Sir Keir Starmer, arguably the most mendacious, arrogant dishonest, authoritarian, warmongering politician of the modern era, resigned on Monday paving the way for Britain to have its seventh prime minister in just over a decade. He said he was stepping down as leader of the governing Labour Party but would remain caretaker prime minister until a new head is chosen by the party.
Andy Burnham, who won a special parliamentary election last week, confirmed that he will run to succeed Starmer. Burnham is also set to receive defence and security briefings on privy councillor terms so that he can be “read in” on some of the most sensitive issues in Whitehall, according to officials. Addressing the nation from outside Number 10 on Monday morning, the spot where he delivered his first speech as prime minister two years ago. Starmer announced an end to his six years as Labour leader and two years as prime minister.
Within two hours, it became almost certain that Starmer would be succeeded by Andy Burnham, after his main rival Wes Streeting said he would not compete to become Labour leader.
Streeting, the former health secretary, is now seen by some Labour MPs as the frontrunner to be chancellor in a Burnham government, although both sides insisted that no deal had been struck. Streeting’s decision to fold in behind Burnham and urge his Labour colleagues to agree to what would be in effect a coronation of the party’s next leader has raised the prospect of an uncontested transition. But a wild-card candidate may yet seek to trigger a Labour leadership race. Al Carns, former armed forces minister, and Darren Jones, Starmer’s chief secretary, have not ruled out a tilt at the top job. Starmer had discussed sacking home secretary Shabana Mahmood and energy secretary Ed Miliband from his cabinet earlier this month over what he saw as disloyalty after they privately told him to outline a timetable for his departure. But he was talked out of the dramatic retaliation against the pair — who like Streeting are seen as potential candidates to be chancellor — by allies who feared it would trigger a domino effect of other ministers quitting.
Starmer announced a timetable for the transfer of power that could result in Burnham entering Downing Street as soon as July 17 if no other Labour MP challenges him for the party leadership.
Starmer won a landslide victory in the 2024 general election, but a series of missteps badly damaged his credibility. His resignation came the day before Britain marks the 10th anniversary of its vote to leave the European Union.
In a statement on X, Burnham praised Starmer for his “huge service to our country” and said he looked forward to an “orderly and responsible” transition.
“People want to see progress on economic growth, cost of living, public services, housing and opportunities for the next generation,” he said.
Burnham was sworn in as an MP at Westminster on Monday afternoon after his emphatic victory in the Makerfield by-election last week. He was given a triumphalist welcome by Labour MPs in parliament. Starmer was earlier cheered by his Downing Street staff as he made his farewell statement, in which he said he had rescued Labour after its disastrous 2019 election defeat, made the party electable and delivered a series of reforms following its landslide poll victory in July 2024.
He listed economic recovery, improvements to workers’ rights, falling hospital waiting lists, cuts to illegal migration and a reduction in child poverty among his government’s achievements.
Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first. And now the same news organisations are burnishing Andy Burnham’s credentials to enter 10 Downing Street without actually submitting his record or policies to proper scrutiny.
Starmer’s appalling record as Prime Minister were barely touched upon in his political obituaries. In particular, his complicity in the Gaza genocide was virtually whitewashed out of existence; notably by the BBC and the Guardian.
His tenure in 10 Downing Street came to just under two years, and it will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. He displayed an astonishing lack of political nous on a wide variety of issues. On his election as PM, Starmer ditched the ten pledges he’d made during his Labour leadership campaign which had deceptively presented him as a left-leaning, progressive successor to Corbyn whom he had called his ‘friend’.
He attempted to court right-wing Reform voters by adopting the language of the notorious Enoch Powell in warning that ‘mass immigration’ had done ‘incalculable damage’ to the British economy, and in an infamous speech said that the UK could become an ‘island of strangers’.
He attacked pensioners, people with disabilities, families on low income with more than two children (until he did a U-turn following a huge public backlash), and migrants. Hiking University Tuition Fees by 13.5% when he has previously repeatedly pledged to scrap them entirely is a total betrayal of young people.
Then made the idiotic decision to cut the winter fuel allowance which displayed a stunning sense of political naivety, losing huge quantities of political capital for minuscule budget savings.
Against strong advice, and with appalling judgement he appointed Peter Mandelson, a close friend of the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as UK ambassador to the US.
He waged war on the left wing of the Labour Party, suspended Jeremy Corbyn and many others, including numerous Jewish members. Incidentlly when he inherited the Labour party, Corbyn had made it the biggest political party membership in Europe.
Starmer struggled to deliver promised economic growth, repair tattered public services and ease the cost of living. He has been hamstrung by repeated missteps.
One of the most prolific liars in politics, Keir Starmer has no principles, morales or backbone. He is a shapeshifter, saying whatever is convenient at the time to make him look ‘good’.
Starmer is a very wealthy man who has a net worth of approximately £7.7 million who has accepted hundreds of thousands in corporate donations and freebies than all Labour leaders since 1997 and was more than happy to take £20k so his son could study privately while condemning millions of pensioners to living in the freezing cold.
All of the donations were within parliament’s rules but Starmer has faced accusations of hypocrisy since the furore comes as he is asked ordinary Britons to tighten their belts. Following a backlash, he announced an overhaul of hospitality rules for government ministers to try to ensure better transparency around what is accepted, and in a damage limitation exercise Starmer has since repaid thousands of pounds in freebies in an attempt to restore trust in politics.
Furthermore he and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK .
To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.
He undermined trial by jury and, unjustly extended the definition of ‘terrorism’, imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
He continued to arm and support Israel during the genocide despite his obligations under the Genocide Convention to take immediate action to prevent it, welcomed Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who had used genocidal language against the Palestinians in Gaza, approved visits from Israeli military officials and thwarted calls for a ceasefire.
He also allowed the RAF’s Akrotiri base in Cyprus to be used for spy flights over Gaza, sharing intelligence with Israel that was likely used to attack targets in Gaza.
Infamously, he even declared in a live radio interview with Nick Ferrari that Israel ‘has that right’ when asked about Israel denying electricity and water to Palestinians in Gaza and, days later, tried to gaslight the public that he had not actually said that.
A truly shameful man who is complicit in genocide. Starmer’s appalling statements, amounted to endorsing the collective punishment of 2.2 million civilians, a war crime under Article 33 of the Geneva Convention. No government, no army, and no country can ever be above international law..
Starmer has continued to dismiss any criticism of the indiscriminate and disproportionate killing of Starmer and Labour under his direction gave Netanyahu cover for genocide and gave Israel the greenlight to commit one of the greatest crimes of our age. He is a vile committed zionist who has supported Israel massacring hundreds of thousands of people who provided his support diplomatically, logistically and militarily.
Starmer is a proven liar and a fraud. As are the corrupt sycophants that surrounded him. Human rights experts have said Israel’s actions amount to collective punishment, a war crime under international law. It matters little since Israeli officials have not attempted to hide their intentions.
Starmers justifying Israel's collective punishment of two million Palestinians, and Labour's refusals to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, will haunt the party for a long time to come. Starmer will go down in history as the British PM a former Human Rights Barristeri ironically who has supported and enabled Israel's Palestine holocaust.
We should never ever forgive, him.A shameful stain that will reverberate in the decades to come. Just as they invaded Iraq illegally, Keir Starmer will be known as a genocide supporter that let little children starve. Shame on this disgusting Labour Government too.I never ever imagined a scenario where a Labour government could be aiding and abetting a genocide.
To hear him calling for Israel to commit to a ceasefire while selling it weapons was like a bartender suggesting you quit drinking as they poured out another double whiskey.Starmer even threatened his cabinet with dismissal if they voted for a ceasefire in Gaza. He provided Israel with arms and intelligence during an ongoing genocide. The list could go on and on.
Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.
On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This was not leadership; it was a fraud.
But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor played the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" .
It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers. History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction,a Prime Minister who offered not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. Remembered as an unremarkable former human rights lawyer who offered carte blanche to the gravest crimes of our age.
He is ethically decrepit because he chose, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. His direct complicity in the genocide in Palestine and his brutal repression of human rights defenders protesting the genocide in the UK will define his legacy forever. His departure from office is only the first step toward justice. Now let him answer for his crimes in a court of law.
True to character, in his resignation speech, his voice breaking at times, said he accepted the verdict of Labour MPs that he was not the best person to lead the party into the next election. “I accept that answer with good grace,”
There were no tears for more than 73,000 Palestinans killed in Gaza, including at least 21,289 children, since 7 October 2023, blown to pieces or buried alive under rubble in Gaza. Hearing Starmer tear up talking about spending more time with his kids was a special kind of enraging. How many Palestinian kids don’t have dads any more because of him. How many dads have no kids to hug because of him? Monster.
This week, a UN commission of inquiry concluded that Israel has deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, as well as war crimes in the occupied West Bank.
In December 2024, Amnesty International published a detailed report that explained the meaning of genocide: ‘Under Article II of the Genocide Convention, five specific acts constitute the underlying criminal conduct of the crime of genocide, including: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Each of these acts must be committed with a general intent to commit the underlying act. However, to constitute the crime of genocide, these acts must also be committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such…”
This specific intent is what distinguishes genocide from other crimes under international law.’ (Our emphasis) Amnesty added a key clarification: ‘Importantly, the perpetrator does not need to succeed in destroying the targeted group, either in whole or in part, for genocide to be established. International jurisprudence recognizes that “the term ‘in whole or in part’ refers to the intent, as opposed to the actual destruction”.
In its submission to the International Court of Justice against Israel, South Africa presented a detailed legal case that Israel has committed genocide. This case has been backed by other states at the ICJ who have published their own findings of genocide. Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory Occupied since 1967, reached similar conclusions in two reports in 2024: ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ and ‘Genocide as Colonial Erasure’.
In 2024, Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, concluded that Israel ‘has engaged in an intentional starvation campaign against the Palestinian people which evidences genocide and extermination’.
Moreover, many of the world’s leading scholars on genocide, including Israeli experts, have determined that Israel has committed genocide. The evidence is simply overwhelming.
Diverting Readers’ attention away from the genocide the media’s whitewashing of Starmer’s complicity in Israel’s Gaza genocide and crimes against humanity is stunning.
Starmer thanked his family, friends, colleagues and the “extraordinary” staff at Downing Street. Starmer reflected on Labour's landslide win in the 2024 general election and stated that he inherited a "Lego party, a party that was broken, and politically, financially and morally bankrupt."
I don't forget that Starmer offered no support to working class people striking for better pay, while finding time to condemn every single protest that takes place in Britain. and having a career history of defending corrupt policemen and persecuting the poor. For all these reasons welcome this rancid narcissistic,war mongering, serial pledge breaking, shitweasel, resignation. who will end up the most hated PM ever, with the clowns in his cabinet not far behind.
Rejoice that Starmer is finished. History will condemn him for his support of a genocide.At today’s PMQs, Starmer ended his premiership as he began it - by conflating support for Palestinian rights and opposition to genocide with antisemitism
His authoritarian crackdown on protest and freedom of speech has done profound damage to our society. Even at end of his tenure he revealed himself to be an utterly morally bankrupt bastard.
Good riddance to a two faced compulsive lying political prostitute.
Few tears will flow over the death of his insipid premiership. A man who turned Britain into a Zionist police state. Get in the bin Starmer. You wont be missed.Fuck you, you genocide enabling shit. Starmer you were a disaster for Britain. Andy Burnham sadly I believe may be even worse.
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