Starmer Freefall

This article contains graphics details of sexual abuse against young girls from U.K. court cases. Reader discretion is advised.

"Two-thirds of Britons said they had a negative view of Starmer"

Any observer of the English will agree that queuing is a national pastime. According to one wily commentator: "An Englishmen, even alone, forms an orderly queue of one." The unwritten queuing rule is allied to the innate "fairness" rule that permeates many parts of English and, indeed, wider British life. 

You break the queuing rule at your peril. Not queuing risks disapproval and being labelled as insensitive and rude. Only the arrogant, pompous and unaware break the rule.

Thus, it is no surprise that Kier Starmer further damages his already tanking reputation with a queue-jumping stunt on holiday in Madeira. 

While others waited in line for hours, including British tourists, Starmer and his family went straight to the front so his kids could board the 15-minute ride downhill. A spontaneous crescendo of boos went up, along with cries of “Get to the back of the queue!” 

Starmer had to cancel last year's summer holiday because he couldn't go on vacation when the country erupted in rioting. 

Instead, he opted for a winter break in sunny Madeira, as Britain faces freezing temperatures. That Starmer cut the winter heating allowance for pensioners, which is crucial financial support for the elderly during the cold season, hasn't gone unnoticed.

No one can begrudge the PM a holiday. He's had a rough time since his appointment, and his brother died on Boxing Day. Still, the optics are poor. 

But I do wonder about Starmer's political acumen. Indeed, he and his aides could have seen this coming. Then again, this is a man who took the knee before Black Lives Matter, a movement marred by instances of violence. 

Yet, he ordered judges to clamp down with swift sentencing on mostly northern white working-class folks who rioted in response to the ISIS-inspired killings in Southport. That episode earned him the nickname Two Tier Kier, highlighting the perceived inconsistency in his approach to justice.

In the meantime, he's releasing thousands of villains from jail, including sex offenders. The irony of this situation is almost unbelievable.

The PM's spokesman claimed that Madeira police decided to usher Starmer past the queue on security grounds. After accepting invitations to sit in corporate hospitality seats at Arsenal's football stadium, Starmer deployed a similar security argument. Why's he even there if a threat existed that necessitated priority?    

I may be tempted to feel sorry for Starmer, except he positioned himself as the 'clean' politician who wasn't on the take or exploiting his position. That stance faltered when stories of free clothes and spectacles from donors emerged. Free Gear Kier is not as principled as he claims to be.

Further, Starmer hounded his opponents for rule-breaking during Covid, driving home the message that such conduct is unacceptable. He even asserted that a PM  must be seen to behave like everyone else. 

It's no wonder that twenty Labour councillors have resigned from the party due to Starmer's leadership. Meanwhile, according to the latest YouGov poll, his net favourability rating has fallen to its lowest level, at -41. Two-thirds of Britons said they had a negative view of Starmer (66%), compared to only a quarter with a positive view (25%).

But all this may only be the start of the troubles that Starmer is facing. Calls are gathering pace for national inquiry into the rape gangs that operated with impunity across several British towns. Elon Musk has turned his big guns on the issue by drawing the matter to the attention of his 250 million followers. 

Starting some 25 years ago, the police, social workers and officials in mainly Labour councils wilfully ignored thousands of rapes and sexual trafficking cases involving underprivileged white girls for fear of offending minorities. The details of these cases are profoundly harrowing, involving mainly culprits from the Pakistani or Bangladeshi community.

The police didn't simply look the other way. There is evidence they actively prevented fathers from intervening to retrieve their daughters. In one instance, a teenage victim brought her soiled underwear in a sealed bag to the police station as evidence as she attempted to make a report. It's alleged that a desk sergeant kicked her out of the station. 

Only a huge public outcry and the work of campaigners forced the police to act. If you don't believe horror stories, at least take the time to read this sentencing report from 2013. It details the anal rape of girls under the age of 13 by multiple men. Read and weep.

“You, Mohammed Karrar, prepared her for gang anal rape by using a pump to expand her anal passage. You subjected her to a gang rape by five or six men. At one point, she had four men inside her. 

In short, the police and others stand accused of being complicit in these crimes. Working-class white girls without a voice faced sacrifice on the altar of critical race theory and multiculturalism. And if reports are believed, this is still going on. 

As these cases unfolded, Kier Starmer was the Director of Public Prosecutions from November 2008 to November 2013. He has previously acknowledged that the victims were let down and that fear of offending racial groups was a factor.  Yet, full disclosure of his role from a robust public inquiry could open a can of worms he'd rather keep sealed. 

This deliberate institutional blindness that allowed the rape gangs to run wild came with facilitation from the British media. When finally forced into action, the police arrested  44 men for the rapes and sexual assaults of working-class white girls. The BBC ignored this development and didn't mention the story on their main news channel. When the cases came to court, the BBC ran headlines "Woman denies embellishing abuse claims" and "Women denied lying". Who is on trial here?

Even the findings of an inquiry published in October 2022, widely seen by victims as a whitewash, have yet to be implemented. Not a single recommendation is in effect. This situation proves that the government wants to ignore the issue. An article in The Law Society Gazette documents this failure to act.  

Like the Post Office saga, this story has been a slow burn. I suspect it's about to ignite and could immolate Starmer. Queue jumping on holiday may prove the least of Starmer's worries.

PostScript.

Recently, direct evidence has emerged alleging that Keir Starmer intervened to halt police investigations into the rape gangs. Moreover, senior police officers ended the investigations by withdrawing funding. The evidence is discussed here.