The Duran Podcast - UK establishment searches for Starmer replacement

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

UK establishment searches for Starmer replacement

All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in the UK, the situation with Stammer post-US-UK-Trump visit. And I think it's important to break down to understand what is happening after the two days of Trump in the UK when we had all of the pomp and the celebrations and the dinners and the gala's and all of these things. Trump came. He signed some agreements. He met the king. We had an interesting dinner, a lot of people, very long table. He left. What's the situation now in the UK?

What's the situation with Kirstommer and his government? So the first big event was, in fact, the state visit by Trump, and we'll come to that as well. But the other big event, which is still having its echoes and which we're getting more and more information about, was that big protest that took place about a week ago over the weekend. and the echoes from that event are actually getting louder. The media, you can see that the media are really concerned about this.

You could see that the political class were profoundly shocked by this. And these two events, the protest and the state visit, which came at roughly the same time, explain a lot of things about the state visit. The first and the most obvious thing is what a very controlled event it was. The state visit took place almost entirely outside London. And they didn't recall Parliament. They didn't have Trump address the two houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall, something which other presidents have been.

able to do. I can remember Ronald Reagan, for example, doing it. I think Trump would have had good expectations that he would do it. So he's been taken away to the King's country houses, Windsor Castle, and places like that. But they kept Trump away from London. Now, the narrative that you are getting is that the reason they did that was because Trump isn't that popular with the people in London, and they didn't want protests against Trump there. There may be some truth to that, but the real reason, and this is where I go back to that big protest, because we now have a lot more understanding of what took place in that protest. And it's clear that people came and they protested,

and they protested about many things, many different things. And certainly the issue of migration was one of them, and a lot of people were, worried about that. Other people had other things that concerned them, the state of housing, the state of education, all of those came together. So, you know, as often happens with big protest, people had different particular concerns, but there was one thing that united them all. And that was absolute detestation of the Prime Minister. There were apparently incredibly abusive things said about him. I mean, I'm not going to repeat the language because some of the chance about Stama were unbelievably coarse. I mean, like I've never heard before

in a protest against a government in Britain. And what they absolutely did not want to happen was another big protest during Trump's visit in London directed at the Prime Minister. That, I think, was the real reason that they didn't hold any major part of the visit in London. And the other reason, and the two are connected to each other, is that they didn't want to bring Parliament back because Parliament is in recess. But it's not uncommon during state visits that Parliament is called back during the state visits so that the president can address them or whatever the big foreign leaders can address them in Westminster Hall.

Westminster Hall, I should explain, is within the houses of Parliament, within, you know, the famous building that we all know with Big Ben, you know, the clock. But it's actually the one medieval part of this building, which is left, built by the son, I believe, of William the Conqueror. I mean, it goes back all that way, and it's one of the great historic halls in Britain. Anyway, they didn't want to bring back Parliament, even for a few days,

because they were worried that if Parliament reconvened, if all of the MPs were brought together alongside this anti-STAMA protest, which might quite easily have happened, the MPs might have started to plot against the Prime Minister. So bear in mind, I mean, I am somebody who's experienced, well, I'm not experienced, I've never been directly involved, but I have followed and tracked plots and conspiracies take place in Britain.

And I am confident that I am right in my analysis here. They didn't want protests, which might have been a bit against Trump. but much more against Stama. And they didn't want the MPs, the Labour MPs especially, coming together and working together to try to remove the Prime Minister and to agree amongst themselves

on a potential successor. So that tells you how fragile Stama's position currently is. How long does he have? Well, a couple of... It's a tough question to answer. It's always a tough question, but two weeks ago, two weeks ago, after the Mandelson affair, the Angela Rainer affair, and a reshuffle that everybody now agrees was a botch.

It didn't introduce any new people. It simply put everybody, all the ministers in different places. Anyway, there was talk that Stama had until May when the local elections are due to take place. I am skeptical that he will survive until then. I think more likely the end of the year, Christmas, around Christmas, if things continue to deteriorate, the economic numbers for July, which are the latest ones we have, were very poor. If the budget, the government's budget in November is poorly received, which it will be, then I think there will be a critical mass within the Labour Parliamentary Party, which will say, enough's enough, we have to get ourselves a new leader. Now, there are problems and the obvious

problem, the thing which I think is keeping Starmer in post for the moment, is that there is no obvious person to take over from him. Now, if you go back, for example, to the conspiracy against, the conspiracies against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, which followed one after the other, it was pretty obvious then who the political establishment, the political class wanted to take over from Johnson and trust. They wanted Rishi Sunak. And we explained why at the time he's a billionaire. A globalist is the sort of person that they could be relied upon to keep Britain on the kind of course that the political class wanted it to keep on. Ultimately, and I always thought this, that, you know, they were preparing the ground for Stama to come in, whom they trust even further.

Stama, however, has turned out to be a dud, and they have no one who carries the authority, at least not the authority, but the appearance of credibility, a plausibility, that Sunak or ultimately Starmad it at the time of the conspiracies against Johnson and trusts. So what I suspect is happening now is that they're looking around to find the person. It's not going to be easy because they have nobody very, you know, who obviously stands out. There's a person called West Streeting, who is the education minister, who is known to be very, very close to Blair. The problem they have with him is that the British people, the British public doesn't like him. He had great difficulty getting elected. He almost lost his seat in the 2024 general election. So he's not vastly popular.

And frankly, I think he's going to be more unpopular if possible than Starming himself is. But anyway, he said to be intelligent and pugnacious and all of that. One shouldn't place too much weight on the political classes, assessments of people. But anyway, there is some talk of him. But he doesn't ultimately come across to me as a very convincing alternative. And it may be that they're going to try and look around and find someone else. But somebody who is globalist, reliable, predictable, pro-Europe, all of these things. The one thing, of course, that they will never accept.

is the idea that none of these things are popular with the British people. And that the reason why Stama is so unpopular, just as Rishi Sunak became so unpopular, is because he supports all of these things. So they're going to try and find somebody else, a different face, but same policies. And they're looking to find somebody who they think will be more popular and more affected than Stama is, but at the moment that person doesn't exist. That's the only thing that is keeping Stama in place. Right. Right. So there's no elections. I mean, you don't, you don't get snap elections like in other countries. What would happen is a collapse in the government.

You get snap elections and in comes Farage and reform. So the thinking is to just get someone to just, you know, replace Stammer. Stammer goes. A new person is shuffled in. A new clone, a new globalist clone has moved into Ted Downing Street. Exactly. Why not go the elections, rather? Well, why not go the elections? Because Farage would win? You don't want that to happen.

I mean, that is the biggest worry. Is it based only on labor, though? I mean, they control. I mean, what's the process? They control whether you go to elections or not? Yeah. In Britain, the decision to call elections out of time. Elections in Britain happen every five years must happen by law.

every five years. You remember, the government was elected only last year, so in theory, there's four years to go. But the prime minister, and it is entirely in the hands of the prime minister, is in a position to go to the king and ask the king to call elections. There is another way in theory, which is that the prime minister and the government lose a vote of confidence in the House of Commons, and then they have to call elections, that Labour has a huge majority. That isn't going to happen. So it is the Prime Minister who has the right to ask the King to dissolve Parliament and call elections. No British Labour Prime Minister at the present time is going to do that unless there is overwhelming pressure to do that because they know perfectly well that if it

happened, Farage would win. And for that reason, they're going to do everything in their power to drag this on as long as possible. So they're going to try to find, as you rightly say, the popular globalist contradiction in terms, but that's what they're going to look for, the popular globalist who can beat Farage in an election. And if they can't, Well, we're going to have the same problem that we had with the previous government, where you go through various different prime ministers, Cameron Johnson, Farrah, Cameron Johnson, Truss, Sunac. Eventually, there is the election in an atmosphere of deepening crisis. And then, of course, this time round, it might be different because Farage looks much better placed to win the election than he is. that he was either in 2019 or in 2024.

One of the most interesting things is that you're starting to get increasing numbers of articles beginning to appear, even in the mainstream media, which almost treat a Farage reform victory now as inevitable, though they look to it with dread. What do you think are the agendas that labor and the conservatives, the globalist establishment in Britain want to complete before you get to elections before the risk of a Farage comes in? I mean, is it, I'm thinking of three Ukraine to keep Project Ukraine going to usher in the digital IDs and all of this stuff. and reverse Brexit. I mean, is there anything else that, are those correct? I mean, if you had to like prioritize what they want to accomplish,

whether it's Stommer or West Streeting or any of it, you know, all these interchangeable clone, W.EF, globalist leaders, whatever. It doesn't matter what the name is. They're all the same. And they're all there to achieve a certain agenda. Are those top of the list? Is there anything more that they want? Right. I mean, I think migration, continue migration.

Yeah. I think you've got going. I mean, what are the things that they want to accomplish in the next four years? I think you've identified the three. And of those far and away, the most important is to reverse Brexit. Now, now bear in mind, if they can reverse Brexit, if the EU, if Britain were to rejoin the EU or were to rejoin the EU, or were to rejoin EU, even the single market, it would in effect have, it would actually decide the issue of migration, because migration would there no longer be a British matter. It would become an EU matter again. So those two issues are deeply interconnected with each other, as many people, by the way, in Britain, including many of the people on that protest, understand perfectly well.

So rejoining the EU is the absolute number one overriding priority. And quite likely, over the next four years, even as the government sort of gradually disintegrates, they will try to push that agenda as hard as hard as they can. The problem they have is that it's not, despite what you hear from opinion polls, yes, you get people who say, yes, Britain's problems are connected with Brexit. That narrative has been successfully planted. But the moment you start talking about rejoining the EU, again, precisely the issue of migration comes up. And that's the moment when people understand it clicks in immediately what the broader agenda is. I don't know if I've explained it clearly, but I think I have. So it's not really rejoining the EU is not really in the end of popular policy. It will undermine them even further, but it is their priority policy.

Project Ukraine is absolutely a priority issue. They've just, by the way, the parliaments here have just completed ratification of the defence treaty that Britain and Ukraine Zelensky and Starrma signed off in January. So absolutely they want to keep Project Ukraine going. the reason they want to keep Project Ukraine going is because Project Ukraine relates to what is actually their second priority, which is to keep the Americans in. Always with the British, there is always this, even more so than with the other Europeans, because the British, ever since the Second World War, see the relationship

with the United States as an Anglo-American partnership. And the British use the power of the United States to impress on the Europeans the fact that they are a serious power themselves. They can come along to Berlin, to Paris, to Brussels, and say, listen to us because we have the Americans behind us. So Project Ukraine, its primary functional purpose, the second priority is to keep the Americans in. So they're going to keep Project Ukraine going for that reason. They're not going to succeed with either of these things because they don't have the power to make them work.

As I said, rejoining the EU in full, is something it's going to encounter roadblocks within your British public opinion, which I think are insurmountable. Keeping project Ukraine going is not ultimately in their control. It's under the control of the Americans and the Russians, and they have a completely different ideas. So the other priority is the one that you said, and it is a major part, a very major part, of the British government's agenda. All of the various repressive things, the censorship, the digital ID cards, the digital currencies, all of that, they're going to push that relentlessly over the next three years.

And as the other two gradually fail, they will emphasize the third one even more because ultimately it is through the third one that they will try to retain control. And retaining control is ultimately what their final priority is. The three priorities that you outlined are the route towards achieving the main one, which is to maintain control. Yeah, maintain control. Project Ukraine keeps the U.S. in the U.K., Brexit, reversing Brexit keeps the U.K. in the globalist EU and digital IDs and all that stuff keep the UK citizens locked into the globalist plan. Exactly, exactly, exactly. So that's what it's about.

That is what they're going to try to do over the course of the next four years. I mean, there is a possibility that the government could, I mean, that the things become unsupportable. If there's a major crisis in the financial markets, if there's a bond crisis, if there's a sense that the only way of restoring stability is through elections, or if it becomes clear that the government, the Labour government is so much losing control of the situation in Britain. At that point, there may be no choice but to call elections, but they will resist that with every fibre of that being until they are sure that Nigel Farage and Reform won't win. Or until they are sure that Nigel Farage and reform have been bought and compromised,

and they'll do what they want. Right. Right. And they're thinking they have four years to do this. Exactly. Exactly. Okay, we will end the video there. The durand.com.

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