To think that Starmer must regret taking the knee for George Floyd?

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Surely public figures must realise that making empty performative gestures will come back to haunt them at some point?

Agree, wealth has nothing to do with it!

A small example, when the England team lost the euros or world cup cant remember which one, the very rich white players were not racially abused online but the very rich black players were, their money didn’t protect them. Kano a rapper (from the uk and rich) got stopped because he was driving a very expensive Mercedes and questioned where he got it from, he was in the bloody advert for said car!

Supporting the essence of BLM movement does not mean you support every single policy that the leadership proposes

do you support every policy of the party you follow

See here - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391876939_Did_More_Stop_and_Search_by_Police_Cause_Less_Knife_Injury_in_London_Evidence_from_2008-2023

and here

https://www.benchmarkcambridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Stop-Search-TIMES-story-April-2025.pdf

Nope! The man is utterly shameless and hypocrisy is the lefts DNA. Did you not get the memo that it’s different when they do it because they’re the kind ones.

Hear hear

I don't even watch football, but remember that well.
The racial abuse they got was insane. All for missing bloody penalties or some nonsense.

Lots of things happened in a positive way as a result if BLM. People had conversations they never would have had in staffrooms, and between friends.
Concepts of microaggressions, implicit biased, institutional racism are much more understood. Yes, lots of people were aware of these previously but lots weren't (still aren't).
I work in the world of funding where as a result of BLM, recognition was given to under served populations. Which actually also focused on white working class areas as an under served group. Obviously this was recognised previously, but policies changed and as a result significant funding streams are going to double disadvantaged neighbourhoods. From government level down. This has happened in many places. Cultural institutions recognised that history of black people in the UK is predominantly around negative discourse, TV and film recognised the same with black characters.
BLM as an organisation aren't great and not all of their actions are commendable but the outcomes of some of it has been good.
Unfortunately some of our less favourable politicians have used the inevitable backlash for their own political means. ,

How did this man become our pm
He's totally against women
How !!

Defunding the police and protesting Floyd’s death was the essence of BLM. It also built a narrative around one false and one unfalsifiable claim: of wide-scale killing of unarmed black men by US police, and that bad outcomes in the black community can mostly be traced back to white supremacy culture that permeates everything. This is conspiracy level thinking on a scale with Great Replacement, etc.

Ive always found it odd how if you are of the left and at least trying to be decent but sometimes failing is ' shameful', whereas if you are of the right and admit to wanting to live your life getting ahead and possibly tsking more than your fair share and not really giving a toss about other people...because you are up front about it that somehow makes you a better person. That's such weird logic.

There would be protests with or without Nigel Farage. People are angry, again, at attempts to cover up what was really going on. Ya know, like Southports "Welsh choirboy"?

He also isn't sure if women can have a penis or not -

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-says-vast-majority-of-women-dont-have-a-penis-and-need-safe-spaces-DWzFLF_2/

Of course because we are not a minority

Excellent post!

Any woman who is behind a PM who

Believes men can have a cervix
Allies himself with a cause advocating defunding police
Takes the knee for a man who held a shotgun to a pregnant woman's stomach
Appoints an ally to a well known sex offender as US Ambassador

Need not get on their sneery high horses about Farage being the biggest threat to women.

Do you think all black Americans supported BLM?

Very good point. We are equally represented so can take care of ourselves. Women being screwed all ways round, again.

And it seems Andy Burnham is cut from the same cloth -

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15830845/Andy-Burnham-men-identify-women-use-female-toilets.html

for the majority the movement is about gaining equality and fighting against racism while highlighting inequality and police brutality

you will stil get many people supporting the BLM movement for the very essence they stand for

the defunding the police is a proposal many do and many don’t support which is common among political groups it’s more concerning when all supporters agree with every proposed policy

the defunding is always mentioned and often derails the conversation but why not look at what the BLM movement has raised into the public conversation

"the defunding the police is a proposal many do and many don’t support which is common among political groups it’s more concerning when all supporters agree with every proposed policy"

What have I just read!

If I am reading you correctly I think you’ve just made my original point for me.. Sometimes failing is laughable The virtue signaling left are not nice or kind they are hypocrites.

The assumption that anyone not broadcasting their virtue and goodness must be bad is weird logic.

An example go down any street in a nice street where we live you will see people sweeping outside their houses and neighbours houses. Taking pride in their local area. Go round the corner and they expect the council to be cleaning the streets that they don’t pay tax to be cleaned.

Terrifying that this man should get near power.

I understand what you are saying but.......I genuinely think this 'hypocritical left politician ' thing is a characterisation partly whipped up by the right wing press. I wasnt impressed by Starmer's 4,000 pound glasses or Angela Rayner's outfits paid for by others, but I dont think they are despicable people. The kind of corruption from the previous Tory govts was far worse imo. The greed, the manipulation thw lying. That doesnt reflect the basic decency of the majority of British people. We're being taken for a ride.

Am getting really tired of shit like this. I don't mean taking the knee, I mean posts like this.

Yeah what's a few freebies compared to a massive appointment scandal around national security. 🙄 there is no whipped up frenzy around the hypocritical left MP. It exists. You can't keep surviving on what about the Tories.