Tapp fires pro-Israel criticism at Burnham

Israel fanatic Labour MP Mike Tapp appears to have attempted to fire a Starmeroid ‘shot across the bows’ of new Makerfield MP Andy Burnham. Of course, being pro-Israel and Starmeroid, it’s grossly hypocritical as well as awful.

Tapp told the BBC this morning that if Burnham or anyone else tries to challenge Keir Starmer, they would face pressure to stick closely to Starmer’s model of government. That means war on UK freedoms to protect Israel, along with cuts, privatisation and attempts to outdo fascist Reform on racial incitement.

But Tapp framed it as not going “too far from [Labour’s 2024 general election] manifesto”. That is a document that Starmer proceeded to shred as soon as he got into Downing Street. It’s also a document in which much of what Starmer has done in power didn’t appear at all. Commentator Saul Staniforth was rightly quick to point this out:

Mike Tapp: If that agenda is too far from the manifesto its really difficult not to call a general election […]

Like scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance, slashing welfare, digital IDs, banning Palestine Action, stuff like that you mean? pic.twitter.com/s9M8g4OHP9

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) June 19, 2026

Dead-eyed Dick

Tapp is a vice-chair of the Labour Friends of Genocide (LFI) group and therefore an appalling human being. But he manages to be one of LFI’s most snide, smirking and brutality-positive exemplars – a very difficult bar to limbo under. This was a point that didn’t escape many who responded to Staniforth:

That man unnerves me. Not just the lies and dishonesty, but his eyes are just dead. There is not a spark of humanity in there.

A sociopath.

— vob (@voblat) June 19, 2026

Some got quite pithy about it:

He’s such a slimy little fuck, even for the current crop of Labour scum he really gets my hackles up

— 🇱🇧 pickwick 🇱🇧 (@pickwickpick) June 19, 2026

Tapp’s implied threat didn’t go unnoticed either:

It’s a thinly veiled threat!

— david andrew lawson (@davelawson35) June 19, 2026

Nor did the fact that Tapp is a supporter of Starmer’s ‘mini-me but even more shiny’ continuity candidate Wes Streeting:

Pls forgive me for sullying yr timeline with an extract from the Daily Mail but …

It is hilarious. Mike Tapp is deranged. https://t.co/Ou5U4NtHzL pic.twitter.com/RugMViU2eN

— @ProudGranny24v2 (@AtlanticGranny) June 19, 2026

Burnham has already shown far too many signs of being willing to align with the pro-Israel, billionaire-licking Starmeroid right. But, like the genocidal colony he adores, Tapp apparently only wants 100% fealty and compliance and appears to be laying down a marker.

Featured image via the Canary