@PaulaBrexiteer It's uncanny. In any publicity photo, Starmer looks like a Letraset rub down transfer that has been applied to an empty background by the Labour press team. Almost as if the man is merely a two-dimensional sliver of lacquer.
A thoughtful take by Tony Sewell. Most people just want fairness. The job of the police is to catch criminals and prevent crime not to address historic social harms
One of the things I think that's getting lost in the current "two tier" discussions is the growing perception that the police are more interested in culture than crime...
So five armed officers go to arrest a comedian getting off a plane (one of the few places you can be confident your "suspect" won't be armed)
Heavy handed responses to what people write on X rather than dealing with violent shoplifting
People getting shorter sentences for the worst crimes against children than for "hate" speech
Allowing pro Palestinian marches to go through Jewish communities but restricting Reform marches
Then we have politicians agitating about the "far right" when for the most part it's people saying r@pe gangs should be properly investigated and illegal immigrants shouldn't get a better standard of living with luxury hotels and same day dental care than British citizens do
Until @UKLabour recognises the real anger is because people increasingly feel the criminal justice system and so many aspects of the way the state interacts with them has become essentially unfair the anger will grow
It doesn't need stoking. People aren't angry because @Nigel_Farage told them to be. They are angry because the state isn't working and when they complain, the government essentially calls them Nazis
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This is glorious. Robert Kenyon, Reform's candidate for Makerfield, effortlessly and politely exposed the Green candidates utter stupidity on BBCQT.
She attacked him for DARING to suggest that immigration has an impact on housing, but then she obviously has to admit it does. 😂
I see that the people who took the knee and tore down statues after a man was killed 4,000 miles away from Britain are now yelping 'Don't politicise Henry Nowak's death'. The same leftists who poured onto the streets to rage over the death of George Floyd are barking at the rest of us not to rage over the death of young Henry.
'Don't stir up tensions', says an activist class which in that heady summer of 2020 happily hurled missiles at British cops and danced like Taliban-lite loons on a monument to a slave trader they'd just toppled.
Fear of the masses is in the air. You can almost smell the establishment dread that the wrong sort of people are about to hit the streets – not graduate leftists in keffiyehs but gammon-hued blokes in white t-shirts.
The front page of Wednesday’s Independent is a classic of this fretful genre. ‘Family’s plea for calm ignored’, wails the headline over a photo of the protest in Southampton. But the people in the pic are perfectly calm. It’s just rows of mournful folk carrying the England flag. Are you okay, Independent?
The Guardian, too, seems consumed by foreboding. It says there are ‘fears’ that ‘the populist right’ will ‘whip up racist resentment’. Demagoguery is always the chief dread of the bourgeois left, given their view of the little people as a coiled spring of bovine fury that might be unsprung at any minute.
The Guardian blasts Farage for calling for ‘pure, cold rage’ in response to Nowak’s death. It’s a complaint that would carry more weight if the Guardian hadn’t published pieces in the wake of Floyd’s death saying ‘We need the rage that abolished slavery’.
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You know you live in the UK when Keir Starmer politicises Adolescence, a fictional series where the culprit is white. However, he doesn’t want to bring politics into Henry Nowak, where the victim is white.
In an effort to respect the family of Henry Nowak, Keir Starmer has bravely hidden behind them, saying that the last thing they would want is for him to have to answer any questions about the two tier nature of policing in this country.
@cristo_radio@comments_connie@Keir_Starmer@Nigel_Farage Starmer is endeavouring to use the Nowak family's statement encouraging restraint as an excuse to do absolutely nothing about the underlying problems. Same old Labour attitude.
@Councillorsuzie@TheOtherNigel How they square this with the political neutrality requirements associated with their charitable status is a question that somebody seriously needs to ask.
In the last 3 months, two senior Pride officers have been separately convicted of child sexual abuse offences and the founder of Belfast Pride has been unearthed as a paedophile
BBC News ignored all these stories, but has run 3 separate articles about Pride flags getting damaged
Your job @stellacreasy, as an MP, is ensure that the law is followed and the Code implemented throughout the UK. No part of your job involves 'navigating' through parts of the law you like and parts you don't. You are an utter disgrace and let down to women and girls.
I can't help thinking that if the British Government brought the energy it has to prevent the "far right" from entering the country to preventing illegal immigrants from entering the country there might not be a "far right" in the first place.
As someone with a worm’s eye view of the legislative process, it really irritates me that Starmer’s spin for the poor local election results is that his Govt hasn’t been moving fast enough. There were 40 bills in the first parliamentary session and there are 37 in the second, as set out in yesterday’s King’s Speech. Starmer has created 96 peers – a higher rate per year than any previous Prime Minister. He could not be going any faster.
The fact that the legislation the Govt has rammed through has not delivered growth or reduced the tax burden on working people or lowered the cost of living – delivered the ‘change’ that Labour promised – is because they’re not designed to do that. They’re designed to placate the Party’s ‘stakeholders’ – backbench Labour MPs, trade unions, NGOs, think tanks, lobby groups, allies in the legal profession, cheerleaders in the media, etc.
It’s been bleedin’ obvious to everyone on the opposition benches – and probably some on the Govt benches too – that the legislation was introduced in the last parliamentary session – particularly the Employment Rights Act – will impede growth, not accelerate it.
We’ve told the Govt’s ministers this in the chamber again and again and everything we’ve predicted would happen has happened – rising unemployment, rising inflation, accelerating borrowing costs, an unmanageable welfare bill, exodus of high income-earners, thereby increasing the tax burden on the rest of us, etc.
The idea that if the Govt had been going *even faster* – which is just straightforwardly impossible – the country would be better off, is for the birds. Even as a piece of spin, it’s pathetic. The reason we’re in an economic doom spiral is because this Govt is only interested in pandering to its ‘stakeholders’ and their only motive is to line their own pockets and advance their own narrow sectional interests.
Changing the leader will make no difference. We need a Prime Minister and a Govt who are going to prioritise the national interest. I don’t see anyone in the pack of hyenas stalking Starmer who’s going to do that.
Chris Packham is a vile POS and a traitor.
This preachy veggie zealot can’t stand the idea of anyone enjoying proper British beef or milk, so he snitches to the watchdog and gets ads praising our farmers lower carbon footprint banned
Pretends to "save the planet" while ramming his anti-meat agenda down everyone’s throat, doesn’t give a shit about facts, rural jobs or British farming. Just another hypocritical eco-nutter and traitor to the countryside.
Support our British farmers. Eat meat. 🇬🇧
News: "Reform and Farage are very dangerous people indeed, they are aiming to destroy our country". PM Starmer in a Liverpool School.
Watch as traitorous, soon to be former PM Keir Starmer incites hatred and potential violence, as he brainwashes a group of school children about the dangers of @reformparty_uk and their Leader @Nigel_Farage.
This is the kind of behaviour and propaganda used by Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot, Starmer is potentially breaking the law in this instance * Section 406 and Section 407 of the Education Act 1996.
*Existing statutory requirements on political impartiality cover all schools, regardless of type or funding arrangement. This includes independent schools.
These legal duties mean schools:
Must prohibit the promotion of partisan political views
should take steps to ensure the balanced presentation of opposing views on political issues when they are brought to the attention of pupils.
Most academies will also have a specific clause in their funding agreement which requires adherence to the same provisions.
Traitorous vile man.