He keeps flip flopping on his values. One moment he's really concerned about the immigrants so that reform voters will want to vote for him (which will never work). And the next moment he cares deeply about them so that previously Labour voters will want to vote for him (which also won't work).
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Ancient Romans kind of count as immigrants, in certain kind of way.
Angles and Saxons, out of my Britannia! You too Normans and Norse Danes!
Bloody beaker folk, bloody coming over here rowing up the Tagus estuary from Iberia on improvised rafts with their bloody drinking vessels. We don't want your beakers here! What's wrong with just cupping up the water in your hands?
...got to have the Asian Dub Foundation track ft Stewart Lee here too:
That's giving it to them straight - like pear cider that made from 100% pears.
Plebeian from the colonies here.
I cant help but adore the irony. The Brits had a voracious appetite for colonising other places. To get butt hurt about people from those colonies colonising the motherland is kinda comical.
Anyhow, Keir seems like a lame duck right?
Our own centre left Albanese govt in Australia won with a breathtaking majority, but seems to be squandering it by acting like conservative assholes. Ill be looking for more progressive alternatives next election for sure.
Our own centre left Albanese govt in Australia won with a breathtaking majority, but seems to be squandering it by acting like conservative assholes.
Next he'll hire McSweeney as an advisor and give Mandelson a job.
Anyhow, Keir seems like a lame duck right?
If he can keep Labour members of parliament happy then perhaps he can stay as prime minister. But he might lose his job if Labour do badly in the May local elections. Polling shows they might indeed do badly.