Sir Keir Starmer

Rumour has it that Sam Tarry is shagging Angela Rayner, meeting between her and Starmer could be awkward from now on, unless it was planned for him to go, get sacked and causing a rift??
 
Keir starmer statement from 2020 leadership
Keir Starmer

Labour’s socialist societies are a hugely important part of the Labour Party family and the Labour Animal Welfare Society play a crucial role in campaigning on the rights of animals and promoting animal welfare within our party. We are the Party of the hunting ban and the Animal Welfare Act and that wouldn’t be the case without you.

I was proud to support Labour’s animal welfare manifesto, particularly the commitment to introduce a powerful animal welfare commissioner looking after the interests of animals at the heart of Government.

I also support enshrining the principle of animal sentience into UK law, and my team pushed hard on this important issue during the passage of Brexit legislation. The fact that the Tories used their MPs in Parliament to reject the amendment to recognise animal sentience shows where their priorities really lie. The Tories have overseen the inhumane badger cull and turned a blind eye to those circumventing the Hunting Act. That’s why I am particularly concerned that the protection of animal welfare will be ignored in this government’s pursuit of trade deals.

I would be delighted to have the support of the Labour Animal Welfare Society, and if elected leader I would look forward to working closely with you, drawing on the expertise and experience of the Labour Animal Welfare Society to keep developing this vital agenda.
 
The party of the working man my ass ,the party of the champagne socialist " Woking man " .

He and his city orientated pals have no clue about countryside or working issues.
 
Not sure starmer is going down too well with the unions. I heard a former rail union leader call him a snake yesterday.
 
Luckily for the Tories, Keir Starmer wasn’t obliged to resign over the beer and pizza Fiasco. This was the event that Angela Rayner conveniently forgot to mention that she had also attended. I think the Conservative party would be facing far tougher opposition if someone like Andy Burnham was the leader of the Labour Party.

Starmer is predictably quick to criticise at every opportunity, but the Labour Party has little in the way of credible alternative policies under his leadership.
Labour have struggled to criticise Johnson's government on policy because most of it is indistinguishable from their own. Their message has been we'll continue with everything the government is getting wrong now, but we'll do it more. And they wonder why they're not miles ahead in the polls.

One thing neither Starmer nor anyone else in the Labour party (or probably any party) has learned from Boris Johnson is the power of positivity. I'm sure a large part of the popular support Boris won was down to his positive energy and optimistic can-do attitude. In a sense, he has changed the game. We've had nothing but dreary managerialism since Blair. He understood the rallying power of positivity, although in him it was just a front.
In Boris, it's real. The trouble is, you have to turn enthusiasm into delivery and on the everyday things, Boris didn't. As vocal Boris critic Andrew Bridgen said, he has one thing in common with Churchill, in that he's a dragon slayer. When there's a big battle to fight, he thrives - Brexit, Covid, the war in Ukraine. When there are no dragons to slay and it's business as usual, he runs out of steam, and probably out of interest.

I think that Labour and Starmer simply don't get that. They believe their own narrative, that Boris has fallen from favour because of his fibbing and drinks parties. It's largely only Tory haters who would never have voted for Johnson anyway who obsess about his personal integrity. The people who actually voted him to office, including a huge number of Labour's own tribe, have turned against him because he didn't deliver what he promised and they couldn't give a toss about office parties and whether he did or did not know that one of his whips was a man-groper. On a personal level, like Lloyd George, he'd have got away with any amount of roguery had he delivered politically.

If the Tories can put up someone who will pick up the batten which Boris has dropped and look like they might actually be capable of delivering it, Labour would be dead and buried.

But Starmer and Labour don't understand that. All they offer is relentless negativity, doom, gloom, whining and personal attacks, opposing uncritically for the sake of it everything the government does because Boris and the Tories are evil so anything they propose must be bad. The People, they think, want relief from this wickedness, and a return to personal probity and managerialism, when in fact, they want what they voted for to be enacted.
In opposition you can be a sounding board for people's frustrations by relentlessly attacking the government on everything they do, but that isn't leadership. To become a credible PM, Starmer would have to suddenly discover his inner inspirational leader. Boris has that naturally and Blair made a convincing job of faking it, but I just don't think Starmer has it in him at all. He's a lawyer, not a leader. And I can't see it in anyone else in Labour either, nor for that matter, in Sunak. Truss? Who knows.
My fear is, no one will have the appeal to command a majority and whether Labour or Tories, we'll return plodding minority government and managerial decline. The only hope is that Truss will turn out to be a fire-cracker mini Thatcher who'll put a rocket under things, but I'm not optimistic. The alternative is a return to the May years.
 
Selfish people if you ask me and unions are ‘jobs for the boys’ how would these people react if nurses and the armed services striked because of their low pay? it would be an outrage. They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it- including airports ruining kids (and adults) holidays also. According to that article some train drivers on £65k were striking also-although not a lot. If you don’t like your salary get a new job- classic communist crap an MP on a high salary at the top ‘on the picket line’ with his low paid comrades. He’s probably on x3 the salary of some of them.
Reminds me of the pit strike days in the 80s, "King Arthur" saying to the lads on the line that its all good stick at it, then jumping in his big flash car an buggering off for a nice steak dinner while the lads on the line went off to queue at the soup kitchen 😡😡
 
A human rights lawyer that tried to overturn the brexit vote and can’t define what a woman is will go down very well with the red wall voters. :rofl:
 
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