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Keir Starmer Is U.K.’s New Prime Minister
NYT ^
 | 7/5/24
 | Stephen Castle, Mark Landler and Megan Specia
Posted on 07/05/2024 9:45:52 AM PDT by Round Earther
Keir Starmer became prime minister of Britain on Friday after his Labour Party delivered a decisive win in the general election. 
“Across our country, people will be waking up to the news that a weight has been lifted, a burden finally removed from the shoulders of this nation,” a jubilant Mr. Starmer told supporters in central London in the early hours of Friday morning. 
Using the analogy of a rising “sunlight of hope,” pale at first and getting stronger, he said the country had “an opportunity after 14 years to get its future back.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: primeminister; starmer; uk
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To: Round Earther
    Was he a WEF young leader?
 He has certainly been at various WEF events.
 
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posted on 
07/05/2024 9:49:38 AM PDT
by 
C210N
(Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
 
To: Round Earther
    NYT journo-babe Megan Specia is easy on the eyes: 
 
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posted on 
07/05/2024 9:50:06 AM PDT
by 
nwrep
 
To: Round Earther
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posted on 
07/05/2024 9:50:53 AM PDT
by 
Skywise
 
To: nwrep
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posted on 
07/05/2024 9:51:00 AM PDT
by 
who knows what evil?
(Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth!  Dr. David Williams)
 
To: Round Earther
    He wants to make Britain a ‘”clean energy superpower”, removing fossil fuels from all of Britain’s electricity generation by 2030
OK
 
To: who knows what evil?
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posted on 
07/05/2024 9:52:17 AM PDT
by 
nwrep
 
To: butlerweave
    In just six years?
Most of those voters would say Starmer was ‘having a laugh’.
 
To: who knows what evil?
    Problem is that their so-called Tories are bigger squishes than our RINOs.
To: Round Earther
    What’s left of manufacturing will go away, unemployment will skyrocket, taxes will rise and crime will increase and spread to rural communities.
Yeah
 
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posted on 
07/05/2024 9:57:22 AM PDT
by 
MrBambaLaMamba
(The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald )
 
To: Round Earther
    Brits, if you think the Tories were bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
 
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posted on 
07/05/2024 10:00:22 AM PDT
by 
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
 
To: Round Earther
    Different boot, same neck.
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posted on 
07/05/2024 10:03:10 AM PDT
by 
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
 
To: nwrep
    that is one good looking nazi
 
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posted on 
07/05/2024 10:05:38 AM PDT
by 
joshua c
 
To: Round Earther
    The sun has long set on the British empire.
 
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posted on 
07/05/2024 10:07:05 AM PDT
by 
citizen
(Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
 
To: AndyJackson
    Not all.....just weak leadership.
 
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posted on 
07/05/2024 10:07:53 AM PDT
by 
Churchillspirit
(Pray for President Trump)
 
To: joshua c
    Getting by on her looks will soon end. She’s starting to get the neck creases...heading for Commie hagdom.
 
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posted on 
07/05/2024 10:08:40 AM PDT
by 
citizen
(Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
 
To: nwrep
    “ NYT journo-babe Megan Specia is easy on the eyes:”
Yep, but where is she on the hot-crazy matrix?
 
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posted on 
07/05/2024 10:11:37 AM PDT
by 
wjcsux
(On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
 
To: wjcsux
    You have to ask? She is a so-called journalist for the NY Times, which is at least two striks.
 
To: butlerweave
    The UK has joined Russia and Yemen on the list of counties I won’t visit. There’s no point in it.
 
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posted on 
07/05/2024 10:22:16 AM PDT
by 
henkster
(He's got a day time job; he's doing all right)
 
To: Round Earther
    At this rate, the sun will never rise on a British empire.
 
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posted on 
07/05/2024 10:35:00 AM PDT
by 
I-ambush
(From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
 
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