Keir Starmer isn’t just leading a ‘paedo protectors party’ – the truth is even more sordid
Labour has hit a grim new low under Sir Keir Starmer. How can anyone vote for it now?
PM Keir Starmer presides over a sexist culture that ignores abuse and grooming claims (Image: Getty)
Last week, Labour MP Emma Lewell told Starmer that “people are screaming at me in the street that I am a member of the ‘paedo protectors party’.” Her lament, made at a private meeting of MPs and peers, reveals how furious the public is with Starmer’s Labour. It follows the PM’s shocking decision to appoint Peter Mandelson US ambassador despite his well-known links to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
That isn’t a one-off slip. Starmer also gave a peerage to former adviser Matthew Doyle, refusing to withdraw it even after Doyle admitted links to a convicted child sex offender. Labour peer Ayesha Hazarika called it a catastrophic failure of judgment, saying it exposed serious flaws in the party’s vetting process. I’d say it goes far deeper than that. At Prime Minister’s Questions, a furious Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir of “stuffing Government with hypocrites and paedophile apologists”.
Starmer ignored her question and bragged about his landslide, while Labour MPs roared and laughed at his sneers about Liz Truss. They should all should hang their heads. Promoting men with links to paedophiles is just the visible side of the ugly, sexist subculture that underpins Starmer’s “boy’s club”.
Starmer has a well-known woman problem. He famously cannot even define what a woman is. He failed to stand up for Labour MP Rosie Duffield, who couldn’t attend the 2021 party conference because of death threats from trans activists. She quit the party, while also railing against the “cliques and jobs-for-the-boys culture” around Starmer.
Labour MP Louise Haigh has condemned anonymous briefings targeting female cabinet ministers while men are elevated to senior roles. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy reckons No 10 is “dripping with misogyny”.
The consequences stretch far beyond internal party politics. For years, Labour councils turned a blind eye to the sickening grooming scandal. After brave whistleblowers came forward, Starmer did everything he could to block a national inquiry, in a complete betrayal of the victims. All women, of course.
Terrifyingly, Labour has now been accused of drawing of new rules that will allow grooming gangs to “operate with impunity”.
It’s all part of the same “morally corrupt” Labour pattern.
Shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy says Justice Secretary David Lammy has just made it even harder to identify and stop grooming gangs. Labour is doing this by shutting down Courtsdesk, a searchable database of court listings and registers, which provides vital details about criminal cases to journalists and researchers.
Citing a data breach, Lammy ordered the entire system deleted, restricting access to critical information, and making it easier for the perpetrators to escape justice. Tory MP Katie Lam warns it will protect abusers by erasing patterns of behaviour that journalists and whistleblowers spent decades exposing.
Grooming gangs are still operating. Labour has just made their lives easier. How many women are the party willing to sacrifice to protect their sectional vote? A many as it takes, apparently.
That phrase “paedo protectors party” isn’t going away anytime soon. I can’t see how any decent person could vote for Starmer’s Labour today.
