Pot, kettle and Starmer

Weekend blog

Lies, lies and more lies

When a driver rammed into a bunch of people in Liverpool who were celebrating Liverpool winning one of the so many football competitions which we have now that there seem to enough for every team to win something, we were told astonishingly quickly that the alleged perpetrator was “a 53-year-old white man”. The mainstream media then went into a frenzy of praise for our police’s supposed wonderful transparent new policy of openness about the suspect’s ethnicity when someone allegedly commits a dreadful crime. However, when a prisoner stabbed a prison officer injuring him so badly that he had to be airlifted to hospital, we didn’t get any information about the age and ethnicity of the prisoner. Though one can assume that, as the alleged stabber was already in prison, the authorities were well aware of his ethnicity. And when a driver crushed a police officer’s legs by allegedly reversing into the officer seven times, we weren’t told the ethnicity of this alleged perpetrator either.

A cynic might thus be tempted to believe that the wonderful new police policy of openness only applies when the alleged criminal is white. When the alleged criminal is from one of our multi-culturally enriching communities, I think we can expect a continuing deafening silence as to the alleged criminal’s ethnicity.

Do you trust Keir Starmer?

While we’re on the subject of liars, here’s a short clip from a speech Keir Starmer made from some factory somewhere. With rolled up sleeves to show he is a practical, get-stuck-in-there man of the people, Starmer launched a blitzkrieg attack on Nigel Farage by asking anyone who could be bothered to listen whether they would trust Nigel Farage with their jobs and pensions and the economy and suchlike:

So perhaps we should consider a few questions like:

• would you trust Starmer to control illegal immigration?
• would you trust Starmer to enforce border control?
• would you trust Starmer to negotiate a good deal with his beloved EU?
• would you trust Starmer to enact policies to grow the UK economy?
• would you trust Starmer to bring Mad Ed Miliband under control in order to lower our highest-in-the-world energy prices?
• would you trust Starmer to protect British territories like the Chagos Islands, the Falklands and GIbraltar?
• would you trust Starmer to bring us lower taxes to, as he claims, “put more money into people’s pockets“?
• would you trust Starmer to protect free speech in the UK?
• would you trust Starmer to bring our profligate, incompetent, useless public services under control and cut public spending in order to “fix the foundations” of our bankrupt economy?
• would you trust Starmer to ensure that the law applies to everybody equally regardless of their ethnicity and religion?
• would you trust Starmer to always stand up for the interests of British people?
• would you trust Starmer with anything?

For a few years, the polling company YouGov has been running a bi-monthly survey which includes a question on how trustworthy people believe the main politicians are. Here are the latest results for Starmer:

As you’ll see, the percent who view Starmer as being “untrustworthy” has more than doubled from around 20% to 56%. But what astonishes me most about this chart is that even just over 20% of people see Starmer as “trustworthy”. Who are these idiots? I guess they’re all Guardian readers and BBC believers. Nobody else could be so stupid.