The right-wing faction of the Labour Party, that is the people who want to keep the status quo,

keep it business as usual, suck up to the elites. They are some of the most vicious,

unpleasant people you are ever likely to meet in British politics. And given British politics

is a cesspit, that's quite the bar to surpass. Now, here is an opinion. I can confidently say I now share

with Sir Kirstama, a prime minister just months away from having leadership crisis and

plunged into fresh, permanently associated with his name, until of course he is unceremoniously

dumped. Now, this might seem like a slightly odd take. What is the difference,

you may ask, between Keir Stama and the Labour right when they're at home anyway? Isn't that the

most right-wing liberal faction of the party, as described by former Blair Aid and Labour MP,

John Crudders, who Stama himself serves as a frontman for? Hasn't Stama, in fact, done literally everything the Labour

right wanted, incinerating left-wing policy commitments, waging a ceaseless, remorseless war on the

Labour left, embracing right-wing narratives on immigration, the welfare state, and so on. Well, yeah,

quite. And the Laboureroy have repaid

that gratitude by briefing what a vacuous, unprincipled waste of space he is. That he is essentially

a useless, boring clown who just exists to take up space and be told what to do, some sort of

giant potato with a face someone hastily scrawled on.

Now, I exaggerate here a little bit.

Okay, fair enough.

But it's actually not much less damning than what they've actually gone and said.

It seems, in fact, that I increasingly agree with Stama and the Labour Right about the other.

Now, a new book about the rise of Starmorism, getting the inside story of

Labour under Stama, has been penned by the extremely well-connected Times political journalists,

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