Starmer rifiuta per due volte di condannare direttamente l’incarcerazione di personaggi filodemocratici di Hong Kong | Keir Starmer
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/19/keir-starmer-declines-to-directly-condemn-jailing-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures
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He’s already pissed the Russians off, can’t be pissing the Chinese off too
Antagonising the US and being chummy with China. Got his priorities all wrong. Eugh.
Commie Kier and Winnie the Pooh are natural bed fellows. Expect much more craven bum licking from Keir in the years to come.
I mean the UK has well and truly crossed the ‘jailing people for political beliefs we *don’t like*’ rubicon. It would be verging on hypocritical.
And no, this isn’t a false equivalency. There is a large segment of political beliefs which are no longer permissible to be expressed in public. The suppression of these beliefs extends far beyond what is commonly agreed as ‘sensible carve outs’ in a society which otherwise enjoys free speech, such as the US.
In Hong Kong the forbidden set of beliefs are different, but the principle remains the same.
Journalists: Kier, why don’t you say something Winnie the Pooh won’t like before having a face to face with him where you will be asking him for favours.
Starmer: I decline your request.
Probably should say something, however the guy is a lawyer. Questioning the rulings of a foreign court system, which I think to this day has British judges in its high court, is not something he is going to do off-the-cuff.
Also whatever he says is not going to have any impact.
Probably too busy taking notes on how to further quell his own dissenters.
This will be reflected by Labour losing the majority of some councils during the next local elections in May.
A significant portion of HKers who come here by the BNO visa scheme have a political preference towards the Tories.
Recently visited Hong Kong. Was recommend “Museum of History” – with mock up streets of how Hong Kong used to look over the years. Was meant to be brilliant.
Turned up and that’s all been removed, it’s now an exhibition on essentially why China is brilliant, and felt like it was washing Hong Kong of its history and enforcing why China will fix it. If you check google maps reviews you’ll see what I mean.
Just for considerations.
Is Starmer ever going to put a foot right? He’s seems to choose the wrong way at every fork in the road. He just doesn’t seem to understand what most want or think. He’s clueless.