Keir Starmer

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Keith did well at PMQs today, Johnson looked like a naughty little boy caught stealing a lollipop from the Eton tuck shop.

Its about time he was asked about this constant barrage of accusations around corruption, cronyism and stupidity. Not that he answered, he just went on wild rants about a totally different subject.

Tbf apart from the odd occasion when he's wasted time supporting Boris and the odd responce to the budget opposing corporate tax rises Starmer has had Boris on the ropes every week.

 

[Vic]

Hypocritical ****.

Tweets justice over Chauvin trial. Yet he sacked RLB for supporting Maxine Peake's article on the IDF training US police forces to use the tactic that murdered Floyd.

He had to distance himself from anything that might smack of anti-semitism (and it is not easy to criticise Israeli policy without being accused of anti-semitism).

The local government pension scheme has some investments in Israeli or other firms involved in illegal settlements. The UK government issued new "guidance" that divesting from firms on ethical grounds would only be right if the UK government itself had such a policy. But it is the pension scheme members' money, and the Supreme Court (by 3 to 2) ruled that the government guidance went further than the law itself intended. But the dissenting SC judges said there was a risk of anti-semitism (with some obvious anti-semitic language by proponents of divestment).

The unions are involved, but do you really think Starmer would want it to become a live issue?

He should stick to highlighting Tories like the former candidate who banged on about the Aryan race.

 

[Vic]

Tbf apart from the odd occasion when he's wasted time supporting Boris and the odd responce to the budget opposing corporate tax rises Starmer has had Boris on the ropes every week.

Questions to the Prime Minister is not new. Never answering a question is. You know when Starmer has asked his last question, as Liar Johnson just recites other policies culminating in something about vaccination. The Speaker usually cuts him off.

 

[Vic]

Doesn't matter, Corbyn got the gig because of how the party is set up. Union power does not sit well with the electorate and it hangs over the party like a bad smell. John Smith and Blair sorted all that out, so they'll need to do it again, otherwise voters will remain distrusting of the next leader.

Corbyn was nothing to do with the unions but the idea that for three quid you got the same voting rights as members who'd put in years of time and money.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I think Starmer's character is what the country needs after the bluster and bullshit of Johnson. Whilst he might lack passion, his meticulous lawyer-like boringness and general air of competence will be a welcome relief. A bit like Biden after Trump.

If anyone’s got a bit of personality there labelled a clown or a c*nt

if someone’s just pretty normal there labelled ‘boring’

can’t win.

Indeed.

I don’t want Hollywood courtroom drama levels or oracy so people on Twitter can create videos with dramatic music on that people cream themselves over.

I just want the man to say and do the right things, I want his local MPs to do the things that need doing in constituencies. I don’t care about any of the other shit.

If his suit is too tailored, if his eyes are too small, if his voice is a bit bland, he doesn’t get all passionate when facing Boris in PMQs... I’m not arsed at all.

Personality Politics is how the USA ended up with a C-list actor as President in the 1980s, and how they ended up with a reality TV host in the 2010s.

 

[mat]

How many photo ops with the English flag along with his cabinet yesterday?

 

[mat]

If Starmer can't beat this...

 

[mat]

 

[Vic]

That sounds a bit like Tony Benn, giving up being an MP in order to devote more time to politics.

 

[bluethrunthru]

ha ha ha top trolling - and the Tories were triggered too

Starmer says he is proud to support John Lewis after Tory criticism of photo op

The Labour leader hits back at Tory criticism of his wallpaper department photo opportunity.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[hilts]

I was going to post the same. There was something Keith lacked mind.

Passion. He was asking the questions in his usual monotonous tones.

Milliband would have been raging and Corbyn's righteous anger would have resonated with the country.

But they both failed miserably

 

[ganganvince]

But they both failed miserably

But then again so is Keir.

Labour: What's gone wrong for Sir Keir Starmer's party since December?

The opposition sees its lead in the polls evaporate in a few months and now lags consistently behind the Tories, data indicates.

news.sky.com

 

[mat]

ha ha ha top trolling - and the Tories were triggered too

Starmer says he is proud to support John Lewis after Tory criticism of photo op

The Labour leader hits back at Tory criticism of his wallpaper department photo opportunity.

www.bbc.co.uk

Says it all.

Defend throwing cash at their mates and kick off over a photo op.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Tbf apart from the odd occasion when he's wasted time supporting Boris and the odd responce to the budget opposing corporate tax rises Starmer has had Boris on the ropes every week.

In your dreams to be honest.
Starmer has been effing useless.

 

[west didsblue]

In your dreams to be honest.
Starmer has been effing useless.

No, he has shown up Johnson to be the lying bumbling idiot most of us know he is. The problem is not enough people care.

 

[mat]

His PR team needs fucking off.


This photo reminds me of Dukakis in his little tank.

 

[Rascal]

The great Tony Benn once said of New Labour

"its like lighting a bonfire on a frozen lake, it looks warm and welcoming but its melting its support from underneath"

Kier is a continuation , he has built a new bonfire and the support is melting away.

It breaks my heart, not for me, but for the people of this country who deserve much much better than what we have.

 

[mat]

According to their membership records. Sir Keir is a member of the trilateral commission. A group whom Noam Chomsky describes as;

"Essentially liberal internationalists from Europe, Japan and the United States, the liberal wing of the intellectual elite.

That's where Jimmy Carter's whole government came from. The Trilateral Commission was concerned with trying to induce what they called "more moderation in democracy"—turn people back to passivity and obedience so they don't put so many constraints on state power and so on. In particular they were worried about young people. They were concerned about the institutions responsible for the indoctrination of the young (that's their phrase), meaning schools, universities, church and so on—they're not doing their job, [the young are] not being sufficiently indoctrinated. They're too free to pursue their own initiatives and concerns and you've got to control them better."


His last paragraph proves the point by the way Starmer has deliberately ignores young Labour party members forcing them to leave and set up their own organisation.

 

[Vic]

The great Tony Benn once said of New Labour

"its like lighting a bonfire on a frozen lake, it looks warm and welcoming but its melting its support from underneath"

Kier is a continuation , he has built a new bonfire and the support is melting away.

It breaks my heart, not for me, but for the people of this country who deserve much much better than what we have.

And the new Tory voters in Hartlepool and elsewhere would be voting Labour if only we had more left wing policies?

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

And the new Tory voters in Hartlepool and elsewhere would be voting Labour if only we had more left wing policies?

Well, they voted Labour under Corbin policies twice, so there’s only one leader, past or present, to blame if they lose, I’d have thought.