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'Keir Starmer, every one of your broken promises makes Labour a sick joke'
The Prime Minister seems to be on a different planet to ordinary Britons and Labour's latest scandal is stark proof of this fact.
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So what took Tulip Siddiq so long to resign? And why was she even allowed to take the âhonourableâ way out?
Why hadnât Starmer kicked her backside out of office, or at least suspended her, when the stories first broke about our anti-corruption minister being at the heart of an international corruption scandal?
Because frankly itâs not a good look.
Could it be because sheâs very close friend of Sir Keir (he handpicked her for the job) who might have thought the whole thing might just blow over and his âmateâ would just carry on regardless? Because thatâs what it looks like to the British people who are sick to the back teeth of the scandals engulfing this Government.
And every time a new one is unearthed Starmerâs initial reaction is ânothing to see hereâ. When of course there always is.
But his inaction here (all to protect his friend) is beyond shocking for a man whose Number One priority is supposed to be Britain, its people and its reputation.
If Starmer had been any kind of leader heâd have seen how tacky and damaging this Siddiq scandal looked for his Government and heâd have at least sidelined her until she was found guilty â or not.
The fact he did nothing shows him to have zero judgement. Actually Iâm wrong â he DID do something. He made a bad situation even worse by saying he accepted her resignation âwith sadness.â
Why sadness? Why the Hell wasnât he fuming about a controversy that was making his Government look complicit and tacky? This womanâs name had come up in two corruption investigations in Bangladesh and her familyâs connections with the dodgy side of Bangladeshi politics are widely known. So why was she ever given a Government job in the first place?
And Starmer canât pretend he didnât know about Siddiq (MP for Hampstead and Highgate) and her family because he was alerted to problems with her by Channel 4 news in 2017 and some of his own constituents even wrote to him saying it wasnât appropriate for her to be a Labour MP because sheâd concealed her family links to an oppressive, tyrannical regime in Bangladesh.
Well, now itâs all come back to bite him on the backside and it highlights his catastrophic lack of judgement. And surely he must embarrassed that his own ethics advisor, Sir Laurie Magnus, had to publicly state how âregrettableâ it was that Siddiq âhadnât been more alert to the reputational risks of her family ties to the deposed former PM of Bangladeshâ (her aunt, Sheikh Hasina).
He also described as âregrettableâ (many will think itâs a damn sight more than that) the fact that Siddiq wasnât able to produce evidence that the tax and funding arrangements for the houses she used here and which were connected to her aunt, were in order.
Even the Institute for Government said that having been so quick to criticise the last Government over its failings and its integrity Starmer and his Party had to show they were capable of meeting the standards theyâd promised to uphold in office.
Because they havenât. They havenât even come close. Even the former transport secretary, pink-haired Louise Haigh who it was discovered had a fraud conviction had to resign.
Starmer didnât sack her either. Plus she left with ÂŁ17,000 severance pay which is an insult to taxpayers! Sorry, but this Government stinks!
Siddiq insists she isnât guilty of anything which remains to be seen but if sheâd had a shred of respect for her office sheâd have referred herself to the Independent Advisor, Laurie Magnus, long before this week when she only did it because her position had become untenable and there was no choice.
But if Siddiq thinks things are going to quieten down for her now she needs to think again. The interim leader of Bangladesh, Muhammed Yunus, a Nobel Peace prize-winning economist, says her name has emerged in two major investigations.
Yet still Starmer says the door to government will remain open to her. Seriously??? Does he not understand the anger of the British people over this? Does he not understand how serious it all is?
If Siddiq had been a Tory minister not Labour one (and not his very good friend) heâd have been screaming like a banshee for her to be sacked.
Remember, Starmerâs the bloke who before the election sold himself as a beacon of morality, integrity and transparency. And he promised to drag politics here âback to service and back towards the interests of working peopleâ.
Really? So what about the working people heâs already screwed â the farmers, small business owners, the workers who are being laid off because of Reeves National Insurance tax rises, parents who have had to take their kids out of fee paying schools and throw them into our overcrowded state schools?
Starmer despises and looks down upon working people. In fact this Government in its entirety is tin-eared and deluded. What else would explain the stupidity of Labour MP Natalie Fleet going on Newsnight after Siddiq resigned proclaiming how âthrilled I am that weâre upholding standards and that we are showing we are very different to the last government.â
It seemed to have escaped this silly bintâs notice that she was saying this after the governmentâs anti-corruption minister had to resign for being caught up in a corruption scandal.
Is everyone in this Government thick and stupid. Or do they think the British people are? Starmer never tired of screaming that the Tories were all about sleaze. Well it took them 14 years to build up that reputation. Itâs taken Starmer and his mob a measly six months.
He also promised to create âtrust and probityâ in government which seems like a sick joke now. How can any of us ever trust him or his Government. They blatantly lied about to us about what they were and werenât going to do once in office. Then there was Freebie gate when we discovered Starmer and many of his mob had greedily accepted clothes, outings, holidays from their biggest donor, Waheed Ali who was rewarded with a pass into No. 10.
Then Starmer created a âchumocracyâ by parachuting his mates and Party loyalists into high-powered jobs in the supposedly impartial civil service. And then he ignored numerous warnings about Siddiq and her dodgy family connections and made her minister anyway.
Trust? Donât make me laugh!!!
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