Wtf.
It's sickening how the far right agenda has been so normalised that the government is pandering to them.
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2025
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Iโd rather heโd come out as a nonce than whatever the fuck this is.
Maybe the royals are actually reptilians and they replace anyone dumb enough to be PM
Imagine how the far right and/or football hooligans must feel seeing their preferred symbol of nationalism be linked to somebody as milquetoast as Starmer ๐คฃ
Honestly, though, good for Starmer. None of us need to fly a flag - I think we know what country weโre in??? - but I abhor how the far right try to claim it for themselves, and how then anybody who does fly the flag is immediately linked to those bastards.
โIโve lost Saint George in the Union Jack, thatโs my flag too and I want it back!โ - Roots, by Show of Hands.
It's not the far-right's preferred symbol of nationalism. It's our national flag. That's how I look at it, and we should act as such. Labour displaying the Union Flag was ALWAYS the right choice. It's better than his disgraceful predecessor refusing to sing the national anthem.
I know you can say "oooh, his policies though, read his policie-"
The average voter doesn't read the entire manifesto. They just remembered that he was some bloke who wouldn't even sing the national anthem and got cushy with the IRA.
So the choices in the last election were ethno-nationalism or protest vote, got it
"Always sits in front of a Union Jack" is pretty weird to be honest. I mean, does he have one draped over the back of every chair the house and over the bed's headboard? Has he had one painted on the underside of the lid of his toilet?
Little known fact about ol' Keir, but this is what he wears around the house:
Haha, that's definitely possible.
An alternative is that as he's always in front of the Union Jack... perhaps he simply has a "special personal assistant" dressed like this, who is always behind him in his home?
Keir: "Bring out the special personal assistant"
Servant: "But the special personal assistant's sleeping"
Keir: "Well, I guess you're gonna have to go wake him up now, won't you?"
My thinking was that he sits facing it, like you would sit in front of the TV. But instead of the tele, he is just staring at red, white and blue like a true patriot.
That's a good point! For some reason, I didn't consider that he could be facing it.
The wonderful ambiguity of the English language. Never has caused any issues before I am sure.
Obviously he stands to take a shit, no sitting involved there.
Keir Starmer: seat warmer for Nigel.
Hey nige, come here and let me suck that mushroom cock
foocking liebour politisan, its called the UNION FLAG when its on land!
Wikipedia: "It is sometimes asserted that the term Union Jack properly refers only to naval usage, but this assertion was dismissed by the Flag Institute in 2013 after historical investigations."
To continue to explain much too seriously for a shitposting community: a jack in general is a specific type of flag on a ship, specifically the smaller one that flies at the front. It's traditionally only flown in harbour or at anchor
The British one specifically, though, has history messing things up. It actually pre-dates the Acts of Union (or at least the earlier version of it without the St Patrick's cross does) by an entire century. Originally it really was a jack, only for maritime usage, and Scotland and England continued to fly their own flags on land. By the time the Acts of Union made it an actual national flag, everyone had been calling that design a jack for their entire lives anyway, so it just stuck. Both the admiralty and parliament confirmed that either term is acceptable for official use in the early 1900s
I saw you helping your uncle jack off a horse, so I did.
Jokes on you he had his home commissioned as a naval vessel
Hmm. Maybe he's trying to normalise and 'reclaim' the flag for non-racists. That would be a good thing.
What is "Union" about that Jack?
And the Oscar goes to....๐ and morons are clapping ๐
I mean, if it will stop people voting reform, I don't see the harm
Come on, no one buys this shit. The people who this is supposed appeal to can see this for the obvious grift it is, no one believes Starmer is being sincere here.
I don't think Starmer is a closeted racist.
Still hasn't done much to fix the immigration laws. At least his administration is beginning to talk about it, I guess
Starmer isn't anything, he has no beliefs other than retaining power for power's sake. He has one of largest majorities in Parliamentary history and yet he is incapable of influencing the national conversation, only reacting to it.
Still hasnโt done much to fix the immigration laws
What, pray tell, is wrong with them at the moment? Immigration is generally good for the country and with the state of the economy, we need all the good we can get.
What, pray tell, is wrong with them at the moment?
The law is too strict but unenforced. ยฃ38k per year for a visa sponsorship is ludicrous outside of London (possibly inside too!). Apparently the government is thinking of reducing graduate visas down from the current 2 years which is an idiotic idea. And worst of all, the fact that a British citizen needs to earn a minimum of ยฃ29k per year in order to have a non-citizen spouse enter the country. Technically it's between the two of them, but it apparently has to be within the UK. Your spouse can't work without a visa and cannot get a visa without the work. Regardless, there shouldn't even be a limit. Apparently you can get an exception if it's "unreasonable" for you to move to their country (really messed up for the home office to tell you, "no, don't come back to the UK/leave the UK") but processing that takes a year apparently.
Meanwhile, if you come over in a small boat illegally, you don't get immediately sent back or elsewhere, even though you were just coming out of france- a safe country.
Under the tories it was just a numbers game. They just wanted to reduce "migration" and trying to get rid of the channel crossers was too expensive and inconvenient. So they instead decided to reduce international students- immigrants who are known for being temporary and also subsidizing our own citizen's education