This article, for example. The author makes a few interesting points in the beginning, but then comes to the conclusion that 'stopping the boats' must be Starmer's top priority. bsky.app/profile/fina...
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But I've shown how he's already blown it. Let's not forget, he knows the counternarrative. He's given it. In 2020, running for the leadership. Without that counternarrative it's game over. He is weak and ineffectual in the face of a threat to the nation's wellbeing and security. Why has he...
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... played into that? Someone posted the stuff on his Twitter feed, so many recent posts about immigrants. He's still playing into it. And who's the person whose head's down and really saying 'This is an emergency, we must do something'? It's not Starmer. It's Farage. Starmer can't stand on...
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... beaches with binoculars ranting at GB News. He can't join racist gatherings outside migrant hotels. And yet he's helped to foster the narrative that that is necessary. Why?
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People tend to look for an evil plan or conspiracy theory that explains everything, but more often than not, it's just bad decisions, incompetence and hubris.
aug 29, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I tend to favour cock-up over conspiracy. But why do we believe Starmer to be better than anyone on that list I first started off with? I remember when we used to do this with Johnson. A stupid man who took the wrong turn and ended up Mayor of London. The incompetent who tripped over his own...
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... own boot laces and became Foreign Secretary. Then, in an act of bumbling idiocy, he slipped on a banana skin and landed in No. 10. I don't like conspiracy theories. But I don't much like a series of accidents, bad moves and incompetence that all head inexorably in the same direction either.
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