Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
MEGA? MAUKGA?
With the Starmer Faction on the way out, his Labour Party is losing seats to the Reform Party of Nigel Farage.
At least I think Starmer is on the way out. Starmer disagrees.
Following the local election setbacks, the prime minister has faced calls to resign or to set a timetable to vacate his leadership position, including from members of his own Labour Party.
"The Prime Minister needs to go. That is not negotiable," Clive Lewis, the Labour member of Parliament for Norwich South, wrote on social media on Friday night. Other Labour lawmakers have since followed suit.
But in an interview on Sunday, Starmer described his government as a "10-year project of renewal", and said he planned to lead his government into the next election. The prime minister said he was "not going to walk away," and added: "I'm not going to plunge the country into chaos."
Any Brits on here agree that if Starmer were not PM, the UK would be plunged into chaos? Can he also never take vacations?
Anyway, UK workers are offput by the "Labour Party" for the same reason that our own working class abandoned the Democrats - or should I say realized that the Democrats had abandoned them.
O'BERN (City Counsel Person of a working class town): We want affordable housing. We want good hospitals. We want a decent wage.
FRAYER: Those are things O'Bern says she hoped Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government would provide when it was elected two years ago, after 14 years of budget cuts and austerity under the Conservatives. She's an independent herself, but she's sympathetic to a new party that criticizes immigration.
NIGEL FARAGE: It is an invasion, as these young men illegally break into our country.
FRAYER: Nigel Farage, head of the Reform UK Party, says immigrants are stretching the country's resources. Nearly 1 in 5 people in the U.K. is foreign-born. The vast majority are here legally, but thousands also enter each year without visas, crossing the English Channel on boats. All of the U.K.'s main political parties pledge to stop the boats. Farage calls for mass deportations. If an immigrant is in the news suspected of a crime, Farage often mobilizes protests...
I wish I had a link, but I just heard an NPR interview with two British journalists who talked about how a Prime Minister Farage is coming of the Labour Pary does not significantly change its policies. NPR was very respectful, even though they were promoting the same philosophy as that behind our own MAGA movement.
They were not attacked as racists, for some reason. Maybe the Brit accents? The American left always feels inferior to Brits.
With the Starmer Faction on the way out, his Labour Party is losing seats to the Reform Party of Nigel Farage.
At least I think Starmer is on the way out. Starmer disagrees.
Following the local election setbacks, the prime minister has faced calls to resign or to set a timetable to vacate his leadership position, including from members of his own Labour Party.
"The Prime Minister needs to go. That is not negotiable," Clive Lewis, the Labour member of Parliament for Norwich South, wrote on social media on Friday night. Other Labour lawmakers have since followed suit.
But in an interview on Sunday, Starmer described his government as a "10-year project of renewal", and said he planned to lead his government into the next election. The prime minister said he was "not going to walk away," and added: "I'm not going to plunge the country into chaos."
Any Brits on here agree that if Starmer were not PM, the UK would be plunged into chaos? Can he also never take vacations?
Anyway, UK workers are offput by the "Labour Party" for the same reason that our own working class abandoned the Democrats - or should I say realized that the Democrats had abandoned them.
O'BERN (City Counsel Person of a working class town): We want affordable housing. We want good hospitals. We want a decent wage.
FRAYER: Those are things O'Bern says she hoped Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government would provide when it was elected two years ago, after 14 years of budget cuts and austerity under the Conservatives. She's an independent herself, but she's sympathetic to a new party that criticizes immigration.
NIGEL FARAGE: It is an invasion, as these young men illegally break into our country.
FRAYER: Nigel Farage, head of the Reform UK Party, says immigrants are stretching the country's resources. Nearly 1 in 5 people in the U.K. is foreign-born. The vast majority are here legally, but thousands also enter each year without visas, crossing the English Channel on boats. All of the U.K.'s main political parties pledge to stop the boats. Farage calls for mass deportations. If an immigrant is in the news suspected of a crime, Farage often mobilizes protests...
I wish I had a link, but I just heard an NPR interview with two British journalists who talked about how a Prime Minister Farage is coming of the Labour Pary does not significantly change its policies. NPR was very respectful, even though they were promoting the same philosophy as that behind our own MAGA movement.
They were not attacked as racists, for some reason. Maybe the Brit accents? The American left always feels inferior to Brits.