DAILY MAIL COMMENT: New disgrace for spineless Starmer
When a Prime Minister is accused in the House of Commons of ‘stuffing government with paedophile apologists’, the game, frankly, is up.
Sir Keir Starmer is now impossible to take seriously as the leader of this great nation, if he ever was.
And wincing behind him on the chamber’s green leather benches yesterday, didn’t Labour MPs just know it?
The scandal surrounding Peter Mandelson still raging, Sir Keir has allowed himself to become embroiled in another outrage that is simply impossible to justify.
His former director of communications, Matthew Doyle, campaigned for a man convicted of possessing indecent images of girls as young as ten, Kemi Badenoch pointed out, and yet has been rewarded with a peerage.
Even the most doltish Labour backbencher knows that being tarred by association with a paedophile amounts to instant political extermination.
Why does Sir Keir not understand that?
Rather than acting decisively as soon as the facts began to emerge, the PM inexplicably continued with Doyle’s ennoblement, handing him – as Mrs Badenoch noted – a job for life in Parliament.
Sir Keir Starmer is now impossible to take seriously as the leader of this great nation, if he ever was
Puce-faced piety is no response to such a devastating take-down, but nonetheless that is what Sir Keir delivered yesterday.
Absurdly, he waffled on about Mrs Badenoch not barring Liz Truss from the Tory Party. It was a deeply odd attempt by the PM to distract from his current status – a recruitment consultant for paedophiles’ pals.
Labour’s EU mania
Under the current PM, Labour has attempted to distance itself from any suggestion it will seek to reverse Britain’s hard-won Brexit freedoms.
But its fetish for Brussels has never been far from the surface, as Chancellor Rachel Reeves proved yesterday.
She admitted in a speech that in terms of economic expansion ‘the biggest prize is closer integration with Europe’.
It was a shift in tone for her, and an indication that one of the ‘red lines’ set out by Sir Keir in pursuit of electability is beginning to blur.
As the PM is further destabilised, the class-war warriors in his party will pounce.
Doubtless, their first move after dethroning him will be to supercharge taxes on the better-off. After that there is sure to be talk of rejoining the EU bloc, at huge cost to this country and every single one of its taxpayers.
Green-eyed monster
Dewy-eyes millennials and a minority of Left-leaning grannies cling to the fallacy that the Greens are harmless tree-huggers who only have the best interests of the planet at heart.
But, make no mistake, the party contains a contingent whose policies and attitudes are deeply sinister.
Even their own members have begun to sound the alarm bells.
They have alerted counter-terror police following an influx of hard-Left, pro-Palestinian activists set upon getting the party to officially adopt ‘anti-Zionism’.
Concerned members fear their naive leader Zack Polanski is allowing anti-Semitic extremism to prosper.
Anyone who has studied Mr Polanski’s existing policies – particularly his anti-Nato stance – will be unsurprised to learn that behind its ‘why can’t we all just love one another’ image, the Green Party is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
