The Labour Party is at war with voters, and now we have the proof.
Keir Starmer’s sometimes Labour acts like it’s fighting a war against UK voters (Image: Getty)
We’ve known for years that lefties despises the bulk of the British electorate. Now we have confirmation straight from the mouth of one of the party’s own backbench MPs. In just three words, she’s revealed why Keir Starmer’s government is among the most despised in history, and will ultimately be blown away.
The Labour Party was originally set up to create a distinct political voice for the working class. Today, it’s been taken over by a coalition of Guardian-reading activists and careerists who don’t give two hoots about ordinary “working people”, whatever they may claim.
There is one hold-out in the party. A faction called Blue Labour rejects the nonsense spouted by the progressive middle classes, arguing that this has alienated Labour from the concerns of the true working class.
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood is true Blue Labour. So when she set out plans to tighten immigration, virtue-signalling progressive Labour was in uproar.
And that’s when one MP spoke three words that are both silly and sinister, and tell us an awful lot about the Labour Party.
Stourbridge Labour MP Cat Eccles was one of many backbenchers who attacked the government’s proposed asylum reforms, accusing her own party of acting just to “appease the electorate”. That’s a wonderful phrase. It’s so revealing. Only in the Labour Party could introducing a reform that’s popular with voters be seen as appeasement.
To be fair, I can understand Eccles’s confusion. This may be the first time a member of Keir Starmer’s cabinet has actually put forward a popular proposal.
Every policy the PM has pursued since last year’s election seems wilfully designed to annoy large swathes of the electorate. Scrapping the winter fuel payment, hiking taxes, driving up energy bills, selling out the Chagos Islands and mothballing North Sea oil have antagonised voters rather than appease them.
Sometimes it feels like our own government at war with us.
That phrase “appease the electorate” brings to mind the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, who suggested in satirical poem The Solution that the government “might find it easier to dissolve the people and elect another”.
I’m sure that solution would delight Eccles and other Labour backbenchers. Then they’d have the electorate they want, rather than the one they’ve actually got.
All those people griping about high taxes? Dissolve them. Businesses wilting under Rachel Reeves’s so-called jobs tax? Dissolve them (most have gone bust anyway). People painting St George’s Cross flags on roundabouts? Dissolve them. Families who want to hand an inheritance to loved ones rather than HMRC? Dissolve them too (but keep their money).
Unhappily for Labour, the electorate refuses to be dissolved. Instead, Keir Starmer will have to face voters as they are, and he’s the one who’ll end up being dissolved.
