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Keir Starmer has betrayed the working class and these 5 blunders prove it.uk

As the numbers paint a grim picture, the question looms: has Labour forgotten the very people who once carried them to power, leaving promises unfulfilled?

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Keir Starmer’s Labour has failed the working class (Image: Getty)

Growing up in a working-class home, one thing was certain: Labour was our party. It was passed down through generations like a family heirloom – worn, cherished, and never questioned. The party built by grafters, for grafters. But here we are in 2025, and I can’t help but ask: where did it all go wrong? Because from where I’m standing – in a community still waiting on change – it feels like Labour have forgotten the people who carried them to power in the first place.

Keir Starmer strode into Downing Street with big talk of “renewal” and “change.” But change for who? Middle-class professionals in leafy boroughs? Because working-class people like me are still waiting.

Last night Kemi Badenoch told the Express: “He may have been ready for an election. He was not ready for government. They made promises and they’ve broken them because they don’t know how to run this country.” And she is absolutely right.

The numbers don’t lie. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 14.4 million Brits are living in poverty – including 4.2 million kids. Food bank use? Still skyrocketing. A record three million parcels handed out in the last year. That’s not renewal. That’s shameful.

And housing? Let’s not kid ourselves. Labour said they’d build 1.5 million homes. So far, we’ve got a few headline-grabbing photo ops and not much else. In places like Barking and Merthyr Tydfil, people are crying out for investment – but what they get are sky-high rents, dodgy landlords, and broken promises.

Education used to be our way up. Now it’s a conveyor belt to debt. Labour’s “skills plan” is a tired remix of Tory policy – reheated leftovers served with a red rosette. Real investment in colleges and apprenticeships? Nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, our kids are jammed into packed classrooms taught by burnt-out teachers and still told university is their only ticket out.

Work isn’t working either. Labour’s made zero effort to raise the minimum wage in real terms. Over 60% of low-paid workers haven’t seen a meaningful pay rise in years. And what happened to banning zero-hours contracts? Silence. The gig economy rolls on, grinding down the very people Labour once fought for.

Let’s be brutally honest – Labour’s lost touch. You can feel it in the boarded-up high streets of Sunderland and the job centres of Walsall. Our working-class communities have become playgrounds for vice: betting shops, off-licenses selling booze and fags, and takeaways on every corner. What happened to the corner shop? The youth club? The proper pub with music and conversation?

Keir Starmer’s Labour isn’t the party of the miners or the mums holding down two jobs. It’s the party of spreadsheets, soulless policies, and don’t-rock-the-boat centrism. The sort that’s too afraid to say what needs to be said in case it upsets a focus group.

We didn’t vote for more of the same. We voted Labour to rebuild what’s been broken for too long. And if they won’t listen to the people who gave them their mandate, then don’t be shocked when we stop listening to them altogether.

Because working-class people aren’t stupid. We know when we’re being fobbed off. And right now, Labour are all talk, no graft – and dangerously close to losing the very people who believed in them the most.

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