FRANCES RYAN: ‘Keir Starmer is cosying up to the Sun. Getting its backing could end up looking like … the ultimate act of selling out’
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“… [The] Sun is ‘inching towards’ giving Labour an endorsement at the next election, reports suggest …
“After advocating socialist policies throughout his leadership campaign, Starmer has … [refused] to overturn the two-child benefit rule [and defended] Israel’s humanitarian assault on Gaza …
“… [The] party has lost 23,000 members in just two months [and will have] a poverty of ideas and healthy debate once in office …
“A leopard does not change his spots, especially after he’s won a landslide …”
1960 UN meeting photo, 'neutralist' founders of what became the Non-Aligned Movement India's Nehru, Ghana's Nkrumah, Egypt's Nasser, Indonesia's Sukarno, Yugoslavia's Tito
FRANCES RYAN: ‘Keir Starmer is cosying up to the Sun. Getting its backing could end up looking like … the ultimate act of selling out’
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“… [The] Sun is ‘inching towards’ giving Labour an endorsement at the next election, reports suggest …
“After advocating socialist policies throughout his leadership campaign, Starmer has … [refused] to overturn the two-child benefit rule [and defended] Israel’s humanitarian assault on Gaza …
“… [The] party has lost 23,000 members in just two months [and will have] a poverty of ideas and healthy debate once in office …
“A leopard does not change his spots, especially after he’s won a landslide …”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/12/starmer-tory-voters-the-sun-coup-selling-out
To be precise, this was a near-agreement discussed between Indonesia and Israel before the Gaza war started in October.
ReplyDeleteThe prospective 'deal' has been put on hold since those horrible events in Gaza began to unfold
https://jewishinsider.com/2024/02/israel-indonesia-normalization-state-department/
Polls show that in Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos and Thailand, people would prefer China as an ally rather than the USA if forced to choose
Statista chart of ASEAN countries on this issue
https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/32058.jpeg
Also re Indonesia - a long-standing dream there coming true -
'close to 270 million people, nearly the country's entire population now covered by national health insurance'
https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2024/04/07/nearly-270-million-indonesians-now-covered-by-national-health-insurance.html
1960 UN meeting photo, 'neutralist' founders of what became the Non-Aligned Movement
India's Nehru, Ghana's Nkrumah, Egypt's Nasser, Indonesia's Sukarno, Yugoslavia's Tito
https://www.telesurenglish.net/__export/1473719987005/sites/telesur/img/news/2016/07/12/nam1.jpg_1991931196.jpg