IF THERE is one thing the Labour Party have always excelled at, it’s the failure to listen to the electorate. They also do an excellent line in propaganda via their woke trumpet, the deplorable BBC, and are unparalleled when it comes to dispensing BS.
Here is a selection of cringe-inducing gaffes and examples of tone-deafness since, by the failure of our outdated electoral system and somewhat confused electorate, Labour took up office on the morning of July 5.
Keir Starmer has continued to shock the electorate time and again with his obvious lack of awareness of public opinion. However, by far his most hilarious gaff is ‘Sausagegate’. While delivering a speech calling for the release of hostages in the Israel/Hamas conflict, he instead urged the ‘release of the sausages’, sparking a spate of hilarious memes.
His lighting of the Number Ten Christmas tree speaks for itself. View this toe-curling moment here.
The above was out-cringed only by the patronising platitudes and simpering soundbites in his victory speech on July 5.
Angela Rayner has continued to invite criticism of her hideous and ill-fitting outfits. These included the horror of a £550 green trouser suit she wore to walk into Downing Street the day after the election. She had received a £3,550 donation from Lord Alli but obviously zero expert advice on how to spend it (she should also have purchased an iron).
Rayner again, in her role as Housing Secretary (a strange appointment considering her own housing controversy), tied herself in knots in an interview with Trevor Phillips after she claimed the Labour government would end the shortage by building 1.5 million new homes. When Phillips asked her if she was happy that more than five out of seven of these homes would be filled by immigrants, she contradicted herself: ‘There is plenty of housing already but not enough for the people that desperately need it.’
Rachel ‘Thieves’ Reeves, she of the fantasy CV and scourge of pensioners, is another individual who has no self-awareness whatsoever. After a tour to a Scottish whisky distillery she uploaded a video of the trip and captioned it with the spelling ‘whiskey’. Only the Irish and Americans spell whisky with an ‘e’! This ignorant blunder will have caused gasps, not to say offence, north of the border.
In a shockingly insensitive disregard for the plight of farmers, not least because of Labour’s inheritance tax grab which will raise £500 million, Development Minister Anneliese Dodds decided to send £70 million of taxpayers’ money to farmers in African and Asia.
David Lammy, Foreign Secretary (surely a job that requires at least a sketchy knowledge of world geography?), recently stated in a debate: ‘None of us wants Syria to become like Libya next door – fractured and vulnerable to different terrorist groups.’ ‘Next door’? Libya and Syria are 1,141 miles apart and separated by Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Egypt!
He is also looking foolish after previously branding US President-elect Donald Trump ‘deluded, dishonest and narcissistic’ and a ‘neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath’. Since meeting Trump he has referred to the President Elect as a ‘very gracious host’ with whom he had a ‘laugh’. And all this after giving away the Chagos Islands in an act of supreme stupidity due to the islands’ strategic position as a US/UK Naval base, which could have catastrophic implications for the West.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has also excelled herself, including being interviewed on a TV show co-hosted by her husband, former Labour cabinet minister Ed Balls, sparking accusations of ‘conflict of interest’ and an investigation by Ofcom. Her handling of the summer riots and branding of Reform UK as ‘right-wing wreckers’ I will leave readers to judge.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting, when interviewed by 5 News about the right of politicians to receive gifts from wealthy donors, ignored the question and instead waffled through a prolonged word salad. Later he told the BBC’s Newsnight: ‘I am really proud of people who want to contribute not just their time and volunteering but their money to our politics. It’s a noble pursuit just like giving to charity.’ He then continued to rebuff the interviewer’s questions about Starmer attending a Taylor Swift concert. Streeting and Swift tickets Newsnight.
I’m sure the Labour Government in 2025 will continue to single out pensioners and the vulnerable, throw taxpayers’ money at projects abroad and the ‘Net Zero’ nonsense, and promoting more patronising and frankly divisive DEI (diversity, equality, and inclusion) waffle in the NHS instead of paying more front-line staff. Watch this space!
