Less than two years on from its landslide General Election victory, Labour is in crisis. It now regularly polls below 20 per cent, about 10 percentage points behind Reform UK. Labour leader Keir Starmer is, according to surveys, the most unpopular prime minister on record. These are the kind of data that presage a future parliamentary wipeout.
The widespread loathing of Labour is already playing out electorally. It suffered devastating local-election defeats last year and again earlier this month, losing thousands of local councillors across England. It also lost control of the Welsh Senedd for the first time in its history and squandered the chance to challenge the Scottish National Party’s dominance north of the border.
The signs of Labour’s morbidity are everywhere. Football fans regularly fill the stadium air with chants alerting us to Starmer’s alleged onanism. Farmers have flooded the streets in protest against chancellor Rachel Reeves’ livelihood-destroying tax raid. And in towns and cities around the nation, anger and frustration over a broken, dangerous asylum system have frequently boiled over.
Labourites and their legion of media sympathisers are nothing if not delusional, however. They seem to think that the party’s problems boil down to the man at the top: Keir Starmer. Get rid of Starmer, the adenoidal robot, and replace him with someone possessing better ‘communication skills’ and, ideally, a pulse, then hey presto, Labour can reverse its fortunes. ‘The government can get on with delivering the delivery it promised to deliver’, say the Labourites ad infinitum.
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