If Starmer thinks McSweeney going helps him, he’s hopeless

Keir Starmer’s appalling chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, has quit. According to ‘mainstream’ media, Starmer hopes this will ease the pressure that he has been under from the ongoing Mandelson scandal. If he really thinks this, he’s more hopeless than we thought – and that’s a tough bar to cross.

McSweeney: a horror

McSweeney is a horror. Undeclared donations from the Israel lobby, spying on journalists, covert campaigns to destroy media that highlight his boss’s crimes, deep connections with genocidal Israel and a coordinated sabotage campaign to prevent Labour winning the 2019 general election. His fingerprints are on all of it.

McSweeney’s success in the 2019 general election saw hundreds of thousands die under Boris Johnson’s ‘pile the bodies high’ decision to let covid run rampant. His success in the 2020 Labour leadership election led to UK collaboration in Israel’s Gaza genocide. Not only that, but a war on Britain’s children, its poor and the rights of its people.

But in none of that was Starmer innocent. If he’s weak enough to be led by the nose by such a horror – and who would be surprised? – he’s unfit for office. If he were proactively involved in those decisions, he’s unfit for office. Either way, he’s unfit for office. Either way, he belongs in the dock and then in prison.

Either way, he’s hated by the public and in the end the buck stops with him. Advisers advise, (prime) ministers decide.

The most hated PM ever?

McSweeney’s departure only moves Starmer a big step closer to the exit door and a place in history as the most hated PM ever. Even more than Thatcher, and that’s saying something – because he’s hated on the left and right alike. Starmer is a dead man walking – but who is there in his party to replace him who’s any better? None, at least none with any intention of standing – the party is too stuffed with brylcreem-a-likes and mini-hims for a change at the top to help it.

Starmer will be lucky to last until the Gorton and Denton by-election later this month. If he clings on, the almost certain third place – at best – his NHS-privatiser candidate will manage will see him gone.

As the saying goes, “For God’s sake man, just go!” And take your rotted corpse of a party with you.

Featured image via the Canary