I've always loved May Day. It's meant to be our day - Labour's day. A time when we remember the folks who died in horrific conditions just trying to feed their families. The miners crushed under rock. Factory workers burned alive. Sailors lost at sea.
Not this year though.
This May Day felt like someone punched me in teh gut. Our voters just sent us a message written in electoral blood, and if Keir doesn't listen, we're absolutely screwed.
Durham: From Labour Cradle to Labour Grave
County Durham. COUNTY DURHAM! For God's sake, we held that council for a CENTURY. Now? Gone. Obliterated. A place where burial societies and building societies were the backbone of working communities has just buried us.
Yes, the Tories got hammered worse. But that's hardly comforting when you look at their corpse of a party. They promised to "take back control" and deliver "controlled immigration" while "levelling up" - then did precisely none of it. Now they're about as trusted as a fox in a henhouse.
And we're walking the exact same path to destruction.
I've Seen MAGA Up Close. We're Next.
Back in 2018, I got invited to Trump's inauguration (long story involving a bet and too much whisky). The energy at those MAGA rallies wasn't just political - it was primal. Pure defiance against a ruling class that had abandoned them.
Listen. It's happening here. Right now. To us.
Farage might be a saloon-bar Thatcherite who practically sends Putin Valentine's cards, but he understands something we've forgotten: the white-hot anger of ordinary people who feel betrayed. And he's pointing that rage directly at Labour.
The Bloated, Useless State We've Created
Labour has to face some uncomfortable truths. The bigger our government gets, the more useless it becomes. We need AI to help us cut this monster down to size adn make it actually work for people.
Without that vision, cutting winter fuel allowance just looks cruel. Our Net Zero by 2030 fantasy is alienating farmers and businesses who should be our allies. They came to us friendly. Now they're looking at Reform.
Poor Keir. He's got about 5 minutes to turn this ship around before it hits the iceberg.
Five Things Starmer Must Do (Or Start Updating His LinkedIn)
First - double the size of our Armed Forces in five years. Our sovereignty depends on defending our borders without begging allies for help.
Second - build a real industrial strategy around defense. I've been to Ukraine 12 times since the war started (spent £4K of my own money on those trips), and I'm telling you - that partnership could save us both. London-Kiev must counterbalance Paris-Berlin, especially as France and Germany circle the drain.
Third - leave the European Court of Human Rights immediately. His response: "We can't!" My answer: "Then enjoy being a one-term PM." The ability to deport violent criminals shouldn't depend on the quality of chicken nuggets in Albania.
Fourth - nationalize water and steel now. Having hostile foreign powers controlling our vital infrastructure is madness.
Fifth - launch a televised inquiry into grooming gangs with real teeth. What happened to those girls is an abomination, and the failure to address it has unleashed something dark in our politics. Keir was a prosecutor once... time to remember how to put criminals away.
Remember Why We're Called LABOUR
We called ourselves Labour for a reason. Not "Middle-Class Professional Party" or "Twitter Activists United."
We were of the working class, by the working class, for the working class.
The covenant is broken. Our cradle has become our tomb.
And unless Starmer changes course dramatically on immigration and national sovereignty... May Day 2025 will be remembered as just the beginning of our collapse.
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