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As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London
It’s where she was looked after and loved by workers who don’t deserve Starmer’s ugly condemnation, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
BILL GREENSHIELDS urges an intensification of the information offensive against the impact of the spurious discourse peddled by Reform UK
MAT COWARD tells the story of Edward Maxted, whose preaching of socialism led to a ‘peasants’ revolt’ in the weeks running up to the first world war
VINCE MILLS gathers some sobering facts that would inevitably be major obstacles to any such initiative
Labour’s pop-loving front bench have snaffled up even more music tickets worth thousands apiece, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
RAMZY BAROUD on how Israel’s narrative collides with military failure
KEIR STARMER’S “island of strangers” nod to Enoch Powell’s “strangers in their own land” phrase in his 1968 Rivers of Blood speech has justly brought a backlash.
Snap polling suggested that while many agreed with Starmer, a lot of others strongly objected. Public discussion about his incendiary intervention is only just starting.
Millions of people who are perfectly settled and integrated in British society are outraged that they, their parents, families or friends are being scapegoated for the atomisation and loneliness felt in what is left of once actual communities that have been crushed under decades of neoliberalism.
Starmer — or more likely his programmers — dashed any hope by the end of the week that he would draw back from a historic rupture with what was never a great tradition in Labour but was at least one that sought some “balance” over immigration, migration and race.
He instead gave an exclusive interview to the Trumpist GB News. He flew to Albania to announce that he wants to deport those refused asylum in Britain to “hubs” in third countries. The Albanian Prime Minister said he would not participate in such a scheme.
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