Anyone vaguely acquainted with Starmer's values knew that the phrase 'island of strangers' was never intended to imply any similarity with Enoch Powell's inflammatory views. No two politicians could be less alike temperamentally and in their beliefs about what constitutes a 'good society'.
A KC must be aware of how words can be interpreted I assume
Very true. But a good script writer should have known what the press would make of a phrase like that and so should Starmer. It will be repeated back at him by the opposition given any chance and it’ll take him a long time to recover.
Please explain then why Starmer’s ‘values’ include enabling the Israeli Zionists to obliterate the Palestinians?
And those who clutched their pearls in outrage absolutely insisted on not reading the text of the speech, depending instead on the spin of the Daily Mail as IT pretended to be outraged by racism.
Exactly. Lazy bitching for the sake of it. Pathetic.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Kipling