Speaker row shows Starmer cannot be trusted with power

GIVEN the mess the Tories have made of G almost everything, many of us have been preparing ourselves for the apparent inevitability of a Labour Government.

- Patrick O'Flynn

For those of us with long memories, this has induced feelings of queasiness and anxiety.

But it was possible to console ourselves with the thought that while Keir Starmer was a deeply uninspiring flip-flopper, at least he did not appear to be a dangerous extremist like his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn.

Taking a knee at the behest of the race hucksters of BLM in 2020 was a bad mistake by the Labour leader, but since then he appears to have moderated, and not sided with, the enemies of our country.

But that changed this week.

For, in effect, Starmer has taken the knee again - this time to Islamist mobs seeking to intimidate MPs into backing the Palestine cause in Gaza.

While most of the aftermath of the unseemly "Gazagate" procedural shenanigans in the Commons has focused on the ludicrous rulings of Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, it is the performance of Starmer which should concern us most.

Hoyle buckled and changed Commons procedure to favour Labour, under huge pressure to do so from Starmer. It has been widely reported that Starmer and other Labour MPs cited the intimidation and threats they had received as arguments for their party's ceasefire amendment being heard, even though the debate was being sponsored by another party.