Keir Starmer

[Mr Kobayashi]

Corbyn met an Arab so he hates Jews.

Starmer met a rag so he hates City.

Simple.

They were both in the away end when Adebayor scored.

 

[mat]

They were both in the away end when Adebayor scored.

*Checks Mickey Flanagan Gif*

 

[Postman Pep]

Evidence?

Still searching....

 

[Rascal]

Oh! its LOTO speech day.

 

[mat]

Is it obligatory for any leader to mention Hillsborough when speaking in Liverpool?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Is it obligatory for any leader to mention Hillsborough when speaking in Liverpool?

Must be in the small print for booking the hall.

 

[kaz7]

Giving a good speech , talking faster which is an improvement , always makes me laugh when people say he is bland but truss has bags of personality apparantly

 

[Rascal]

Is it obligatory for any leader to mention Hillsborough when speaking in Liverpool?

Not gone down well on scouse twitter.

 

[bluenova]

Back peddle, back peddle.

Take a look at the trajectory in those elections and ponder on his legacy.

You won't of course, I was going to say I live in hope, but I don't.

The logic of that argument never made sense to me. "Losing" millions of votes was quoted so often by supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, but I'm amazed it's still used when Jeremy "lost" 2.6 million votes in just two years (I don't believe Corbyn "lost" the votes any more than Blair did).

Labour had a poll lead from the day he took over in 1994, until well after his final election victory in 2005 (apart from just a couple of weeks in 2000 when there were fuel protests, but even then he was back with double digit leads weeks later).

I'd suggest it's just as important to look at the Tory vote, which was decimated during that time. In 2017 Theresa May got 5 million more votes than Michael Howard did when Blair won his third election. The reason being that under Blair the elections weren't particularly hard fought - turnout was low because the government was pretty popular, and he was expected to win.

I know his legacy is tainted by Iraq (despite it being a popular decision at the time, and for some time after), and I'm not much of a fan of him as an individual, but I don't think any other leader of a political party post Labour's 1945 administration could come close to the list of domestic achievements that Blair had.

That list of New Labour achievements is pulled out regularly, but can any of the last four PMs even put together anything resembling a list between the lot of them?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Not gone down well on scouse twitter.

Does anything?