The Starmer Suicide Squad

From an opinion piece by Harvey Thomas

The article begins with a reference to the film "Life of Brian" ...

"When Brian sweating on the cross at the end of the film, he's given a glimmer of hope as a "thoroughly trained suicide squad" marches up and apparently offers to save him.

Their leader proudly boasts "we can commit suicide within 20 seconds", and that's exactly what they do, leaving Brian despairing and doomed.

I'm reminded of that scene when I see the Labour front bench. Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Ed Miliband offered hope to a desperate nation during the general election, only to commit instant economic suicide.

Now the whole country is sweating on the cross.

Labour had 14 long years in opposition to train up. Now it's committing economic suicide at speed.

PM Keir Starmer drew his sword first, killing all hope by warning of the tough decisions Labour would make to fill that £22billion black hole.

It was a massive self-inflicted wound.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves then deployed her own suicide squad skills, bringing the economy to a screeching halt by threatening us with vicious tax hikes.

She left businesses, consumers and taxpayers to sweat for a crucifying four months, while they waited to see how much destruction her Budget would wreak.

An economy that had been previously going "gangbusters" suddenly lost its vital signs.

After growing growing nicely in the first half of the year it fell by 0.1% in September and another 0.1% in October. Today it's on recession watch."

You can read the full article at

Labour's economic suicide squad is crucifying UK - and it's all part of the plan

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