The Duran Podcast - Starmer Judgment Day: Blairite Plot To Take Power

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

Starmer Judgment Day: Blairite Plot To Take Power

All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening in the UK with Stammer. He's brought back Gordon Brown as a special envoy for global finance, strange position, especially given Brown's history with gold, right? Yeah. And then he brought back a very controversial figure to be a special advisor for women and girls, Harriet Harmon. Yeah. I slightly, I once slightly knew her long ago, by the way.

You want me to tell a few things about her. I'm absolutely happy. Okay. So, I mean, it's clear why he's making these moves, obviously. But get into it. What's going on? I've heard some rumors, by the way. I don't know if you can confirm that he may resign.

But by the time this video goes up, he may resign. I don't know if you've heard those rumors as well. Yes. I mean, today, which. is to say, you know, the day after the weekend is make or break for him. I say make or break. I mean, to be very clear, the break is going to come and it's going to come soon. But the usual pattern in Britain, I've discussed this in previous programs, is that you have a series of events play out over the course of a week. In the case of Britain last week, it was the local elections. Then everybody goes to. away over the weekend. They all consult with each other. They also consult also with people

who are in the grassroots of the parties. They talk to the journalists, they talk to everyone else in the political world. And then by the first hours of the next working day, there is either a mood of crisis or a mood of stabilization. And if there is a mood of crisis, then the prime minister can be, can find him or herself in extremely serious trouble. Well, we are now in that second situation. There was a whole series of discussions, debates, people talk to each other over the weekend. And the prime minister now is in very, very serious. serious trouble. Now, Starma, after the local elections, said he's not going anywhere, that he wants to remain prime minister. He says that he wants to remain prime minister for 10 years. He says

that he wants to lead labor into the next election. All of that, of course, has made him look even more out of touch and delusional than he did previously. He had, before the local elections, been floating the idea of a major reshuffle of his cabinet. In other words, sacking ministers, appointing new ministers. There was talk that the country's finance minister, Rachel Reeves, who is extremely unpopular, as we know, with many people. We've talked about it in the past that she might be ousted. In reality, after the local election results, it became clear that if he did start sacking ministers and appointing new ministers in that kind of way, that would provoke an even more immediate crisis.

So he had to back off. In lieu of that kind of rearrangement of the ministers, he's come up with this absolutely ludicrous scheme. of appointing Gordon Brown global finance envoy, whatever that means. And you mentioned the fact that Gordon Brown managed to sell off a large part of Britain's gold reserves at a lower the market price and put us in a position where we were basically very short of gold. That is also true. But in Britain, he's also famous as the man who part. who bailed out the banks in 2008, 2009, which is still a controversial and very unpopular step with many people,

including many people who might have voted Labor and is seen as confirming him, ultimately as a globalist, which Gordon Brown, by the way, is. And of course, he's the prime minister who took Labor into an election in 2010, which labor lost catastrophically. So it is a very strange decision to bring back Gordon Brown and to appoint him to this post and to think that this somehow secures and stabilizes Stama's position. And, well, as you rightly say, Harriet Harmon is an even more controversial appointment in some respects. I'm going to be more careful what I say here. But anyway, suffice to say that she is not everybody's favorite person. She's a former lawyer, rather like Starma himself.

Like Brown, she has a background very much in Blair's government, in Blairite policies. She's known or has a reputation for being very strident. on some of the so-called, you know, social issues, let's call them that. Again, a strange choice at a time like this, and in no sense, perhaps, the person who might stabilize the situation at this particular time. So anyway, these two appointments, basically what they did, was reinforced the sense that Starmer is losing contact with reality. the people around him are losing contact with reality. The fact that he wasn't able to move

forward with this appointment sacking and appointment of ministers has demonstrated his weakness. So as at the time of making of this program, what he's trying to do is he's trying to make a great speech, tell us what his values are, tell us what he's going to change, why he's going to be a better prime minister in the future. And he's trying to shore up. support. Now, when a prime minister does that, it is a sign of absolute desperation. It is usually a sign that his position is collapsing. And it may very well be, as you rightly say, that over the course of today, he will be gone. Now, over the weekend, a whole group of his parliamentary party started to rebel, more and more of them, publicly called for him to go.

And it is now, I think, firmly established that there is a plot against him, coming from the right, the Blairite faction within the party. The Blairite candidate is a man called West Streeting, who is the health minister. The Blairites believe, and he's, and he believes that he's somehow going to be popular and re-engage with the British people. I don't see that myself. But anyway, that's the plan. The idea being get where Streeting made Prime Minister as soon as possible before there is a challenge from the more left-wing candidates, people like Angela Rainer and Andy Burnham. If you remember, I floated the possibility that this was the Blairite agenda about two weeks ago when I pointed out that this whole sudden reemergence of the Mandelson scandal at that time seemed to point to that possibility that there was this Blairite plot underway because the leaking of information about Mandelson seemed to be coming from the Blairites.

and that's what we're seeing at the moment. So as of this moment, the time that we're making this program, the media here is full of rumors, full of reports, that Wes Streeting has told Stama, that he's not going to challenge Stama directly for the leadership of the Labour Party and the post of Prime Minister. If there is a challenge,

then Streeting, might be obliged to act. And of course, the challenge is already there. There's already one MP who's come forward and has said that if there isn't a challenge by anybody else, she will bring it. So it does look to me as if we are now in the early hours of a coup. He's going to speak about his values.

His values, yes. They all speak the same. All of these guys speak the same, whether it's Ursula, or Stam, Maconos, they're values. They've got to talk about our values. Absolutely. Okay.

That's exactly what people want to hear are Stomers values. Absolutely. Anyway, what is the process here? Is there a vote that takes place? Like if Stammer says, okay, I'm stepping down. Klaus is going to give me a position somewhere else. Is there a vote? Does he just pass it off to someone?

How does the process work? Right. What the Blenright intention is, is this. Stama announces that he's going to step down. In theory, there should be an election of the Labour membership to pick the new leader. But the Blairites are going to say, this is a moment of deep crisis, which it is, by the way. We've got problems in the financial markets. Yields on British bonds are rising to crisis levels.

we cannot afford an election of that kind. We must all agree on a leader, and we must agree on that leader now. It cannot be Angela Rainer because she's still got this outstanding scandal with her tax affairs. It cannot be Andy Burnham because he's not in Parliament. So by process of elimination, that leaves our candidate West Streeting, We need all of us at this moment of great crisis in our party, in our nation. We all need to unite as one behind him. So a unanimous or overwhelming vote in favour of Westreting from within the actually deeply

blaried parliamentary party. And at that point, Westreting becomes party leader and prime minister. So that I think is the plan. That's the plot. They do not want a long-drawn-out battle with an leadership election, which might produce a marginally more left-wing. But nonetheless, still, to be clear, globalist candidate. I mean, within the Labour Party, and I think this is a key thing to understand, what you have are globalists of one kind who are slightly more to the left and the talk is slightly

more left-wing language but who are still globalists and globalists on the right who are obviously globalists but talk is slightly more right-wing language but that is the entire spectrum of opinion within the Labour Party if it's if it's treaty or Rainer or Burnham, in fundamentals, it isn't going to make a huge difference. And I think that's a thing to say, I mean, we're looking at a plot, but it's a plot carried out between factions in terms of their own differences with each other. We know when factions fight each other, that the differences seem enormous. But to anybody from the outside, I'm looking at this from the outside.

side, the differences are not really a fundamental significance. None of this, I think, is going to change the underlying dynamic of politics in the country. Right. Globalists to the left, globalists to the right. What would West Streeting do differently than Stomers? Say it is West Streeting? Or Reiner, what would they do differently than Stommer? I mean, what Stommer? Is he a globalist on the left or the right, or is he a globalist that's that's in the center in the middle? I mean, would they stop Brexit? Would they stop Project Ukraine? No. No. They'd ramp it up. Is this a big opportunity for Blair? Does Blair smell a lot of, a lot of dough coming his way?

If he can get his guy in, if he can get streeting his guy in as prime minister? That's the whole plan. I mean, the fundamental point is getting streeting in as prime minister, because streeting is particularly close to Blair and to the Blairites. I mean, I don't know to what extent he actually personally knows Blair, but streeting is without any question. Blair's preferred person to become the next prime minister. I mean, if streeting becomes prime minister, then it is a full Blairite restoration. And we are back to a situation where Tony Blair is the effective controller of the Labour Party. Now, the point about Starma is that this is a man who has no very great political views. I mean, he talks about his vision, but he doesn't have

much vision. He's focused on Project Ukraine, which is perhaps the one thing that he cares about, because he doesn't really care about anything else very much. He poses as a centrist. I am not really sure what in labor politics a centrist, globalist actually is. I mean, he's perhaps definitely slightly more on the Blair right side. Well, he's certainly more on the Blair right side than on the leftist side. but ultimately, and I think this is a thing that perhaps one might just mention, he was never the

Blairite's ultimate choice. The reason they backed him in 2020 when Corbyn stood down is because an out-and-out Blairite, like Streeting, couldn't win then. So they came up with someone who was, you know, little known, well-known supporter of the EU, famous lawyer, he wasn't actually a very famous lawyer. Somebody like that, they put him out forward. They said that this is the man who has, you know, commands weight and respect and authority and all bring the party together. and basically they used Stama as the icebreaker that would break through and shift the entire Labour Party back away from Corbinism

towards a more Blairite globalist direction. So we, streeting, as is now, I think widely known, was always their ultimate choice, and they're about to get him. Why they think, by the way, that restricting is going to be this enormous success as Prime Minister and as leader of the Labour Party, I have absolutely no idea. Everybody that I've seen who knows about these things is united in the view

that the wider British public doesn't like him. But there it is. Why doesn't Blair hook him up with a nice job? A good gig, Stommer, in order to Sweden the deal for Stammer. Because I'm looking right now at ex-Alexander and it's saying Stommer, when asked why he won't step down, this is his speech that he's giving. He won't step aside as his popularity is dragging labor down, says that he acknowledges the voter's widespread frustration, including some frustration with him personally, but

attributes it to deep long-term failures of the status quo. The status quo, he says, he is the status quo. Yeah, of course, exactly. By the way, he said variations of this many times. I mean, he will do better. He can be better. It's not really his fault, but he gets it. This is a phrase that he often uses, that he gets it.

He will somehow do change. We've been hearing this from Starman. Now, ever since he became prime minister, that he's going to turn over a new leaf. His values are the ones that will now have to shine through. He'll manage to suddenly become the new Starmo who's going to lead us forward. It's all nonsense. Now, for all I know, going back to what you're saying, a lot of this might indeed be Starmus bitch to get a job.

He might be quite plausibly telling Blair and his people, well, you know, I'm not going to refuse a good offer, but your offer has to be better than the one you're making at the moment. I mean, I don't know that that's the conversation that's taking place or the negotiation that's taking place. But if it was, it wouldn't surprise me. But, you know, putting that possibility aside, which is a real one. Vanity is an important part in place of an important role in politics. Stama tells himself he won the landslide. He's the great leader of the Labour Party.

He brought Labour back to power. Why should he go? He's got all this tremendous clan, whatever that is, to implement. And he doesn't want to be pushed out of his party and appear the loser. So it may be that there's vanity as well. But fundamentally, whatever speech he's making, whatever he's saying today, it's not going to convince the country. But the question is whether he convinces his party. And I can't believe by now that it will.

Yeah, status quo is the deep state. When he says status quo, he means the deep state. He means the deep state, which by the way, bear in mind, he was once part of himself. I mean, he was director of public prosecutions. He was there in the Assange case. He was there and all kinds of all these other sorts of cases. So, I mean, he's absolutely wired into that world. You said that Reiner has her scandal that's still hanging over her.

But doesn't Streeting also have some sort of connection to Mandelson? Yeah, absolutely. Isn't that going to hang over him? Can't Raynor say, okay, you're saying that I have this housing thing that's hanging over me? But wait a minute, Wes, you've got this whole Mandelson thing. Yes. Well, can I just say something about the whole Rainer scandal, which is something that I've said before, but I want to say this again. I mean, I know a little bit about investigations and those sort of things. So Rainer underpaid tax on her house. That is not disputed. She accepts it. This is undisputed. She paid the amount of the outstanding tax, referred her for investigation, referred herself in September, early. September for investigation by the tax authorities, her defense is that she got bad advice and she acted on that bad advice.

Now, I was in early September. We are now in May. This is a very, very straightforward thing. Based on my own experience, I would have expected by now that this affair would be resolved In fact, I would have expected it to be resolved before Christmas. Either she got the wrong advice or she didn't. I mean, it's as simple as that if you think about it. So why is this taking this long?

Now, I just want to say this. If you think that when famous political figures, top-ranked politicians, if you think that things can't be, things like this can't be sorted out, quickly if the desire within the bureaucracy is there, if you think that never happens, will I have a bridge to sell you? I know that it does. If somebody had wanted to get the situation with Rainer sorted out fast, it would have been over by November. Not May. Conversely, if you think that these things can't be drawn out and protracted, way beyond the need and that, you know, all of this, this long investigation is inevitable and

par for the course in a matter of this kind. Well, can I have a bridge to sell you? I mean, the fact is, things like that can be spun out for a very long time in order to embarrass a politician or a public figure and to make that position more difficult. Now, I don't know exactly what is going on, But the fact that this business with Rainer is taking as long as it is is is certainly one reason why I do suspect that there is a Blair Wright plot underway and that the way the Mandelson affair was used has been used in order to get this business of getting streeting over the line as quickly as possible before Rainer is freed. So that is what I would say about that. I don't think Rainer is a convincing candidate. I don't think Streeting is a convincing candidate. I don't think either of any of these people who have been talked about are in any kind of position to change the situation

or have any vision or ideas for the future of Britain. But there it is. Yeah, but that's not the purpose of all of this. Absolutely. And as for West Streeting's connections. with Mandelson. They absolutely do exist. He's written articles denying it, which of course prove to many people that they are there. And it will be a shadow over him. But, you know, there'll be a concerted attempt in the media afterwards once he's been made Prime Minister

to try and bury the topic and to move on. He can at least say that he was not involved directly in all the intrigues that led to Mandelson becoming ambassador to Washington, and that if he had been prime minister, it would have been handled in a different way. I'm not convinced about that, but that's probably what he will do. Just to close out the video, the purpose to all of this is not to make a change. No. The purpose to all of this is to try and get to 2029 as labor. Exactly.

Right? to continue reversing Brexit, to continue funneling money to project Ukraine, to continue the immigration migration policies, to continue the ramp up to war with Russia. I mean, the purpose is who is the right person or who are the right set of people to take us now from 2026 all the way to 2029? Who is it going to be? And I guess you have all of these groups now fighting to put themselves in a position where they control the power and the money flow up until 2029.

You are absolutely... It sounds like you created away. It's really a utility. Absolutely. I mean, you're absolutely correct. I mean, there is, as I said, a great deal of intrigue and plotting and in fighting, but it is in fighting taking place within a very, very narrow, very small group of people. people who are not fighting each other because they fundamentally disagree about the essentials.

They are all going to follow the set of policies that you just outlined. They're all going to do it. They're all pro-EU. They're all pro-Ukraine war. They all want conflict with Russia. They are not going to change the direction of social policy or immigration policy or any of these things. Some of them, Angela Raina, would probably loosen migration policy, which loose migration policy, by the way, just to say, was very, very much the feature of Tony Blair's time.

I mean, it was he more than any other prime minister who opened the doors. I want to say that because that is the historical, factual reality. Anyway, none of them are going to change on that, but between them, they do each represent within this globalist circle different factions, which for reasons of factional control and personal interest are at odds with each other. And for that reason, it does matter to them personally, which one of them takes control. And it certainly matters a great deal to Tony Blair. But for the wider world, for the people of Britain, for the people, you know, on the council estates and in the shops and the factories, to the extent that we still have factories and in the schools and in all of those places, ultimately it is not going to make any great difference. All right, we'll end the video there. The durand.locals.com.

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