The PM was not treated well by his party and suffered a major attack from Andy Burnham . I understand his personal sorrow as he comes to grips with the way his party abandoned him so soon after he delivered them a huge Commons majority.
I do not agree with his allies and friends who tell us he was a decent man who was a great success as an international statesman. He did not treat his closest advisers and supporters well, sacrificing and blaming Sue Gray, Mc Sweeney, press secretaries and others as his errors became clear. He did accept a large number of freebies after years of criticising others for similar conduct. He did not offer proper support to his Chancellor in the Commons when she was under such pressure she shed a tear.
He was certainly no great promoter and defender of UK interests abroad. His foreign policy was one of his worst features. His needless attempt to give away the Chagos islands and to provide a 99 year dowry of payments to Mauritius helped undermine the US relationship, sought to burden UK taxpayers when taxes were already too high and ended in failure.
His craven conduct towards the EU sacrificed twelve years of very valuable fish to the EU with no benefit gained in return. He refused to ban their damaging 100 meter plus industrial trawlers harming our seabed and raiding our fish stocks. He gave far too much money to re enter the Erasmus Student scheme. He did not see that Erasmus made UK taxpayers pay plenty of money to finance EU students coming to the UK, and offered less choice and support to UK students wishing to study abroad. Our UK Turing scheme was cheaper than Erasmus, only financed UK students and let them go to non EU universities as well as to EU ones.
His negotiations to accept more and more EU rules and charges, especially in the food and farming area are doing more to harm the prospects for UK agriculture. The idea that the UK should accept dynamic alignment, the system where the EU imposes laws on us without us having a say or a veto, is rejected by 59% and supported by just 27% in a recent poll.
To influence big world political events the UK needs strong military forces to back up its seat on the UN Security Council. Instead PM Starmer withdrew our last frigate and last minesweeper from the Gulf region just before the Straits of Hormuz and the commercial waterways of the Gulf were blocked. He undermined the UK’s position in NATO by his failure to provide the money to back the Defence Investment Plan.
His errors over pensioner winter fuel payments, disability benefits, the steady climb in unemployment, the explosion in sick notes for life and the continuing poor performance of the economy are things even his friends disagreed with.
June 24, 2026
Agreed Starmer has been the worst PM in my lifetime. I fear his successor will be just as bad. It says something when with a majority of over 150 liebour have to parachute someone in to take over.
The EU must be salivating at the prospect of Burnham making even more concessions and handing over even more money. The Tories and Reform must make it clear that any detrimental agreements will be cancelled.
It’s telling that only Farage is calling for a General Election because Badenough must realise the game is up for her party.
Britain is now only a shadow of its former self after over 30 years of mismanagement. Hopefully very soon things will get better after these shysters are shown the door.
Reply Kemi Badenoch did not argue against an early election. Conservatives want this government out.
June 24, 2026
@Reply – Not good enough.
The Conservatives burned almost all their bridges so need to act clearly and with humility. Not arguing against something or abstaining and relying on friends interpreting their intentions is utterly worthless.
They need to be very clear about what should and should not be done, what they definitely support and what they don’t. Otherwise it appears they simply do not care … whereas others appear as fearful.
We need actual fighters, not Walter Mitty’s, defending our interests against internal and external enemies.
I want to know what hills they will die on, not a string of vague lawyer double speak.
Manifestos have to mean something , be taken seriously by those making the promise otherwise why should I waste my time?
June 24, 2026
.. don’t appear as fearful
June 24, 2026
Starmer endlessly goes on about “convicted fraudster” Tommy Robinson (giving misleading information to the lender) but then he appointed twice resigned Mandelson as US Ambassador (once for serious mortgage issues and then allegations of using his ministerial position to influence a passport application for the Hinduja brothers, who had donated to a Millennium project he oversaw. ), This despite his having failed vetting.
June 24, 2026
reply to reply ….Badenoch should be thumping the table at every opportunity for a GE, whether she feels or knows the game is up for her party. It is far too early to expect the electorate to forgive, perhaps in the same way Labour voters might react to what the Party has been doing to life in the UK these last years.
June 24, 2026
To your list of his failings I would add the refusal to deal effectively with migration and rape gangs, the crackdown on free speech, and the rabid promotion of 2 tier justice.
I think those issues point to why the population wanted him gone, and why we will be disappointed by his successor.
June 24, 2026
+1 and far more. You could fill a large book with his many truly appalling and in my view often pure evil failures. The VAT on school fees bitter class warfare (when they are already paying far more than they should be) damaging education for so many.
June 24, 2026
TTK was a tyrant. End of.
June 24, 2026
Tim Shipman in The Spectator lists 42 Starmer failures on a theme that Douglas Adams said 42 was the meaning of life, the universe, everything.
This is a key one:-
‘ His second foundational error, according to voters in focus groups, was his handling of the Southport killings of three young girls. The PM and his team denied it was a terrorist attack even though the perpetrator Axel Rudakubana had been referred to the government’s Prevent programme and had ricin and an al Qaeda training manual in his house. This created the notion that he would not tell difficult truths on security and cultural issues. Again, it still comes up to this day, unprompted.’
June 24, 2026
One of Starmer’s biggest betrayals is to the victims of the grooming gangs. As he resigned in a fit of repulsive self pity, he had the nerve to talk about his ‘beautiful children’ and how he wanted to be the best father possible to them yet he has consistently refused to acknowledge that genuine evil in our midst – the grooming gangs and their impact on other people’s children. That to me is and always will be unforgiveable. I can see that we can expect nothing different from Burnham should he become Prime Minister. Why do these people never feel the same outrage and despair as we mere mortals do?
June 24, 2026
Indeed and the many assault victims of some of immigrants he is encouraging to get on the small boats each day. About 1200 just in the last seven days.
Each one likely to cost tax payers over £1m in housing and benefits plus often more with later arrivals of their families.
June 24, 2026
Starmer was hated to an extent of no other British Prime Minister. Endless sarcastic comments, abuse by football fans, there was nowhere he could escape it. That’s why he liked trips abroad. He could not defend himself through explanation. He resorted to repeating the same things or gainsaying the accusations. ‘There was no two tier policing’ is one example, despite ‘two tier’ being his nickname.
He was a huge liability to the Labour Party and did increasing damage. He had to go. I don’t believe he went with ‘good grace’. He was determined to cling to power at all costs. He blocked Burnham once but could not do so twice. Eventually it sunk in that he had lost too much support and he was forced to quit.
Good riddance.
June 24, 2026
Even worse than Net Zero and Brexit Betrayer May or abandon ship Cameron, quite six months early Sunak, ERM fiasco Major or worse than ‘two world wars (as Starkey Puts it in his excellent video) and war on a lie Blair or sell the Gold and save the world Gordon Brown or £600billion borrowed and spent on net harm vaccines and net harm lockdowns).
Even Jacob Rees Mogg talks of the early vaccine roll out as a Brexit Benefit. A shame they did such huge net harms and our UK experts were so incompetent or evil. Time he and Boris looked at the stats (and the government released the honest data). The recent Dr John Campbell videos with the sensible Prof. Angus Dalgliesh is very good.
June 24, 2026
He was not remotely a decent or honourable man. His leaving speech on his “acheivments” was a sick joke he even included defence.
Perhaps his worse things were his political prisoners in Southport etc., his denial of two tier justice, Chagos, appointing Hermer, not allowing (initially) the US to use our bases destroying thus our vital relationship with the USA, calling everyone remotely sensible far right, his doom loop economic agenda, his IHT attacks on farmers and small businesses, his endless taxes on working people and NI increases (that he promised not to do), his war on free speech, his refusal to allow an “asian” rape gang inquiry, his failure to even attempt to “smash the gangs” he did the reverse he encourage them, his lies that renewables and blocking drilling will lower energy prices and create jobs, his moronic red tape wars on employers and landlords (which also damages workers and tenants), his driving up of bond rates, his destruction of job opportunities especially for the young, his fishing deal and Erasmus…
Truly an appalling PM (even with such heavy competition) and probably rather an appalling human too.
June 24, 2026
An Indecent Man
The truth about the most hated prime minister of all time.
Nick Dixon (is surely right)
Jun 23, 2026
June 24, 2026
You say:- “I understand his personal sorrow as he comes to grips with the way his party abandoned him so soon after he delivered them a huge Commons majority.”
Not Starmer who delivered this huge majority but Sunak and the 14 years of serial Tory betrayals. Not Burnham who delivered the Majority in Makerfield but the vast hatred of Starmer and desire to remove him. Starmer talked of “the country I love” it obviously is not the UK which he seems to despise so which country is it? The EU, China…?
June 24, 2026
‘ “the country I love”
borrowed from the crocodile tears of May. The same honesty we are used to from the legal fraternity representing murderers, rapists, hackers, City fraudsters – – – a list that could be miles long.
June 24, 2026
I agree.I thought his speech outside No10 on Monday showed a lack of understanding .
He has not stabilised the economy. Unemployment is not falling : it is increasing
June 24, 2026
He even thought he had done well on defence and the boat people too!
June 24, 2026
Basically, Starmer was a wrong un.
Sadly Burnham shares too many of Starmer’s traits other than his unique charisma…..
June 24, 2026
Well at least he is not an evil robot, perhaps he can reinvent himself from his lefty dope past? But given the make up of his dire Labour MPs he will struggle to do anything sensible – even if he wants to. He is trapped between the bond markets and his daft lefy MPs plus a total lack of any real talent within these dire MPs.
June 24, 2026
Good morning.
And neither were the protestors, the ones that did not commit any acts criminality, like Peter Lynch (RIP).
TTK wanted to make an example of the native population.
You reap what you sow. Good riddance !
June 24, 2026
+1
June 24, 2026
Starmer chose that position and path, he deserves no sympathy at all, quite the opposite.
But he was the figurehead of an organisation of people complicit in his actions and abuses of power, the whole party is utterly rotten to the core.
June 24, 2026
Starmer was not a true leader and was unable to prioritise the right policies for our country It is good that he has moved on
June 24, 2026
I think there are three mental remnants from this short era.
First, the lack of ideas, vision or any coherent plan.
Second, the apparent deliberately destructive behaviour. Anything and everything to diss traditional Britons and British interests.
Third, the question why was this done and who was behind it?