It's easy to get carried away with the idea that Johnson is sliding in the polls and the Tories are looking at a wipeout at the next election. But then up pops Keir Starmer to remind us all how tone deaf and boring he is, and how uninspiring his agenda is. As far as political speeches go, this couldn't have been more wooden if it tried. Thick on rhetoric but thin on detail.

Moreover, it tells us little about what Labour would actually do and does nothing to reassure. I still regard Labour as a dangerous liability. Labour has mobilised all of its limited intellectual resource at blocking immigration reform and the party membership favours open borders. There is then the question of basic women's rights. Are women's rights safe with Labour? Starmer has publicly backed gender self-identification and has said "it's wrong to say only women have a cervix".

When Starmer says "Everyone has the basic right to feel safe in their own community." We simply don't believe him. When it comes down to it, women's rights are negotiable and Labour will suck up to Islamists to secure urban swing seats. That means Jews, gays and woman are simply not safe. Radical Islamists will be pulling the strings at the local level and Labour MPs will be selected on the basis of their Kashmir and Palestine views, rather than local services.

What worries me more than Labour, though, is who they'll bring along with them. In the modern era, cronyism and nepotism is the norm in politics. Mainstream political parties do no thinking of their own. They don't have any idea what to do with power when they win it, but they will install their favoured think tanks and NGOs into the top of every ministry.

When you vote Tory there's a gaggle of generic right wing think tanks who push for free markets and all that guff, but when you vote Labour, you get a whole raft of paternalistic behavioural nudge units, climate NGOs and human rights lobbyists. Ideologues who really do think Rotherham and Telford grooming should be hushed up "for the sake of diversity".

Meanwhile. we need urgent action to keep the lights on and ensure people can afford to heat their homes, but Labour is in lockstep with the Tories on Net Zero. Don't expect a departure from the status quo under Labour.

There's a reason Starmer won't set out any specifics in any speech. He has no idea what to do to reconnect with voters and even if he did, his own party would crucify him. Labour has been completely absorbed by the far left freakshow and Starmer's leadership is only a cosmetic change. Labour is still the party of antisemitic weirdos, Islamists and perverts, only now it's fronted by Blairite welfare paternalists wrapping themselves in the flag. Nobody is buying this plastic patriotism.

Labour cares more about illegal immigrants than the working class. It cares more about the rights of perverts than women's safety. They'll hold a vigil for Sarah Everard as a stick to beat the police with, but remain silent when it comes to the abuse of white girls by Pakistani men. They remain silent when it comes to the abuse, mutilation and murder of Muslim women in the name of "honour".

Any doctor will tell you that you can't even begin to treat a sickness until you can accurately diagnose it, but Labour is so afraid of these thorny issues that they won't even allow the proper language to be used. Everything must be debated under a shroud of politically correct euphemisms - and any deviation from the narrative is labelled "Islamophobic". They are dangerous.

Lastly, there is still that small matter of Brexit. Starmer knows a re-join ticket is a dead end but told the CBI that Labour intends "to move us towards the closer trade arrangement that we need with the EU". It's true that much work must be done before the TCA can be considered adequate but by that he means the wholesale adoption of EU regulation under ECJ jurisdiction. His party would have us re-join the customs union, destroying any notion of independent policy making on trade.

Starmer can wrap himself in the flag but nothing has changed. Labour still hates the working class, hates Brexit, and ultimately hates Britain. A change of management doesn't change that. Starmer knows this, but still he takes us for fools.