I try not to be alarmist about Labour but if you're not white, the phrase 'island of strangers' tells an immediate story about how the government classifies you
May 12, 2025 09:20Starmer is making me feel uncomfortable about having a white British ethnicity. This is not the country I thought I lived in.
The people you oppressed for centuries shouldn’t be considered strangers after all this time.
Starmer´s Labour Party is one big living fraud.
Nobody can have voted for them on the basis of the policies which they are implementing now - other than, possibly, the odd clairvoyant fascist nutjob.
Notably the Anglo-Saxon name for the Welsh (although probably not Anglo-Saxon in origin) wealhas, or strangers/foreigners (despite that in their own land). After 1500 years, the English are still using the same terminology to describe people in their own land. No better case of inbuilt racism.
That phrase is such a gift to all the wrong people. A historic unforced error.
I wonder if they've given any thought to the role of racist rhetoric in encouraging racist crime.
Honestly I think it’s the same for a lot of white migrants too. Especially Eastern Europeans and Balkans but he’s targeting pretty much everyone
