Keir Starmer<\/a>, reknown for his aggressive crackdowns on free speech, mass arrests of journalists, and forced hospitalizations of dissidents, was invited by Chinese Communist Party Chairman Xi to serve as a “Scared Straight” program for the Chinese populace.<\/p>\n“I didn’t think it was possible for a Western leader to out-communist the communists,” Xi remarked of Starmer during a joint press conference. “Starmer is the future of authoritarianism. I may even be able to retire early, he’s that bad.”<\/p>\n
The two dictators spent their first day touring China’s re-education camps, where Starmer praised the efficiency of the gulags and noted that the UK was adopting the model while enhancing it with added woke indoctrination.<\/p>\n
A visibly unsettled Xi was later overheard telling aides that Starmer\u2019s approach felt “a bit much” after the prime minister criticized China\u2019s surveillance state for being “too lenient.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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