YOU can’t trust Sir Keir Starmer KC.
Not just my view, frequently aired in this column, but now right across the political spectrum.
Even members of his own party describe Starmer as “shifty”.
His catalogue of U-turns, weasel words and smashed promises is now a daily talking point, like shop prices — or London stabbings.
Almost as bad is his habit of remaining mute when bad things happen — such as Labour’s rabid anti-semitism under his staunch ally Jeremy Corbyn.
Or the failure of the Crown Prosecution Service, on his watch, to explore DNA evidence that Andrew Malkinson was locked up for 17 years for a rape he provably did not commit.
Once a politician builds a reputation for speaking with forked tongue, it becomes difficult to persuade anyone he is ever telling the truth.
Perhaps as a consequence, the Labour leader’s personal poll ratings are dire.
This matters when such issues as illegal immigration — on which this human rights lawyer has nothing to say — have shot up the list of topics on which voters will decide.
Now Labour supporters are joining the doubters.
The left-wing New Statesman magazine has run a study of Sir Shifty.
“I have been taking a look at Keir Starmer’s popularity,” says editor Harry Lambert. “Reader, it isn’t good.”
Starmer’s average rating since becoming leader is minus nine, similar to Neil Kinnock’s minus seven and Ed Miliband’s minus ten.
Only Jeremy Corbyn’s ratings (minus 20) were worse.
All three lost elections, Lambert points out.
“What do you make of Starmer?” he asks its readers. “Let us know.”
And they have, in their droves.
Here’s a sample: “No principles, full of vanity and emptiness. Stands for nothing. No friend of the real Labour movement.”
“Vote for Starmer? Once elected, he couldn’t drop his ‘pledges’ fast enough. No thanks.”
“Control freak.”
“Will say anything to get elected, but, clearly has nothing he truly believes in. Will renege on any promises he made when the Tories tell him to. Uninspiring, untrustworthy and unprincipled. Unelectable.”
If only they would say what they really mean!
True, Labour is still miles ahead in the national polls.
But despite every attempt by the Tories to self-destruct, the next election is still theirs to lose.
Another survey suggests more than half of us have yet to decide who we will vote for — and the rest say they could still change their minds.
It’s not only Sir Shifty who has given them pause for thought.
Apart from one or perhaps two standouts, Labour is lacklustre, shambolic and divided.
Does anyone have a clue what HM Opposition stands for?
Well, we can catch a glimpse where Labour already holds power — in the political wasteland known as Wales, where NHS patients have to flee across the border for half-decent healthcare.
Or in London, where tinpot tyrant Sadiq Khan struts his stuff as Labour Mayor.
Khan was caught red-handed yesterday with official website pictures of a white family walking beside the River Thames — with the caption: “Doesn’t represent real Londoners.”
Khan has said the caption was a “mistake”. To be fair, Khan’s right.
According to the Office of National Statistics, whites are a minority in London and Birmingham, our two biggest cities, for the first time since records began.
But should the Mayor of our capital city be actively stoking tensions between black and white citizens under the false flag of “diversity”?
Khan is as casual with the truth as Sir Shifty.
He was also caught flat-footed over false claims that his richly loathed £12.50 Ulez fines will save 4,000 lives lost each year to polluted air.
A whistleblower then leaked data from Khan’s own appointed scientists at Imperial College London showing Ulez will have only a tiny impact on nitrogen dioxide, ozone and particulate emissions.
His office pounced on this unfortunate scientific evidence, commissioned as part of a £800,000 council programme, and demanded it be rewritten and toned down. It was.
The election is now about 15 months way.
After 13 years of stumbling Tory rule, millions of undecided voters will be asking themselves if Labour could do any worse.
Remembering it was Labour who unleashed mass immigration and ran out of tax-payers’ money, there is only one answer: “YES and they absolutely will.”
THE failure to stop psychopath Lucy Letby killing babies and the 17 years of life wasted in jail by Andrew Malkinson have one thing in common –
The Blob in full knee-jerk, cover-up mode.
NHS bureaucrats will do anything to avoid blame for thousands of needless deaths in its care each year.
And the State prosecutor will never admit it locks up provably innocent citizens.
The no-blame culture is endemic throughout the public sector which closes ranks, protects its own and simply shunts bad apples elsewhere in The Blob, often on the same or higher pay.
Nobody gets the sack.
They become the “hidden unemployed”, until retiring on gold-plated pensions lumbering taxpayers with liabilities of £2.3TRILLION a year – more than the value of the entire economy.
And Labour loves ’em all.
