The Duran Podcast - Labour begins plot to remove Keir Starmer

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

Labour begins plot to remove Keir Starmer

All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in the UK and what is happening with Sir Kier Stamer. Looks like he's passed. Has he moved past the whole arson stuff? Is that over now? Can Kier Stomber focus on what he loves best, which is Project Ukraine now? Or is he still dealing with all of that stuff? Where are things with Kirstammer heading? Kestam is still dealing with Project Ukraine. It remains his underlying obsession and fixation. I mean, he's never going to stop talking and thinking and discussing that, even though

his own parliamentary party is now an open rebellion about this. I mean, they're saying that he's spending far too much time on this issue and is neglecting questions closer to home. And to ask your question about the fire business, the arson attacks, on properties linked with him, as the media elegantly describes them, that story has not gone away. And in fact, we had for about a 24-hour period, the lead article in the Financial Times was all about this. And it was a desperate attempt based on no evidence at all, as the article itself admitted to make out that it was the Russians who were behind these arson attacks. There was no evidence at all offered in the article.

There was admissions in the article that there is actually no evidence to support those claims. They admitted that one of the arsonists has been publishing admiring photos of Ukrainian soldiers. But nonetheless, they also admitted that the arsonists themselves might not be aware that the hand of Moscow was involved. And the article also admitted that the Kremlin itself might not know that the hands of Moscow was involved. But nonetheless, in spite of that hand of Moscow is suspected. We're told that the counterterrorist police are now involved in the investigation. Remember, these are arsonists. attacks. This is criminal behavior, but you know, you bring in the counterterrorist police

to investigate arson attacks. So, I mean, you could see where all this is going. And I mean, it's not difficult to work it up. So there's no evidence to support this, but clearly someone is briefing the media, especially the financial times, to put a particular spin on this story in order to ultimately blame, you know. It's a very bizarre story altogether. But no, to answer your question again, he's not given up on project Ukraine, and the arson business is far from ended.

And I suspect it will be revived, and it will be revived in all kinds of ways, probably intended to deflect attention from more embarrassing things, including about these arson attacks, and also perhaps to make it appear that Sir Kier is his heroic figure who the Kremlin is out to destroy. And that's why they're arranging for these young men to plant fires in these buildings linked to Kirston.

Yeah. No one is aware that Russia is behind all of this. Not even the Russians are aware of it. It's almost as if the hand of Moscow, it's taken on a life of its own. Absolutely. Right. It's become its own entity. It's own aware entity.

It was a very weird article altogether, but it stayed up for a very, very long time. All kinds of things are going on in the world, but that remained the lead story in the financial times. So what's going on in the UK right now? What's the economy like? What's Kirstammer's position like? Is he in trouble? Yeah, right.

The economy is dreadful. hope is basically draining away. And I am not in London at the moment. I've been outside London. And I see the same signs of economic distress everywhere I go outside London to an equal degree as in London itself. I was recently in Bath. Bath is famous resort city, beautiful 18th century architecture, place famously described by Jane O'Brien.

Austin, who actually lived there, you know, the English writer. A very, very prosperous place. And, I mean, parts of it looked very run down to me in ways that I hadn't imagined before. And again, you see short windows boarded, you see cafes closed, you see all of the same problems of distress that you see in London. So the economic situation is very bad. Starma himself, I believe, is now officially the most unpopular. British Prime Minister since polling records began. And in a program we did recently, I said that

I didn't think he was going to be Prime Minister for very long. And I thought that plotting was about to begin. And sure enough, we've just had an article in The Guardian, which to me looks like the opening of a plot to oust Kirstama. And it was written. It was written. It was was written by John MacDonald. John McDonnell is a very close, was a very close ally and political associate of Jeremy Corbyn's. He was, he would have been Chancellor, which is to say finance minister, if Corbyn had become prime minister, which of course he never did. And McDonnell has very, very deep roots in the Labour Party, as he pointed out, he's been a member of the Labour Party for 50 years. when you read the article, I mean, it was clearly a call to what is left of the Corbynite left within the Labour Party to start mobilising to Oskir Stama.

Stama, by the way, was never mentioned anywhere in the article itself, except, you know, right at the very beginning when there's references to the fact that Stama became leader of the Labour Party promises. to continue Corbyn's program and then reversed it. But it doesn't actually say that we should aim to overthrow Kirstama, but that was clearly what the implication was. All right. Anything else to add about what's going on in the UK? What kind of timeline? Yeah.

Well, that's it. Weeks or months, I would say. McDonald is a major figure because obviously he is part of the previous Labour leadership, I mean, Corbyn's leadership. And there is very little support for him, I suspect now, within the Labour Parliamentary Party who are very well to the right of MacDonald. But the very fact, though, that McDonald is saying that the left should organize to bring down Stama, suggests that McDonnell, who is a Labour MP, who's still an MP in the House of Commons, even though he's had his whip withdrawn. In other words, he's not able to, he's

not part of the Labour parliamentary group, but he's still a member of the party. I suspect that he's picking up all sorts of gossip and talk within the Labour Party, the parliamentary party, even from people who are not on the left, who might once have been called on the right, who in other words, Stama's key allies, the dissatisfaction with Stama is simply boiling over. So I would regard this article by MacDonald, which has received almost no attention in the media here.

I mean, it's as if it was never written, which is in itself an interesting sight. I would suggest that this is a clear indicator that Starmer's leadership is in quite a lot of trouble. Now, I think he's going to get through the summer. I mean, you know, very difficult to organize plots in the summer. But then they'll all come back in the autumn. The economy will be in an even worse condition than it is today. It's absolutely clear that the government has no real plan.

They've just had to reverse their policy on cutting pension benefits, sorry, benefits to pensioners for, you know, cold weather in winter. So they've had to reinstate all of that. There's talk that they might therefore have to put up taxes. Tax levels are already the highest in the UK that they've been at any time since the end of the Second World War, so they might have to put up taxes to try to make up for this decision to return these benefits, already the very fact that they've had to return these benefits, is being interpreted correctly as a sign of political weakness. I think if they start raising

taxes, there will be a great deal of anger within the Labour Party and within the wider country, And there will be lots of people who will say that this is an indication that the economy isn't just bad. It's going to get much, much worse. And I think at that point, things will begin to come together. And I'm guessing around October and November, we might start to see reports starting to circulate that there is actually a leadership challenge being prepared within the cabinet. And that will be the end of Kirstama. If we start hearing reports like that from inside the cabinet, then as I said, he's a dead man walking.

All right. Still have a way to go. Oh, yeah. That can happen from now until then. That is Britain. But when, as you saw with Boris Johnson and Liz Truss and before that with Theresa May in Britain, when things come together, they happen very fast. as they also did with Margaret Thatcher, by the way, in 1990, when all of the people start maneuvering and, you know, a plot begins.

And it's not as if Stama has that faction within the Labour Party, that support within the Labour Party, that goodwill, if you like, among some Labour MPs that Thatcher obviously had and that even Boris Johnson and to some extent lists trust, dare I said, even Theresa May did. So he's

living, I think, very much on borrowed time. And anyway, we'll see what happens. All right. We will end the video there. The durand.com. We are on Rebel Odyssey, Pitchie, Telegram, Rockfit, and X. Go to the Durant Shop, pick up some merch like what we are wearing in this video update. There is a link in the description.

box down below. Take care.