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Keir Starmer has suggested the US is trying to interfere in British democracy after JD Vance, the US vice-president, blamed the murder of the British teenager Henry Nowak on mass migration.

The prime minister’s office responded after the senior Republican politician claimed in a post on X that Nowak would be alive “if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it”.

Downing Street did not name Vance directly but said its response to his comments was that “in recent days we have seen people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets”.

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[–] Seimhe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thanks gods Starmer is on the case /s

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

He took Netanyahu's dick out of his mouth long enough to speak on the subject. That's a lot for this spoiled head of cabbage

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Perhaps a less homophobic metaphor might be better at getting your point across.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 1 points 1 hour ago

No. Toughen up buttercup.

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Released the sausage

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As much as I agree that he's a useless waste of oxygen this isn't actually his fault is it? The policing policy that the conservatives are complaining about was implemented by, drum roll please, the conservatives.

They are once again whining about their own decisions. There's a reason that Badenoch didn't bring this up in PMQ's.

[–] Seimhe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but I think radical reforms have been needed since he took office haven’t happened. They’ve gone backwards in some cases.

He has also broken ten of his election promises, IIRC. So I’m basically saying that when a laggard like himself complains, it has less credibility.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago

Oh I fully agree. Though I think the larger problem is just the fact that Labour are in comprehensively terrible at comms. For example they have raised the minimum wage, something which is needed doing for a decade or more, well they finally did it but for some reason they seem very coy about actually telling anyone. So unless you were actually working minimum wage and suddenly had your pay rise you wouldn't know. Same thing for improving workers' rights, they don't appear to have actually told anybody about any of this.

So while labour definitely do need to replace him presumably with Andy Burnham, nothing's going to get better unless they actually talk to people.