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Keir Starmer's senior advisers have been taking advice about "how to govern a multi-ethnic society” from Boris Johnson's former aide Murina Mirza, according to the Times. Here's some of her previous thoughts on the subject

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Definitely not seen enough love today for Gene Hackman in Crimson Tide. A film with Hans Zimmer's best soundtrack, Twelve Angry Men levels of the-walls-are-coming-in tension, and two of the best performances by two of the best actors of their generation.

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The Professional Opiners have decreed that this is the best day of Starmer's premiership so far, because he delivered a letter from the British King to the Orange King, kissed up to him properly and didn't get humiliated. The media, ladies and gentlemen.

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Literally saw with my own eyes on ITV News the day before Johnson was elected, a man in foodbank saying he was going to vote for Boris because we "needed a change."

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Interesting timing that this guy is going to be in the White House on the day the Epstein Files are released. Especially given that Prime Minister Musk called for parliament to be dissolved over Starmer's perceived failure on grooming gangs.

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Urban graveyards like this—dead concrete & shuttered businesses at the heart of communities—are the best adverts for a left-wing alternative you could imagine. And because nobody will step into that void, it'll be the perfect hunting ground for the extreme right. The clock really is ticking.

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The first time I saw Gene Hackman was in the Poseidon Adventure, the best time I saw Gene Hackman was in Crimson Tide. RIP to a damned good actor.

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Dork in chief headlining the Orange King's press conference again. He is absolutely the prime minister of the USA.

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Sam Coates on #SkyNews suggesting a big win for Starmer in Washington tomorrow would be Trump not humiliating him. Reminder that Trump is mates with Farage & the Orange King's designated prime minister, Musk, called Starmer a pædo enabler & demanded parliament be dissolved over grooming gangs

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Starmer is a hollow man, a tabula rasa on which true believers and the media class can project whatever their fantasies are. The more unmoored these people are from reality, the worse the comedown will be when they lose out to the fascists they've ploughed the furrow for.

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Trump Gaza ≈ Biff Tannen's Pleasure Palace. This is the dumbest fucking timeline.

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Yep. The wheel spins fast.

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Trump started every rally with "are you better off now than you were four years ago?" The answer was always no. The centrist was crushed at the polls, & now openly sieg heiling fascists run the USA. Believe me, "tough choices" today will mean tough shit at the ballot box for Labour in a few years

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Do we think this has happened because good times are here again for the National Health Service, or maybe because the Blue Labour PM in waiting is doing some DOGE UK reform/modernisation, cos that's flavour of the month in Austerity World?

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There's a reasonable case for the UK to increase defence spending, but not to pay for it by cutting public services. Keir Starmer promised an end to austerity. Today's announcement implies significant further cuts to departmental budgets, unless he raises taxes, or increases borrowing

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I'd imagine that ramped up spending on defence will give Starmer the cover and excuses he needs to hack at welfare spending and anything else that's in the austerity firing line. God forbid they'd tax the rich to cover it

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France isn't a fully vassalised state, so Macron can interrupt the Orange King and correct him. Unthinkable that Starmer could do something like this, even if it was warranted.

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Labour MP Mike Amesbury – looks friendly enough, but woe betide the man that covets a turkey leg within 3 metres of him.

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79% of Americans said their country was on the wrong track, & the centrist lost. In Germany 83% of people said the economy was bad, & the centre buckled. Parties of the centre failing to address the cratering material conditions of the average voter are driving the electorate to the far right.

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A reminder that at the beginning of every Trump rally, he asked his acolytes if they were better off today than they were 4 years ago. The answer was always "NO" & the centrist lost. In the #German election 83% of people thought the economic situation was bad. The centre caved. That's a pattern.

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The first time around, fascism was the reaction to a left-wing movement. The thing that is so troubling about "Fascism: the resurrection," is that this time around, a consolidated, programmatic left-wing movement is non-existent.

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This. DWP cuts could hit as much as £5bn now. The fact that Kendall clearly relishes being the head of a revamped Department for Performative Cruelty is so, so troubling.

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I wouldn't call that Trumpian fashion but mainstream enabling of far-right politics Painting left-wing opposition to the far right and status quo as equally dangerous if not worse than the far right has become a key mainstream strategy and we know the result...

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Trump treating his allies as spongers has worked out well for Starmer's natural inclination towards authoritarianism. He can now look like a hard ass in an extension of Labour's domestic law & order stance. This will do nowt for his popularity, but he'll probably feel powerful. Fleetingly.

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Just catching up with, this but I'm not surprised at all that, once again, it's women who are actually standing up to Trump and reactionary politics. Women are far more attenuated to the breadth and consequences of injustice, and women's rights always nosedive once fascism takes hold.

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Things I've recently been told are true by the mainstream media: Racist rioters = Concerned Patriots With Legitimate Grievances Genocide = self defence Nazi salutes = awkward people doing strange gestures Why is trust in our institutions at an all time low? Who on Earth could say?

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Well the floodgates are open now, and my congratulations in particular to the chicken shit liberal media, who did their best to minimise this behaviour as a "strange salute", "autism" or an "unfortunate gesture." Anything but the evidence of your damned lying eyes. Well done, dipshits. Well done.

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Once is happenstance Twice is coincidence Thrice is a pattern Well done, everyone

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Don't tell me the ruling UK party has an actual plan for governance, because they're clearly spinning around like dervishes, chucking buckets of austerity spaghetti in every direction

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The prime minister has failed to produce any evidence to back up “baseless” and “poisonous” claims in a newspaper article that large numbers of young disabled people are pretending they are not fit enough to work.

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Been watching liberal US TV news this morning, not seen a single thing so far about the Bannon sieg heil. What could this mean?

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Really intrigued to find out who'll be the third person to make this a pattern

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