Those of us who were chased out of the Labour Party so Starmer and Co would not be troubled by any vestiges of socialism or any variety of that “better, kinder politics” Corbyn offered have no illusions about the foul culture of Westminster.
We see team Starmer, bank accounts sloshing with hedge-fund donors’ money, nevertheless fighting tooth and nail for presents, status and ever higher paid jobs.
We see the astonishing speed with which they’re foreclosing on the last of our services and clawing back any welfare payments they think they can get away with.
We assume Starmer will, sooner or later be the fall guy for all the hatred and fear they’ve inspired, and we assume when he goes, we’ll get Streeting or Reeves instead.
I went on thinking that until I saw this, this morning, courtesy of Craig Murray…
As you can see, despite all the horrible, corrupt, cruel, dodgy-economy ideas Streeting and Kendall have been coming up with on health, Yvette Cooper is way ahead on receipts of private health “care” donations.
Given that the level of donations makes it obvious who is running this government, given that we can see from the chart that Cooper is private healthcare’s favourite, it suddenly seems very obvious who’s being lined up to replace Starmer. After all, the mainstream PLP have been agitating for a shot at a female leader for some years – it’s possibly the only idea they have that they imagine will make them actually popular.
It wouldn’t dawn on them that we weren’t impressed by Thatcher or by May, so if Labour are going to go for a woman (as they should) we would be thinking okay, let’s find a decent one.
Do they imagine Cooper will be popular?
Remember that leadership contest, when we all sat up and started paying attention? Remember when Corbyn was trying to introduce the idea that our policy on refugees should be informed by compassion, rather than paranoia and scapegoating, and that a decent government would spend some money to get our services running properly, and look after people?
“Oh Jeremy, that’s so irresponsible,” said Cooper, then she turned the other way, and tried to have a go at Kendall about her unsuitable shoes.
That fell a bit flat because the audience really didn’t care what kind of shoes Kendall wore, they just didn’t like her extremist, right-wing politics. Cooper couldn’t help herself though. It’s what passes for feminism with people like her — criticizing other women’s clothes when you’re competing with them for jobs.
The chicken coup
Don’t let them get away with it. I was never 100% sold on Corbyn but he was head-and-shoulders above anything else we’d been offered by the Labour Party for decades, so like millions of others, I supported him absolutely. Let’s keep the “better, kinder politics” in mind, and remember who all those people were who worked so hard to destroy the Corbyn movement.
Cooper resigned after that leadership election, in which she came third. She didn’t even wait for “the chicken coup”. Here they are following Cooper’s lead. All of them demonstrated that they would rather step down than participate in a “better, kinder politics” (well, except Benn, who was sacked before he could get his resignation in.
(charts from Wikipedia)
Tom Watson stayed on — you can see why if you look at the entry for Nandy and Smith. They thought they’d hound Corbyn out as a result of that night, and put Watson in his place.
But the chart we really need to keep in mind is that one of private health care funded MPs. We’re only just beginning to get an idea what it’s going to be like having no NHS at all. It’s already pretty dire. Do not tolerate any of these politicians.
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