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**Hugh** · 13-02-2025, 15:17

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Originally Posted by papa smurf

Starmer runs away from farmers

Keir Starmer runs scared as he abandons visit due to furious farmers' protest
Sir Keir Starmer has abandoned a visit to Buckinghamshire due to a noisy tractor protest

What a gutless wonder this man is

https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...uckinghamshire

He’ll be hiding in a fridge next…

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https://www.thetimes.com/article/8c5...8c2a2961e73243

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The Tory leader demands answers on two scandals only for Keir Starmer to point out that both had occurred under the previous government…

… The killer, self-administered blow concerned this week’s controversial court ruling that a Palestinian family of six from Gaza have been granted the right to remain in the UK under the Ukraine family scheme, which was most certainly not designed for this purpose. This as far as Badenoch was concerned, was a disgrace. “Is the government planning to appeal?” she asked.

Where she’d gone just ever so slightly wrong is that Sir Keir Starmer and the rest of the government also think it’s a disgrace, and they have made their views clear in every newspaper article on the court ruling…

… “She’s right,” he said. “It’s the wrong decision. But she hasn’t done her homework. The decision in question was taken under the last government, in accordance with the legal framework of the last government.”…

… With her final flourish, Badenoch brought up the case of John Tuckett, the government’s preferred candidate for a new role of chief inspector of borders, but who, she said, “Lives in Finland and wants to work from home. This is not serious.”

Starmer rose again. Human rights lawyers aren’t a natural fit for acts of wanton cruelty but what choice did he have?

“The individual in question was appointed in 2019 by the last government to a senior position,” he said. “He then worked for five years from Finland. We’ve changed that and he will now be working from the UK full time.”