Ah yes, that strange bleating noise is our Prime Minister trying to make himself heard.
PM warns of politicians trying to divide ahead of social cohesion plan unveiling
Sir Keir Starmer insisted the UK is a diverse, tolerant country where people can live side by side.
Sir Keir Starmer has warned of politicians trying to “point fingers and divide”, as the Government prepared to publish its plan for social cohesion.
The Prime Minister said one of his biggest concerns was people in politics who he said “want to set up grievances between different groups of people”.
When the PM talks of those who "want to set up grievances between different groups of people", he is of course determined not to notice the array of grievances between his government and those who hoped for political competence. Grievances he has no intention of tackling as they turn into suppurating sores on the body politic.
And sheep.
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You can admire(!) Stumbler for his skills in keeping the Labour Party together before the last General Election. But those skills, mealy mouthed platitudes keeping people on-side plus determined 'following of the rules' to discourage leadership challenges, do not translate well into the required skill set for a Prime Minister.
Indeed the 'comfort' of a large majority have arguably reduced the reluctance of sectional groups within Labour to make a fuss. This has shown up as flip-flopping and u-turns as Stumbler tries to keep everything together - his performance during the Iran conflict has been telling. A clear display of incompetence.
In my opinion it is only fear of Labour's drubbing at the next General Election that prevents him resigning. He should consider his position more carefully (but then he would change his mind more than once).
Compulsory "social cohesion", all one way, two tier ... yes.
I suppose we must all seize the chance to say "The evidence that Mahomet existed isn't very strong" before it becomes punishable by a life sentence.
Yet I could say the same thing about Jesus with no risk. I could say "Moses is a fiction" with no risk. I could say "Buddha was prone to farting", ...
If he has to plan for social cohesion methinks it may be a tad late.
Unless his plan is more like the cohesion found in prisons. We are all prisoners together.
Bound to work!
DJ - that makes for an interesting situation if the 'comfort' of a large majority has cooled the enthusiasm for internal conflicts. The elections in May will stir things up, but we are still a long way from the general election if Starmer goes.
James - yes, all one way, official approval all along the line.
dearieme - "The evidence that Mahomet existed isn't very strong"
I don't know much about him, but I'll pass that comment on to our son wile I still can. He'll be interested - while he's still allowed to be interested.
Mike - yes, he's bound to look at it like that - the cohesion found in prisons. The freedom to follow our rules and peer at the world through our bars.
There was a contemporary bishop in Syria who remarked that the Saracen armies were led by a warlord who had earlier been a merchant. That sounds like our boy though it's certainly not conclusive. Apparently it's not even clear whether Mahomet might have been a name or a title.
Come to that it's not clear when Islam was invented nor when the Koran was written and by whom. Just as, to take an example, nobody has a clue who wrote the four gospels. The names we know them by are essentially arbitrary labels fixed to them in the second century.
On Moses, though, I don't hedge my bets. He didn't exist. You can't lead the Hebrews from Egyptian rule by leading them into Canaan in a period when Egypt ruled Canaan - a historical fact evidently unknown to whoever invented Exodus.
The more we have to endure this insane socialist government, the more I feel like England is starting to feel like Soviet Russia used to be, where only the official narrative was tolerated and all independent thinkers had to keep their opinions to themselves.
Also I agree with dearieme. Despite being of Hebrew origin, I think the Old (and New) Testaments are mostly tosh.
dearieme - thanks, that's interesting too. The history of major religions is an area I've generally avoided as too uncertain and too heavily dominated by faith. Although recent decades suggest that 'dominated by faith' applies far more widely than is healthy.
Tammly - that has been my baseline assumption for decades. Admittedly not based on much more that a strong suspicion that faith rules in these areas.
“…a diverse country where people can live side by side…”
Ha. Tell that to the working class girls of Rotherham.
Peter - yes, he never sees the grim irony embedded in his own words.
Slightly OT but read this https://thecritic.co.uk/a-grooming-gang-whitewash/ and weep.
Peter - thanks for the link, I haven't read that one. Unmissable evidence that preserving a political narrative has become more important than the investigation of major criminal activity. Elites all know about it, just as we do.
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