KEIR STARMER’S tin-eared response to Saturday’s Unite The Kingdom rally explains precisely why he and his shabby regime are doomed.
This was a protest by tens of thousands of British voters against 25 years of social and economic misrule by governments of all parties.
The PM’s tin-eared response to Saturday’s Unite The Kingdom rally explains precisely why he and his shabby regime are doomed
For any politically adroit prime minister, it would have been the opportunity for a warm and measured response
It was perhaps the biggest spontaneous demonstration of a darkening public mood in living memory.
For any politically adroit prime minister, it would have been the opportunity for a warm and measured response.
chose instead to use the thugs who marred the otherwise peaceful rally to smear the law-abiding majority as racists indulging in “plastic patriotism”.
“People have a right to peaceful protest,” said the Prime Minister.
“But we will not stand for assaults on police officers doing their job or for people feeling intimidated on our streets because of their background or the colour of their skin.”
Alien cultures
was entitled to condemn the thuggery which led to 25 arrests.
But he had remained silent when twice as many were nabbed for acts of violence at the recent .
And he has never condemned the menacing ranks of masked men whose are treated by with kid gloves.
While attacking a barbaric minority, he ignored the root cause of the alarm which has reached boiling point among ordinary British citizens.
He said nothing about public anxiety at the tens of thousands of undocumented single young men flooding into the country from alien cultures.
And he failed to understand that this was a cross-party protest.
The flags represented the whole of the United Kingdom — the Welsh dragon, the Scottish saltire, the cross of .
Bizarrely, it was down to left-wing to speak up for the protesters, including an old schoolpal draped in a Union Jack.
“I asked him why he was there,” tweeted Lewis.
“He gave me two answers: ‘The Government doesn’t listen to us. I want to feel proud of my country again’.”
Lewis added: “I don’t know what box to put him in. And I think pretending they’re all racists or fascists would be a massive mistake.”
The Government doesn’t listen to us. I want to feel proud of my country again
Clive Lewis
Clive Lewis is no fan of Keir Starmer but he was right. This was not a racist mob.
It was a cross section of the voters who gave Starmer his landslide.
Far from being a vehicle for violence, the rally was a mostly dignified display of frustration by a silent majority which has suddenly found its voice.
The sheer numbers — some put them at a million — would have alerted any sentient politician to the quiet rage simmering across the UK.
Voters will no longer put up with anonymous single males prowling their streets and accosting young girls.
What happened in , later convicted of assault, was a trigger point.
Someone to yell for
To cite Peter Finch’s famous character in the 1976 movie Network, ordinary decent citizens have had enough.
Playing a television news anchor, he urged his viewers “go to the window, stick your head out and yell, ‘I’m as mad as hell and I am not going to take it any more.”
Now, thanks to , those citizens have someone to yell for them.
The leader has turned uncontrolled immigration into an existential threat to both Starmer’s and .
They are paying the price for their parties’ decades of political cowardice, contempt and incompetence.
Voters see what Clive Lewis describes as the “hollowing out of our national life” as an act of wilful vandalism.
Hard-working families feel they are treated as “the great unwashed” or, as defeated presidential hopeful described them, “the deplorables”.
It is hard to remember, but there was a time when public opinion guided government policies. It was known as common sense.
Today, politicians treat with contempt anyone who opposes open borders, , Green madness and the squandering of .
Keir Starmer is the final embodiment of this political monster — a clueless career failure who has lied and lied to win power and keep his job.
Grubby appointment
Now he has crashed and burned.
There is no way back from the meltdown or the fiasco.
Starmer cannot claim he was a naive bystander led astray by officials.
Everyone knew New York mansion at a time when his host was in jail for procuring an underage girl for prostitution.
Starmer didn’t need to know any more than that to veto his grubby appointment as Our Man in Washington.
He is a former director of Public Prosecutions and a £2,000-an-hour human rights silk.
He boasts he knows how politics works because “I have been in the room”.
Yet he has failed to learn the single deadliest lesson in politics: Never insult the voters who put you in power.
Those voters are mad as hell and they’re not going to put up with you any more.
