If they prepare court proceedings against Farage, anything Starmer could say might be seen as prejudicing those. So he was right to keep his mouth shut.
I don't think the guardian editors are very bright. For some time now, the tone of the article has had the intellectual comprehension of a 12-year-old. Anyone with even moderate critical thinking skills can work this out.
Then they go the extra step and publish it anyway.
The Guardian was by no means the only outlet that reported on this
Alternative headline: journalist is upset when the PM didn’t say what he wanted the PM to say
Farage and his like are always waiting on non-white/Muslim people to commit crime so they can jump on it and push their blatantly racist agendas.
Worse still, the kid who carried out the Southport attack was born and raised in the UK, and has no known links to Islam at all. So these people are rioting based on false information or simply because the kid is black.
They're rioting because they're lowlife racist scum.
Won't argue with you on that one!
because starmer and farage have the same ideology.
same reason he had labour stand down against him in the election.
How do they have the same ideology?
Imagine being so far off to the left than you can no longer tell the difference between Keir Starmer and Nigel fucking Farage 😂
policywise, they're the same; especially when it comes to immigration. shrugs
That is obviously untrue. I'm a second-gen immigrant and hard-Remain/Rejoin, Schengen-supporting-as-an-eventual-bridge-to-global-free-movement, neoliberal shill, who disagrees hugely with Labour's cautious official stance on immigration (although I doubt it's what Starmer and his senior team - Remain-voting, 2nd referendum supporters to a person - actually believe).
Even I can see that Starmer is a million times better than Farage - the guy who campaigned for a freeze on all non-NHS immigration, a ban on immigrants bringing their partners and children to the UK, supported the Rwanda scheme, and more generally has made a whole career out of demonising immigrants and refugees.
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