Straight Talk from the Grown-Ups

Having spent several years pandering relentlessly to the Farage Falange demographic, Team Starmer is naturally wagging its finger at the Farage Falange. Apparently someone has discovered that various cadres among the legions of the forthright have made unsuitably racist remarks, and Team Starmer seems to imagine that this will be some sort of electoral turn-off for the great British public, which has lavished upon the Falange and its strutting Caudillo the sort of favourability levels it once reserved for the equally statesmanlike Boris Johnson. The depth and perspicacity of Team Starmer's political judgement can perhaps best be gauged from the fact that it has chosen this week of all weeks, with its CEO mired in new and entirely gratuitous strata of ordure from the free pass granted Lord Mandelbrot the Infinitely Recurring, to lecture the Falange on vetting procedures.