UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer started the week with some hardcore deflection.

Despite throwing nasty allegations at Elon Musk, Starmer took to his $44 billion platform, X, to promote the government’s latest ‘look over there’ distraction.

Why the desperation?

The UK public are seething. Whether it is Labour’s plan to rob the graves of farmers with inheritance tax changes, arresting people for tweeting, or pensioners left to freeze thanks to the cost of gas and energy – there is a lot of anger out there.

Starmer must realise that the cover up of Pakistani Grooming Gangs is an existential threat to Labour and the wider movement loosely described as ‘Woke’.

Voters are not only banging on the door of Westminster, raising their pitchforks about the rape of white girls by Pakistani men, they want to tear down the whole progressive movement, including the mass migration scandal which has undermined the cultural future of the UK. Working class people have never been worse off. Once thriving towns have died. Peaceful rural communities have become unwilling hosts to migrant camps.

A large portion of this tension is religious. Efforts to turn the UK into a life raft for the third world has been a disaster. People were never asked if they wanted Islam to rise through the ranks, piggy-backing on the refugee narrative.

What is Starmer to do?

Hold an inquiry into his own government and the tree of power that failed British working class girls? Failing an inquiry, what about fast-tracking the mass deportation of illegal migrants and foreign criminals clogging up the jail system on the taxpayer dime? No? How about taking control of the borders and putting the inhabitants of every zodiac on a plane to Syria? Still no?

Starmer has a better idea.

This week, he unveiled his AI master plan to turn the UK into a tech superpower.

All this without cheap or reliable power.

He tweeted: ‘I want Britain to be a leader in AI, not a follower.’

Calm down, chap. When you’ve eradicated machete warfare from the streets, maybe you can think about tech.

‘AI is the way to secure growth, to raise living standards, put money in people’s pockets, create exciting new companies, and transform our public services.’

Imagine how the family farming community feels hearing ‘create exciting new companies’ after having the government destroy their businesses, pillaging the assets of food growers to line the pockets of tech giants.

‘I want people to look back on this generation and be proud of what we started today.’

If there is anyone left to look back…

Starmer did not say anything tangible about what AI is or what it will do. Indeed, X’s community notes brutally clocked Labour for cancelling £1.3 billion worth of AI funding within its first week of office.

When this funding cut was announced, the Department of Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT) claimed:

‘The government is taking difficult and necessary spending decisions across all departments in the face of billions of pounds of unfunded commitments. This is essential to restore economic stability and deliver our national mission for growth.’

Evidently Labour found those billions in the pockets of the people who saw their taxes raised and, now that Labour desperately needs the press to talk about something other than the rape of young women, they’re throwing money around.

To be honest, the type of AI Starmer is describing sounds like a mix between SkyNet and whatever hideous social credit smart city system China has. In practice, it is probably closer to a Microsoft Word update.

Reform MP Rupert Lowe replied to Starmer:

‘We’re not interested in AI. We want to know what you’re doing about the mass rape of young British girls – which is ongoing TODAY.’

He ignored that. And all the rest of the criticism.

Considering how quick Starmer was to axe AI funding when it suited him, it’s hard to know how seriously we can take his rambling article in the Financial Times or the press conference in which he gave no detail at all. Here’s a sample:

‘It is a force for change that will transform the lives of working people for the better. If you are sitting around the kitchen table tonight, worried about the opportunities for your children’s school, AI can help teachers plan lessons tailored to your children’s specific needs.’

If Starmer were to ask parents what they were worried about, it is that their children will come home from school, not only illiterate and innumerate, but also insisting they are a different gender, or that they are the only British child in the classroom. Little girls might not come home at all, having been abducted by Grooming Gangs. AI is not going to solve these problems although it might accelerate the dumbing-down of the teaching profession by, as Starmer says, writing lesson plans when education should be the job of the teachers employed to do it.

More to the point, most of what Starmer is talking about is not an AI revolution, it’s a continuation of normal software designs. Technology has always streamlined services, all that has changed is politicians rebranding this to AI as an excuse to gift the already rich tech industry millions of pounds in public money.

There is no need for the government to fund the technology industry. They are incentivised to create high quality products which the government can purchase.

We must congratulate the AI lobbyists around the world for their marketing campaign. They have successfully conned leaders, desperate to look modern and ‘with it’, into handing the industry wads of cash so they can get critics off their back for a while.

To give you an idea of how unpopular Keir Starmer is, I set up an online poll last night asking who people would prefer as their Prime Minister, Starmer or some random street cat.

The street cat is winning. By miles.