Keir Starmer

[The perfect fumble]

No excuse whatsoever.

If no action is taken it will further the argument that if you agree with Keir you can be as racist/bigoted/transphobic/sexually abusive as you like but you won't get sacked unless you say Palestinians have rights.

Transphobic? And that would be in reference to?

 

[bluethrunthru]

The right kind of racist...

There is no such thing

 

[TinFoilHat]

Transphobic? And that would be in reference to?

Rosie Duffield?

Happy to be proven wrong.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Presumably he’ll be sacked on Monday? No excuses for that. I mean, some people will make excuses for it, but really what was somebody thinking tweeting something like that?

Not sure that he is actually Starmer's speechwriter, but instead helped with one speech a couple of years ago.

Hard to believe the tweeter would want to let people read things into it!

 

[meltonblue]

No excuse whatsoever.

If no action is taken it will further the argument that if you agree with Keir you can be as racist/bigoted/transphobic/sexually abusive as you like but you won't get sacked unless you say Palestinians have rights.

He’s not employed by Starmer or the Labour Party, surprised people think he is seeing as he’s pretty well known in his own right.

Think it’s more an example of, and this happens a lot nowadays, him being more careful about what he posts on social media and others also being mindful of assuming intent tbh as if people knew who he was and his background, then they’d realise they’ve completely misunderstood his position.

That it then get latches on to Starmer is in reality even more absurd but again shows the perils of social media.

 

[Brewster's millions]

Not sure that he is actually Starmer's speechwriter, but instead helped with one speech a couple of years ago.

Hard to believe the tweeter would want to let people read things into it!

I don’t know whether he is his speechwriter or not, but it’s just a bizarre thing to post. I mean, even if you were trying to be ironic or a bit clever (rather than just outright racist), it’s never going to read well writing nonsense like that.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I don’t know whether he is his speechwriter or not, but it’s just a bizarre thing to post. I mean, even if you were trying to be ironic or a bit clever (rather than just outright racist), it’s never going to read well writing nonsense like that.

Certainly odd, I agree.

Even more odd given he's married to Geeta Guru-Murthy (BBC journo of Indian descent, sister of Krishnan G-M of Channel 4).

 

[meltonblue]

Certainly odd, I agree.

Even more odd given he's married to Geeta Guru-Murthy (BBC journo of Indian descent, sister of Krishnan G-M of Channel 4).

It’s a lot less odd because of that to be fair, it was just one of those where people who don’t know him can too easily misconstrue the context, which is why he was right to delete it.

Like I said, the perils of social media. The actual point he was trying to make is the opposite of what people think, but people won’t know that without knowing him and he’s clearly not well known enough to do that.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

It’s a lot less odd because of that to be fair, it was just one of those where people who don’t know him can too easily misconstrue the context, which is why he was right to delete it.

Like I said, the perils of social media. The actual point he was trying to make is the opposite of what people think, but people won’t know that without knowing him and he’s clearly not well known enough to do that.

Yes, trying to be clever in typed form is a mug's game. I'd meant odd as it seems astonishing that a speechwriter with his background wouldn't realise what would happen.

The person whose tweet got copied appears to be on the more to the left of and no supporter of Starmer, and (my impression is) used Starmer's name to cause trouble.

 

[meltonblue]

Yes, trying to be clever in typed form is a mug's game. I'd meant odd as it seems astonishing that a speechwriter with his background wouldn't realise what would happen.

The person whose tweet got copied appears to be on the more to the left of and no supporter of Starmer, and (my impression is) used Starmer's name to cause trouble.

Yep, again that’s social media for you. That and the febrile nature of our political environment is an utterly depressing place to be.

Got absolutely sod all to do with Starmer. Even if it did, its a nothing thing anyway.