Starmer’s oikophobia* is erasing so much that is great about Britain
*An oikophobe dislikes his own society and its customs. He repudiates national loyalties and reveres global bureaucracies
The oikophobe is unconcerned by the obliteration of Edmund Burke’s Little Platoons, the private institutions that underpin civil society. He only cares about the preservation of state institutions idolised by the Left, such as the NHS or BBC. He will turn against private fireplaces next, or red meat, or find some other custom to re-engineer into oblivion. He is convinced ordinary people suffer from false consciousness and require re-education.
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Starmer has played a key role in this oikophobic revolution. He is a human rights fanatic whose ideology holds borders to be largely illegitimate and that millions have the right to move here even if they hate our values or refuse to work.
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The Chagos sell-out is another illustration of Labour’s oikophobia. Its real aim is to weaken Britain by handing power to foreign countries, even China, ignoring the views of Chagossians and the principle of self-determination. The hypocrisy is staggering.
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What is wrong with Sir Keir Starmer? Why is he waging war on all that was once special about Britain? What has he got against our veterans, our pubs and farmers, our eccentricities great and small, our proud tradition of free speech and democracy?
The Prime Minister doesn’t want Britain to retain its striking distinctiveness, its remarkable character, the product of our island history. He seeks instead to turn us into the blandest of imagined communities, as if designed by a committee of lawyers and urbanists, a universalised, ahistoric blancmange of a welfare state, a toothless Airstrip One that daren’t choose between America, Europe or China.
As George Orwell wrote in England, Your England, ours “is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality… In Left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings”.
He could have been referring to Blairite “modernisers” such as Starmer. Their triumph has been near-total: they have abolished pre-1990s Britain by weaponising state power. The monuments are still here but much of what tourists expect to experience has disappeared. Our peculiarities have been erased and our political culture diluted.
Starmer is the embodiment of the oikophobe, to use Sir Roger Scruton’s terminology: from the Greek oikos, or “house”, and phobos, “fear”, he distrusts and dislikes much of his own polity, his society, including core institutions and customs, and likes to denigrate them or, as with the case of Chagos or the EU, stand with those who oppose our national interest. The oikophobe repudiates national loyalties, and reveres international law and global bureaucracies.
He doesn’t feel a sense of loss at the news that William Evans, London’s last independent gun shop, is closing after occupying the same St James’s store for over 80 years, blaming soaring taxes. He doesn’t seem bothered that the British pub is heading for extinction, with one a day shutting as a result of minimum wages, inane taxation, net-zero energy costs and extreme drink-driving rules. Starmer destroyed scores of private schools, some more than 100 years old.