I am fed up with journalists and pundits pretending they cannot work out how Starmer went from a so-called “landslide victory” to being booted out in two years. It was not a landslide. It was the Tory Party collapsing in public. Labour won a huge majority on barely a... third of the vote. That was not love. It was exhaustion. And spare us the “decent man” routine. A decent man does not win the Labour leadership on ten pledges, then bin half of them once he has the job. A decent man does not promise public ownership, then run back to the market. A decent man does not attack austerity, then keep the two-child cap. A decent man does not promise to abolish tuition fees, then drop it. A decent man doesn't pretend genocide is not happening, while it's been screened on our TVs. A decent man does not sell hope to Labour members, then govern for donors, consultants, corporate interests and the permanent establishment. A decent man does not lecture the country on standards while taking clothes, glasses, hospitality, football tickets and freebies from wealthy donors, then act wounded when people notice. Starmer was forced to repay more than £6,000 in gifts after the row over donations and hospitality. This was not an accidental failure. It was a character revealed.. The man who promised clean politics gave us Mandelson. The man who promised integrity gave us managed slogans. The man who promised change gave us continuity with better lighting. The media class cannot explain Starmer’s collapse because they helped sell the myth. They told us he was serious. They told us he was competent. They told us he was decent. Working people looked at the bills, the broken promises, the arrogance, the freebies, the war posturing, the donor class, the u-turns and the empty technocratic mush, and reached the obvious conclusion. He was never the answer. He was the establishments man wearing a red rosette.show more

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