Last night there was the latest televised Labour leadership election hustings which aired on Sky News, so far there’s been no mention of a special Labour leadership election edition of BBC Question Time as there has been in the past when there’s been Labour leadership contests or when there’s been Tory party leadership contests or Liberal Democrat leadership contests when the Lib Dems were a thing, ah but of course BBC Question Time now only entertain questions from audience members who are Tommy Robinson fangirls and members of the National Front.

Sky News’ Labour Leadership Election Debate

What was particularly apparent from last night’s Labour leadership hustings on Sky News was that Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey were more willing then they’ve previously been to knock lumps out of Keir Starmer for his role in the Shadow Cabinet overseeing Labour’s incoherent and nonsensical policy on Brexit which contributed to the party’s catastrophic defeat at last year’s General Election! It’s about fucking time me thinks people should take Keir Starmer to task for his part in Labour’s GE2019 defeat, and yes the part he played as Shadow Brexit Secretary should be a consideration in the outcome of the Labour leadership election but it doesn’t look as if it is going to be because the polls are suggesting Keir Starmer is heading towards being elected Labour leader with a landslide.

If Labour leader members overwhelmingly elect Keir Starmer as party leader, fuck it why not just pin a grey tie to a grey carboard cutout being as it would be the same fucking difference. Many people are saying Keir Starmer is the reincarnation of Tony Blair, though it’s obvious to me that behind the façade of playing to the gallery which Starmer has been conveying that he’s a poisonous Blairite considering bullshit he’s spouted in the past about people in receipt of welfare and that he’s been hiring advisers who have spent the best part of the last 5 years undermining the Labour leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, I actually think the more accurate comparison to make with Kier Starmer when it comes to past Labour leaders is with Ed Miliband not Tony Blair. It might have been the leadership of Tony Blair which moved the Labour Party to the political centre ground, but it was the leadership of Ed Miliband which moved Labour even further politically rightwards, so by the time of the 2015 General Election Labour were literally a soul crushing piss-weak centre-right party mimicking the Tories & people wonder why Labour members reacted to this bullshit by electing Jeremy Corbyn.

But it’s not just about moving the Labour politically rightwards or having a charisma bypass as to why I’d compare Keir Starmer to Ed Miliband, back in 2011 Miliband supported the evictions at the Dale Farm gypsy/traveller site in Essex despite the fact the gypsies/travellers living there owning the site and despite the evictions having been motivated by racist neighbours, well if there’s tale tell sign what’s to come from a Keir Starmer Labour leadership then it’s him siding with Donald Trump against Julian Assange despite members of the current Labour leadership having gone out of their way to defend Assange.

Starmer as Labour leader might very throw the left of the party a few bones such as supporting the renationalisation of the railways, but it’s more likely he’ll throw the left of the Labour party under the bus, because as well as all the other sell out Blairite bullshit his leadership will impose on the party, I strongly suspect he’ll go after Momentum the leftwing activist group within Labour in a similar fashion as Neil Kinnock did with Militant Tendency in the 1980s, all of which is why we still need to support Jeremy Corbyn after he steps down as Labour leader in April.

Jeremy Corbyn is still a powerful voice for socialism

Jeremy has already said he plans to continue to be the MP for Islington North, yeah I’ve always gotten the impression Corbyn would be an MP until end of his days and well he’s 70 years old and in good health which could mean he’s an MP for another 20 years or so, thus I doubt I’m alone as Jeremy inevitably returns to the Labour backbenches in hoping that he might also return to being the dissident rebellious voice for socialism challenging the Labour leadership from the backbenches which Jeremy always was prior to being elected party leader, because there’s going to be a serious need for a rebellious socialist voice to challenge the next Labour leadership if Blairite cronies regain control of the Labour Party as a means of ensuring there’s some assemblance of socialist principle to the party’s platform. Jeremy might not have been greatest Labour leaders, but he’s always been a first class activist and there’s an activist role for him in deciding the future direction of the Labour Party if he wants to take up the mantle and we need to support him of he does, yes maybe to regain electoral success, but we need Jeremy Corbyn to help ensure Labour doesn’t completely sell out it’s principles and though those of us on the left might not get all that what we want but with a voice as powerful as Jeremy Corbyn we still might get a great deal of what we dearly want and the power of his voice is now enhanced having been Labour leader.