SAME SHIT, DIFFERENT SHOVEL

Good riddance to the red Boris Johnson. A man incapable of telling the truth, who lied his way to the top all so he could arm, enable, and provide diplomatic and legal cover for a genocide. Beholden to corporate interests and the bigoted whims of the billionaire-owned press, he targeted the sick, disabled and marginalised, courted the far-right and demonised refugees, and gave the top ambassador job to a billionaire paedophile's best mate.

He was never more than 2 metres away from a British flag while steadfastly advancing US and Israeli foreign policy goals at the detriment to everything else. He was the dictionary definition of an empty suit, and even the suit was a freebie, filled with wish-lists of corporate lobbyists, Atlanticists, Zionists and Labour Right cranks (who are all of the above).

I painted the below billboard poster (and photographed it being demolished) after Starmer announced his plans to continue the Tories war on the sick and disabled by restricting disability benefits (known as Personal Independence Payments (PIP)) and increasing the state and social harassment of those who need them. This came after Rachel Reeves scrapped plans to close the tax loopholes on the super-rich who spend their time abroad for tax reasons after "after listening to the concerns that have been raised by the non-dom community" (genuine quote!)

Starmer took a country desperate for change and steered it back to the cruelty of austerity, blaming and punishing the people least responsible for the state of the country while defending the interests of those who have been looting it with glee through the last 47 years of Thatcherite cross-party consensus.

And don't expect it go get any better with Burnham, as the (actually good) FT journalist Stephen Smith said on Twitter "[Burnham] is getting this coronation because everyone with genuine power knows he’ll be continuity Starmer with some actual politician skills. If there was any danger of him being any good such as introducing genuinely progressive policy, all hell would be breaking loose right now"

Don't get fooled again.

(Below are some of the Starmer related graphics I've made over the last four years)