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[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

AFAIK Starmer has done nothing to reduce Trans rights.

From Wikipedia:

"In July 2024, UK Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer stated that trans women should not have the right to use women-only spaces, even with a gender recognition certificate.[14][15][16] He also ruled out allowing trans people to self-ID.[17] Starmer also said he would continue the block on the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in Scotland.[18] In December 2024, Starmer followed through on this by making the ban on puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria in under-18s permanent on the basis of "independent expert advice that there is currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children."[19] Despite the assertion that puberty blockers are unsafe when prescribed to children, they remain available for the treatment of precocious puberty.[20]"

You are making a giant straw man argument, would it make a difference for Starmer to merely say Israel is committing genocide?

Yes, it would. Gaza is on the ballot.

Invading peoples privacy was implemented by the Conservatives.

The Labour party voted for the act, and have overseen its implementation.

While you IMO have a point about Palantir, the goal is to improve management and analysis of health data. It is not about "selling" data.

The NHS's goal is to improve management and analysis. Palantir's goal is to accrue and sell data. The problem is that the contract was awarded to Palantir - by the Labour gov.

You are basically just proving my point, as you fail to point to anything Starmer actually did wrong.

Reality begs to differ, see above.

Starmer is mostly unpopular because everything has gotten worse after Brexit, and Starmer is unable to turn it around quickly.

Starmer is unpopular because he's an appalling politician. And -to be as kind and equable as can be- a dishonest shit rag. Blaming Brexit for Starmer's failures is like Trump blaming the Democrats for the reflecting pool.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In July 2024, UK Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer stated...

This is based on advice from EHRC, it is very unusual for governments to go against such advice.

Palantir’s goal is to accrue and sell data.

Not entirely correct, their goal is to sell AI services, which is exactly what this is.

a dishonest shit rag.

That may be true, and if true I would agree that's a major problem, but you have not shown that.

Blaming Brexit for Starmer’s failures is like Trump blaming the Democrats for the reflecting pool.

You can't be serious?! That's a laughably stupid claim. Also I'm not blaming Brexit directly, the Conservatives messed that up, but the numerous long term consequences of Brexit, like a bad economy that isn't easy to turn around, also because of Brexit.