Labour bigwigs predict McSweeney and Starmer ‘out by Xmas’

As reported by HuffPost, a growing number of senior Labour figures have had it with Keir Starmer and his wormtongue advisor Morgan McSweeney. This development comes after 15 months of failed policies, endless scandals, historically bad polling, and by-election wipeouts.

The question now is who could have seen this coming?

Yes, you made a pact with a repellent, horrible, spiteful demon in exchange for power and influence and now you have nothing, and he is going to drag your souls to Hell. pic.twitter.com/4i6PpMwpeO

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) October 24, 2025

Burnt toast

Written by Kevin Schofield, the HuffPost piece is titled:

End Of The Keir Show: How Senior Labour Figures Now Believe Starmer Is Already Toast

This might be news to Starmer himself, who has spent the last few days promoting Digital ID as if Labour didn’t just get wiped out in a Welsh by-election:

Keir Starmer has FOUR community notes from the last DAY calling him out for his lies and authoritarianism pic.twitter.com/SCxQJrHuC8

— Tiberius (@ecomarxi) October 24, 2025

Of course, maybe it isn’t news to him, and he simply wants to use what little career he has left pushing a reheated Blairite policy over the finish line.

In his piece, Schofield notes that chief of staff McSweeney travelled to the House of Lords to meet with 80+ Labour peers. One noted:

It was like a car crash in slow motion. If you’re going to come down from No.10 to see us, you need to come out fighting, say this is the mess we inherited, this is what’s going wrong and this is how we’re going to fix it.

But there was no energy, no ideas and he didn’t have any answers to our questions. It was really very damaging.

It’s perhaps not surprising that McSweeney wouldn’t want to voice his ideas out loud. He is, after all, the architect of Starmer’s biggest disasters.

One peer said of McSweeney:

McSweeney might be a good political campaigner, but he isn’t a chief of staff because he’s not getting things done.

He just kept saying he noted our concerns and would report back. It was a really depressing meeting.

How embarrassing this must be for McSweeney.

As Paul Holden detailed in The Fraud, McSweeney spent the past several years manoeuvring behind the scenes to put himself in this very position, and now that he’s here, he’s fucking useless.

Oh, and by the way, this meeting happened before Labour’s historic loss in Caerphilly, Wales.

In other words, things look much, much worse now.

Gone by Christmas?

A ‘senior Labour source’ told Schofield:

By any objective assessment, it’s an absolute disaster.

If it had happened under Jeremy Corbyn, the party would be in absolute meltdown, and rightly so. It was even worse than our most pessimistic scenario.

Under Corbyn, McSweeney and his Labour Together MPs endeavoured to create an “absolute meltdown” even when things were going well. Possibly they wouldn’t have bothered if they’d known how woeful they’d prove in power.

Another ‘insider’ told Schofield:

I think people are now in a place where they believe this can’t continue and we can’t go into massive midterm elections with him in charge.

The chances of him being gone my Christmas is massively under-priced. People will let the Budget happen at the end of November, and then there could be a move against him.

If a new leader comes in then and puts 5% on the polls, suddenly things look a lot better. We don’t get utterly decimated in Wales, the Scottish result is a bit better and you save a whole load of councillors.

Existential

One of the peers who spoke to Schofield said:

What about all the poor councillors who’ll lose their seats? Those are the foot soldiers we’re going to need come the next election.

They tried to convince us Corbyn was an existential threat to Labour’s existence even as he grew the party into one of the largest in Europe. Now, it looks like Labour could be wiped off the electoral map through a sheer lack of boots on the ground, and all because Starmer and McSweeney have no idea what they’re doing.

Who’s the existential threat now, lads?

Let’s also not forget that more people voted for Labour in 2017 and 2019 than in 2024. Labour’s recent electoral success was always a result of them being the only viable alternative at the moment when Tory support finally collapsed. Starmer and McSweeney never any had any plan beyond ‘not being Jeremy Corbyn’, and now everyone can see what that looks like in practice.

It’s what Labour insiders are describing as a:

toaster-in-the-bath mood among MPs

It’s Starmerism in practice, and it’s on its way out.

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