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On Thursday, St. George\u2019s Day\u2014which celebrates St. George, the patron saint of England\u2014Great Britain\u2019s leftist prime minister Keri Starmer took aim at the nationalists who want to take their country back from the wave of immigrants who have inundated their country, calling them \u201cplastic patriots.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSt George\u2019s flag stands for unity over hatred and decency over division,\u201d Starmer wrote on X. \u201cThose are the values I will always fight for. Some try to hijack our flag to spread hate, I reject their plastic patriotism.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSt George\u2019s flag stands for unity over hatred and decency over division. <\/p>\n
Those are the values I will always fight for.<\/p>\n
Some try to hijack our flag to spread hate, I reject their plastic patriotism. https:\/\/t.co\/b0V8dhKGjL<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) April 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Conversely, Hiroshi Suzuki, the Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom, wrote simply, \u201cHappy St George\u2019s Day!!\u201d<\/p>\n
\nHappy St George’s Day!! \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f\ud83c\udf39 pic.twitter.com\/Is7J3KCKWX<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 Hiroshi Suzuki (@AmbJapanUK) April 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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In his St. George\u2019s Day speech, Starmer reiterated<\/a>, \u201cThere\u2019s no getting around the fact that there are voices both here and abroad who would seek to divide us, who would set us apart from each other, who want to pretend that in this country, what we really do, is to distinguish between people, to find the points of difference, to have a sort of toxic culture of hatred between different individuals, different groups, different communities. \u2026 We will not let them do this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starmer was hammered for his language on social media:<\/p>\n
\nIt literally stands for none of this<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a crusader cross designed to help you identify the people on your side when you\u2019re killing others on the battlefield <\/p>\n
You\u2019re a fucking idiot from every angle possible<\/p>\n
Push your social engineering but do it honestly<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t lie about\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2014 leekern (@leekern13) April 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nThe English flag has never represented a set of shallow, universal values that belong to no one and nowhere in particular.<\/p>\n
The St George’s Cross represents the English people, and the country named after them. It is theirs, and theirs alone.<\/p>\n
Patriotism comes from the Latin\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2014 Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) April 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nWhy are you once again using the flag to cause division?<\/p>\n
You\u2019re obsessed with dividing people!<\/p>\n
No one spreads more hate than you!<\/p>\n
You recently branded half the country racist and far right because they were angry that 3 little girls were slaughtered at a dance class!<\/p>\n
You\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2014 J Stewart (@triffic_stuff_) April 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s deeply insulting, of course, his attitude today, but we\u2019ve got used to that. I think all we can do now is sit tight and look forward to his demise, which will be inglorious, which will be catastrophic, and which will send him off into ignominity, hopefully,\u201d former Met Police detective Peter Bleksley said<\/a>.<\/p>\n
After a young man of Rwandan descent knifed to death three young girls, ages 6,8, and 9, in Southport, England, on July 29, 2024, and anti-immigration demonstrations were mounted from Liverpool, England, to Belfast, Ireland,\u00a0Starmer condemned the protesters, calling the actions \u201cfar-right thuggery we have seen this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet in 2020, Starmer had a quite different reaction to the Black Lives Matter riots in the United States, saying, \u201cLike you, I was shocked and angered at the killing of George Floyd. And the response of President Trump and the U.S. authorities to the peaceful protests, to people rightly demanding justice, has been an affront to humanity. The last week has shone a spotlight on the racism, discrimination and the injustice experienced by those from black and minority ethnic communities in the U.S., in the UK, and around the world. Martin Luther King said, \u2018Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\nWatch Two Tier Starmer response to BLM Riots vs Southport Riots<\/p>\n
If you can\u2019t see it by now there\u2019s no helping you. pic.twitter.com\/GqOrTX53PS<\/a><\/p>\n