Mr. Sensible Keir Starmer bowed to the left and made the UK an unholy mess a stern warning to Democrats
It’s amazing to think Keir Starmer was sold to us Brits as Mr.Sensible.He’ll be gloriously boring and that’s just what we need, said his media cheerleaders when he was elected prime minister in July 2024.After the tumult of Brexit, the wacky Boris Johnson years and all that lockdown lunacy, we need a little calm, they said.Enter Sir Keir.He’s a “safe pair of hands,” said every talking head.“The grown-ups are back in charge,” cried The Guardian.Fast-forward 23 months and Starmer has thrown in the towel.Far from steadying the good ship Britain, he’s left it in an unholy mess.Starmer’s Britain is a nation scarred by riots, fractured by social division, overrun with illegal immigrants and full of fuming Brits demanding to know how it all went so wrong.I’ll tell you how: Because while Starmer posed as a sensible centrist, he let himself be dragged ever more leftward.He promised to put out the fires of the Culture Wars, but ended up taking the side of the crackpot left in their infernal battle with normalcy. He bowed to the progressive bigotry that treats patriotism as racism, criticism of radical Islam as a “phobia” and freedom of speech as a threat to the social fabric.There’s a lesson here for America’s Democratic Party: Fail to make a break with your lunatic wing, and you too could end up in the garbage pail of history alongside Sir Keir.Starmer bowed out with tears in his eyes as he announced his resignation outside 10 Downing St.
on Monday.He says he’ll oversee an “orderly transfer” of power.Britain could have a new prime minister as early as next month.We know who it will be: Andy Burnham, the long-serving mayor of Manchester who won a seat in the House of Commons in a by-election last week.Burnham has gone to Parliament with one aim: to push out Sir Keir and take his throne.If it is an “orderly transfer,” it will be the only orderly thing Starmer has done.Everything else lies in ruins.The economy has been sacrificed to the...