Keir Starmer

Ho Chi Man City said:
So you’re putting the blame on 25% of the population? The very people who faced post war issues.

I was born in 59, had an outside bog, a tin bath hung up in the kitchen when not in use, no central heating just a coal fire. It inspired my generation to work hard and plan for our future, we did it to ensure our children didn’t have the same hardship as we had.

And now, because we were responsible you’re blaming us? Please do explain.
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I was born in ‘61. Never had an outside bog. Truly I am blessed.
 
Ho Chi Man City said:
So you’re putting the blame on 25% of the population? The very people who faced post war issues.

I was born in 59, had an outside bog, a tin bath hung up in the kitchen when not in use, no central heating just a coal fire. It inspired my generation to work hard and plan for our future, we did it to ensure our children didn’t have the same hardship as we had.

And now, because we were responsible you’re blaming us? Please do explain.
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Mind you I did have to get a bath in the kitchen sink. There I was eight months old and denied the luxury of a proper bath. Many a time I reflected on this social deprivation while lying in my cradle.
 
Ho Chi Man City said:
So you’re putting the blame on 25% of the population? The very people who faced post war issues.

I was born in 59, had an outside bog, a tin bath hung up in the kitchen when not in use, no central heating just a coal fire. It inspired my generation to work hard and plan for our future, we did it to ensure our children didn’t have the same hardship as we had.

And now, because we were responsible you’re blaming us? Please do explain.
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Exactly the same circumstances I was born and raised into. A tin bath in front of an open fire every Sunday night. I was the youngest of three and was always last in.
 
BobKowalski said:
I was born in ‘61. Never had an outside bog. Truly I am blessed.
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You were indeed blessed, finally got an inside toilet around late 60’s with a grant, the old “Tippler” (Young uns Google it) was finally gone.

My Granddad died in 1970, to help my Grandma cope with her loss my parents arranged for me to stay with her for a couple of nights a week. She too had an outside tippler, she liked a couple of pint bottles of Guiness every night. She only had a one bedroom house so I shared a double bed with my Gran, when I needed a pee in the morning there was a piss pot under the bed, it was usually around half full with second hand Guiness, as referenced in Monty Python, “luxury” “we were lucky”. Tough days but a very happy and loving upbringing, wouldn’t have swapped it for the world.
 
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mosssideblue said:
Exactly the same circumstances I was born and raised into. A tin bath in front of an open fire every Sunday night. I was the youngest of three and was always last in.
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The very same, Sunday was bath night, Mum and sister first whilst me and Dad sat in the kitchen listening to the “wireless” then swapped over!
 
west didsblue said:
You have a problem with £700k given to Labour but fine with £5m given to Farage personally. Bizarre.
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No, I don't have a problem with either. What I do have a problem with, is steaming hypocrisy, criticising others at every opportunity and the doing the same one's self. I don't suppose for one moment the freebies Starmer benefitted from would have raised much of an eyebrow had he not adopted his holier than thou attitude persistently whilst in opposition.

I think it's just another example of the bloke's political ineptitude. Had he half a brain he would have thought "having slagged the Tories off for this for years, I'd better be squeaky clean else the media will crucify me". But no.
 
I might add, that any PM who got to be PM with 4 out of 5 or the electorate not voting for them, was always going to have a tough time of it.

It's not "how did he become so unpopular", rather that he has never *been* popular.

Had he been a brilliant PM the public could have grown to like him. But he got off to a terrible start and never recovered from it.
 
Earlyriser said:
People could identify with Prescott and he stayed true to his roots continuing to live in Hull. Rayner epitomises everything that is wrong with some politicians.
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Prescott was a hypocrite, spent his life denouncing the House of Lords then waltzed in there like a ferret down a rabbit hole when he was offered a life peerage … Baron Prescott of Hull, no less….
 
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Ho Chi Man City said:
So you’re putting the blame on 25% of the population? The very people who faced post war issues.

I was born in 59, had an outside bog, a tin bath hung up in the kitchen when not in use, no central heating just a coal fire. It inspired my generation to work hard and plan for our future, we did it to ensure our children didn’t have the same hardship as we had.

And now, because we were responsible you’re blaming us? Please do explain.
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I wasn’t being entirely serious, keep your flat cap on grandad.

“we did it to ensure our children didn’t have the same hardship as we had” - well that’s totally failed. At least your generation could afford to buy a house and own property.
 
Chippy_boy said:
Because people see him for what he is. An absolute slimeball of a politician who will say absolutely anything and mean not a word of it.

Everything is "my top priority" to please the crowds, when in reality nothing is. A man who said he would put the interests of the country ahead of that of the party, and the party ahead of him as an individual. When in reality none of that is true.

A man who said he will always take responsibility for the mistakes of others he leads... And then sacks them.

A man (a steaming hypocrite in fact) who was first to jump up and down at any hint of Tory sleeze, yet says "nothing to see here" when caught doing same.

It is a cliche to say "How can you tell when a politician is lying - you can see their lips move." But Starmer embodies that sentiment more than any politician in living memory.

And people can smell it. That's why they hate him.
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Aka he’s a Cnut
 
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