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Wednesday, Oct 01, 2025

Keir Starmer’s political obituary is being written in real time

The most unwanted prime minister in UK history rules against the people’s will, smearing Farage and Reform while polls show Britain wants them instead

Keir Starmer is the squatters’ rights prime minister — clinging to an office that the British public has already repossessed. Polls don’t just whisper but roar: Reform UK under Nigel Farage is on track for a majority that would flatten Labour’s carcass. Yet here stands Starmer, unwanted, unloved, unmandated, insisting he is the voice of Britain while Britain is begging him to leave.

Cornered on the BBC, he reached for his last remaining trick — the prosecutor’s cheap smear. Reform’s call to end indefinite leave to remain for non-EU migrants, a policy grounded in sovereignty and national preservation, was lazily branded “racist” and “immoral.” It was less an argument than a tantrum — a man who has lost the debate trying to disqualify it by insult. In Starmer’s courtroom of politics, the jury has already delivered its verdict: guilty of failure.

Reform’s stance is neither radical nor racist. It is the assertion of a right as old as Britain itself — to decide who belongs within its borders. Starmer cannot refute that, so he sneers at it. His weakness is dressed up as moral superiority, the same brittle disguise he has worn throughout his career.

Meanwhile, his proudest policy — a digital ID scheme no one asked for — is collapsing under historic resistance. More than 2.2 million signatures stand against it, a petition that reads less like dissent and more like a national no-confidence vote. When was the last time millions of Britons signed anything together? Not since Brexit has the public spoken so clearly — and once again, Starmer is on the wrong side of history.

The truth is merciless. Reform rises because it speaks with the cadence of Britain; Starmer falls because he speaks only in excuses. Every time he attacks Farage, the words boomerang back at the people themselves. And the people are done absorbing the insult.

So let it be recorded. Britain does not want Keir Starmer. Britain wants Nigel Farage. Yet Starmer, unwanted and unmandated, still squats in Number Ten like a prosecutor who lost the case but refuses to leave the dock. His legacy is already sealed — a leader who governed against the will of his own nation. The only question left is whether he has the humility to exit on his own, or whether he will wait for voters to carry his coffin out of Downing Street.

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