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Well put. We should as I do think of it pre-Brexit (attempting to tame and contain the far right) and post-Brexit (appeasing them to the Nth Degree). If the extremes of Brexit were to have been contained and restricted. We wouldn't be where we are.

The oft promised 5D Chess gambit innit............. 😉

Power has corrupted any morals she ever had.

I guess she is having to deal with the reality of far right parties funded by very rich people, (the AFD for example) getting ever closer and closer to power, plus in the UK, well funded press and media (murdoch et al) who have whipped up consistent hatred against people seeking asylum. Not easy.

Next Prime Minister. Show her some respect!....... 🫣

The Home Office is not fit for purpose. It has a very nasty corporate culture. Instead of fixing it, Cooper has gone native. Grim.

You must have missed the racist mugs.

Has Ms Cooper anything to say about the vile racist attack and assault by two poisonous Geriatrics on an NHS Worker in a park in Halifax? Anything condemning that? Anything at all? Or are they now fully engaged in a 'Who can be the biggest Facists' comp with the fag ash fuhrer and the Tories? 🤨🤷‍♀️

I think she's changed and not for the better. Power corrupts. Look at Blair now - almost unrecognisable from when he was first PM.

And yet, there's consistency there. Unfortunately not in terms of morals. Chasing the perceived popular opinion rather than holding principles of one's own. Hence the term #labourismorallycorrupt

Personally I’m more disappointed than confused

Starmer and Cooper are cowards. Letting Farage set the agenda. Not what we voted for!

How exactly? By giving him everything he wants? If you try and position yourself as an ersatz populist you will always lose out to the genuine article.

Looks like she is too

The first one was back when they were just a "party of protest" before Kier turned them into the ruthless election-winning machine they are now. Or at least they were. The most obvious 1-term government there's been in a while.

Lubricating Foreign Investors 🤔

I'm confused too, I was told that the reforms were meant to bring Britain more closely aligned to the rules across Europe. You can argue that we should strive to be better but I guess the thinking behind it is to make us less attractive to asylum seekers🤷‍♂️

Westminster sees the lives of human beings as a game. This is as consequential to her as a WWE "heel turn".

Me three.

They're fucking liars.

Does it depend on what colour the refugees are? That seems to be a consideration sometimes.

I remember this confusion the last time Labour were in power. Their Home Secs all seemed to turn fascisty. Makes me wonder how the civil servants who populate the home office are selected.

Perhaps she is suffering from a debilitating condition which means she's lost her memory and suffered a complete personality change?

Because Starmer with his derisory ‘Plan for Change’ is floundering.

Vote Green for real hope and real change. 💚

The speed at which they have suddenly adopted the Tory excuses for economic and social failure is utterly terrifying. A government of change my arse. Same. Old. Shyte.

She's on a journey.....

In truth-world: Sign 1: Vote for me! Sign 2: SUCKERS!

I've never trusted her judgement

With power comes wickedness.

All so hideously performative

Not half as much as she is. Perhaps we should ask her about Brexit? She was very strongly against, I think (like the rest of 'em), but now in favour? Maybe I dreamed that?

So is she

Why? This is who she's always been

When you're in opposition, it's easy to be a naysayer; when you're in government all pretence at being bold and innovative is replaced by the politics of Pragmatism(as taught, behind closed doors, by Think Tanks and Media dictates).

It was a joke. Which I appreciate, because this is Bluesky, I should have flagged.

Prefer the 2015 version.

She is such a disappointment.