Starmer's first question.
Alexandole Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
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Starmer's first question.
He didn't even know the current R number.
Johnson was pathetic today. Getting shrill and complaining that the leader of the opposition isn't all in hand in hand with his government. That bollocks about 'ordinary people are having to queue' etc so that is why parliament shouldn't allow remote voting???? What a load of horse shit.
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The trick to undermining Johnson is to let him talk.
There's never a fridge when you need one.
babyape
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It is, and Starmer is playing a blinder with it. Others may have gone in harder, sooner, but standing back for now giving him just enough rope to hang himself is working a treat.
I'm sure Johnson's fans will see his bluster and shouting as passionate, but it's a lot of empty noise, at a time when we need a lot more.
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It’s frightening that Johnson believes he’s doing a good job .
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bluethrunthru
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Dear oh dear - complains there is no co-operation then bang
Tell a lie enough times.
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Boris thinks PMQ's is supposed to be roast battle not an actual questioning of his work. No wonder he wants all the cunts back behind him to woo and holler.
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Taking back control.....
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She knew what she was doing there right down to the wording.
He had no clue what she was on about.
Your contrary act is wearing a bit thin.
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just being honest what i saw, showed more aggression and countered better than previous weeks. still a twat of PM and i'm a big Staermer fan, but i'll call a decent performance from Boris if i see one
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It is truly depressing, Johnson was awful, for all the world a man completely out of his depth.
It is profoundly sad to see how low this country has sunk, that we have entrusted our future to this lying, amoral, clown.
It is profoundly sad to see how low this country has sunk, that we have entrusted our future to this lying, amoral, clown.
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Did everything he could to catch it didn't he?
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PMQs - Snap verdict
Andrew Sparrow
Sir Keir Starmer gave an interview to the Guardian today that was interpreted by us, and others, as indicating a hardening of his stance against the government - less consensus-seeking, more condemnatory. Obviously in normal circumstances the Guardian is never wrong, but on the basis of what happened at PMQs today it is not clear that anything much has changed. At PMQs Starmer has consistently presented himself as the most reasonable person at the despatch box (more on that here, including why it worked for another opposition leader) and today he won the “talking sense” competition quite comfortably.
It wasn’t as if the questions were, on their own, especially memorable. But Starmer does tend to specialise in loaded questions to which there is no safe or easy answer (‘when did you stop beating your wife?’ questions, as I think they are known at the bar), and Johnson has yet to develop any plausible response mechanism. At their last PMQs he tried responding with promises (the “world-beating” test and trace system). We had a flash of that from Johnson at PMQs later, when he pledged to ensure all test results are turned around with 24 hours by the end of the month (see 12.19pm - there may well be some clarification of quite what this involves at the lobby briefing later) but mostly, in his exchanges with Starmer, Johnson resorted to criticising the opposition leader for - well, opposing the government. He accused Starmer of launching “endless attacks on public trust and confidence” and of “casting aspersions” on the good character of people working on test and trace (some of whom are spending much of their time watching Netflix because they don’t have enough to do, if Sky is to be believed).
This is a lame form of parliamentary defence at the best times. But given that the PM is facing criticism for not even doing his own job properly (see 9.37am), it was unwise to invest so much in attacking Starmer for doing his.
Andrew Sparrow
Sir Keir Starmer gave an interview to the Guardian today that was interpreted by us, and others, as indicating a hardening of his stance against the government - less consensus-seeking, more condemnatory. Obviously in normal circumstances the Guardian is never wrong, but on the basis of what happened at PMQs today it is not clear that anything much has changed. At PMQs Starmer has consistently presented himself as the most reasonable person at the despatch box (more on that here, including why it worked for another opposition leader) and today he won the “talking sense” competition quite comfortably.
It wasn’t as if the questions were, on their own, especially memorable. But Starmer does tend to specialise in loaded questions to which there is no safe or easy answer (‘when did you stop beating your wife?’ questions, as I think they are known at the bar), and Johnson has yet to develop any plausible response mechanism. At their last PMQs he tried responding with promises (the “world-beating” test and trace system). We had a flash of that from Johnson at PMQs later, when he pledged to ensure all test results are turned around with 24 hours by the end of the month (see 12.19pm - there may well be some clarification of quite what this involves at the lobby briefing later) but mostly, in his exchanges with Starmer, Johnson resorted to criticising the opposition leader for - well, opposing the government. He accused Starmer of launching “endless attacks on public trust and confidence” and of “casting aspersions” on the good character of people working on test and trace (some of whom are spending much of their time watching Netflix because they don’t have enough to do, if Sky is to be believed).
This is a lame form of parliamentary defence at the best times. But given that the PM is facing criticism for not even doing his own job properly (see 9.37am), it was unwise to invest so much in attacking Starmer for doing his.