Keir Starmer, ever eager to rub shoulders with communist Xi Jinping, woke up to a grim reminder of just who he’s trying to make friends with. Hours after the Prime Minister sat down with the Chinese Communist Party leader, news broke of Hong Kong’s brutal crackdown: Dozens of lawyers, journalists, activists, and democratic politicians slapped with prison sentences stretching up to ten years. For simply trying to exercise democratic freedoms…
Dubbed the “Hong Kong 47,” these pro-democracy advocates faced a kangaroo court that branded their basic democratic participation as an effort to “undermine, destroy or overthrow” Xi Jinping’s iron-fisted regime. Funnily enough, photo ops and handshakes with Starmer didn’t put off the CCP from jailing the activists. And Starmer still thinks handing Chagos to China-aligned Mauritius is a good idea…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.