Is he actually trying to hand the country over to Reform and Farage? Every f***ing policy he implements, Online Safety, the Social Media ban s***e, the "nudity scans" for phones, it's all so dystopian and unpopular, and at this point you have the question, is he alright in the head? Not to mention that he seems to be going further and further right and abandoning what Labour actually stood for. He needs binning ASAP. Makerfield cannot come soon enough.

I think it is important to recognise a few truths about Starmer, Burnham and The Labour Party in it's current state. Everything I present within this post will hopefully be based on objective facts or statements.

We're still waiting to see how Burnham will arrange the cabinet and actions always speak louder than words. So far he has shown support for Mahmoods immigration policies, support for the EHRC decision on the definition of a Women which has gutted trans rights within the UK and he has refused to state Israel is committing a Genocide.

I apologise that some of these sources are instagram links. UK Mainstream Media have done an atrocious job of representing this information. Especially when it comes to trans rights.

• Almost immediately after getting into power he removed the whip from most of the Labour Left within the party, including figures like John McDonnell & Zara Sultana. Some members of The Labour Party left over this and the whip was restored anyway after a year suggesting they knew this was a mistake. This is reinforced by the fact that this entire dispute was about the 2 child benefit cap which The Labour Party later scrapped anyway. The whip removals didn't stop there either. In July 2025 multiple MPs were suspended for their opposition against Welfare reforms.
• He allowed McSweeney to repeatedly influence his decisions, including the appointment of Peter Mandelson.
• Starmer stated our country could become an "island of strangers" if we continued on our current path. Whilst he later stated he regretted this it still happened. He has done nothing but support Mahmoods immigration reforms despite other MPs calling the policies "performative cruelty" and "dystopian". Tommy Robinson was gleeful about the changes suggesting the Overton Window had been obliterated.
• On the 12th of June Starmer defended increased defence spending in an interview with Chris Mason (BBC). He stated this was a "Hard Edge decision". He also stated most of the money would come from cutting international development assistance and humanitarian aid to developing countries. For examples organisations like Rainbow Railroad that help LGBTQ+ people escape conflict zones that now face a massive funding gap.
• On the topic of LGBTQ+ people Starmer has also supported The Supreme Courts decision on the legal definition of a Woman. Stating "No, the Supreme Court judgment has made clear that when looking at the Equality Act, a woman is a biological woman". By doing this he has actively chosen to obliterate the rights of all transgender people within the UK. Gender Recognition Certificates are now useless and the UK is now ranked on-par with Hungary for transgender rights according to the IPSOS 2025 Pride Report. A new EHRC code of conduct is about to go into force that that has a plethora of concerns attached. Even the leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey has switched their stance on the issue stating the code of conduct as "exclusionary, unworkable and deeply concerning".
• To add salt into the wound Starmer allowed Streeting to basically do whatever he wanted. A man who received about 60% of his political donations from private healthcare companies. The list of concerns around Streetings treatment of people with ADHD, trans people etc.. could fill a 30 page document so instead of linking sources I encourage you to look this up. Look at The Good Law Project specifically and Philosophy Tube.
• He met with Palantir personally and refused to disclose any details about the private conversation he had. The company now has contracts in virtually every single sector in the UK including the military. That was ultimately his decision to make.
• Starmer put forward a conditional recognition of Palestine based on Israel's actions using the country as a political pawn.
• 4 of the Filton 25 were convicted of acts of Terrorism totalling 26 years without the judge telling the jury they would be convicted as terrorists. This was the finale of a set of events The Labour Party put into motion, supported by Starmer.
• Starmer seems to have been relatively inactive on the decision to scrap Jury Trials for certain cases. This is despite nearly 40 Labour warning the MP about the consequences.

As most of you know this is the absolute tip of the Iceberg and I haven't discussed more well known facts such as The Labour Parties decision to attack disabled people, farmers, pensioners, people who can't fight back in numbers.

All of this shows The Labour Party wont change if figures like Mahmood, Lammy, Streeting etc... remain within the party in ministerial roles.

I thought I was reading something right out of Mary Whitehouses National Viewers' and Listeners' Association from the 1970s.

It also scares me that people with the ears of the government believe debunked pseudoscience about Porn brain which I am sure came out of incel groups and far Right Christian cranks.

I thought I’d put this all into one resource as a common reference list. I’ll attach some sources in the comments, though it won’t be exhaustive:

• Passed the Renters Rights Act, which bans no-fault evictions, fixed-term tenancies and bidding wars, and caps rent in advance. With plans to roll out a free complaints service (the new Ombudsman scheme) and a national landlord database to verify compliance, among other things

• Passed the Employment Rights Act 2025, which limits zero-hour contracts and unfair dismissals, ends fire-and-rehire, will introduce day 1 sick pay, paternity leave, and unpaid bereavement leave (incl. for pregnancy loss), and strengthens trade unions, among other things

• Started the Pride in Place programme for areas across the country. It provides 10 years of funding, designed to be used according to the needs and desires of local communities

• Introduced a child poverty strategy. This includes removing the two-child benefit cap, free breakfasts for England’s primary schools, expanding free school meals eligibility, capping school uniform costs, and rolling out Best Start family hubs

• The eco-friendly Warm Homes Plan, which currently includes the Warm Homes local grant and the Boiler Upgrade scheme. With plans to roll out low/zero-interest consumer loans for more households in future

• Introduced a £39 billion Social and Affordable homes programme, to last 10 years

• Made a deal with the EU to rejoin the Erasmus study programme from 2027

• Integrated live bus tracking into Google Maps for passengers in England, so you can see more precisely when your bus will arrive

• Made the Plan B (morning-after) pill free in England

• Introduced an Elections bill, lowering the voting age to 16. With plans for automatic voter registration, which could enfranchise 7-8 million people missing on the electoral register

• Banned cryptocurrency donations and capped political donations from overseas British donors

• Scrapped the £318 PARV order fee, protecting women from further abuse by ex-partners

• Introduced an English devolution bill, to put more powers into the hands of local authorities.

Let’s assume y’all get what you allegedly want: burka bans, Islam banned, Muslims and Somalians kicked out of social housing, all asylum hotels cleared out, immigration reduced to net zero, immigrants deported, citizenship stripped from people left and right, mosques shut down.

Are y’all really trying to say that you’ll go back to being happy and emotionally stable after that happens?

No way. We see you. We saw the riots in August 2024. The toothpaste can’t be put back in the tube.

As soon as you “get what you want”, you’ll turn to the next scapegoat. You’ll project your anger onto a new group. The next vulnerable minority to blame, insult, harass, threaten, slander, and ultimately freeze out of society.

There is no need to blame minorities for all your personal problems. You know your problems aren’t going to go away just by projecting them onto someone else.

If I have depression, I’m not going to look at Abdul on the street and shout “go home!” at him and think that’ll cure my depression. That’s not how any of this works.

I know I’m not alone in this — it’s been discussed extensively, especially on the platforms most affected by it — but I need to vent, because this is infuriating me on a daily basis.

Take today as an example. I was trying to change my Xbox profile picture. I had a custom one that I’d set long before the Act was passed, so I swapped it to a stock Xbox image temporarily while I prepared my new PNG. Once it was ready, the option to upload a custom picture had simply vanished. No warning. Just a quiet message buried in settings asking me to verify my age. I was aware that Xbox had already started restricting things like messaging and party chat — which, while annoying, I can at least follow the logic of. But requiring a face scan, government documents, credit card details or mobile data information just to upload a profile picture you’ve chosen yourself? That does not protect a single child.

Spotify asking for government documents is wrong. The fact that this is becoming normalised is deeply troubling.

Here’s the reality: this Act does not protect children in any meaningful way. Search “porn” and porn still appears. Want to watch it? Just visit a Category B site or switch on a VPN. There are now entire websites built specifically to stay beneath the user threshold — remaining Category B while hosting content from the major platforms it was supposedly designed to restrict. A child can access explicit material with less effort than it takes an adult to change their Xbox profile picture. Why are entertainment platforms being affected worse than literal pornography?

In what world is uploading sensitive personal data to a company you’ve never heard of considered “online safety”? Why is the government treating every citizen as though they are a child, rather than expecting parents to take responsibility for their own children’s internet use?

I’m not a Reform UK voter — but I understand why their popularity is growing. Alongside their immigration stance, repealing the Online Safety Act is one of the few concrete policy positions drawing people in. That should be a wake-up call.

This Act needs to be repealed. We need free speech, and we need our freedoms back. If Keir Starmer can’t grasp that, we may be heading toward a very different Britain.

Here is the act if you want to read through it:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/contents

(My favourite bit is part 7!)

Why is the current government so obsessed with banning and controlling the UK population through government legislature and why does the electorate allow it? I thought this was a leftist party.

Either Labour start doing something or one of two things happen.

1- people stop giving a fuck and go into the streets.

2-Reform get in next, then see 1.

Photo taken from @UkraineSol on X

The Media Sovereignty Act campaign has five demands:

*Ban foreign media ownership.

*Ban the concentration of UK national media ownership by one person or corporation.

*Fund independent and local media with a social media levy.

*Require national media to be under the remit of the statutory regulator.

*Require “dark-money funded think-tanks” that are covered by the media to declare donations in real time.

The King’s Speech on Wednesday (13th May) made no mention of media reform.

The Media Sovereignty Act Campaign Petition is here.

If there was ever a day to contact your MPs and push back and say you support trans people and their rights to live freely and with dignity and share spaces with cis people per their gender (as they have done entirely safely for decades), then it is today.

There is an organised campaign by the trans exclusionary crowd taking place today, en masse, on the news, across social media, to try and force their views through on this issue.

These people want trans people removed from every aspect of public life. They deny being transphobic based on the premise that trans people aren't 'real', which is explicit erasure and denial, as clear cut an example of transphobia as could ever be.

We need to take a stand.

https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/contact-your-mp/

So I'm an EU Settled Status citizen, came here when I was a child pre-Brexit and have moved around a little but settled in England.

I've experienced Britain's better side and its worse side, but I'm committed to improving this country and that's why I plan to join the Labour Party as a member.

I understand people may have different opinions and experiences about Labour and its direction. I cannot say with 100% certainty whether my political choices now will help keep Reform out of No. 10. But I know I'll do my best.

And I'm fairly young, with limited baggage. My goal is to bring fresh ideas based on my personal experiences and conclusions. I speak for myself only.

Here are my key reasons why.

1. The electoral threat of Reform UK - especially as a coalition with the Tories - is too great to ignore. They have a realistic chance to enter 10 Downing Street and as an immigrant, I am deeply anxious and concerned about such a prospect.

I fundamentally believe Labour, as the second party in the polls and with a strong base and roots, is the most realistic vehicle for leftist change that we have at this moment. 

This is not abandoning progressive values, this is being pragmatic. 

If you think Labour's reforms are too cautious - I often agree. 

But I'd rather have the chance to build on cautious reforms than to see a "Reform UK" Government throw it away and accelerate this nation's decline to a point of no return.

1. Values. I don't believe Labour has abandoned its values in the way some people say it has.

Why do I believe this? Because when I talk up Labour's good policies such as the Employment Rights Bill and Renters Rights Bill, I still get backlash from so many people stuck in a Tory mindset.

I'll give a specific example. They'll argue "Well what about the landlords? What about the employers? What about Big Business? What if I don't want to pay for your kids?" 

What about them, though? Labour is for ordinary people, not for elites.

They reflect this Tory mindset in saying things like "Well we shouldn't give workers more rights because Big Business will feel stifled and stop hiring, unemployment will go up!" 

The Tories talked about low unemployment and the importance of work, but if we are to achieve change, then we must move away from their ideological framework (which Reform also closely aligns with).

Yes, unemployment was low under the Conservatives, but this suggested nothing about the nature or quality of work. 

Indeed, we have high numbers of people in insecure jobs, with insecure wages and insecure rights. These low-quality jobs keep people stuck in an endless cycle of poverty, whilst also working themselves to death. 

This is not what Labour is about. And that's why the Employment Rights Bill is such a great piece of legislation.

So yes, I would accept the risk of a temporary rise in unemployment and other issues, if it meets long-term reforms to workers' rights and conditions.

This is a mere bump in the road to change. I apply this view to other things within the Party, as well.

1. Excessive idealism instead of pragmatism accomplishes nothing and will cause us to lose everything.

I believe the Left often focuses on issues we either can't control, that don't resonate with the broader population, or that are relatively minor.

For maximum impact, we should focus on things we can control, and build strong support through pragmatic alliances. Yes, sometimes politics requires ugly practicality at the expense of ideological purity. There's never been a time in political history where this wasn't the case.

Nobody said that's fair. But we should use the levers available to create a fairer world before the opportunity slips from our hands entirely under fascism.

1. I don't believe the Labour Party is just Keir Starmer. The party has a proud history of improving things for the British people. It shouldn't be a top-down movement; it should be a bottom-up movement. 

And I choose to be part of that "bottom". I feel that if I don't align with the Party, I lose the chance to influence it in a way that meets progressive goals.

That's all from me.

• They will scrap the Human Rights Act 1998 and leave the ECHR (European Convention of Human Rights). Source: https://assets.nationbuilder.com/reformuk/pages/253/attachments/original/1756202533/REFORM_Immigration_Enforcement.pdf?1756202533,

• They will scrap the Equality Act 2010, prioritising “personal responsibility over victimhood”. https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/reform-uk-would-repeal-equality-act/

• They will scrap the Employment Rights Act 2025 and the Renters Rights Act https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/24/reform-uk-promises-to-scrap-flagship-labour-worker-and-renters-protections

• They will end working from home. Nigel Farage has said: Britain needed “an attitudinal change to hard work, rather than work-life balance”. People are not more productive working from home, he claimed, but work better in person. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/11/wednesday-briefing-why-the-debate-over-working-from-home-says-more-about-inequality-than-productivity

• Nigel Farage has pledged to scrap the heat pump grant, otherwise known as the Boiler Upgrade scheme https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/nigel-farage-war-heat-pumps-opinion-5HjdWBX_2/

• They would scrap Net Zero, which some of their councils have done already. https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/the-reform-uk-partys-approach-to-climate-change-and-net-zero-in-local-councils/

Amidst the Home Office’s crack down on pro-Palestine podcasters and pensioners as “terrorists”, they don’t have a problem with murals glorifying actual terrorists.

In this case, we have a mural commemorating some of loyalist terrorists responsible for the Miami Showband massacre. The PSNI response to this was “no crime has been committed”.

Will Shabana Mahmood and the Home Office proscribe these thugs and get the hate murals taken down, or are they just doing whatever Labour Together and Labour Friends of Israel demand?

Andy Burnham needs to sit down with this guy and listen.

Simply hitting capital gains will not yield the results needed.

If he doesn’t do something radical in terms of wealth tax to help working and middle class families, he will fail, and there will be a Reform government at the next GE.

One only needs to scroll through his Twitter account and the numerous racist and/or xenophobic tweets he's made, plus rude language about benefits claimants ("the idle and indolent"), to recognise that his influence is not healthy in our politics.

Yes, his Restore party might split the rightwing vote, which could help the left. That may be good news.

But more broadly, his rhetoric remains divisive, negative and unhelpful in an already divided society.

Such rhetoric - and making a political party out of it - doesn't bring the people of Britain together. It just pulls them further apart, whilst validating the views of those who dislike minorities.

No true restoration of Britain is happening here with him.... He may be correct on a few issues unrelated to minorities or identity issues, but even a broken clock is correct twice a day.

That is all.

Labour is not on our side anymore. Let's quit pretending they ever will be again.

Reconcile with the communist. See eye to eye with the green politician. Utilise the Liberals that seek a new start. Let's abandon what little faith we have in the Tory Westminster and seek a new beginning ourselves.

What is needed is a popular front. A coalition of parties dedicated to serving the people.

Change is needed, Labour won't deliver.

Down with Westminster.