In recent weeks there has been a number of protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers. Some of those protests have been organised by far-right groups. All of them are anti-immigrant and against the Labour government.
But in a curious twist, the prime minister announced on Monday that he is “at one” with people who want the asylum seekers out.
Keir Starmer enthusiastically threw his rhetorical support behind the views of the protesters. “I completely get it,” he insisted passionately. "Local people by and large do not want these hotels in their towns, in their place, and nor do I.
“I’m completely at one with them on that,” he said, and vowed to close “every single asylum hotel”.
I have a lot of time for Jezza, but he’s really piss-poor at handling manufactured media pile-ons, such as the false accusations of antisemitism that were directed at him and other Labour socialists. A more street-smart leader would have been better able to counter the lies, and to remove the disloyal party apparatchiks and Blairite weasels who facilitated them.
He’s also let himelf be suckered by Putin. He seens to think it’s still the jolly old USSR and not a security-mafia fascist state.
Even so, unlike Starmer, at least he’s not an appeaser of racist cunts.