“Starmer has never put the country first – not even in his final, insipid act”

by Rachael Swindon in The Canary

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“Starmer’s legacy isn’t one of service – it’s one of spectacular, self-inflicted failure, and we have been screaming it from the rooftops since he first donned that red tie and started sounding like a Tory in denial.

Let’s start with the Gaza betrayal, because nothing exposes the utterly hollow core of Starmerism quite like it”

https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026/06/22/starmer-resignation-legacy/

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Starmer has never put the country first - not even in his final, insipid act

Starmer, the man who promised to deliver “change” with all the revolutionary fervour of a Lib Dem focus group, has slithered out of Number 10

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What The Media Refuses To Tell You About Keir Starmer’s Resignation

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Four hundred thousand children in the UK were supported by baby banks in 2025, an 11% increase from the year before, prompting warnings from charities that they “cannot continue to absorb the impact of child poverty on this scale” without government support.

Starmer supporters still banging on about his 'decency'.

#ChildPoverty #UKPolitics #BabyBanks

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/23/uk-children-baby-banks-poverty

About 400,000 UK children supported by baby banks, up 11% on previous year

Exclusive: Charities say they ‘cannot continue to absorb the impact of child poverty’ without government support

The Guardian

"MARAMA DAVIDSON ON MATA - THEY CALLED IT ECONOMIC LUNACY, WE CALL IT ARITHMETIC - 22 June 2026
"Economic lunacy."

That's what Simeon Brown called taxing the 0.3% who own half of Aotearoa.

Here's what the numbers say:

🔴 169,300 tamariki in hardship
🔴 $6.5B extracted by 4 Australian banks, annually
🔴 23.9% of tamariki Māori in poverty — rising
🔴 $2.9B to landlords. Zero new for Māori housing.
🔴 Shane Jones shelved ocean protection for $26,950

Norway runs a wealth tax. Child poverty: 3.6%.
We don't. Māori child poverty: 23.9%.

The pātaka is full. The wrong people have the key.

🎙️ Deep Dive Podcast + full essay: themaorigreenlantern.maori.nz
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#Aotearoa #WealthTax #TamarikiMāori #ChildPoverty #MāoriRights #Neoliberalism #BottomTrawling

https://www.themaorigreenlantern.maori.nz/marama-davidson-on-mata-they-called-it-economic-lunacy-we-call-it-arithmetic-22-june-2026/

Keir Starmer is out but Andy Burnham is no friend of the British people.

Keir Starmer is finally gone. His likely replacement is charismatic, popular, and northern but he is also a welfare-cutting, BDS-bashing, Iraq War-supporting member of Labour Friends of Israel.

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Research shows homeless children overlooked by social housing system

The last census showed 33,000 children suffered from severe housing deprivation.

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What is the real crisis: public debt, or private destitution along with rampant child poverty?

The budget ignores child poverty and lets us all down

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Understanding local labour-market pressures to reduce child poverty in Scotland | Joseph Rowntree Foundation

https://www.jrf.org.uk/child-poverty/understanding-local-labour-market-pressures-to-reduce-child-poverty-in-scotland

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Understanding local labour-market pressures to reduce child poverty in Scotland

The new Scottish Government has said that eradicating child poverty will be its defining mission. This briefing is about what honouring that commitment requires when it comes to the labour market.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation