Rayner fails to deny saying Starmer ‘could not run a bath’
Angela Rayner has failed to deny saying Sir Keir Starmer was “incapable of running a bath”.
A new book about Sir Keir’s leadership claims that the now Deputy Prime Minister texted the remark to a confidante during the party’s time in opposition.
Get In, by political journalists Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire, includes the line: “It could not be Starmer, she [Rayner] said, because he was incapable of running a bath – never mind the opposition.”
I often think I'm underestimating how horrible this Labour lot are. Not that Rayner is wrong of course. The situation is so dire that I'm not even sure she wouldn't make a better PM.
Blimey.
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Interesting interview with Kuenssberg, if you get the time to watch it. She repeatedly says she "doesn't recognise" the quote, and also says that 2TK is his own worst critic when he fails to hit targets.
I think the stupid malevolent woman might think she can take his job off him. This could be the opening salvo.
Sam - I'm sure she does think she can take the job off him and he's so poor she may manage it, although others may fancy their chances too. Stupid malevolence seems to have taken over Labour in ways which main actors seem unable to disguise.
It Rayner does grab the PM job, she seems likely to make the party even more unpopular and attract even more ridicule, although the party may know that already.
Rayner’s strings are being pulled by the trade unions, Starmer’s by the judiciary and legal establishment (with who knows what being held over his head from his time at the DPP) and both of them are in the pocket of Lord Alli (who teamed up with the founders of The Islam [TV] Channel to bankroll expenses-fiddling Baroness Uddin’s restoration to the HoL and her international committee posts after she was cleared on a technicality by the CPS - then headed by Starmer).
It all rotten to the core whoever they (nominally) put in charge.
(Also worth noting that in 2007, Keir Starmer and David Lammy were Associate Tenants and Doughty Street alongside Sadakat Kadri, whose recent book argues that Sharia Law is ‘good for the community as a whole’ and should be allowed to operate alongside UK law; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/16/sharia-law-compatible-human-rights )
Over on Uncibal https://newsfromuncibal.substack.com/p/the-lawfare-knife-fight David McGrogan argues that there is a Left Lawfare Industrial Complex which naturally results in regime change.
I expect 2TK is well versed in the Left Lawfare Industrial Complex and relies on that mindset to govern. But as powerful as the Left Lawfare Industrial Complex is, it is not the whole of politics. In the end someone with (metaphorical) brass knuckles will beat someone with only a brief tied in pink ribbon.
(Oh, and Lord Hermer (Chagos, reparations) is Doughty Street alumnus too).
Macheath - I agree, it is all rotten to the core. None of them seem to be independent of background influences which are still active and still consulted. I suspect Islam won't survive this century though, the appeal of a secular outlook seems too strong and a sense of historical roots and ties is becoming weaker. This doesn't imply that adherents won't become more aggressive though.
DJ - thanks for the link, I've bookmarked it. Law and bureaucracy seem to have become closely linked via a common political outlook which says that educated professionals should run things, an aspect of managerialism. It's an outlook which has always been there, the guiding hand of chaps who understand things.
Unfortunately for us it doesn't work, but now we are entangled in their laws and don't know how to untangle things. They don't either, but it's their tangle and they don't mind.
Rayner’s dress sense is … interesting.
James - "Mirror, mirror on the wall" - it's as mendacious as her colleagues.
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