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Tuesday, 13 January 2026

On the pitch and in the room



Isolationism’ will not solve cost-of-living crisis, Starmer says

Speaking at the first Parliamentary Labour Party meeting of the year on Monday, the Prime Minister leader said that the cost-of-living crisis cannot be "solved by isolationism."

He said: “One thing that is crystal clear is that we are moving into a world that is very different to the one most of us grew up in.

“And in a world this volatile – you have to be on the pitch. You have to be in the room to tackle the issues working people care about.

“The cost-of-living crisis will not be solved by isolationism. You cannot deliver peace in Ukraine without being in the room.



It's a weird business having to take note of such dull, cliché-riddled rhetoric from a hopelessly isolated Prime Minister who doesn't yet realise that it is time to resign and clear off to write the memoirs nobody is likely to read.

Of course, if things are expected to become worse, then "Sir" Keir Starmer is the man to guide us towards worse, but it's still horribly undignified when a supposedly intelligent man flounders around like this.

Yet again, the word 'stupid' is on the pitch and in the room - at the same time apparently.

2 comments:

Peter MacFarlane said...

Is it code for “I’m about to rejoin the EU by administrative fiat”?

It’s hard to be sure but that’s certainly one possible meaning.

A K Haart said...

Peter - yes, it's what he's aiming for. I've a post on that almost ready for this afternoon.