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Friday, 26 September 2025

Whatsit makes a speech about something



Starmer: We face battle against Reform for Britain’s soul


Sir Keir Starmer has said Labour faces a battle against Reform UK for the soul of Britain.

The Prime Minister said “the battle of our times is between patriotic national renewal” by his Government and the “toxic divide” offered by Nigel Farage.

Voters at the next election will not be faced with “the traditional Labour versus Conservative” choice because the Tory party is “dead”, he added.



His talents lay so thoroughly in the direction of being uninteresting, that even as an eye-witness of the massacre of St. Bartholomew he would probably have infused a flavour of boredom into his descriptions of the event.

Saki – The Unbearable Bassington (1912)

3 comments:

dearieme said...

"Starmer: We face battle against Reform for Britain’s soul"

A case that Labour is doomed (hurray!) and that the battle next time will be Reform vs Lib Dem.
https://newsfromuncibal.substack.com/p/the-literal-nazi-and-the-cuddlecrat

James Higham said...

It's the blatant lying which gets me, the sheer brazen gall.

A K Haart said...

dearieme - thanks for the link, an interesting angle on Ed Davey's approach. What I don't understand about Davey is why he is so keen on stunts and acting the fool if he's comparing himself to Farage and aiming to be the main opposition party. Unless he thinks any publicity is good publicity and he's aiming to be the least bad option for enough voters.

James - maybe it's too blatant and too frequent, so much so that hardly anyone believes what he says.