Quote Originally Posted by outwoodclaret View Post
Starmer blames it all on the previous Government. Well he would wouldn’t he but it goes deeper than that. Even a snake oil salesmen could spot it.

In a speech in the Downing Street rose garden on Tuesday, the PM said the riots "revealed a deeply unhealthy society... weakened by a decade of division and decline, infected by a spiral of populism which fed off cycles of failure of the last government".
Sorry to go on about this but Starmer needs to be challenged on his rhetoric.

What “division” is he talking about?

What “decline” is he talking about?

What does he mean by “populism”?

What “cycles of failure” is he referring to?


It is rather typical political rhetoric - it sounds good to the “sound-bite” supporters but what does he actually mean and, more importantly, what is the government going to do. It is the future that is important, not the past.