so much going on in this photo

Peter Mandelson (snake form) from Spitting Image series 18 on Internet Archive

Also he has saliva that gave me creeps

Coloured drawings of World Politicians 1

I made coloured drawings of the politicians around the world. There are eleven politicians from the United Kingdom:

1st left: Former Prime Minister Tony Blair

1st middle: First Secretary of State Peter Mandelson

1st right: Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown

2nd left: David and Ed Miliband

2nd middle: Suella Braverman

2nd right: Rachel and Ellie Reeves

3rd left: Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

3rd middle: Former Prime Minister Liz Truss

3rd right: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

Gordon Brown on Tony Blair

My Life, Our Times - Gordon Brown

What does Keir Starmer stand for?

Does anyone know? I certainly don't. I doubt even his own wife knows. Even more worryingly, I'm not even sure he knows!

Here is a man who was named after Labour's founder and first parliamentary leader, the great Keir Hardie. To be named after such a pioneering man goes to show what kind of politics Starmer must have been brought up with. What belief his parents must have had for the rights and welfare of working class families to name their son after the man responsible for making working class politics mainstream. Perhaps these ideological views had been thrust upon him. Perhaps he believed that he believed in the rights of working class people and the importance of trade unions. But it’s becoming excruciatingly clear and apparent that he does not. Or is it?

Again who knows? He says one thing then does another. He is a man of so many contradictions that I'm not even sure when I look at him I see the figure of a man. What I see instead is the impressionist brushstrokes of a man. Who are any of us if not our views and opinions. It is what keeps us ticking. It's what makes us who we are. But again who the hell is Keir Starmer? He may be named after Keir Hardie but his recent political run is abhorrently different to that of the father of Labour. The reason Hardie became a member of the Scottish Labour party was because he had become disenfranchised by the Liberal party. He concluded that Liberals would not advocate for the interest of the working class nor would they instil the radical reform needed but wanted the workers' votes. Starmers recent course reversal into the right of Labour politics, the Blairite politics, the third way thinking of neoliberals is the exact reason the Labour party was founded! The neoLiberals guise of being for the people is a myth and always has been. The further right Starmer pulls the Labour party, the less they advocate for progressive change for the ordinary people of the country.

He’s a man who said he would not oust Jeremy Corbyn because ‘he’s a colleague, he’s a friend’ then he goes on LBC and says no he’s not a friend and he ‘hasn’t spoken to him for two and a half years.’ What one is it Keir? He said ‘we have to make the case for the benefits of migration, the benefits of free movement’ then he goes on the Sunday show and says ‘we don't want open borders.’ What one is it Keir? He was on the picket lines with the striking McDonalds workers. Then he tells his front bench not to cross the picket lines in the RMT rail strikes. What one is it Keir? There are countless more instances of these complete contradictions, not only contradictions of what he’s said but that of the very essence of what it means to be Labour. He was elected Labour leader on the basis of nationalizing the six major energy companies and the water network. Are you even surprised that he’s now said no, actually I'm not going to do that? So he’s elected leader on progressive left policies and then when he’s in power he gets everyone on the left of the party ousted from any semblance of power within the party and then goes on a media campaign of neoliberalism. 

Back in august Open Democracy ran a piece in which it entails the amount of ‘free’ tickets Starmer had accepted since being Labour leader. The monetary value of these tickets at that time was estimated to be in the region of £30,000 and the number is twenty eight. That’s more than all Labour leaders combined since records began in 1997! Jeremy Corbyn who was Labour leader for 5 years accepted one free ticket which was to Glastonbury. Where he spoke on stage to memorable chants of ‘ohhhhhhh Jeremey Corbyn.’ Ed Miliband accepted tickets to the Olympics and Paralympics in London. Gordon Brown accepted none. Even Tony Blair, Keir Starmer's Daddy who was prime minister from 1997 to 2007 accepted less gifts than Starmer has already! Blair would usually donate the monetary value of the tickets to a relevant charity. Starmer does not. He whores himself out to corporations in hopes of funding. With Corbyn as leader the membership of Labour soared as did its coffers. In the wake of Starmer attempting to eradicate any left leaning thoughts from the party the membership and coffers have significantly declined. So how does Starmer get money to pay for his upcoming election campaign ? He allows corporations to essentially and directly lobby him. He accepted a gift of a free meal worth £380 from Google in January. Seems quite innocuous right? Well by June he dropped the policy of a digital tax on big corps like Google which was estimated to bring in three billion pounds worth of tax revenue.

There’s a consensus that you cannot be elected in this country unless you are endorsed by the most powerful politician there has ever been in the Uk. The end game boss. That’s right, Mr I own basically all of the news press Rupert Murdoch. The notoriously right wing media mogul. Well I don't think you’re going to be surprised that Declassified UK reported that Starmer has accepted more hospitality from Rupert Murdoch owned newspapers than the rest of the British press combined. 

So back to the question: what does Keir Starmer stand for? I honestly have no idea. I think he’s a political chameleon. He’s inherently dishonest. He will say whatever he needs to gain power. There’s a hope that his flip flopping will work back in the favour of the left of the party once he inevitably gets elected. I’m not so hopeful. I think we have to take him at what he’s showing. He is not progressive. He is essentially an imitation of his Daddy Tony Blair. Although he’s never going to be his Dads favourite son. That is firmly French president and centrist Emmanuel Macron.

JCF.

sources

Media bias of sources

ao3 went down just as I found out that Gordon Brown x Tony Blair fan fiction exists. Is this a form of divine intervention? because why do i see the vision?

Gordon Brown

It is a piece of intellectual stupidity to want to substitute something else for the social structure that has grown up through the centuries and is fortified by tradition.

- Oswald Spengler

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Spitting Image series 18 in Episode 4

Picrew Portraits of Cindy Nilo Evelyn, Lilly (SCP-4231), The Everest Twins & The World Politicians

I made the portraits of my original twin characters Evangeline and Emmanuelle Everest, Cindy Nilo Evelyn, Lilly (SCP-4231) and the eight world politicians on Picrew with an image maker I used to make some previous ones.

1st top: Evangeline and Emmanuelle Everest (my original characters)

2nd top: Jesse Klaver and Rob Jetten (Netherlands)

1st middle: Cindy Nilo Evelyn and Lilly (SCP-4231)

2nd middle: Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson (United Kingdom)

1st bottom: Liz Truss (United Kingdom) and Dilan Yeşilgöz (Netherlands)

2nd bottom: Geert Wilders (Netherlands) and Gordon Brown (United Kingdom)

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