Keir Starmer faces nemesis – but it’s not Nigel Farage | Personal Finance | Finance
Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be ousted from a surprising source (Image: Getty)
Keir Starmer doesn’t have many supporters even in his own party. The parliamentary party would prefer to see Andy Burnham, Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner or Ed Miliband in office. What do these terrible parades of the talentless have in common? They are not Keir Starmer. That now appears to be the only quality Labor MPs need in a potential leader. It probably helps to not be Rachel Reeves.
I would feel sorry for Starmer if he had the slightest insight into his own limitations and it was clear that he would not have a pension-boosting legal career once this was over. While Labour’s guns are firmly trained on its own leader, the party is not the biggest threat Starmer currently faces. Chief rival Andy Burnham can’t even get into Parliament, let alone No 10. Streeting and Rayner aren’t ready to act yet.
Nigel Farage is taking great pleasure in dismantling the Conservative Party, one by one, and he remains by far the biggest threat to Tory leader Kemi Badenoch.
He may yet prove to be Badenoch’s enemy, but at least he’s fighting. Starmer has also described Farage as a threat, but the real challenge may surprise him.
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Coming from a guy I haven’t written much about, but probably will in the future. His name is Zack Polanski, the “charismatic” leader of the Green Party.
If you know anything about Polanski, you’ve probably heard that he used his intellect to recommend hypnotherapy to help women enlarge their breasts. I’m not going there.
I won’t make cheap jokes about his teeth either. Considering how Americans decry the poor oral hygiene of the British, Polanski’s most patriotic side is his most patriotic.
I’m more interested in what comes out of his mouth. Polanski woos the crowd by pandering to every left-wing obsession, talking about Israel, open borders, trans politics, bad landlords, wealth taxes, Donald Trump, Israel, Gaza and Israel.
He occasionally recalls leading the Greens rather than a Trotskyist group and talks about the environment.
Polanski’s big advantage over Starmer is simple. He is not in the government. He can promise anything, say anything, knowing that he will not be held responsible.
Farage has the same privilege that Starmer had before the last election.
The Labor Party is now in power; limited by reality, responsibility and service. He cannot provoke leftist crowds with fantasy politics or fruitless slogans. Polanski can. And they get him used to it.
Only 38% of 2024 Labor voters still support the party, according to YouGov. Of those who moved so far, the largest proportion, 15%, went Green. Polanski’s party currently has a remarkable 37 percent share among 18-24 year olds.
We will see the impact of this in the tough by-election in Gorton and Denton on February 26, where Polanski will help crush Labour’s 13,400 majority by dividing the left.
But here’s the thing. The Greens won’t win The weakening of Labor will only pave the way for Reform. Polanski may be Starmer’s nemesis, but Nigel Farage could walk away with the spoils.
