Sir Keir Starmer is the shape shifting tragedy Middle England produced

Watching Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s agonisingly bad BBC Scotland interview with Martin Geisler this past weekend, you could not but sit in wonder at the man’s determination to say literally anything to appease Britain’s Union Flag worshipping Brexit Brigade.

Keep the NHS British

On the NHS the man more or less aligned himself with the knuckle draggers of Britain First in stating that “‘Freedom of movement has gone and it’s not coming back. What I would like to see is the numbers go down in some areas. I think we’re recruiting too many people from overseas into, for example, the health service.”

When this statement is weighed in the balance against the fact that among the first NHS doctors to die of Covid while battling the disease in 2020— Amged el-Hawrani, Adel el-Tayar and Habib Zaidi — hailed from overseas, you arrive at destination repellent. It is a statement dripping not only in Brexit anti-migrant bigotry but also pig ignorance, considering that the NHS in Scotland currently has 6000 vacancies it is struggling to fill, and considering that across the UK overall the shortage of trained nurses and other staff has become chronic in the wake of Brexit.

Starmer and his team have cynically calibrated their message to pander to rather than…