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Starmer vows to 'defeat decline and division' in new year message
BBC News ^ | 31 December 2025 | Becky Morton

Posted on 01/01/2026 7:22:47 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has promised to "defeat the decline and division offered by others" in his new year message, as he insisted 2026 would see people feel "positive change" in their lives.

He acknowledged "things have been tough in Britain for a while" but said the public should now start to see improvements including lower bills, more police on the streets and new health hubs.

It has been a difficult year for the PM, who has been battling slowing economic growth, poor poll ratings and speculation he could face a leadership challenge.

In her own new year message, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said 2025 had seen "no growth, higher taxes and record unemployment".

However, she added that Britain was "not destined for decline" and her party's plan would "back business and fix our economy so we can fund our armed forces, police, schools, NHS and build something that we feel proud of".

Sir Keir said he shared "frustration about the pace of change" but "the challenges we face were decades in the making, and renewal is not an overnight job".

He added: "By staying the course, we will defeat the decline and division offered by others."

The PM promised that over the next year things would "start to feel easier", pointing to frozen rail fares, prescription charges and fuel duty, as well as increases to the minimum wage.

"In 2026, the choices we've made will mean more people will begin to feel positive change in your bills, your communities and your health service," he said.

"But even more people will feel once again a sense of hope, a belief that things can and will get better, feel that the promise of renewal can become a reality, and my government will make it that reality."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
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1 posted on 01/01/2026 7:22:48 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

That’s quite a cheerful agenda. He forgot to add in more arrests for thought crimes + more Islamization of the kingdom. Oh boy!


2 posted on 01/01/2026 7:26:24 PM PST by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

So, harsh punishment for mean tweets, if from backward white Brits.


3 posted on 01/01/2026 7:26:39 PM PST by heartwood (Please blame all ridiculous or iinappropriate words on autocorrect. Thank you. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

More police on the streets.... and more police at your door.

To arrest you if you say (or post anything on ‘social media’) that Starmer, Sadiq Khan, Chuckles the Clown King and their co-conspirators don’t like.


4 posted on 01/01/2026 7:29:31 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: MinorityRepublican

...by bringing in even more turd world illiterate violent muslim Africans and getting them free housing, food, and healthcare.


5 posted on 01/01/2026 7:31:28 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: j.havenfarm

That’s what “more police on the streets” means and it’s how he’ll defeat “division”. Simply throw dissenters in the Tower of London.


6 posted on 01/01/2026 7:34:12 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: MinorityRepublican

I know I’ve sucked so far, but I’m going to be really great next year. Just wait and see.


7 posted on 01/01/2026 7:34:33 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He will be surrendering to the Muslims next week.


8 posted on 01/01/2026 7:37:38 PM PST by for-q-clinton (RL)
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Starmer: "vows to 'defeat decline and division' in new year message"

Oh, so he's going to commit suicide? Cool.

9 posted on 01/01/2026 7:40:19 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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BOMBSHELL: Labour WIPEOUT as new poll predicts NIGHTMARE for Starmer in Scotland | Reaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERv72F8wKcA

10 posted on 01/01/2026 7:41:44 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: MinorityRepublican

Starmer has created more division and decline in the UK than just about anyone in recent memory.


11 posted on 01/01/2026 7:53:33 PM PST by FreedomForce
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"defeat the decline and division offered by others"

"Defeating division offered by others" means eliminating dissent and outlawing opposition.

12 posted on 01/01/2026 7:55:20 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: j.havenfarm

If they don’t get power away from Starmer and the rest of the Labour a-holes what’s left of England will be gone.


13 posted on 01/01/2026 8:05:01 PM PST by iamgalt
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To: MinorityRepublican

Actually, the one thing most Brits agree on is that they hate Starmer. That’s about all the unity there is in Britain.


14 posted on 01/01/2026 8:12:11 PM PST by Kazan
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“Defeat division”? Yeah, no. The two world views between the long history of Britain and the comparatively shorter history of Islam are incompatible. Sorry; not sorry.


15 posted on 01/01/2026 8:18:13 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Richard Starkey)
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I couldnt agree more, Starmer - You stay the course and run your immigrant infested country right off the cliff.

The British Lion is no more.


16 posted on 01/01/2026 8:19:42 PM PST by Gasshog (the amazing disappearing tag)
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It has been a difficult year for the PM

Oh...poor baby

17 posted on 01/01/2026 8:26:50 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: MinorityRepublican

He does know he’s responsible for what’s happened.....right??


18 posted on 01/01/2026 8:28:40 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: MinorityRepublican

Queir the Steamer...


19 posted on 01/01/2026 8:35:46 PM PST by kiryandil (Resistance to The Odor is defiance to grainpidity)
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To: MinorityRepublican

By jailing, censoring, cancelling, silincing people. - Der Sturmer


20 posted on 01/01/2026 8:54:27 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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