Well I have slept on it.
But I can‘t get over it.
"Island of Strangers“ is a horrible thing to say.
And honestly, as someone who spends her professional life trying to see the British side, constantly agonising whether I am too harsh or judgemental, I am deeply upset today.
(I don‘t live in 🇬🇧.)
But I can‘t get over it.
"Island of Strangers“ is a horrible thing to say.
And honestly, as someone who spends her professional life trying to see the British side, constantly agonising whether I am too harsh or judgemental, I am deeply upset today.
(I don‘t live in 🇬🇧.)
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We have a government of strangers
🇦🇹🇪🇺
If normal social humans meet strangers, they say hello, initiate a conversation & very shortly they stop being strangers. Sometimes they even become friends.
I have a vision of an island of Starmers ignoring each other.
We saw how brexit enabled racists, Starmer is continuing in that vein, giving licence to the xenophobes. I just hope it isn't manifested in violence.
After Labour promoted certain tactical voting websites in order to get LD and Greens to loan their vote, too. That (and the Labour left vote) came with a responsibility that he doesn't acknowledge.
Well fuck.
… recent immigration is “a squalid chapter in our history.” The words are almost designed to generate hostility towards people who have just moved here.
The fact that it wasn't flagged by anyone, including the PM is dreadful.
The fact that people are defending it online or the government is arguing that it was nothing like the far right is dreadful.
Everything about it is dreadful.
For shame…🤮
I'l just too old for shit like that.
They would be much better explaining how they are improving the asylum system and how they are dealing with housing shortages, than this
When you’re a stranger
Faces look ugly
When you’re alone
And I did.
Respect that plenty of people want lower migration.
I do.
Inform yourself about the problems and costs in the asylum system.
I did, extensively.
Words still matter.
This is not ok.
you can debate how wrong this is, but it is what it is
you can debate how wrong this is, but it needs to change.
Or the government can lie and offer all three. The old government did that, failed and lost. This lot said they'd tell the truth, but...
People don't care about immigration unless the oligarchs are spending a lot of resources to make them care.
When they stop spending, people stop caring.
It makes one cynical about all of it, politicians, media & people alike.
The English, just to take an example, are much more suspicious of European immigrants than e.g. the Norwegians or the Portuguese are.
Muslim immigrants have a hard time almost everywhere, but not equally hard
Members bad.
Tragic!
Votes.
Chilling
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As the son of an (Irish) immigrant mother & English father I do not appreciate the suggestion of being a “squalid result” of a “failed experiment” either.
It was a racist & highly offensive speech.
Awful to hear that rhetoric used again.
I was suspicious of his "mind changing" before, but now he is untrustworthy.
Without the context of the Enoch Powell speech, what did he mean?!
And like it or not Starmer is our PM and represents us on the world stage.
Although he fails to represent most of those who voted for him.
I'm not part of any 'us' with these ppl.
I think it's best to avoid picking fights with people on your side & instead reserve your fire for the enemy.
Not like our government.
Glad I have left.
There is a whole government that at any point could have said no.
There is the cabinet office that could have said no.
There is the PM private secretary that could have said no.
There is the PM that could have said no.
Everyone thought the speech was OK.
First they came for the trans-people, then they came for the immigrants... I think we all know how this ends by now. Is the PM a Trump in Starmer clothing?
Half the country is up in arms about it... the better half.
They're bang out of order and this will not be forgotten.
But, only replaced during the covid pandemic. EU carers were settled & part of our communities
Not what the Labour Party stands for at all!
We did not vote for the racist xenophobia of Sunak’s Tories or Farage/Putin blatant fascism!
Starmer has been caged by the Blue Labour Corporate corruption advisors into losing the core of decent , tolerant voters.
If the Zeitgeist of the so called Labour Party reflects in what he said, then it is time to bury it.
A new party waits to be born; it just needs a lens to focus it.
Mainly because Australia has ongoing skilled labour shortages so we’re constantly importing ppl. Thanks for all the nurses and doctors, btw.
Starmer should be drummed out of public life just like Powell was.