“Nothing is more important – more fundamental – to a democracy like ours. The rule of law is the foundation for everything… Margaret Thatcher called it the ‘first duty of government’. She was right.”
These aren’t the words of a Tory Party leader-of-the-day, but of ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer, in a 2023 speech promising to put ‘law and order’ at the centre of Labour’s policy.
Since then, Starmer really has proven himself to be a dutiful defender of ‘our’ democracy – that is, if you ignore the arrested grannies, the jailed activists, the rigged juries, and the bogus ‘terrorism’ charges dished out left, right, and centre.
So keen is Starmer to follow in the footsteps of Thatcher when it comes to the ‘rule of law’, he is letting detained Palestine Action activists on hunger strike starve to death for protesting Britain’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
If this doesn’t attest to Starmer’s commitment to the ‘first duty of government’ enough, let us note that his passion for democracy doesn’t stop at Britain’s borders – despite his boasts about spending an extra £280 million securing them.
He has recently been preaching to European leaders the need to ‘modernise’ (read: ‘water down’) the use of the European Convention of Human Rights. With this, Labour can combat the supposedly worst criminals of all: the refugees and migrants desperately fleeing the violence, repression, and poverty created by imperialism.
Yet, despite all of Starmer’s best efforts, Labour’s ‘law and order’ credentials are no match for his political competitors.
Last summer, Farage declared that “Britain is lawless”. He promised Reform would spend billions on stronger and harsher policing, building new prisons, and pursuing mass deportations.
Following Reform like a shadow, the Tories likewise promised that – should they, in some outlandish scenario, re-enter Downing Street in the next election – they would oversee stricter policing, stricter border controls, and more deportations.
Labour, Reform, and the Tories are all singing from the same ‘law and order’ hymn sheet. And they are all equally deluded as to their ability to fix the crumbling state of Britain’s state institutions.
The police are being slammed with scandal after scandal, leaving public trust at an all-time low. The judicial system is collapsing under an ever-growing backlog of court cases, now stretching off into 2029. Prisons are at breaking point, with some operating at over 150 percent capacity.
In short, the British state is in no condition to carry out any of these frenzied commitments to ‘law and order’. And this crisis stretches far and wide – the entire British establishment has been discredited.
Trust in politicians has plummeted. The monarchy is disgraced, even with Andrew shuffled off the stage. And now the BBC, the ruling class’ once-steadfast mouthpiece, is being wracked by internal civil war.
All this talk about being ‘tough on crime’ and upholding the ‘rule of law’ is complete hypocrisy. Instead, we say that Starmer, Lammy, and co. are the real criminals – they are the ones that need to be brought to justice!
They are the ones overseeing social murder in Britain today: a third of children in poverty; people dying waiting in A&E corridors; no justice for the criminal negligence behind disasters like Grenfell – the list goes on.
They are the ones spending billions supporting war and genocide – and then criminalising those rightfully protesting it.
The real criminals are the liars, crooks, and thieves sitting in Westminster.
