Embed Notice

What Starmer, like Sunak, wanted was a shift - away from the establishment's underestimated candidate that was Jeremy Corbyn and his mass mobilisation of the working class filling town squares and stadiums in their thousands for his rallies; away from what became the biggest swing to Labour since just after the Second World War (I remember witnessing, for the first time, lines outside polling stations, and dozens of young people queueing to vote *for* Corbynism). Starmer, Sunak et al hated that, even feared it. State politics being what it is, they found Corbyn's weaknesses: first, the democratisation of his own party membership who argued over a Brexit plan put together by Starmer himself; second, Corbyn's support for Palestine as they engaged in sickening, Orwellian, antisemitic weaponising of antisemitism - all aided and abetted by establishment media adding fuel to the fire of the smears (thus the openly antisemitic Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson retaining power). So now, instead, we get a lower vote turnout and/or reversal to "2020" politics: the election of cynically voting *against* someone, rather than *for* something. They prefer that, because it reduces choices back to "lesser of evils" and revolving door state politics, where power always wins...and capitalism continues.