Keir Starmer

[57vintage]

There’s a way out of all this you know.

Just saying like

No offence meant, but I have a habit of jotting down quotes from books as I plough through them, and noted this when listening to the audio book of Andrew O’Hagan’s Caledonian Road a few weeks back.

“Just sayin’”
“What an odious, self-congratulatory little phrase”.
(Campbell Flynn, Caledonian Road).

[Mason89]

None taken. Most things I post are odious & self-congratulatory

[57vintage]

None taken. Most things I post are odious & self-congratulatory

[InversneckieDob]

Starmer has been incredibly naive/dumb since coming into office.
I don't think anyone seriously expected his mob to be anything other than a cabal of free marketeer, morally bereft neo-cons like the last four**** years.
Any notion of a "proper" Labour party has long since sailed into the sunset, thanks to the electorate within Perfidious Albion.
But to get the basic optics so horrendously wrong, seeming to be going down the justification route of "well, it's nothing like as bad, or as much, as the last lot were troughing", is mind blowing.
The far right media are under orders to go on full blown attack.
How any politician could not see this coming is astonishing.

[TheDeeDon]

I don't think anyone seriously expected his mob to be anything other than a cabal of free marketeer, morally bereft neo-cons like the last four**** years.

Where I work they are still deemed as the 'commie party'.

I sh*t you not.

[Bojangles9]

Starmer has been incredibly naive/dumb since coming into office.
I don't think anyone seriously expected his mob to be anything other than a cabal of free marketeer, morally bereft neo-cons like the last four**** years.
Any notion of a "proper" Labour party has long since sailed into the sunset, thanks to the electorate within Perfidious Albion.
But to get the basic optics so horrendously wrong, seeming to be going down the justification route of "well, it's nothing like as bad, or as much, as the last lot were troughing", is mind blowing.
The far right media are under orders to go on full blown attack.
How any politician could not see this coming is astonishing.

Aye who would have foreseen their years of attacking the Tories for cronyism and abusing their privileges opening them up to the exact same scrutiny? FFS they know it’s worse for them as well being up against a majorly right wing press.

Like you I’m dumbfounded about the optics of well almost everything they’ve done so far.

They are not dumb but naive I feel is giving them too much credit. They just can’t help themselves.

And DeeDon makes a very good point - what’s this bugger Lord Alli getting out of it?

I despise the Tories but feck me we’re going to have to hope they get their house in order to hold this lot to account. Bloody hell can’t believe I’m writing that.

[Donanddusted]

And DeeDon makes a very good point - what’s this bugger Lord Alli getting out of it?

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[Bojangles9]

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Jesus aye, completely unintentional. Nothing to do with his ***uality.
Meant in contemptible sense but wouldn't have used it at all had I twigged.

No disparagement intended, well at least not in that sense...

[TheDeeDon]

Aye who would have foreseen their years of attacking the Tories for cronyism and abusing their privileges opening them up to the exact same scrutiny? FFS they know it’s worse for them as well being up against a majorly right wing press.

Like you I’m dumbfounded about the optics of well almost everything they’ve done so far.

They are not dumb but naive I feel is giving them too much credit. They just can’t help themselves.

And DeeDon makes a very good point - what’s this bugger Lord Alli getting out of it?

I despise the Tories but feck me we’re going to have to hope they get their house in order to hold this lot to account. Bloody hell can’t believe I’m writing that.

If we are relying on Tories to hold anyone to account, then we're more f*cked than ever.

All roads lead back to them for starting all this sort of shyte in the first place.