The Purge Continues: Diane Abbott Latest Victim of Starmer’s Authoritarian Machine

Authoritarianism in a Red Tie: The Starmer Regime Strikes Again

We all know it now: the Labour Party is no longer a movement, it’s a machine. A cold, corporate vehicle of authoritarianism, driven by a man who’s traded principle for power and wears obedience like a badge of honour.

Sir Keir Starmer, a tin-pot technocrat with the manners of a bureaucrat and the instincts of a despot, is riding high on a majority not earned through vision or hope, but handed to him because the Tories had rotted to the core. This is what happens when you vote for the so-called lesser of two evils. You still get evil… only now it’s dressed in red and talks about “grown-up politics” while crushing dissent.

Yesterday, Starmer suspended four Labour MPs – Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff, and Rachael Maskell – all had the whip removed for doing the unthinkable: voting with their conscience against the government’s brutal welfare reforms. Three other Labour MPs – Rosena Allin-Khan, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, and Mohammed Yasin – have been stripped of their trade envoy roles. Their crime? All seven voted against the government’s welfare reform bill earlier this month.

Today, that authoritarianism showed its face again. Diane Abbott, Britain’s first Black woman MP and a veteran of anti-racist struggle, has been suspended, again! Her crime? Speaking candidly about the lived experience of racism.

In a BBC interview, Abbott said what countless people of colour know to be true: that racism based on skin colour is visible, lifelong, and systemic in a way that other forms of prejudice, while real, manifest differently.

“I just think that it’s silly to try and claim that racism, which is about skin colour, is the same as other types of racism,” she said.

The response from Starmer’s Labour? Suspension. Investigation. Silence behind closed doors. Again!

Let’s be clear: Abbott had already apologised for her earlier letter to the Observer in 2023, under immense pressure, and had been readmitted to stand in the general election. But in Starmer’s Labour, forgiveness is conditional, and loyalty is a one-way street.

You can cheer for arms to Israel, vote for illegal wars, even lie through your teeth on national TV, and you’ll climb the ranks. But if you speak out of turn, or worse, speak the truth? You’ll find yourself purged.

This isn’t about racism. It’s about control. It’s about silencing inconvenient voices. It’s about a leadership that cannot abide independent thought, especially from someone who has never kissed the ring of the Blairite behind.

The Starmer regime doesn’t fear the Tories. It fears its own members. It fears the working class. And it fears anyone, like Diane Abbott, who reminds people what Labour used to stand for.

Welcome to the new order… The Iron Heel is stomping…

Paul Knaggs

Editor, founder, Labour Heartlands, Citizen journalist. 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙍𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩. Fighting a constant struggle with dyslexia that’s overcome with a burning desire to speak out against the corrupt political system and the social injustices it creates. Advocate for Free speech and open, accountable, democracy. #GTTO