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We've been saying here for ages...but we're so good we're ahead of the curve, unlike The Guardian.

Listen to us nerds on Mastodon instead.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/19/keir-starmer-nigel-farage-prime-minister-reform

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
We can see this, the Media can see this, surely Labour can see this?
This yarn offers much to satisfy its readers and its writers. It features a stammering hero and a charismatic rogue, a battle between good and evil, and a real sense of jeopardy. Yet it is profoundly wrong. Those storytellers are so fixated on personalities, they've got the politics about-face. Starmer isn't just losing ground - he's handing it to Farage. Through his speeches, how he frames debates, and most of all in his shrugging acceptance of how limited and slow his political powers are, time and again the Labour leader makes Farage's case for him.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
I can, because he's a fucking sellout, of a type we are all familiar with, and he gets away with it because people give him the benefit of doubt.
The 'human rights lawyer' thing was a long time ago and from I've read he didn't do that great a job of it either....
I can't honestly imagine that a former human rights lawyer feels comfortable voicing such bigotry, let alone giving it the Downing Street stamp of approval. No doubt he's been urged to do so by Labour strategists, whose chief concern is to woo "hero voters", those who were once on the red team but long ago left to support Brexit or Boris Johnson or Farage. For the sake of an extra half point in the polls, Starmer's team are quite happy to sacrifice basic decency.
JimmyB (he/him)
as many have pointed out: he’s a human rights lawyer just like Harold Shipman was a GP
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