Starmer continues to attack ordinary UK citizens ‘fed up’ with Labour despite election wipeout

I just want to quickly play this clip of Keir Starmer.Basically, we saw how many people were out on the streets there.He was saying they don't have any values, apparently.Have a listen.

Tomorrow's march in London is a reminder of what we're up against in the battle of our values.The organisers, including convicted thugs and racists, are peddling hatred and division, plain and simple.

Well, at least he didn't call them deplorable, Suzanne.Now tell us, can Starmer survive?

Well, in terms of, I think, the electorate, what you've just seen there, 10 days ago, Labour Party and Keir Starmer took an absolute hammering in the local elections.They lost nearly 1 ,500 councillors.Reform, arguably an anti -immigration party, although I was putting it a bit too starkly, gained 1 ,500 councillors and took 14 councils over completely, whereas Labour lost 38.And yet here we have Keir Starmer, despite that absolute battering he and his party took at the polls, coming out with precisely the kind of things that you've just heard him say.It's like he's not learned anything from this whatsoever.The interesting thing is, though, whoever takes over from him is very much going to carry on in, well, if somebody takes over from him, there's no guarantee of that, but they're going to carry on very much in his bane.

We've had Andy Burnham, who's running in a by -election within the next six or seven weeks or so and has made it, I think, pretty clear, or certainly people around him made it pretty clear, that if he wins that by -election, he's going to challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership.He's made it clear, for example, that he wants to take us back into the European Union today in defiance of that massive vote we had in 2016.So they're not learning any lessons, they're just attacking the people, the ordinary British people who recognise that there's something going very, very wrong with our country, that we have a migrant crime wave, that immigrationis out of control, that we have small boats like you had in Australia in the past coming across the waters and basically we're spending, you know, eight million pounds a day having to clothe and feed and house them.And people are sick of it and they're fed up of it.And yet here we have our Prime Minister and pretty much every politician who's tipped to succeed him calling the people who are complaining about this, as you say, not quite deplorables, but that's basically what they mean, isn't it?

James.Well, Suzanne, the thing that really strikes me about these marches today and so much of the opposition we've seen to Keir Starmer is that it's really about protesting.the fundamentally authoritarian nature of the Starmer and the Labour regime.I mean, you know, you've got thousands of people who get jailed or knocks on the door from the police for things that they put online far more than any other Western country.You've had Starmer attempt to block the entry of right -wing people to come in and address and participate in these marches while, as you say, they allow Countless people come in on boats, get put up in hotels at taxpayer expense, and many of them commit all sorts of unspeakable crimes.Tell us about this authoritarianism, and why doesn't the media treat this as an authoritarian regime when, say, if a Viktor Orban loses in Hungary, who's done none of those things, you know, they say, oh, this guy's a terrible, he's the real authoritarian.

Yeah, you know, Karl Marx talked about the long march through the institutions, and that's how you take control.And I think actually, from my own personal perspective, that's what's happened in the United Kingdom.You've had universities, the education system, you've had the civil service have basically been peddling a quite hard left wing agenda.And again, not learning any lessons.One of the first things that Keir Starmer did after he lost the local elections last week was to come out and say, right, I'm pushing forward withdigital ID.

Now, a lot of us have really quite serious concerns about digital ID and the authoritarianism that that will induce basically, as we saw in COVID times, preventing people accessing certain services, being able to maybe to claim benefits, maybe even to go out for dinner, be able to book a restaurant or a theatre, to being spied on over what they're shopping for.And you can just see it turning into some kind of Chinese -style social credit system.So a lot of us are very worried about that.But again, Keir Starmer, no, he's doing it.No questions asked.Never mind the fact that reform is saying it will scrap digital ID and people voted in their millions for reform.

Keir Starmer is going to push ahead with it.It's really quite baffling.This is certainly the most authoritarian government we've had in the UK in my lifetime, without a shadow of a doubt.And as you say, people are suffering as a consequence.You can now very easily get locked up for just saying what you think.

Now if Starmer is replaced, is that going to save the Labor Party or are there problems far deeper than an inept leader?

Yeah, I think the problems are far, far deeper than that.And let's be clear, there's absolutely no guarantee that Andy Burnham, who is certainly the parliamentary party's top favourite to take over from Keir Starmer, there's no guarantee he's going to win this by -election.Reform, the former Labour MP who's just stood down, only had a majority of 5 ,000.That's pretty much nothing.Reform, very, very hot on their heels.You know, if they field a good candidate who can engage with the electorate, I think they stand a very, very good chance.

Not least because Andy Burnham has been Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017.He's currently serving his third term of office and he promised to see through his third term just two years ago.If he, once he becomes an MP, he has to relinquish that seat.He cannot be Greater Manchester Mayor and a Member of Parliament.I think the electorate will take a very dim view, even Labour voters will take a very dim view of a man who basically says he's going to do one thing and then stands down to become, let's not forget, what's he trying to do?He's basically trying to become a political assassin.

He wants to win this by -election so he can kill off the Prime Minister, figuratively speaking, and take over.

And Suzanne, just very quickly, I've only got 30 seconds, but Nigel Farage, you mentioned he's been very strong against the digital ID, which is fantastic, but the King mentioned the digital ID the other day.So reform's got a big job on its hands to win that fight, haven't they?

They have, but let's not forget that the King's speech, as it's called in Parliament, is not the King's own actual words that he believes in.He is simply reading out a speech that has been prepared for him by the government of the day.So what King Charles's views on this, we don't honestly know, but it was in the King's speech and that means it will be put before Parliament.So if it's going to be stopped, it's up to the opposition and the House of Lords to stop it.