{"id":37072,"date":"2026-04-08T14:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=37072"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:42:55","slug":"is-starmer-out-of-touch-with-working-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/is-starmer-out-of-touch-with-working-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Starmer out of touch with working Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there is one thing Sir Keir Starmer does with remarkable consistency, it is appointing people spectacularly unsuited to the roles they are given.<\/p>\n

It is, at this point, less a coincidence and more a governing principle.<\/p>\n

One might have thought that after dusting off figures like Peter Mandelson, a relic of a political era many assumed had been quietly buried, there would be some attempt to reassure the public that competence still mattered. Instead, we are treated to a rolling parade of appointments that suggest the only real qualification required is ideological loyalty.<\/p>\n

Take David Lammy, who manages to combine high office with a talent for geopolitical confusion, or Rachel Reeves, whose approach to growth appears to involve carefully suffocating it. Together, they form part of an administration that increasingly resembles a social experiment: how far can you run a country on theory alone?<\/p>\n

Ezekiel 34:2\u20134 Woe be to the shepherds\u2026 that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?<\/b><\/p>\n

The Appointment<\/h2>\n
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Lisa Pinney \u2018works with others to bring change, speaking at events and supporting individuals and organisations to be more LGBT+ inclusive\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Enter the latest inspired choice, Lisa Pinney, newly installed as chief executive of the Fair Work Agency, a body created by merging several others, seemingly to justify its own necessity.<\/p>\n

Lisa Pinney \u2018works with others to bring change, speaking at events and supporting individuals and organisations to be more LGBT+ inclusive\u2019.<\/p>\n

Ms Pinney\u2019s credentials are, we are assured, impeccable, provided one believes that running an economy is best preparation for\u2026 well\u2026 diversity seminars.<\/p>\n

Her career is steeped in \u201cinclusion,\u201d \u201cintersectionality,\u201d and the kind of language that thrives in HR departments but tends to evaporate the moment it encounters an actual balance sheet. A former board member of Stonewall and a decorated champion of workplace identity politics, she has spent years advising organisations on how to be more \u201cinclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n

How reassuring, then, that she will now help oversee the conditions under which businesses must operate\u2014despite no obvious experience of running one. But perhaps that is the point.<\/p>\n

Why burden a regulator with real-world knowledge when ideological enthusiasm will do? Why understand business when you can supervise it from a safe distance, armed with the latest terminology and a PowerPoint presentation on \u201cauthentic leadership\u201d?<\/p>\n

Naturally, she is not alone. The agency\u2019s chairman, Matthew Taylor, brings with him a similarly impressive record, if by impressive one means an unbroken career within the comfortable confines of government bodies, think tanks, and publicly funded institutions. Between them, they form a leadership team perfectly qualified to explain to businesses why they are doing everything wrong. And still the question lingers: has anyone in charge ever actually run a business?<\/p>\n

Apparently not and apparently, it no longer matters.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 31:10\u201312 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
\nProverbs 31:25 Strength and honour are her clothing.<\/b>
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Ideology Dressed as Expertise<\/h2>\n

What we are witnessing is not simply poor judgment. It is the triumph of ideology over competence.<\/p>\n

This government does not appoint people who understand the sectors they oversee. It appoints people who think correctly about them. There is a difference\u2014and it is proving rather costly.<\/p>\n

Consider Minouche Shafik, now shaping economic thinking at the highest level. An accomplished figure in the world of global institutions, certainly but one whose instincts lean predictably towards higher taxes and greater redistribution. In other words, precisely the kind of thinking guaranteed to alarm the very people expected to generate growth.<\/p>\n

It is a curious strategy: to entrust economic stewardship to those who appear, at best, ambivalent about wealth creation.<\/p>\n

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.<\/b>
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A Government Detached From Reality<\/h2>\n

There is something profoundly disordered about a system that elevates theory above wisdom, activism above experience, and image above truth. Scripture speaks often of the importance of sound judgment, of leaders who understand the weight of responsibility placed upon them.<\/p>\n

What we see instead is a kind of performative governance\u2014appointments made not to serve the common good, but to signal virtue to a narrow ideological audience.<\/p>\n

It is governance as theatre. And so we arrive at the inevitable conclusion.<\/p>\n

A government that cannot tell the difference between activism and ability will continue to appoint the wrong people. A leadership class insulated from real-world consequences will continue to make decisions that baffle those who must live with them.<\/p>\n

And a nation governed in this way will, sooner or later, feel the cost.<\/p>\n

For now, however, the show goes on.<\/p>\n

More appointments. More slogans. More carefully curated \u201cexperts\u201d explaining to everyone else how things ought to work\u2014while quietly demonstrating that they have very little idea how they actually do.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 10:1\u20132 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Read and pray<\/h2>\n

READ<\/b>: Gen 1:27;<\/strong> Amos 5:14\u201315, Eccles 10:2, Eccles 10:16\u201317, Isa 3:4\u20135, Isa 10:1\u20132, Jer 5:21, Hos 8:7, Matt 23:23\u201324, Luke 16:10, Rom 1:22, 1 Cor 1:27, Col 2:8, James 3:15\u201316.<\/b><\/p>\n

PRAY<\/b>:Pray against foolish leadership.<\/p>\n

Pray for discernment in the Church.<\/p>\n

Pray for restoration of righteous foundations.
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