Sir Keir used to demand we get rid of the Queen. Do you really think he’s changed?

THE truth about the Labour Party and its ferociously radical leader Sir Keir Starmer is so obvious that nobody sees it. This is why the recent revelation that the Blair creature himself was once a Trotskyist came and went without any response at all.

Nobody in the media wants to believe it, so they simply ignore it. Since the days of the Blairites, Labour has been a revolutionary party, crammed with people who long to get rid of the Monarchy but have more sense than to say so in public. An astonishing number of Blair’s Cabinet colleagues had deep past links with revolutionary sects. Now such ideas are embedded in a party that used to be based on working-class trade unionism and Methodist Christianity

My advice is to take note of this now, rather than waiting to find out that it is true, just as it is true that Labour’s present leader, Keir Starmer was – as an adult – connected to a Marxist sect and its deeply radical magazine. But nobody wants to know.

This has been the genius of Blairism, to be miles to the Left of Jeremy Corbyn, but to persuade gullible media types that they are actually conservative.

SO WHEN film emerged last week of Sir Keir saying he ‘often used to propose the abolition of the Monarchy’, the main response (if there was any at all) was that it was a long time ago. So what? Has he really changed his mind, or just his image? In fact, the only way to find out what such people think is often to check what they said before the spin doctors cleaned up their pasts for them. Remember Blair’s attempt to deny that he had once been a nuclear disarmer, until documents proved beyond doubt that he had been? So why did he pretend so hard that the facts were not true? Because it still said something important about his real politics, which he wished to conceal from the voters.

Last week it also emerged that Sir Keir’s party had been seeking advice from the hidden persuaders of marketing, who told them to ‘make use’ of the flag, veterans and dressing smartly, to win back the trust of working-class voters. I’m sure these cynics will follow this advice. They understand that they will come to power only by pretending to be someone else, and they are not ashamed to do so.

I’ll never forget the day in May 1997 when Labour Party workers were shepherded into Downing Street and ordered to wave Union Jacks (a flag which most of them hated) while the Blair creature made his triumphal approach to the door of No 10.

The thing was an obvious phoney, as normal human beings haven’t been all owed i nto f enced- off Downing Street for decades. But as phoney tricks so often do, it worked. TV news programmes fell for it, and clips of this falsehood still turn up all the time, without any health warning, in historical documentaries.

The truth is that New Labour, crammed as it is with ‘ex’ Marxists, loathes the Monarchy and yearns to get rid of it. It rightly sees public respect for the Crown as an obstacle to the complete power it seeks. It wants the adoring crowds, the grandeur and the ceremony for itself. But it knows it will never win an election if it says so. So it waves the flag, accepts the knighthoods, and waits for its time to come.