If someone were to make a movie about how quickly and catastrophically things could go wrong for a new government, studying Sir Keir Starmer‘s stint in power so far would offer inspiration.
Then they might entitle their film: ‘One hundred days of deceit and disappointment.’
As Labour reaches that milestone today, only the most one-eyed party activist could believe there was anything to celebrate.
During the dog days of the Conservative administration, Sir Keir constantly berated the Tories for presiding over 14 years of chaos, corruption and cronyism. He’s barely been in office 14 weeks and he’s already up to his neck in all of that and more.
The public were never fully convinced about Labour’s suitability for power. Yes, Sir Keir was elected on a landslide, but only a fifth of the electorate voted for his party.
Sir Keir Starmer has now been Prime Minister for 100 days
And what little popularity he had is pouring away by the day. On every front, the decisions he has made – personal and political – have gone down like a lead balloon.
A poll yesterday made grim reading for the PM, with three in five Britons thinking the Government is doing a bad job. And almost half of those who backed Labour at the election is disappointed by its performance. Only one in six is satisfied.
People are angry at Sir Keir for picking the pockets of pensioners with winter fuel cuts and giving prisoners early release.
Scandal has followed PR fiasco and policy bungle, not least the PM scrounging suits, spectacles, football tickets and a luxury penthouse worth thousands from donors.
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Even Taylor Swift has been dragged into the freebies fiasco after Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was accused of lobbying Scotland Yard to give the singer a VIP escort to her Wembley concerts.
Meanwhile, Labour is bodging the business of governing. Its pledge to ‘smash the gangs’ sending small boats across the Channel is in tatters, with 13,000 migrants arriving illegally since Labour took power.
Despite GDP creeping up 0.2 per cent in August, Chancellor Rachel Reeves stands accused of holding back the economy with her relentless doom-mongering.
And in a blow for the Government before its Investment Summit, P&O Ferries’ owner has halted plans to pour £1billion into Britain after the Transport Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister attacked the firm’s ‘rogue’ working practices.
Nowhere is Labour’s ineptitude and incoherence clearer than its foreign policy.
Taylor Swift has been dragged into the freebies fiasco after Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was accused of lobbying Scotland Yard to give the singer a VIP escort to her Wembley concerts
Ministers also caused uproar when the Chagos Islands were given to Mauritius
To burnish their anti-colonial credentials, ministers have surrendered the Chagos Islands, including the UK/US air base at Diego Garcia, to Mauritius – an ally of China. The security of Britain and the world has been relegated to a secondary consideration by Left-wing virtue signalling.
No wonder the Government’s poll ratings have nose-dived. And that’s before a terrifying, tax-raising Halloween Budget.
Labour is discovering the hard way that sixth-form political activism and the real world don’t mix.
In July, it seemed certain the Tories, handed an electoral drubbing, would be out of power for a decade or more. Three dismal months for Labour have altered that.
Their choice for leader is now between Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick.
If whoever wins can offer a positive prospectus, based on traditional low-tax, small-state Conservatism, drastic cuts to immigration, and defending Britain’s culture and values, the party might get within shot of an election victory.
Those voters who turfed out the Tories may come to realise the devil you know is sometimes far better than the devil you don’t.
