Posted on 08/27/2024 4:28:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
When Vice President Kamala Harris said last week in Chicago, “you can always trust me to put country above party,” it struck a familiar note in Britain, where the new prime minister, Keir Starmer, used much the same phrase throughout the Labour Party’s relentless march to power earlier this summer.
It’s not the only parallel between Mr. Starmer and Ms. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee. Both have shaken off or soft-pedaled some of their earlier positions as they try to broaden their party’s appeal. Both are former public prosecutors, who declare a ringing commitment to the rule of law. Both are operating in a volatile environment, where law and order is threatened by extremist elements.
In Mr. Starmer’s case, he was hit with anti-immigrant riots only weeks after his victory, after a deadly knife attack on a children’s dance class was followed by false claims, amplified by people on the far right, that the assailant was a Muslim asylum seeker. (The attacker was born in Britain, police said, and his parents were Rwandan Christians.) In Ms. Harris’s case, some analysts believe she could face unrest if she defeats former President Donald J. Trump in a close race and Mr. Trump or his supporters reject the results.
“These are different countries with different political systems, but there often seem to be parallels in their political trajectories,” said Steven Fielding, an emeritus professor of political history at the University of Nottingham.
Labour and the Democratic Party have long shared tips and swapped strategies, most vividly during the era of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. So it was little surprise that key members of Mr. Starmer’s political brain trust were in demand at the Democratic National Convention to offer lessons from Labour’s recent victory.
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Doesn't she go to work in the White House every day?
“you can always trust me to put country above party”
Meaningless.
In much same manner as Louis IV said “I am the state” so also the Democrat Party believes that it is the country.
I’m guessing you meant Louis XIV. And the statement is regarded as apocrypyhal.
Yes and thank you.
One day f his first acts was to incarcerate hundreds of his political opponents. I expect the same from kamala
Starmer lied and so will Harris be lying when she says it. All Starmer Is doing is attacking the native British and treating them like dogs.
The headline is an oxymoron, and the writer is a moron. She is IN power, it’s hers to lose over her failed policies, unlike the recent situation in GB
The media is helping her run an “outsider candidacy.”
She’s going to pretend that she was never there, and is a “reformer.”
Quite a few useful idiots will believe that, including the “migrants” who will be voting for the first time this year.
These red-diaper babies are everywhere. Starmer himself is/was a Trotskyist, while Harris’ father was a professor of Marxism.
Their prevalence in high level politics in the West is utterly disproportionate to the number of actual marxists in the population
Dr. Fauci, “I am science.”
Their prevalence in high level politics in the West is utterly disproportionate to the number of actual marxists in the population
Communists want absolute power. Look at what happened to Russia.
We lucked out with the Founding Fathers. They were pissed off at the British Crown so they were motivated to do something about it. If King GEORGE III was a decent ruler, nothing would have happened.
This was what one part of the Jan 6th staged setup was all about, same for Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the people didn’t immediately rise up and throw them out and allowed it to go on so now they’re emboldened. The West is being pulled up by the roots. A deep state color revolution upon the West.
That fly-infested unclean spirit housed inside Obama is planning for the same tyrannical evil to ramp up here.
The USA is the strongman and must be brought down to allow for the WEF Great Reset using the CCP model.
Meanwhile keeping Wall Street pumped with printed PPT dollars and picking winners and losers is what has calmed the waters for now. They will pull that rug as soon as all the other pieces are in place. Then the sea and waves will be roaring.
“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken” Luke 21:25-26
Labour won with 33.7% of the vote, because the SNP collapsed in Scotland, and because conservative voters split between the Tories and Reform, due to a split between the Tory leadership and the grassroots.
This situation does not translate to US politics in general or the 2024 US election in particular.
A path to tyranny.
You people!! You put this woman in control.. You are asking for disaster.
Where are your brains.. My God in Heaven.. Stop the foolishness.. If you dont know she is not fit for any office.. Rethink.. Examine..
Dumb has taken over.
the same PM who’s jailing Britons for standing up against the migrant crime wave?
I’m surprised that nobody has parodied Kier Starmer with a fudged copy of the Nazi storm trooper newspaper “Der Stuermer”.
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