Starmer’s likely successor as PM has faith that Easter will be a new beginning for Britain, not a second coming for Labour.
Time is surely up for the pitiful PM with dissent growing across the country and within his party (Image: Getty)
Easter is singularly the most important Christian festival, a time of resurrection, rebirth, victory over death, and new life.
And that is a happy coincidence with 4.6 million voters across 30 local councils heading to the polls in May.
That they are being held at all is something of a miracle because Labour wanted to kick democracy into the long grass by cancelling them.
And that is the central message of political prophet Nigel Farage who could deliver Labour less a bloody nose and more likely put the party in an induced coma in seven weeks’ time.
Popping through letterboxes across the country right now is the Reform UK party leader’s memorandum on the maleficence that has been the result of fast approaching two years of Labour rule.
And what he says strikes right at the heart of what he believes Britain’s thinking: its people have been forgotten, marginalised, and become second class citizens in their own country.
Make no mistake, elections on May 7 – albeit local – are a referendum on Sir Keir Starmer, his Labour government, and the appetite for something hitherto untried: A populist pulling the levers of power.
He said: “A vote for Reform UK on May 7 is a vote to defend democracy, fix broken Britain, and finally put the British people first. Together, we stopped them cancelling democracy. Now together, we can start rebuilding Britain, one council at a time.”
Britain’s saviour? Mr Farage says the May 7 elections are a chance to fix ‘broken Britain’ (Image: Getty)
On January 22 the Government announced elections in 29 local authorities scheduled for May 7 would be postponed. But in another screeching U-turn on February 16, it then announced they would go ahead.
The shambles epitomises the dithering and vacillating of those who are meant to be running the country.
And now even the unions – upon whom Labour relies – think time is up.
Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham believes the party will be “decimated” in the upcoming local elections and should “hang their heads in shame” over the handling of the Birmingham bin strike, which has seen Britain’s second city fester under a fetid deluge of detritus.
The strike has been raging for more than a year.
And in a telling comment she said working people – the very people Labour claims to champion – were moving deserting the party in droves.
“We are in one of the most significant strikes in decades,” she said. “An attack from a Labour council under a Labour government. Labour should hang their heads in shame. They are an absolute disgrace.”
It is a sentiment shared almost universally in every town and city up and down the country and it is why bookmakers make Mr Farage odds to be the next prime minister.
Stuttering Starmer and the assortment of jesters running this country have got Britain stuck in a doom loop of perpetual crisis having failed on a promise to stop migration crisis and presided over any number of Commons calamities including, but not exclusive to, the Winter Fuel Payment debacle, inheritance tax fiasco, and two tax-grabbing Budgets that snatched £66bn.
Under Labour the tax burden is set to reach an all-time high of 38% of GDP by 2030-31. This cannot continue.
And it is why Mr Farage is delivering an Easter divination: This is your chance to send a message.