Keir Starmer – and it follows the UK Labour party – is desperately unpopular. It’s not difficult to see why. He and his Labour party have been pursuing heartless, evil policies – withdrawing energy support for freezing pensioners, maintaining the two child benefit cap condemning poor children to a lifetime of disadvantage, attacking the severely disabled by hacking benefits to complicity and active participation in Israel’s genocide. It is definitely attacking the least able to defend themselves, the actions of a Fascist.

Desperate times are causing Starmer to behave desperately – his racist homage to Enoch Powell, his totally unnecessary attack on Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party – unnecessary since there’s not a UK general election for 4 years – and the promotion of militarism in schools, the expansion of UK weapons manufacturing capability and the ability to load nuclear missiles to RAF jets.

It’s not necessarily consistent but it’s an attempt to stir up racism – the speech so that the left supports him against rising right-wing antagonists which he has personally encouraged while he is also appearing Neo-Fascist as is the current fashion, to gain populist support and to potentially escape prosecution for war crimes, the desperately evil cnut.

We need urgent co-operative action on climate not hostile Fascist militarism.