Starmer to call for 'politics of patriotic renewal', warning 'you don't need to be historian' to understand far-right threat
Starmer to call for 'politics of patriotic renewal', warning 'you don't need to be historian' to understand far-right threat
Starmer says government will introduce digital IDs to ensure Britain’s ‘borders are more secure’ – as it happened
Full speech to come later, but at least they're briefing the right extracts this time (looking at you, press team who led with 'island of strangers'):
An industrialised infrastructure of grievance - an entire world – not just a worldview, created through our devices. That is miserable, joyless, demonstrably untrue. And yet in another way – totally cohesive. That preys on real problems in the real world. Identifies clear enemies – that’s us.
And, at its heart – its most poisonous belief - on full display at the protests here in London, just a week or two ago, that there is a coming struggle, a defining struggle, a violent struggle, for the nation. For all our nations.
Now – you don’t need to be a historian to know where that kind of poison can lead. You can just feel it.
A language that is naked in its attempt to intimidate.
But what is he going to do about this, is the question? He identifies 'devices', as the issue, but is he going to get his government off of Twitter? Ban algorithmic feeds? What does the alternative look like?