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Andrew Rait @andrewrait.bsky.social

Which does beg the question as to why Starmer won't confront the chief architect of the chaos with this. Hang the failure of Brexit & the lack of coherent plan to implement it around Farage's neck & point out that the charlatan is doing the same thing again. He needs to be braver!

aug 28, 2025, 3:34 pm • 13 1

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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social

Starmer was the architect of the second referendum option & got badly burned. Brexit in one sense achieved the goal of its voters: reduced EU immigration. Events since prove it was always the politicians that refused to control it. It would be political death for Starmer to fall in to this camp.

aug 28, 2025, 5:33 pm • 2 0 • view
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Andrew Rait @andrewrait.bsky.social

I'd counter that his current reticence & silence at Farage's wild pronouncements over deportation (unchallenged by virtually everyone in the media) has already put him in danger of political death. He appears to be a little too focused on world, rather than domestic, affairs

aug 29, 2025, 8:01 am • 2 0 • view
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Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social

Tbh, like most PMs, I suspect he finds world affairs simply much easier to deal with than the most intractable parts of domestic politics.

aug 29, 2025, 4:58 pm • 1 0 • view