Keir Starmer and Donald Trump are both bleeding ordinary people dry in service of an increasingly brash and powerful billionaire class. And we need to destroy once and for all the dangerous notion that they’re different. Because as far as 99% of us are concerned, they’re both a dire threat.
Dump the BBC propaganda!
The BBC is clearly British state propaganda. But sometimes, its most dangerous content is more subtle. For example, it just tried to paint Keir Starmer and Donald Trump as “wildly different” figures. (That’s bullshit, but we’ll get to that in a few seconds.) The effect was to paint Starmer, indirectly, as the hero of the story – the serious, professional manager putting on a brave face to please the arsehole CEO who’s bulldozed his way into the office on a rare, uncomfortable visit to the front line. What a “relief” for Starmer, the BBC suggests, that things went so smoothly.
But Starmer is not the hero – of any story. He lied to become Labour leader. He viciously purged left-wingers from the party before jumping into bed with corporate lobbyists. And he is happily supporting genocide and licking Trump’s boots. He knows exactly what he’s doing – riding the parliamentary gravy train and willingly furthering the longstanding corporate takeover of Britain in the process. He didn’t just accidentally fall into a “multibillion-pound deal” with Donald Trump to ramp up private-sector nuclear production to power resource-hungry Big Tech data centres. It was their aim – to serve their billionaire pals and overlords:
It’s clear from the Windsor banquet guest list that the real purpose of Trump’s “historic” state visit is to invite US finance and tech CEOs to asset-strip anything here in the UK that isn’t nailed down pic.twitter.com/6b4IMwWTnI
— Nicholas Guyatt (@NicholasGuyatt) September 18, 2025
Tech, media and finance executives joined President Donald Trump and King Charles III at an elaborate state dinner Wednesday, underscoring efforts to strengthen a US-UK alliance https://t.co/W8HtsJqnOp pic.twitter.com/2QTmBR4zY9
— Bloomberg (@business) September 17, 2025
They. Are. Not. Different.
Other establishment media outlets also keep up the facade that Trump and Starmer are at odds with each other. But that’s because their owners benefit from making us think they are. If enough people broke out of the toxic electoral cycle of anointing different flavours of elite rule, they’d be in trouble.
The fact is, neither Starmer nor Trump has principles they’re not willing to give up for money. The only differences are in charisma, power, and popularity ratings (Starmer has less on all fronts). The similarities, meanwhile, are plenty. Both are cracking down on free speech – whether it’s on anti-fascists in the US or anti-genocide protesters in the UK. Their predecessors paved the way, but they’re stepping the censorship up further. And they’re both destroying the international legal system by enabling Israeli war criminals. Even though British voters are more critical of Israel’s genocide in Gaza than US voters, forcing Starmer to make meaningless statements and small concessions, he’s very much a loyal supporter of the billionaire–backed project.
The obscene wealth of billionaires is becoming more and more extreme. And they’re laughing all the way to the bank because enough people still think choosing between red and blue corporate cronies at an election is ‘democratic enough’. We need to challenge that view more forcefully and more often. Because the billionaires are currently winning the class war against the rest of us, and they have both Starmer and Trump firmly on their side.
Featured image via YouTube screenshot/BBC News
