Keir Starmer will be judged on response to causes of UK riots

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1. I’ll be curious to see if he actually tackles immigration in the immediate whilst we fix infrastructure issues in the country.

   I doubt it.

2. There was an article yesterday about how Labour will drop plans to prioritise UK citizens for housing.

   Sounded like a terrible time to say or admit that.

3. I’ve got to be honest, seeing these idiots getting two years within 48hrs of setting fire to a wheelie bin has been quite heartening. 

   A few months ago the MPs would have still been giving it ‘both sides’ on GB News at this point and have actually done fuck all in response. 

4. I’m sure he will.

   Just like how people claimed the same about covid, the wasted money during covid, the parties, the stupid spending of budget money on bird baths, the failure of brexit and more.

   Let’s be honest he could do everything or do nothing and in a few weeks people will be back to complaining about some other issue or making memes.

   I hope they work out a way to punish those that did stupid shit during the riots, but no point handing out sentences we don’t have the room to actually achieve. The prisons are over crowded, half the serious crimes see fuck all sentences. They also need to do something about the media and the way certain celebs and mainstream figures can say and so as they please. No point coming down hard on the actors when the director is free to continue after all.

5. Unless he’s responsible for decades of certain media outlets blaming everything on immigration or if he is somehow responsible for the previous 14 years where the government strip mines public services.

   I don’t see how he could be in any way responsible.

6. Starmer doesn’t have the wherewithal to sort the causes. He’ll just talk about protecting communities, locking people up and blaming amorphous groups of right wing thugs

7. Every government since at least the mid-90s has been elected on a manifesto that included reducing immigration (in other words, political parties have acknowledged that the level of immigration is a legitimate concern amongst the electorate) and yet immigration has continued to increase. 

    Successive government’s failure to take the necessary measures to address this, and their addiction to the cheap and easily exploitable labour (and their consequent freedom to entirely neglect an entire generation of working class British people) that mass immigration brings, has led to the rise and rise of political movements like UKIP and now Reform UK. The popularity of these movements is only going to increase as long as the government fails to address people’s entirely legitimate concerns.  

    I’m not expressing an opinion here but I think these are the facts. 

8. Absolutely wild framing of politically driven right wing unrest.

   They lost. They need to get over it. Starmer owes them nothing. They did not vote for him.

9. This was basically an attempt at a medieval pogrom, in which the local white Christians whipped themselves into a lather over false and maliciously-spread rumors about the local ethno-religious minority, before proceeding to fall upon them in a frenzy of violence. These people were trying to burn houses of worship and hotels with people inside. They were pulling people out of cars.

   All the while, the press and political commentators have continued to make excuses and infantilize these predatory thugs. It’s honestly disgusting and shocking.

10. Can’t help but think the PM of the country is being judged for many things. Where’s my money for writing an article?

11. This just in: PM will be judged on response to major social event.

12. They’ve shelved a Tory policy that the outgoing party knew they’ve never had to enact.

    It’s a classic trap and one everyone in this sub seems to be less than mindful.

    Labour will still need to present their own answers for dealing with immigration and social housing. That’s obvious. But not seeing through a policy that is not of their own devising doesn’t mean they’re deaf to these issues.

    Frankly no matter who the houses are going to a key issue is that rates of newly developed social housing have plummeted since 2012.

    We need to get building.

13. He will be judged on economic outcomes. These riots will barely be remembered in 2029, in much the same way hardly anyone’s vote in 2015 was determined by the Tory response to civil unrest in 2011.