Keir Starmer’s Labour: All Talk, No Change – And Wondering If To Snatch Free School Meals From Infants

Five posts in a single day about potholes. That’s what Keir Starmer, leader of the so-called opposition, chose to focus on while the country is falling apart. The NHS is in crisis, the housing market is a joke, rents are soaring, homelessness is at record highs, and now they’re planning to cut free school meals for infants. But don’t worry, folks, Labour is on the case! They’re filling potholes.

This is Starmer’s Labour in a nutshell: a shallow, performative government that wants to look like it’s doing something while actually doing nothing of substance. Instead of taking on the big issues, like fixing the broken healthcare system or tackling the housing disaster, Starmer is out here playing Mr. Road Repair. This isn’t leadership. This is the political equivalent of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Remember when Labour was supposed to stand for working people? That was before Starmer turned it into a second-rate Tory Party, but with slightly more polite press conferences. His government is fully committed to austerity, just like the Conservatives before them. The idea floated to cut free school meals for infants is a perfect example of their true priorities. Instead of helping struggling families, they’re happy to take food out of kids’ mouths while pretending they’re the party of “working people.”

Let’s be clear: cutting free school meals isn’t just cruel, it’s economically idiotic. Studies show that feeding kids properly improves their ability to learn, reduces pressure on struggling families, and saves money in the long run by improving public health. But instead of tackling actual waste, like the billions lost to dodgy contracts and tax loopholes, they’re targeting children to make up the difference.

While Starmer is busy measuring pot holes, the NHS is on its knees. Waiting times are the longest they’ve ever been, staff are burned out, and funding isn’t keeping up with demand. Housing? Forget about it. Developers are turning family homes into bedsits, rents are through the roof, and first-time buyers are being locked out of the market. Where’s Labour’s plan for any of this?

There isn’t one.

Instead, we get patronising nonsense about potholes, as if that’s the biggest issue facing the country. This is how far Labour has fallen: they’ve gone from offering real solutions to pretending that fixing a few roads is the height of governance.

Labour under Starmer isn’t just disappointing—it’s a complete betrayal of everything the party once stood for. They’re not challenging the status quo; they’re managing it. They’re not solving crises; they’re ignoring them. The whole point of an opposition party is to offer an alternative, but all Starmer is doing is offering more of the same. At this point, why even bother pretending Labour is different from the Tories? They’re following the same failed policies, the same neglect of the public sector, and now the same cruel austerity measures.

The difference is that at least with the Conservatives, you expected them to screw people over. Starmer’s Labour does it while claiming to be on your side.

People didn’t vote for Starmer because they wanted a carbon copy of Rishi Sunak. They voted for him because they were sick to death of the Tories. But instead of fixing the real problems, Labour is playing it safe, talking about potholes while the whole country goes to shit. If this is the best they can offer, then they don’t deserve to hold onto power.

Because if you’re willing to let kids go hungry, if you’re happy to let the NHS collapse, if you refuse to tackle the housing crisis, and if your aspirations are filling in a few holes in the road—then you don’t belong in government. You belong in the dustbin of history.

Facebook posts:

1. Broken roads cost hard-working people time and money — and they are understandably fed up.

My government is fixing this. We are unlocking new road schemes and funding pothole repairs across the country.

2. Potholes are more than a nuisance — they’re dangerous and costly. Fixing the things people use every day is central to delivering national renewal and making working people better off. That’s why we are investing £1.6bn to fix broken roads and keep them that way.

3. Potholes have a huge financial impact on working people and small businesses – that's why I want to see them fixed. We’ve done our part by handing councils the cash and certainty they need, now it’s up to them to get on with the job.

4. Potholes cost working people real money.If a van is in the shop for a week, it could be devastating for a small business.

5. Last year I promised we would fill 1 million potholes. Today we have announced funding that will fill seven times that amount. Fixing potholes. Not pointing at them. That is why my government is providing the funding needed to fill in an extra 7 million potholes across the UK.

Twitter posts:

Pretty much identical - yes, dear, we GET the fact that you think the phrase 'pointing at potholes' is clever...