Is The Prime Minister Getting Nervous?

[naomi24]

He said yesterday the UK risked becoming an "an island of strangers" without stricter controls on immigration but Yvette Cooper has rejected a comparison made by some Labour MPs, to the language of Enoch Powell in his Rivers of Blood speech.   So just what was the Prime Minister thinking? 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23mvl12vz7o

 

[douglas9401]

Maybe he was thinking 'time to actually stop the boats now'.

Such larks

 

[youngmafbog]

I doubt he wrote it and I doubt he meant it.  Hasnt a decent bone in his weak pathetic little body.

But at least someone in Labour HQ is starting to get it clearly.

[naomi24]

I think he's getting wobbley now.  It happens to people promoted beyond their capabilities - as he and the whole of his cabinet have been.   

[youngmafbog]

Yes, he certainly seems to be drowning now.

How long can he, or the others in the cabinet, stay on?  Th eUnions surely must be getting peed of by now.

[Atheist]

He wasn't promoted, he won the election.

[youngmafbog]

No one likes a smart alec you know.

And he was promoted - to leader of the Labour Party.

[naomi24]

promotion:   the act or fact of being raised in position or rank. 

When he won the election he was raised in position and rank.

[Atheist]

The people spoke. Democracy lives, athough some don't like losing.

[Atheist]

Was Prince Charles promoted?

[naomi24]

No, the king's job is his birthright.  There's no question of who the next monarch will be.  We already know.

[Bazile]

Whilst not wanting to intervene in your arguments .

You can be said to be promoted even if  there  was no doubt you  would step into the role 

[sandyRoe]

The PMs Eminence Grise, Morgan McSweeny, might have suggested this direction of travel in order to blunt any attack from the right.

He seems to be all that a right hand man should be.

[fender62]

on gbnews tonight patrick christy is doing a day out in calaise talking to the illegals about there reasons for wanting to illegally come to the uk, should be interesting.

[Old_Geezer]

If he really thinks that the UK risked becoming, "an island of strangers", then he's too late coming to that conclusion. In many areas that's pretty much the case already.  Why does he think that the peasants are revolting ?

[New Judge]

The puzzling aspect of this is, that many of he population have been telling politicians this very same thing for years. Almost without exception, they have been dismissed as racist bigots.

Even stranger is his complete volte face on the issue. In January 2020, when demanding freedom of movement be resored following Brexit, he said this:

“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them. Low wages, poor housing, poor public services, are not the fault of people who come here: they’re political failure. So we have to make the case for the benefits of migration, for the benefits of free movement."

I would not place Surkier in the "racist bigot" category because I do not believe that somebody wishing to restrict immigration to sensible levels is necessarily of that ilk.

Instead I would class him as a hypocritical bar steward who thinks nothing of abandoning his principles as soon as he realises that if he maintains them, every time there is an election of any sort he and his party will receive a resounding kick in the goolies.

[Untitled]

kier starmer has abandoned just about every commitment he has made and every idea he has ever supported. 

the strategy here is a foolish one. he thinks he can win over reform voters. but why would anyone who is leaning toward Reform vote labour on the basis of this speech? we all know they had this speech written up weeks ago in the event that they lost runcorn... if labour had kept it then he simply wouldn't have given it. 

[Togo]

What a creep he is. A complete and utter lawyer. Will do anything and support anything if he thinks it is to his gain and everybody elses loss. 

""Labour opposed every single measure the Tories wheeled out in their half-hearted, cosmetic efforts to reduce the numbers of migrants settling in Britain. On Day One after becoming Prime Minister, Starmer carried out a cast-iron pledge to abolish the Rwanda deterrent.
Surkeir is a pillar of the metropolitan Far-Left yuman rites racket which continues to roll out the red carpet for migrants, even those with serious criminal convictions.
A few short years ago – when he was still nominally a Jeremy Corbyn acolyte – he even signed a letter calling for a halt to a deportation flight carrying Jamaican criminals found guilty of rape and GBH.
As for Pixie, she was part of the cynical Blairite conspiracy to open the immigration floodgates, a policy designed - in the words of former Labour speechwriter Andrew Neather – ‘to rub the Right’s noses in diversity’.""

https://www..dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14703875/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-watched-Keir-Starmer-shed-principle-latest-migration-crackdown-didnt-know-laugh-vomit.html

[Togo]

Sounded very much like "hate speech" to me. Why haven't plod been round in a dawn raid and siezed his mobile phone and computer. They could even have a rumage round in his knicker drawers   ...    or should that be ali pally's 

[New Judge]

"Sounded very much like "hate speech" to me. Why haven't plod been round in a dawn raid and siezed his mobile phone and computer."

Indeed, Togo.

If this had been a member of Joe Public he would be up before The Beak pronto. If it had been an Honourable Member from he opposing benches, particularly a Tory or Reform MP, there would have been howls of derision from those sitting opposite, citing racism and worse, amid calls for resignations.

[david small]

It's all about power....at any cost. Lying is par for the course. Political deception is the game they play. The fact that it affects people's lives severely is irrelevant. The man is a sham, and a practicing liar. Not in the slightest ashamed of his actions.

Power...