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Starmer’s message to migrants: "Learn perfect English, pay more, and don’t stay long."
To businesses: "Find Brits to do the jobs we’ve underpaid for years."
To the far right: "Please like us now?"
Britain deserves better.
#Labour #Starmer #RefugeesWelcome #LabourValues #LabourDrift
Britain has had it with mass immigration
But immigrants might not have had it with Britain
buff.ly
May 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Labour’s immigration “crackdown” won’t fix wages, won’t boost public services, and won’t stop Reform UK.
It will scapegoat migrants and alienate key voters.
You don’t beat Farage by becoming him.
#StarmerOut #LabourDrift #GeneralElection2025 #AntiRacism
Keir Starmer’s immigration plans: research shows you don’t beat the far right by becoming them
In a speech to launch his tough new immigration plans, the prime minister parroted the right’s rhetoric.
buff.ly
May 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Labour thinks the key to power is pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment. Meanwhile, the NHS, construction, and hospitality rely on migrant workers to function. This isn’t “realism”—it’s cowardice dressed as strategy. #LabourValues #PolicyConcerns #LabourDrift #ReformRise
Labour MP says Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ warning over immigration mimics scaremongering of far right – UK politics live
PM unveils new policies meant to drive down net migration by end of this parliament
buff.ly
May 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Starmer's strategy: alienate the base, appease no one.
Reform UK surges, and Labour's identity crisis deepens.
Is this the change we voted for? #LabourDrift #ReformRise
The lesson for Labour? Until it can improve local lives and stop fearing Farage, more losses are coming | Polly Toynbee
Rapid, highly visible action in communities and a forthright attack on the new right – that is what’s needed now, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
buff.ly
May 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
latitudeattitude.lgbtq.blue
Labour thinks the key to power is pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment. Meanwhile, the NHS, construction, and hospitality rely on migrant workers to function. This isn’t “realism”—it’s cowardice dressed as strategy. #LabourValues #PolicyConcerns #LabourDrift #ReformRise
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Welcome to the era of ‘hostage politics’, where Labour is apparently your only hope | Nesrine Malik
First it was the Conservatives and now Reform. The only thing the government has to offer is that it’s the least worst option, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
buff.ly
May 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Are you left, right or middle? When party veterans asked Starmer these basic questions, he couldn't answer. Now his ideological vacuum is being filled with Reform UK-style immigration ads & attacks on benefit claimants. The weathervane PM is spinning. #LabourDrift
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The Ideology Vacuum: How Starmer’s Political Emptiness Is Pulling Labour Toward Dangerous Territory
In 2021, an extraordinary scene unfolded at Keir Starmer’s home. Ed Miliband and Charlie Falconer (Tony Blair’s former flatmate) sat across…
medium.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Labour’s immigration “crackdown” won’t fix wages, won’t boost public services, and won’t stop Reform UK.
It will scapegoat migrants and alienate key voters.
You don’t beat Farage by becoming him.
#StarmerOut #labourdrift #generalelection2025 #antiracism […]
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mstdn.social
May 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Labour thinks the key to power is pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment. Meanwhile, the NHS, construction, and hospitality rely on migrant workers to function. This isn’t “realism”—it’s cowardice dressed as strategy. #labourvalues #policyconcerns #labourdrift […]

[Original post on mstdn.social]
May 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
julius-vd.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Labour thinks the key to power is pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment. Meanwhile, the NHS, construction, and hospitality rely on migrant workers to function. This isn’t “realism”—it’s cowardice dressed as strategy. #labourvalues #policyconcerns #labourdrift […]

[Original post on mstdn.social]
May 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
julius-vd.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Starmer's strategy: alienate the base, appease no one.
Reform UK surges, and Labour's identity crisis deepens.
Is this the change we voted for? #labourdrift #reformrise https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/06/labour-local-communities-nigel-farage
May 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM