Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing tougher measures on immigration to stem a record flow of arrivals across the English Channel and stave off the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after it made sweeping gains in this week’s local elections.
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Sideshow Starmer...
They lost because they're abandoning their manifesto pledges.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-red-wall-seats-worst-be-hit-disability-benefit-cut-plans-study-finds
Labour: smoking rates keep going up!?
primed the electorate to think about the right wing coded elements of Immigration and radicalized them massively in favor of mass deportation
difference in approval determined the House and Presidency
Hears a thought, you stupid bastard: listen to what the people who voted for you want you to do.
Fuck sake man!! It's not rocket science!
As in, Reform voters are former Tories. The Labour -> Reform idea is as much bollocks as the sought after Reform -> Labour.
It's just making the centre leftwards stay at home or vote elsewhere.
UK reproduction rates dropping.
300 tonnes strawberries left rotting in the fields with nobody to pick them.
And all this promised construction - by whom?
Make immigration legal, Application Centre in Fr & safe legal crossing. DONT ISOLATE UK like Trump's doing to US!
all it did is prime the Electorate to think about far right coded immigration issues and radicalize them further in favor of harming Immigrants
Do you foolishly believe what he says his goals are?
Way to go Sir ‘sensible'
- processing asylum applications in France will vastly reduce the numbers crossing in small boats
- those still crossing in boats will be failed asylum seekers
- this will make it unviable for boat providers
But he still uses Farage’s approach!
2. You shouldnt try out Farage Farage because he's a dick
3. How about some policy's for the people who are looking for a reason to vote for you, rather than the people who don't want to vote for you
How do they not understand it, he'll never win the reform vote, their policies are massively unpopular. We need to appose not pander.
Fucks the criminal pricks with their leaky dinghys, helps desperate people.
Starmer: That Fascist Frog is picking up a few votes, bring out the gunboats 😐
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/03/labour-reform-voters-keir-starmer-local-elections
1) Reverse brexit
2) Nationalise rail, water & energy
3) Reverse NHS privatisation.
4) Close the tax loopholes (company and individual)
5) Raise the income tax threshold low and medium earners
Calling him an idiot is misguided though. First examine the possibility that he's achieving exactly what he wants to.
God I hate Starmer so much.
He didn't conspire to lose in 2017 and 2019 because he was worried about the Right.
Let’s face facts here, Labour got battered, they’ve lost 2 out of every 3 council seats they were contesting, not to mention a by-election.
What they're actually doing is emboldening reform's xenophobia because they're bigots too.
It's depressing!
A fool's errand that just drives away your actual voters to chase fantasy ones instead.
I called this months ago.
No Keir.
The problem is not that you aren't far enough far right.
Why would a racist whose red line is asylum seekers ever vote a diet-Reform Labour when Reform exists?
And why would a Labour voter who isn't racist vote for a far right Labour?
If he wants Labour voters to vote Labour, he needs to show that the party isn't yet another fashy Reform wannabe.
Labour promised change, and we got these a~holes trying to out-fash Tory and Reform.
Completely braindead political party.
Embrace oblivion in 2029.
Where he needs to be about now
No.
All it does is play to Farage's agenda.
This moronic attempt to out-do the far right has been tried countless times before, all over the world, and has utterly failed, each & every time, to do anything except encourage the far right to grow.
What did Einstein say about insanity?
Are they shallow vote-chasers, or is this who the current NEC really are inside?
Either way...
Better to stand up against them and call out their rancidness.
Reform UK is a sickness spreading in this country. To make the UK better, you must first be better than this.
Or TL;DR - tell Reform to go and fuck themselves.
Take the fight on Labour, and stop being so lame.
You're all saying "no Kier, you don't need to do that"
What you don't realise is, he WANTS to do it.
Still will lose
one cannot outplay a fasch on fasch ground
[pats soft balls to opponent’s forehand]
“The threat” was born of a tweet by Heil-on. That’s how easy Reform has it.
Am I going to be interested in a nazi-lite party? 🤔
(The Spanish government has increased its GDP growth projections for 2025 and 2026 to 2.4%)
https://bsky.app/profile/thelastohmu.bsky.social/post/3lo6da26rn22n
I will go ape shit.
Not sure how that logic works with UK and the EU signing agreements to work much closer together, because that’s definitely not part of Farage’s plan.