Kneecap celebrate Keir Starmer’s resignation: “Netanyahu’s b*tch and genocide armer”
Kneecap appear to be celebrating the resignation of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, calling him “Netanyahu’s bitch and [a] genocide armer”.
Starmer resigned as leader of the country and the Labour Party following huge pressures which had been increasingly mounting since the disastrous local election results across England and Wales last month.
Former Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham has now been sworn in as an MP after winning the Makerfield by-election, and looks set to succeed Starmer as Prime Minister.
However, this will seemingly also bring to an end a rather stormy relationship between Kneecap, the Irish rap trio, and the current head of the country, who have often been at loggerheads with one another over the past two years of Starmer’s premiership.
As such, hours after the news of the Labour leader’s resignation on June 22nd, they posted a video to social media, which was simply captioned “Slàn Keir”, translated from Irish as ‘Goodbye Keir’.
The short video spliced together clips of a previous interview where Starmer called the group “completely intolerable”, interspersed with their own clips of chanting “Fuck Keir Starmer”.
The parting message then repeated the words “Slàn Keir” on screen, before calling him “Netanyahu’s bitch and a genocide armer”, referencing their thoughts on the UK government’s response to the conflict in Palestine.
It comes as Starmer previously called for Kneecap to be removed from the line-up of Glastonbury Festival last summer, in light of the High Court investigation taking place against them at the time.
However, when the band scored a legal victory in March, after Mo Chara, real name Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh had been accused of displaying a Hezbollah flag at a gig in London in 2024, Starmer told ITV News: “Well, my views on Kneecap are very well known in relation to what they stand for and what they say, which is completely intolerable.”
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