Diane Abbott nails nonsense attempts to turd-polish Starmer

Hackney North’s Diane Abbott — Britain’s first Black woman MP — has dismantled attempts by Starmer’s political and media allies to mythologise the record of Keir Starmer. Starmer, the most hated PM in modern British political history, announced his resignation yesterday, 22 June 2026.

Starmer packed the resignation with lies, justifying himself and whitewashing his awful record. He claimed that he had rescued Labour from bankruptcy and purged it of antisemitism. He claimed he had done everything “for the country he loves most”; he didn’t say that was the UK. triggered a flood of disinformation as his allies tried to shore up the lies.

But Abbott is having none of it. She has called out the “myth-making” — and provided a fact-check on the claims of Keir and his supporters about his electoral performance:

There is a lot of myth-making about Starmer’s leadership, much of it unchallenged.
It is hard to support the claim Starmer ‘saved the Labour party’ when he got 560,000 votes fewer than Corbyn in 2019.
2024 was a Tory collapse, not a Labour surge.
(via HoC Library). pic.twitter.com/r6rxEQuSHX

— Diane Abbott (@HackneyAbbott) June 23, 2026

Abbott is right. Starmer — and all the media-political drones either amplifying his crap or letting it slide unchallenged — is wrong. Corbyn in 2017 achieved Labour’s best result since 1945. In 2019 – the supposed ‘disaster’ — he outperformed Keir’s 2024 result significantly. Starmer himself lost a huge portion of his Holborn and St. Pancras majority in 2024. The differences are that the former Labour leader and his faction weren’t sabotaging 2024. The Tories were collapsing. And Starmer won more seats than his total 2024 majority in seats where Reform took second and divided the Tory vote.

Sometimes with candidates who didn’t even exist – a fact never mentioned by the so-called ‘mainstream’ media.

Featured image via the Canary