Keir Starmer should come and do a shift at GB News...then he might finally hear the tinnitus-inducing alarm call of the nation

The local election results should have been a tinnitus-inducing alarm call for the Labour leadership.

Sir Keir Starmer should have been reflecting, ruminating and listening to the public – even a cursory ten minutes on X would have helped him get a sense of why they pummelled him.

He will need to work out what happened if he wants to remain in power until the end of next week, never mind the end of the election cycle.

But what did he do instead? He wheeled out Gordon Brown as a Special Envoy on Global Finance with a cinematic video that one might reserve for a hero, not a leading man in the movie of our country’s long demise.

How can the PM not know how many people trace back our national malaise to Blair and Brown - the start of political correctness and the policing of language; the bloated civil service; the normalisation of a benefits culture; the true beginning of save-the-planet-panic and the denudation of energy self-sufficiency.

There was New Labour’s ‘medals-for-everyone’ non-competitive schools’ ethos; the greasy slide into the arms of the EU; the beginning of the globalist agenda to survey, track and control the population (Tony Blair still spearheads that ambition today) and that’s before we’ve even mentioned Gordon Brown’s selling around half of the UK’s gold reserves between 1999 and 2002 while serving as Chancellor.

He claimed he wanted to diversify into interest-bearing foreign currency assets such as dollars and yen.

But the sale of 395 tonnes of gold only raised roughly $3.5billion (£2.57billion) as it had an average price of about $275 (£201.65) an ounce - near the bottom of the market.

Now, with a rising price of $4,700 (£3,446.38) per ounce, that would now be worth more than $50billion (£36.66billion).

The list of self-harm is long and it started with the very man our PM brought out to save us the morning after the elections! It was the political equivalent of handing a shot of whiskey to someone nursing a hangover – you don’t know whether to laugh, cry or vomit.

Anger and fear over uncontrolled legal and illegal migration played a huge part in these local election results and yet that very phenomenon began under Brown’s New Labour. Communities changed faster than infrastructure could manage.

Housing pressure intensified and wages reduced or stagnated in many sectors, thanks to people from developing countries working for lower wages while Gordon Brown ran the Treasury.

Trust between the electorate and the political establishment eroded because voters increasingly felt they were never honestly consulted about the scale of change taking place around them.

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It was Blair and Brown who shot the starting pistol on several subsequent decades of people feeling increasingly helpless as Big Government grew stronger and more arrogant.

The pair are still key actors in the cast of Globalist decision-makers earning millions at Davos and setting the agendas of the UN, the WHO and the WEF – all the profitable acronyms that serve the Transnational Corporations but keep small businesses in dire straits and we little people in our place.

So on what planet did Keir Starmer think Gordon Brown was the man to reassure a furious electorate?

It’s often hard to tell if Starmer is deliberately damaging his chances. If Sigmund Freud was right that human beings - driven by subconscious desires - never do anything ‘by accident,’ we can only conclude that Keir wants to pack his gear and get outta here!

I suggest Starmer comes and does a shift at GB News. Just one hour as a presenter reading the ‘Your Say’ inbox would allow him to grasp the mood of the nation.

Instead, his Government refuses to engage with GB News, commonly ignoring our reporters and rejecting multiple invitations to appear. More fool them! They believe that estrangement from us and our viewers is a sign of strength – they have taken cutting off your nose to spite your face to a new level.

If this election has taught Labour anything, it should be the power of GB News and how their boycott of us is startlingly stupid and myopic.

If they want to talk to the people who are collectively turning the political dial, they need to access them through our network.

On election day, GB News saw record viewing figures, trouncing BBC and Sky News because viewers sought us out - not to celebrate - but certainly to hear Reform’s success be treated as something other than a national disaster.

This was not a day to watch BBC and Sky presenters hold their noses as the map turned turquoise. Our politically sophisticated viewers want change.

They have spent years telling Westminster exactly what they are fed up with: managed decline, political elitism, mass immigration without honest discussion, endless technocratic jargon, the neglect of Christianity at the altar of diversity, soaring tax and living costs, collapsing trust in institutions and a political class more interested in international approval than national confidence.

GB News viewers will have been stunned by Starmer’s instinct to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Gordon Brown a day after such a drubbing - the man who symbolises precisely the era many people believe started Britain down this path.

Whether establishment figures like it or not, there has been a profound shift in public consciousness over the last 6 years.

Thanks to a pandemic of lies, people are more sceptical of institutions than ever before. They are less trusting of experts who repeatedly get major issues wrong. They are tired of being told their concerns are illegitimate, ignorant or somehow morally suspect.

And every time politicians respond to public anger by wheeling out another relic from the New Labour years, they only deepen that frustration.

I hate to break it to No10, but Gordon Brown is not viewed by huge swathes of the public as some wise elder statesman floating above politics.

He is seen as part of the old New Labour machine, the Blair-Brown years that reshaped Britain in ways millions are now openly questioning.

The public mood has changed dramatically, but Labour still behaves as though it hasn’t noticed.

People are crying out for politicians who understand borders, identity, community, sovereignty and national cohesion. Instead, they see the same globalist worldview being recycled yet again.

Gordon Brown belongs to an era that championed open-border economics, constitutional upheaval, relentless bureaucracy and a political philosophy that often appeared to value international consensus over the concerns of ordinary British voters.

Many of the anxieties dominating public debate today did not appear overnight. They were seeded during those years in government.

And now, in 2026, after years of Brexit, cultural division, economic pressure and political disillusionment, Labour thinks the answer is to dust off Gordon Brown and present him as a comforting national figure?

Read the bloomin’ room!

This is exactly why so many voters feel Westminster simply does not listen. The political class keeps talking to itself, reassuring itself, promoting the same figures, the same assumptions and the same worldview that much of the country has already rejected.

First Brexit and now the local elections have exposed that disconnect brutally.

People want authenticity and politicians who speak from the heart – even if it makes them unpopular. They want leaders who express and understand patriotism without embarrassment.

Above all, they want honesty and Gordon Brown was the man who smiled to a voter's face then called her a bigot behind her back!

So much of modern politics in the UK feels staged, managed and curated by communications teams terrified of saying anything genuine in case it upsets a backbencher/donor/globalist mentor.

Starmer had an opportunity after these elections to show humility, self-awareness and a genuine understanding of why voters are growing angrier by the day.

Instead, the image of him chatting warmly with Gordon Brown sent precisely the opposite message: that Labour still instinctively turns back toward the old managerial political class rather than forward toward the country’s demands.

That image said everything: a political establishment talking to itself while the public shouts from outside the room.

And the more Westminster refuses to hear those voices, the louder they will become. By the time of the General Election, it will be a roar.