Starmer tells far-right thugs 'you will regret' violence as unrest grips cities

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1. I know that this is silly, but the name "Starmer" conjurs up an image of brown shirts and jack boots. I imagine....

.....Britain's "far right thugs" being disappointed by the betrayal of one of their own. Just say Starmer like you would imagine a member of the SS saying it and you'll see what I mean.

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2. There is indeed a sizable German community in England (the Windsors, among them), so he might be at least part-German

He does have that typically German "lantern jaw" - but I have no idea. Perhaps one of our British DUers could clarify.

But - poor man! Let's not compare him to the goose-steppers. There are millions of German progressives, as you know (or of German descent).

In Argentina, 20 years ago, they had a president named Néstor Kirchner - one of the most progressive (and by far the most successful!) Argentine presidents of the last 60+ years.

Like many German-Argentines, he was of Swiss-German descent - his grandparents having left Switzerland in the early 1900s. And like most German-Argentines, his forbears had arrived long before any Nazi fugitives did in the 1940s.

After he took office in 2003, he rescued his utterly bankrupt and depressed country - while making sure growth was evenly distributed. He also brought hundreds of Dirty War torturers to justice - something progressives had been clamoring for (with little success) since democracy returned in 1983.

The "Argentine miracle" lasted until 2012 - when vulture fund lawsuits derailed it (as intended).

„Die Welt ist voller Ironie!“ (the world is full of irony)