100+ ex-councillors demand Starmer falls on his sword

It’s clear to 99.99% of Britons what Labour’s key issue was in the local elections, and that issue was ‘Keir Starmer’. The 0.01% of people who don’t think this are Keir Starmer himself, and the cabinet ministers who know they’ll never hold government positions again once he’s gone.

As a result of Starmer’s incompetence, hundreds of Labour politicians lost their jobs. And in response, they’ve written to Starmer to tell him he needs to lose his own job next:

🚨 NEW: Over 100 former Labour councillors and candidates have written to Keir Starmer calling for him to resign pic.twitter.com/uPBPSkd09r

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) May 9, 2026

Dear Starmer

The letter in full reads:

Dear Keir,

It is with sadness and deep regret that we, the undersigned former and present Labour councillors, Members of the Senedd, Members of the Scottish Parliament and 7th May candidates from across the UK, write to encourage you to take full responsibility for our party’s electoral defeats this week, announce a timetable for your departure, and allow an orderly transition to new leadership for the country.

So far, Starmer is refusing to do this. He has verbally ‘taken responsibility‘ for the defeat, but he’s not taken any action to demonstrate accountability. Well, not unless you count ‘refreshing’ his government by inviting back the last Labour politician to lose an election as the sitting PM:

🗣️ 'Sir Keir’s latest decision is the equivalent of responding to a fire breaking out in your home by landscaping your garden'@MrTCHarris reacts to Keir Starmer facilitating Gordon Brown's return to no. 10 ⤵️https://t.co/euGFm8ancB pic.twitter.com/97seMSCJ41

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 9, 2026

Oh, and he also made Harriet Harman an adviser on ‘women and girls’ despite her historic links to a notorious paedophile network:

I’m delighted to appoint @HarrietHarman as my Adviser on Women and Girls.

Harriet is a strong advocate for women and girls and I know she will deliver greater opportunity for women in public life.

I’m committed to tackling structural misogyny that is a barrier for too many… pic.twitter.com/iQeDS0XQrI

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) May 9, 2026

Back to the letter, it continued:

This week, our party suffered multiple historic defeats: in Wales, Scotland, and all across England.

Your government has delivered transformative things for the country, things we are all proud of: the Employment Rights Act; the Renters Rights Act; investment in public services; dignity and direction on the world stage at a time of tension and instability.

It is fair to say that unlike the Tories, Starmer’s Labour has not been universally hostile towards Britons who earn less than the national average salary. The problem with the measures listed above is that they didn’t go far enough, or the government u-turned on key elements.

At the same time, a lot of Starmer’s actions have been genuinely terrible, including:

• Continuing to privatise the NHS.
• Demonising sick and disabled people.
• Providing political and material support to Israel’s genocide.

Turning up the Keith

The letter continues:

But this week, the public voted with their feet and it is now clear that we will need new leadership to take us into the next election.

We fear that inaction serves only Reform UK and risks handing the keys to Number 10 to Nigel Farage. The British public would not forgive us for this.

For the sake of the communities that our party was founded to represent, we urge you to announce a date for your departure and to guarantee an orderly process to elect your successor.

This is all well and good, and Starmer is certainly the man responsible for the local elections being quite so disastrous. At the same time, the Labour Party has been lurching towards its demise for some time now — namely by embracing wealthy interests over the labour movement it was founded to represent.

Under Starmer, this lurch became a sprint.

What’s next?

To be clear, Labour absolutely should get rid of Starmer. The party just needs to acknowledge that doing so will only be ‘step one’ on the path towards becoming electable again.

If Labour politicians don’t address their underlying issues, they’ll fade into oblivion like the Whigs — another party which no doubt believed it had a God-given right to exist.

Featured image via the Canary