happy with Starmer’s leadership, and confident about Labour’s prospects in the upcoming May 7th elections?

I’m not, I don’t, and I don’t.

Furthermore Starmtroopers seem to be extremely thin on the ground on social media too these days, for a man of such claimed popularity.

Reality check

According to the polls Keir Starmer is the most unpopular Prime Minister ever, who is widely despised by the left and right alike. It’s arguable that even most centrists would agree with the contention that Labour hasn’t done anything like enough to make material improvements to ordinary people’s lives, and that this failure to deliver is multiplying the risk of an extreme-right takeover of Westminster.

Labour just lost one of the most humbling by-elections in the party’s history, and they’re staring down the barrel of a historic wipe outs in Scotland, Wales, London, and in Labour-controlled councils across the country in May.

It seems obvious to outside observers that Starmer is only still in position now because Labour needs him to take the fall for the looming electoral bloodbath, so that his successor can start with a clean slate, rather than a historic electoral mauling.

Maybe I’m wrong though, and the Starmer true believers are right?

Maybe the diabolical poll numbers the result of an all-encompassing anti-Starmer conspiracy amongst the polling companies?

Maybe media criticism of Starmer is a smokescreen hiding the fact that he’s widely liked and admired by the British public?

Maybe the soaring popularity of the Green Party is a mirage, and the only people who are actually dissatisfied with Starmer’s leadership are "right-wing numpties"?

Maybe the public are so "very happy" with Starmer’s performance that they’re going to flock to the polls in May to send him a ringing endorsement?

It all seems very unlikely to me, and if I was a gambling man, I’d put money on Labour losing loads of seats in the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments, and taking an almighty hammering in local council elections, with Starmer either resigning immediately, or facing a leadership challenge in the aftermath.

Perhaps this looming electoral Armageddon is the only way that the tiny remaining rump of Starmer true believers will finally wake up to reality?