Starmer’s hagiographer Tom Baldwin has scaled back his support for the Prime Minister. Baldy says – give Starmer one year please…
Baldwin admits in a piece for The New World that sacking Olly Robbins “has done the prime minister real – potentially lethal – harm.” No last shot at that Chief of Staff job then…
He also says that sacking so many people and taking no responsibility whatsoever “seems rather too typical of his behaviour as prime minister.” When even your best mate is saying it…
In the crescendo of Baldwin’s piece, which says Starmer was at his worst when he strayed into “faux populism” by talking about immigration, the PM’s mate says he should be allowed to stay for a year:
“Although insisting at the weekend that he would fight on to the next election, perhaps the better solution right now is to leave open the question of when or if Starmer will quit by setting out a programme around which Labour could unite for the next year. A big “fight back” speech is already in the works based around security and “keeping the country safe”. Maybe that could include measures that would really make people sit up and take notice such as beginning negotiations now for a pledge in Labour’s next manifesto on rejoining the European Union without crossing any “red lines” from the last one, or scrapping the triple lock for pensioners so that there is money to get young people off benefits and back into work.”
First of all he appears to suggest there that Labour should campaign to rejoin the EU fully while staying out of the single market, customs union, and engaging freedom of movement. The reality in which Tom Baldwin lives is a fascinating place…
He ends his piece by saying: “Neither the prime minister nor this government can carry on with more of the same.” The bus of plainly obvious reality is hurtling towards Starmer’s last colonnades…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”