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Keir Starmer blames BREXIT for Channel crisis and calls dinghies carrying migrants 'Farage boats'
The Daily Mail ^ | 01 Oct 2025 | JAMES TAPSFIELD

Posted on 10/01/2025 2:27:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Keir Starmer has opened another front in his war on Reform by blaming Brexit for the Channel migrant crisis - saying the UK is being assailed by 'Farage boats'.

The PM made the claim about the impact of cutting ties with the EU as he scrambled to claw back Nigel Farage's huge poll lead.

But he also went into retreat after brutal barbs in his Labour conference speech, stressing the Reform leader is not a racist.

The PM described Mr Farage as 'formidable' as he denied that the swipes put safety at risk.

With Labour facing meltdown in the polls, Sir Keir levelled a series of highly personal jibes at his rival - who responded by warning that the personal safety of Reform politicians had been put at risk.

Deputy PM David Lammy went even further by making an outlandish slur about Mr Farage having 'flirted with the Hitler Youth', a suggestion he was quickly forced to withdraw. The concerns raised by Reform were dismissed by Labour MPs as 'snowflake'.

Sir Keir signalled the aggressive new tactics on Sunday when he described Reform's policy of scrapping 'indefinite leave to remain' immigration status as 'racist'.

In the aftermath of a dramatic few days of politics:

In a round of interviews after his big speech, Sir Keir told GB News that Mr Farage had been 'wrong' during the Brexit referendum in 2016 to saying leaving the EU would make no difference to migration policy.

Under the Dublin Convention which applies in the EU, there is a provision to return asylum seekers to the first member state they arrived in - although critics argue it has never worked.

Sir Keir acknowledged the returns agreement with France had only seen small numbers deported, but said it had been important to prove the policy worked.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 10/01/2025 2:27:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

And I thought Starmer is the Prime Minister.


2 posted on 10/01/2025 2:28:31 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

That doesn’t even make good nonsense.


3 posted on 10/01/2025 2:29:39 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well then what kept the Third Reich out of Britain?


4 posted on 10/01/2025 2:30:09 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: MinorityRepublican

They lie as naturally as they breath, these Labor party operatives. The devil’s own. Nothing more evil than destroying your own Western Civilization, especially one as important as Great Britain historically, warts and all. What a sad, pathetic sociopath of a so-called man.


5 posted on 10/01/2025 2:30:18 PM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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what a pathetic little liar - no doubt he was a bullied dweeb is grade school - not supporting that of course


6 posted on 10/01/2025 2:34:08 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: MinorityRepublican

They just “say stuff”. If it sounds sort of good, it’s sufficient. Doesn’t have to make sense.


7 posted on 10/01/2025 2:35:55 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Nice try Dipsh*t. Proves that Dems here are the same as Labor Libs over the pond.


8 posted on 10/01/2025 2:35:55 PM PDT by silent majority rising ( United Israel - Judea, Samaria, and Gaza - US get out of the UN-we are not United with them.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
My take:

1) By blaming Brexit in effect he's blaming the voters. Not a good political move.

2) Perhaps without intending to, he's reminding everyone that a primary motive for Brexit was the rapefugee scandal and the EU insisting that England keep accepting whatever new rapefugees any EU member (i.e. Germany) lets into Europe. In other words, he just reminded everyone that the Brits through their Brexit vote already voiced what they think about the rapefugees.

9 posted on 10/01/2025 2:37:48 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Loser!!

Everyone knows they’re Keir Boats full of invaders.


10 posted on 10/01/2025 2:41:18 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Williams

Classic Marxist strategy for sure. The British will probably start using the term.


11 posted on 10/01/2025 2:44:47 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh numpty. Such a tosser.


12 posted on 10/01/2025 2:48:07 PM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It sounds like Starmtrooper is under the misimpression that the boats are full of Brittons, fleeing the Island of Death.


13 posted on 10/01/2025 2:50:11 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MinorityRepublican

Who’s been at the helm for these past few months?
Not Farage. So, is the Prime Minister declaring himself as
‘helpless/ powerless/ impotent in the terms of his office?
Not terribly inspiring for the Brits.


14 posted on 10/01/2025 2:50:19 PM PDT by lee martell
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Starmer and his ilk are simply mocking us native Britons.
Everybody knows we voted for BRexit because we wanted to regain control of our borders and an end to the invasion by illegals.
The parties in power have all betrayed BRexit and the British people.


15 posted on 10/01/2025 2:50:39 PM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He must be smoking that weed from the Scottish Highlands.


16 posted on 10/01/2025 2:53:43 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: MinorityRepublican

So, he is saying he does NOT believe in democracy. BREXIT was voted on BY THE PEOPLE, then affirmed in Parliament.

We already know he doesn’t believe in free speech, as he has people arrested for facebook posts, tweets, and mean words.

To say he is worthless would still give him more worth than he deserves...


17 posted on 10/01/2025 2:54:00 PM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: packagingguy

What about now the “Starmer Troopers” have been rounding folks up for social media posts nonstop.


18 posted on 10/01/2025 2:54:25 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He needs to have the navy (what’s left of it) out there stopping or sinking any boats trying to come to the UK, and this nonsense would stop.


19 posted on 10/01/2025 2:55:54 PM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: MinorityRepublican

PM Starman is mentally unstable


20 posted on 10/01/2025 2:55:59 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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