‘Britain is back’: Keir Starmer promises UK will be at the heart of Europe

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1. Not sure how you can be at the heart of Europe without being in the EU but OK.

2. He probably means London as usual. Anything from the Midlands and above will get ignored as usual.

3. Didn’t vote for Starmer but nice to see some optimism coming from the top. The UK has so much untapped potential.

4. He means to airlift the entire country and drop it in the middle of Europe obviously

5. Good luck fixing 14 years of decline in your first term only to get back to neutral ground.

6. The whole “I would simply do the <good thing>, not the <bad thing>” vagueness works for oppositions. People are going to get sick of Starmer’s vague promises if they’re not followed up with something concrete.

   You’d hope with the experience he has in his team, not just the MPs, but the likes of Sue Grey (for execution) and Tony Blair’s advice (for politics) he’ll know this.

7. He will definitely do better than his incompetent predecessor. Realistically, the EU needs a strong and cooperative UK, and vice versa. I have a feeling that Starmer will get along well with the folks in Europe. Not to mention, he has much bigger nutjobs in his own party and especially in opposition in Parliament.

8. But we’re not actually going to rejoin the EU. Well, not this decade anyway.

9. Starmer’s at the wheel man, he’s doing his thing. Britain is back!

10. I love the passion and determination. Im sure it’s going to be a challenge but this is true leadership.

11. Let’s see if what he says and what he does end up being the same. It wasn’t even two weeks ago he was saying the UK wouldn’t join the single market in his lifetime.

12. I doubt it. And honestly, that shouldn’t be much of a priority just yet. Unless it’s going to magically fix everything.

13. Can’t even fund our public services and Kier wants to physically move the whole country to the middle of Europe…

14. Big Tony’s back in power now, lads, the sky’s the limit

15. He’s going to win the Euro Cup for Britain tonight.

16. Just outside the building leaning in and trying to be relevant.

17. It’s all bluster. Over the first week it’s all been about how bad .. worse than we thought narrative. That’s just to manage expectations right from day one.

18. Uk Missed its chance. Entrance market for commonwealth countries, profit, investment for places outside London that are basically the same as Greece, profit.

    Brexit to stop the immigrants, except the majority of immigrants aren’t from the EU? Indian workers have completely taken over supermarket and fast food jobs since brexit. Immigration is up.

    The country not chance the UK has of being at the heart of Europe is deciding to end the Gas crisis and intervention in the Ukraine but unfortunately there is a crush of recruits in the army and navy.

19. Lol no it wont, after brexit U.K is lucky the EU does not point and laugh every time they enter a discussion

20. Britains main contribution to the EU was finance.

    It’s the easiest job to move somewhere else.

    Brexit fucked it, and it isn’t coming back.

21. We’re not gonna let you join up or even be cozy like that…