Starmer would work with the French far-right as ‘that’s what serious government is’

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1. Yeah so he should, up until the point that they do something that contravenes any international laws – not saying they will, but that’s the line

2. Were people hoping he’d say no? Surely we would expect our government to work with other foreign governments on areas of mutual interest, even if we disagree with them politically.

3. Jeremy Corbyn is not at this time a member of the Labour Party, by the way

4. Starmer willing to follow basic procedure.

   Cue screeching from the bottom 5% of our nation.

5. Does that include destroying the rules based order that Labour relies on so much?

6. No shit he’d work with the democratically elected government of France. Weird this is even a headline.

7. He’s completely right, politics means working with countries we may not always agree with or like the policies of.

8. We work with Orbans government in Hungary, worked with PiS when they ran Poland, worked with Putin, work with Xi, work with the al Sauds, work with Bahrain.

9. Considering most of the illegal immgrants springboard to the UK from France, having a french far-right and a moderate left or right UK seems ideal to me. It will be a solid first line of defence for illegal immgration to the Uk. Is that a double standard?  No, becasuse I don’t live in France lmao

10. His predecessor said he would work with Russia after they used chemical weapons on our soil and invaded Ukraine in 2014. This is pretty tame compared to that

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43463161.amp

11. Well fucking obviously, we’d have to work with one of our closest partners and allies regardless of who’s in charge, unless they start a war or something I’d expect us to work with them.

12. I mean… The real question is how badly Sarkozy, Hollande and Macron fucked up during their times in power. Based on the fact that a good chunk of France willingly voted National Rally (basically their equivalent of the BNP), I’d say they fucked up royally.

    Macron has basically given Marine Le Pen a golden ticket to the Élysée Palace.

13. Breaking news : the government of one country is going to work with the government of another

14. The current government worked closely with Putin, but just didn’t know it.

15. I mean…Yes? I hate the far right as much as any sane person but I think we can both agree that if the EU booted us out over the last 14 years of Tory government, we would have said it’s unreasonable.

16. Sanctioning ourselves for ideological reasons is just essentially Brexit. Refusing to work with our nearest major trading partner, with whom we share proximal borders because we don’t approve of what their own citizens voted for is just madness.

17. God forbid a Prime Minister behaves like a Prime Minister

18. Of course this is Starmers response.

    France is an incredibly important country on the world stage and an incredibly important ally to *us*. Crossing your arms and holding your breath because they’re being run by meanies isn’t going to change that. We have to work together regardless. and it’s much better to be *in the clubhouse* than outside of it now Le Pen is going to become much more inline with Europe’s existential enemy.

19. Serious government is about appeasing nazis?

    And this guy thinks he’s this centuries clement attlee… fucking despicable.

20. “No we wouldn’t talk to the French Government about important issues like migration, European security, climate change and economic prosperity”.

    Anyone expect him to say that?

21. Realistically Starmer is going to have to fall in line with Europe, particularly on immigration issues across the continent people are showing their discontent.

    What does this mean? Will Centrist/left-leaning Remainers not want to a closer relationship with Europe after all seeing as most of Europe is shifting towards the right? Will right-leaning Brexiteers seek a close relationship with Europe in tackling immigration and not wanting Britain to be an outlier in a topic that was their main reasons for supporting Brexit in the first place? It does seem that the Brexit/Remain argument will flip sides.

    Regardless of which I’m convinced Starmer will be disappointing Centrists by shifting to the Right over the next five years.

22. He’s in line to become next PM while they’re leading the Parliamentary elections. He can’t just ignore the one country most of our trade comes through and that most of our migration agreements are with. Short of them deciding to some genocide shit, we can’t just not have a working relationship with them.