Keir Starmer has suggested the US is trying to interfere in British democracy after JD Vance, the US vice-president, blamed the murder of the British teenager Henry Nowak on mass migration.

The prime minister’s office responded after the senior Republican politician claimed in a post on X that Nowak would be alive “if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it”.

Downing Street did not name Vance directly but said its response to his comments was that “in recent days we have seen people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets”.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    Americans are so lucky not to have any murders or incompetent police officers. They should tell Brits how they did it.

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        True.

        That’s really the only material difference between Donald and the presidents who came before him: a lack of shame and subtlety. The way he operates is not fundamentally different in any meaningful way apart from presentation and the sheer will to get his own way.

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      Starmer is not literally complaining. This is just his part to influence the masses.

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    Ah yes the Great Democracy that has banned peaceful protest if it “causes a disturbance”. The one that bans entry to any person with a political opinion the government does not like. The one that [checks news] revoked the licence of a doctor for two years in response to her participation in a peaceful protest…

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    SUGESTS?!

    I don’t know this guy, any more than any other world leader, but yes dude, we are 100% maliciously infecting your politics.

    let me help you

    • bookface
    • twatter
    • spessx
    • shitstack
    • fox news
    • paramount
    • disney
    • every american ai company
    • ufc ballroom whyte trash house

    evryone of these companies at minimum) are weaponized by trump-epstein class

    dont bother classifying me as a nutjob conspiracy idiot, i already know.

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    Vance’s opinion is that of Peter Thiel and he is told what to say. Not sure why he keeps getting a soapbox to stand on, I guess it’s the media billionaires offering up a megaphone for a minion that walks and talks like them. Traditionally, his type of blather is not a function of the vice-presidency.

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    5 months ago

    vance is the absolute last person anyone should be paying attention to on any subject

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    Would’ve been nice for him to take issue with this from the start. I wonder why he’s jumping on this now…

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      Pretending to have a spine in the run-up to the leadership challenge?

      No, that would be a cynical take, couldn’t be true.

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    If I had a dollar for every time the US empire interfered in foreign elections, or democratic processes in general, I’d be richer than Ewwon Pusk.

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    Well all you had to do was not create it in the first place, ya snaggle-toothed Limey.