October according to Keir Starmer.

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1/ Keir starts October by reminding everyone how cautious he was about re-opening schools now that over 2,000 were dealing with infections.

He said the risks were "known".

By the end of October, almost 40% of cases are found to have originated in schools.

2/ If you can't remember back in August he also said:

"I don’t just want all children back at school next month, I expect them back at school. No ifs, no buts, no equivocation".

3/ Starmer also wrote a secret letter to Johnson saying he would support the Gov't on schools returning. He also said on Marr

"whatever measures the Gov't take, we will support it"

Blood on your hands, Keir.

4/ And he sacked shadow education secretary RLB after she repeatedly sided with teaching unions claiming the return to school plans were unsafe.

So knowing all this and the risks involved why did Starmer so emphatically support it?

5/ Keeping with education, the Gov't released new guidance to schools banning anti-capitalist materials.

Presumably, Capitalist simp Starmer supports the Gov't on this one too as he never mentioned it.

6/ He continued on education by saying "Black history should be taught all year round as part of a diverse school curriculum".

Back during the Black Lifes Matter protests in July, Starmer described BLM as a "moment". Awks.

7/ Keir Starmer's focus groups obviously advised him to do a zoom call with students stuck in isolation in halls of residence at various Universities...

8/ The students feel they've been conned into attending uni with the promises of regular lessons and once they've paid their fees and the landlord his rent they've been forced into isolation and online lectures.

Keir nodded.

9/ Some of the Uni students were also struggling to get food and complained about their University offering a rip-off £17 per day, per student meals on wheels service.

Keir nodded some more.

He then did nothing.

10/ Next, the evil Tories brought a bill to exempt Spy Cops from any wrongdoing.

Many of these Spy Cop operations infiltrate, entrap and disrupt left-wing groups such as trade unions, environmental groups, anti-fascist groups and civil rights activists...

11/ Starmer whipped the Labour MPs to *abstain* on this awful piece of legislation giving up any pretence his leadership is left-wing or even liberal.

You'd ideally want a Labour Party led by a human rights lawyer to vote against attacks on human rights. But what do I know?

12/ With this SpyCops bill and the War Crimes one last month, I'm not convinced abstaining from politics for four years in the hope of winning by default is the best way forward given the circumstances.

But then I'm not a forensic political genius.

13/ Next, the executive of the UK's biggest union Unite voted to reduce funding of Starmer's Labour by circa 10% - around £700,000.

A few other unions joined in by reducing funding too believing that the Starmer-led Labour party was not deserving of the funding.

14/ With This drop in union fees, and an estimated loss of around 2,000 members per week since taking the helm, Starmer's Labour appears to be losing grassroots support fast.

15/ Once the Labour party loses the trade unions, you’ve started to lose your mandate to lead a party built on trade unions.

And once the Labour party loses its members, you've lost the single biggest advantage you have during an election campaign.

16/ So in an attempt to try to combat this, Starmer doubled-down and schmoozed up to some rich corporate donors and asked them to donate. They could even gain access to his exclusive inner circle club.

Maximum Tory energy that.

17/ If you'd rather the Labour Party was funded by a few mega-rich donors than millions of members and unionised workers, I have news for you:

You're not remotely left-wing and you're definitely not a socialist. You're a brood parasite Tory who is too embarrassed to admit it.

18/ Also in early October, Starmer hears about new restrictions in central Scotland and Paris that will shut pubs for 2 weeks due to a rapid rise in Covid-19 cases...

19/ The UK also has a rapid rise of Covid cases too so Keir uses one of his questions at PMQs to ask the PM why English pubs have to close at 10pm and not open for longer.

20/ Next #StarmerOut trends again on social media. The StarmTroopers counter this with a #StarmerOutstanding hashtag.

Clever, but entirely incorrect - see my previous threads.

21/ The Starmeroids beg and plead to socialist Labour members to "get behind him" because "we have to get the Tories out" and "Starmer is not the enemy" say the liberals disguised as socialists.

22/ I ask, why aren’t you calling for Starmer to stop supporting the Gov't, stand up, and actually oppose this cruel cabal of spivs then?

They don't really answer that.

23/ It wasn't the Left that resigned the shadow cabinet en masse, organised a horrific vote of no confidence circus, organised a leadership challenge, purged thousands of members, and spent four years campaigning against their own party on live TV.

Oh, but they want unity now?

24/ Starmer and the liberals then start parroting that "Johnson has lost control" of the virus.

This naively assumes that Johnson had control in the first place. Giving him credit where it isn't due is a typical Starmer attribute.

25/ This wouldn't be so bad if Starmer offered a strategy to get us through this crisis. But no mention of Universal Basic Income. No mention of airport testing. No mention of local authorities running test and trace...

26/ No mention of a single potential solution to our multitude of problems.

No, Starmer just offers support. And sometimes mild, apologetic criticism.

27/ We also hit a peak of the US presidential election. Back in February, when trying to trick the membership he was a socialist, Starmer said that he "would back anybody but Trump”.

But now he confusingly refuses to endorse Joe Biden. This takes abstaining to a whole new level

28/ Brexit next and Johnson tells the nation that trade deal talks have collapsed with the EU and that we should start preparing for an "Australian style deal" on Dec 31st...

29/ This is also known as a Hard Brexit, a no-deal Brexit, a fall off a cliff Brexit, an Antarctica style deal, a Narnia style deal, or a disaster of epic proportions.

Starmer offers some more lukewarm, apologetic criticism and abstains on any live TV appearances.

30/ Mid October now and the UK find it is well and truly in the 2nd wave of the pandemic.

The Gov't responds by creating a 3-tier lockdown system that the chief medical officer says won't work. Starmer backs it.

31/ Starmer also suggests a full national lockdown too.

So by backing the Gov't and simultaneously opposing the Gov't he stands to win either way.

Schrodinger's Opposition.

32/ The Gov't decides to impose the highest restrictions on Labour voting Northern strongholds Liverpool and Greater Manchester first. Nottingham has the highest number of cases in the UK but they also have 73% Tory MPs and a Cabinet minister so narrowly miss out.

33/ Starmer nods approvingly but mayor Andy Burnham decides to stick up for the people of Manchester as no one else is and demands the Gov't pay a financial settlement of £65m.

(fun fact: This is just 9% of a single Chris Grayling project)

34/ Starmer continues to nod approvingly whilst wondering if he could stick up for the people too.

His focus groups, hedge fund backers, Tony Blair, and Murdoch all tell him no.

35/ We then get news that Jacinda Ardern's Labour party win a landslide election in New Zealand on a manifesto of democratic socialism - similar to that offered by former leader Jeremy Corbyn - proving that it is possible and extremely popular...

36/ This news is widely under-reported by the wretched UK press and corrupt media but Starmer still manages to quietly distance himself from Jacinda's emphatic leadership and vision by appearing absolutely nowhere to talk about it.

37/ Next a poll by SavantaComRes put Labour -6pts behind in the polls.

In May last year, Corbyn's Labour was +9 points ahead.

38/ Starmer spent the summer pushing the 2nd ref policy before proudly saying "Labour is the party of remain"...

Corbyn went into the 2019 election 16 points behind and lost 52 leave seats.

It's time the Starmer loyalists owned this crap.

39/ The final week of October is taken up by free school meals. Man of the people and footballer, @MarcusRashford, continues his campaign to feed the poorest kids during half-term whilst we are experiencing the effects of this pandemic.

40/ Starmer gets approval from his focus groups to back the campaign and a vote comes to Parliament.

The Tories emphatically reject it - mostly because they are evil and ideologically driven to hate poor people.

41/ Starmer accepts this and offers to maybe do something about it for Christmas. But even Nigel Farage tweets that the Tories are "cruel".

Imagine having less compassion than Nigel Farage?

42/ Rashford doesn't stop though. He uses his platform to rally support from compassionate people and businesses and they come together to provide food for the most vulnerable kids...

43/ Bluetick critics of the Labour party have said that the movement has often taken its voter base for granted and not been able to demonstrate its values at a local level...

44/ The free school meals issue was a perfect opportunity to build a grassroots movement around traditional Labour values of coming together, community spirit, and protecting our most vulnerable.

Starmer tweets about Scottish football instead.

45/ Finally, we then get the long-anticipated EHRC report into antisemitism in the Labour party...

It finds that the Labour party was NOT institutionally antisemitic...

46/ It also concludes that significant improvements were made under left-wing general secretary Jenny Formby and it could find just 2 examples of the party breaking the equalities act (TWO? The party had 600,000 members under Corbyn)...

47/ and it could find no evidence that former leader Jeremy Corbyn was antisemitic.

So Starmer did the obvious thing and sacked Jeremy Corbyn.

48/ Then Starmer claimed he had nothing to do with the suspension and that decision was taken by the General Secretary instead.

Starmer then said on BBC R4 Today "*we* made a very difficult decision today".

49/ You see, the EHRC report highlights that political interference in investigations is unlawful.

It also says the General Secretary's Office and the Leader's Office are political arms of the party.

Oh dear.

50/ Starmer then appeared on the BBC and broke another rule by interfering in an investigation by mischaracterising what Corbyn had said and branding it "denial" by the former leader on live TV.

Imagine being a lawyer and having to defend this all in court?

51/ Finally, Starmer declares, "There is no need for a civil war" right after he starts a civil war.

I'm done. Are you?

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