Starmer Insults Citizens On St. George’s Day, Calls Them ‘Plastic Patriots’
On Thursday, St. George’s Day—which celebrates St. George, the patron saint of England—Great Britain’s 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 “plastic patriots.”
“St George’s flag stands for unity over hatred and decency over division,” Starmer wrote on X. “Those are the values I will always fight for. Some try to hijack our flag to spread hate, I reject their plastic patriotism.”
St George’s flag stands for unity over hatred and decency over division.
Those are the values I will always fight for.
Some try to hijack our flag to spread hate, I reject their plastic patriotism. https://t.co/b0V8dhKGjL
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) April 23, 2026
Conversely, Hiroshi Suzuki, the Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom, wrote simply, “Happy St George’s Day!!”
Happy St George’s Day!! 🏴🌹 pic.twitter.com/Is7J3KCKWX
— Hiroshi Suzuki (@AmbJapanUK) April 23, 2026
In his St. George’s Day speech, Starmer reiterated, “There’s 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. … We will not let them do this.”
Starmer was hammered for his language on social media:
It literally stands for none of this
It’s a crusader cross designed to help you identify the people on your side when you’re killing others on the battlefield
You’re a fucking idiot from every angle possible
Push your social engineering but do it honestly
Don’t lie about…
— leekern (@leekern13) April 23, 2026
The English flag has never represented a set of shallow, universal values that belong to no one and nowhere in particular.
The St George’s Cross represents the English people, and the country named after them. It is theirs, and theirs alone.
Patriotism comes from the Latin…
— Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) April 23, 2026
Why are you once again using the flag to cause division?
You’re obsessed with dividing people!
No one spreads more hate than you!
You recently branded half the country racist and far right because they were angry that 3 little girls were slaughtered at a dance class!
You…
— J Stewart (@triffic_stuff_) April 23, 2026
“It’s deeply insulting, of course, his attitude today, but we’ve 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,” former Met Police detective Peter Bleksley said.
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, Starmer condemned the protesters, calling the actions “far-right thuggery we have seen this weekend.”
Yet in 2020, Starmer had a quite different reaction to the Black Lives Matter riots in the United States, saying, “Like 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, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’”
Watch Two Tier Starmer response to BLM Riots vs Southport Riots
If you can’t see it by now there’s no helping you. pic.twitter.com/GqOrTX53PS
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) August 5, 2024
St. George’s Day commemorates various things; according to some, the real St. George was likely a Greek-born soldier in the Roman Guard. He was executed on April 23, 303 AD, because he refused to renounce his Christian faith during the persecutions of the Emperor Diocletian. The day is primarily a religious feast day marking the anniversary of his death.
The most famous reason for the celebration is the legend of St. George and the Dragon. According to legend, a dragon was terrorizing a town, demanding human sacrifices. When the lot fell to the king’s daughter, George arrived, fought the dragon, and saved the princess. In the Middle Ages, this became a metaphor for the triumph of good over evil and Christian chivalry.
In England, St. George’s Day is a celebration of national heritage. The white flag with a red cross is flown outside pubs and homes.
