OPINION:
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his resignation Monday. He is the sixth prime minister in the past 10 years, another sign that Britain has become ungovernable.
Mr. Starmer has been in office for less than two years. Although he sold himself as a center-left moderate, he acted like a typical Labor Party socialist, raising taxes and social benefits and stifling free speech.
Last week, Defense Secretary John Healey resigned with a blistering rebuke, telling Mr. Starmer: “You have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats.”
Mr. Healey may have been thinking about the prime minister’s too-little-too-late approach to helping the United States in the Iran war.
Beyond all of this, Mr. Starmer presided over a classic drubbing. In local elections last month, the Reform UK party of Member of Parliament Nigel Farage gained more than 1,400 seats on local councils, winning in both Labor and Conservative constituencies. Mr. Farage has called for parliamentary elections in 2027, two years ahead of the 2029 deadline.
Two issues loom large in Britain: censorship and assimilation failure.
Increasingly, the British people feel they are being colonized by immigrants from lands they once ruled. Instead of demanding that newcomers assimilate, the government has decided to reeducate the native born. This was reflected in the death of Henry Nowak.
Nowak was an 18-year-old student who was stabbed to death with a ceremonial dagger by Vickrum Singh Digwa. Even though Nowak was on the ground bleeding when police arrived, they accepted Digwa’s claim that his victim committed a racially motivated attack against him. Having just been indoctrinated on racial sensitivity, the police handcuffed Nowak and stood around laughing as he bled to death. Digwa was later convicted of murder.
It is not just this particular case but also the mindset it shows, where the authorities always assume the White person is guilty and the non-White is the victim.
If this two-tiered system of justice is criticized on social media, it is censored as hate speech.
Mr. Starmer will remain in office until September to give his Labor Party leadership time to pick his successor, likely former Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, who is to the left of Mr. Starmer.
Both Labor and the Tories have failed the British people. Mr. Starmer is the latest chapter in that failure. Reform UK is the only party with answers.
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