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More like, have a bet each way on the issue, trying to be all things to all voters. Possibly even intending to keep redirecting oxygen away from substantive non-confected issues like inequality and government capture (quite the beige euphemism for systemic corruption, that).
Perhaps it's a strategy to bring the transphobes into the fold and take them on a journey, but Starmer is right wing Labor. If right wing Labour is anything to go by though, don't hold your breath... Murdoch sets the agenda here and there.
It's strong vibes over here of a determination to maintain business as usual while saying whatever it takes to placate the growing unrest. Continued growth of corporate profits seems to maintain top priority on a dying planet, because... reasons
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she's also a colossal fucking bigot.
If someone has said what she'd said about Jewish people, people of colour, gay or lesbian folk or people with a disability I'm not sure he'd be so accommodating to them tbh
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yeah. the first was just reporting what he said in an interview with the times
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/25/keir-starmer-trans-education-general-election-2024/
the second is reporting on what he said in an itv interview. the video is in the next tweet
https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/1785292666470555780?t=BPFRpx8zztbdIyswJzOaWQ&s=19
He said he wants to meet with JK Rowling. The fuck for? Why not meet with Glinner or KJK while you're at it.
The last was an indication of Duffield(plenty of evidence of this, very easy to find) being garbage and a prominent now minister being more concerned with civility or what the fuck ever than the harm that the rhetoric of people like Duffield cause actual people.
But if I'm honest I'm not entirely sure you were ever really open to being convinced otherwise so 🤷