Starmer’s Labour has lost members, voters and purpose. After disastrous local election results, the party faces more than defeat: it faces an existential crisis of its own making.
That's a fair challenge. “Starmerism” may not be a fully formed ideology in the way Thatcherism or Blairism were, but it does describe a political method: managerialism without vision, and an attempt to discipline the party into silence while offering very little that feels transformative.
You’re right that much of it flows from Blairism and neoliberal Labour politics. The difference, perhaps, is that Blairism at least had a project, however much we may oppose it. Starmerism feels more empty: the machinery of power without the animating political argument.
And yes, Scotland is the warning Labour still refuses to understand. Once inherited loyalty breaks, it does not magically repair itself because the party demands it. The old two-party system is collapsing because people no longer believe either side is offering a meaningful alternative. That is the reality Labour has to face. Not just that it is losing votes, but that it is losing the assumption that those votes naturally belong to it.
Blairism had more community goodwill and healthy infrastructure and socially manager institutions to plunder whilst smiling and telling us all over and over that Things Can Only Get Better. That is the only difference. The ideological fanatics involved in the global neoliberal Project, originating in political form with President Reagan, enthusiastically embraced by Thatcher and her backers, still own and run Labour, Conservatives and Reform in the UK. As for the present Greens and LibDems, they are understood by the Murdochian maniulators as useful ever small protest parties to be drummed up or forgotten about in each election media cycle depending upon how the oligarchs want to split the FPTP vote. To keep the cultural peace by presenting pretend garssroots democracy. It is a very similar post 1963 political Playbook in America with historical political structural differences. The mega wealthy always win.
I do not believe the likes of Starmer and Reeves even comprehend how socially destructive and anti democratic they truly are. It could be said with some truth that they are politically naïve. Thunderously personally ambitious, but naïve. They are simply working the system to get on in their lives without questioning the motivating criminal personal plundering of the Common Good which inform all neoliberal politics.
A politically ignorant uniparty gang of thieves is now our transatlantic ruling class. Grim future.
Not to mention the authoritarian lurch to the right and Trump appeasement plus indifference to the destruction of Gaza and apparent support of the greater Israel project.
I think his biggest problem concerns genocide. Starmer argued that Serbia committed genocide in Vukovar in 2014, while he was a human rights lawyer representing Croatia before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
That he cannot see Israel’s destruction and slaughter in Gaza/West Bank/ Lebanon, for me sums up the toxic moral mess of the compromised Labour government under his ‘leadership’.
That Britain supports the Israeli military and its supply lines is beyond the pale. We can only hope that one day he himself stands in front of the prosecutors in The Hague.
That's a fair challenge. “Starmerism” may not be a fully formed ideology in the way Thatcherism or Blairism were, but it does describe a political method: managerialism without vision, and an attempt to discipline the party into silence while offering very little that feels transformative.
You’re right that much of it flows from Blairism and neoliberal Labour politics. The difference, perhaps, is that Blairism at least had a project, however much we may oppose it. Starmerism feels more empty: the machinery of power without the animating political argument.
And yes, Scotland is the warning Labour still refuses to understand. Once inherited loyalty breaks, it does not magically repair itself because the party demands it. The old two-party system is collapsing because people no longer believe either side is offering a meaningful alternative. That is the reality Labour has to face. Not just that it is losing votes, but that it is losing the assumption that those votes naturally belong to it.
Blairism had more community goodwill and healthy infrastructure and socially manager institutions to plunder whilst smiling and telling us all over and over that Things Can Only Get Better. That is the only difference. The ideological fanatics involved in the global neoliberal Project, originating in political form with President Reagan, enthusiastically embraced by Thatcher and her backers, still own and run Labour, Conservatives and Reform in the UK. As for the present Greens and LibDems, they are understood by the Murdochian maniulators as useful ever small protest parties to be drummed up or forgotten about in each election media cycle depending upon how the oligarchs want to split the FPTP vote. To keep the cultural peace by presenting pretend garssroots democracy. It is a very similar post 1963 political Playbook in America with historical political structural differences. The mega wealthy always win.
I do not believe the likes of Starmer and Reeves even comprehend how socially destructive and anti democratic they truly are. It could be said with some truth that they are politically naïve. Thunderously personally ambitious, but naïve. They are simply working the system to get on in their lives without questioning the motivating criminal personal plundering of the Common Good which inform all neoliberal politics.
A politically ignorant uniparty gang of thieves is now our transatlantic ruling class. Grim future.
Not to mention the authoritarian lurch to the right and Trump appeasement plus indifference to the destruction of Gaza and apparent support of the greater Israel project.
Is there really a "starmerism"?
It feels more like an extention of blairs neo liberalism with an unhealthy side of zionism...
Which is little more than thatcherism in a red tie and star of David badge....
Labour have already lost the next election and, as Scotland has shown,once people lose the "I've always voted for" habit,theres no going back......
They might not always vote for the same party in the future but there is no going back to them being a guaranteed vote....
The two party "swapsies" politics of the past has gone.....
And it has been long overdue...
I think his biggest problem concerns genocide. Starmer argued that Serbia committed genocide in Vukovar in 2014, while he was a human rights lawyer representing Croatia before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
That he cannot see Israel’s destruction and slaughter in Gaza/West Bank/ Lebanon, for me sums up the toxic moral mess of the compromised Labour government under his ‘leadership’.
That Britain supports the Israeli military and its supply lines is beyond the pale. We can only hope that one day he himself stands in front of the prosecutors in The Hague.