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    Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
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    Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer

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    1. Ceftiofur on

      As an immigrant I’m more scared of the prospective tax increases in the Autumn budget and the apparent lack of a plan for the future of this country that does not involve bleeding everyone dry to keep sustaining the triple lock and benefits.

    2. LyingFacts on

      Now do more of this. Be less on the defence and reacting to Farage 24/7. YOU are PM. Not him.

      Dye the hair. Ditch the glasses. Reset.

    3. Straight_Coyote_1214 on

      This is entirely on the left btw. Talk about race for a decade+ consistently for no more than virtue signalling and you will just rile up the other sides extremists.

      Edit: I’m probably exaggerating it being “entirely” on the left but they do hold some blame.

    4. the_englishman on

      Is slight more scared of
      quite how much more tax burden they can pile onto my apparently ‘broad’ shoulders.

    7. eldomtom2 on

      If you want to be depressed at how many UK subs are far-right pits look at the other discussions for this article!

    9. Geostationary_Orbit on

      Its quite simple – tax the people whose life will be affected on a minimal level. Anyone with a net worth of over 2 Million liquid or in assets should pay more tax. It is NOT complicated. Why is it portrayed as being complicated?

    10. Particular_Bug7642 on

      The “divisive hard-right politics” is entirely a response to uncontrolled mass immigration so, if anything, it’s the latter which is tearing our country apart. Instead of complaining about the symptoms, stop the disease.

    11. potpan0 on

      Keir, a month ago you and your leadership team came out in support of a bunch of racist football hooligans.

      A month before that you voraciously defended far-right thugs going around daubing flags on every flagpole to demonstrate their opposition to immigrants.

      6 months ago you gave a big speech insisting immigrants had turned Britain into an ‘island of strangers’, and that we needed to put an end to this ‘squalid chapter of British history’.

      Throughout your leadership, despite offering significant access to lobbyists and donors, anti-racism campaigners have consistently reported that your door and the doors of your advisers have been closed to them.

      If you were actually worried about racism returning to the UK, you’d reflect on this. In reality, I very much expect these comments have stemmed from a focus group saying they think racism is growing in the UK, and that Starmer will be back to his usual shit the next time a different focus group says cranking up the racism dial will improve his polling with key voter groups.

    13. Worldly_Sell_6458 on

      Starmer is part of racism returning to UK politics. The island of strangers speech was a disgusting dog whistle, not to mention his support for Israel by suppressing dissent with the labeling of Palestine Action as a terrorist organization. His appealing to Reform voters with his anti immigration policies is racism.

      Maybe deep down inside his heart he might be fond of brown people as individuals but this means nothing when his actions actively harm those groups. He has a liberal idea of what racism is as a very personal issue but someone who uses racist slurs or has views about minorities is a bad bloke, but what’s inside people deep down doesn’t matter, what matters is action in the material world and Starmer’s actions are racist.

      Gonna get down voted but I don’t care

    15. jodrellbank_pants on

      Then do something about it instead of ignoring the issue
      You only have yourselves to blame.
      Injustice will always create hate, it’s now happening so many times
      Neither party cared now it’s hit them hard and they are running scared trying to catch up but way to late
      People expected it from the conies not from labour they have signed Thier own execution zero coming back from that.

    16. phillhb on

      He’s not wrong – I’m very scared for the next few years. Trump’s attack on the BBC showing his words next to his actions, reform on the rise with nationalism and policies that the BNP suggested years ago. Its Scary because this isn’t our country when its at its best – we’re economically better and socially better when we are more inclusive. The sooner these old farts running our media and American politics driving hate and division feck off the better.

    17. katorias on

      Classic drumming up of division to distract from the actual problems in this country, like how absolutely no one can afford to save for a decent future.

    18. Sea-Caterpillar-255 on

      If people can’t get jobs, or housing, or education, or security or a general feeling of hope that things might improve, they fall back to blaming “them”.

      If only there were some sort of organisation whose job it was to provide those things on aggregate which was democratically elected with the power to tax and spend and make and enforce laws. They could fix this.

      But alas, lacking a governing body, the uk will simply have to continue rolling downhill. I’m sure it will all be alright in the end, Germany has recovered wonderfully from its difficulties in the 1930s and I don’t think that had any consequences worth at least trying to avoid…

    20. ironmaiden947 on

      Man who capitulates to racists at every possible time talks about racism returning to the UK. More news at 6.

    21. sivloks on

      Racism is returning to the UK because we have been allowing vast numbers of people with incompatible cultures and a religion to settle here and form insular communities thus preventing integration.

      This has been going on for years and anyone who warns against it gets called racist. Well if you call everyone racist, eventually racism as a term loses it’s power. This leads non-racists to think anyone who gets called racist maybe isn’t and might be worth listening to.

      Even me as a mixed race and visibly brown man has been called racist and a white supremacist for not wanting large numbers of people from the middle east, North Africa and Pakistan to settle here and form parallel societies at odds with western liberalism.

    22. PbJax on

      Yes that’s it, accuse opponents of racism rather than recognise people are fed up of being force fed diversity and all that entails.

      The UK was more diverse before mass migration, now almost every city you go has the YooKay hellscape aesthetic.

    25. intelligentprince on

      He probably means anti semitism, which is suspect because he equates any criticism of Israel as racist.

    27. cryptamine on

      I’m more scared of the drone bombs being manufactured in the uk and exported to Israel’s genocide of Palestine.

    28. TheDaav on

      Being a person of colour I’m genuinely afraid to walk on my own in England to be honest. There is always that thought in the back of my head that someone would say something rude to me.

    29. Hedgehopper25 on

      Most voters are more scared of the mayhem Rachel Reeves is causing with her last budget and fearing the next one!

    31. Maleficent_Crazy5330 on

      Well, try this stop funding Israel, obliterating the Middle East , stealing resources from Africa . And just in general stop being a sell out cunt.

      Signed this British citizen.

      Racism isn’t from the British public its cemented in our parliament and royal family, you can’t wash away blood.

    32. Demoliscio on

      Me and my wife have been living in the uk for 10 years now, have good jobs, a great life etc, but never like this year we’ve felt unwelcomed, we often avoid talking when outside because even tho we always speak in English, we clearly have an accent and it’s enough to piss off some idiots

      Parties like reform and grifters like tommy robinson seems to have made it ok to openly hate anything\anyone that isn’t exactly like you down to the most minuscule details

    33. TeachingHopeful1917 on

      Didn’t he slaver over Enoch Powell and talked about ‘legitimate concerns’ of people trying to burn people alive last year?