The Labour Party under ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer appears to be abandoning its egalitarian attitudes in an effort to out-Reform the racists, xenophobes and bigots of Reform UK, the latest incarnation of the Nigel Farage Fan Club.
This has been very clear in recent days.
Last week Farage announced a Reform government (God forbid! Ed. would abolish indefinite leave to remain for foreigners in Britain, including those who already benefit from it.
This policy announcement was condemned by Starmer who is reported to have described it as racist and immoral.
However racist and immoral the prime minister may consider Reform’s policy to be, this has not stopped his own Home Secretary from taking a leaf out of Reform’s playbook: yesterday Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced that the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain would be doubled from the present five to ten years.
Today saw yet another disappointing utterance from what passes for the government of the day. Kindly step forward with no shame at all the Chancellor of the Exchequer, one Rachel Jane Reeves.
Having allegedly studied Politics, Philosophy and Economic (also known as PPE. Ed.) at New College, Oxford, an alleged elite university, Rachel should really know better. Supporting racist policies makes one racist. To deny that simple fact is equivalent to someone saying ‘I’m not racist, but (insert_instance_of_racism_here).
Your ‘umble scribe has been on this earth for seven decades, but never can he remember a time when the calibre of both the world’s and the country’s politicians has been so abysmal.