Double Standards

This two-panel collage meme calls out an alleged double standard among senior UK Labour Party politicians. The top panel shows party leader Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner kneeling in an office space, paired with text that reads 'FOR GEORGE FLOYD A US CITIZEN' and an inset portrait of George Floyd, an American man killed by police in 2020 that led to global anti-racism protests. The bottom panel shows the same room, now empty of the two politicians, paired with text that reads 'FOR HENRY NOWAK A UK CITIZEN' and an inset portrait of Henry Nowak, a British military veteran killed in a 2024 attack by an undocumented migrant. The meme implies that the politicians made a high-profile public show of solidarity for a foreign national's death, but declined to do the same for a UK citizen killed under similarly controversial circumstances.

This meme was shared as an RSS post on 9Gag under the title 'Double Standards'. It was created by editing a 2020 original press photo of Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner kneeling in solidarity for George Floyd, combined with a photo of the same empty room, plus publicly available portrait photos of George Floyd and Henry Nowak, to make a point about perceived political hypocrisy. It circulated widely on UK social media platforms before being posted to 9Gag.