Sir Kier Starmer addressing the nation at 7pm

Anniebach

Agree Lucca

Wow Anniebach this calls for a celebration surely ?!

Blair, the only Labour leader to win three consecutive general
elections.

JaneJudge

Urmstongran

Who’s dyslexic?

I am, I presume you were mocking me?

No. I wasn’t and wouldn’t. Awful to think you would even credit me with such insensitivity and rudeness. I’m shocked to be honest. My question was genuine.

MissAdventure

I don't think people have ever been so divided.
Mind you, we've never had a pm asking people if they've been to peppa pig world before...

Because that cartoon character is a UK success story. Merchandise providing hundreds of jobs worldwide. Peppy is very popular with the littlies in Spain I’ve noticed - little backpacks for school etc. Boris was highlighting it.
✅

However isn’t this thread supposed to be about Keir Starmer? Ernest but boring.

MayBee70

So, apart from Iraq, what did Blair promise and not deliver? Did we suffer from years of austerity?

Nope. He engineered devolution. Thanks Tony. And the PPI debacle that so many of our hospital Trusts are still battling to pay off. That’s a scandal in itself. Oh and regigging the Human Rights Bill. A nightmare. Thanks probably to dear Cherie there.

Well, I've said my bit about Starmer.
I think it was very well played on his part.
I think he did exactly what the public want to see, and I think it was deliberately a very underplayed speech.

Urmstongran

JaneJudge

Urmstongran

Who’s dyslexic?

I am, I presume you were mocking me?

No. I wasn’t and wouldn’t. Awful to think you would even credit me with such insensitivity and rudeness. I’m shocked to be honest. My question was genuine.

Urmstongran

FWIW I didn't read your comment as an attack on anyone who might be dyslexic.

People do get his name wrong - I have. And I'm in favour of the man.

It’s KEIR -like KEIR Harrie.

Oops! Slightly supererogatory comment methinks!
I just have a thing about getting names right.

He’s never called Ernest too is he?

Ernest but boring .

MayBeMaw

It’s KEIR -like KEIR Harrie.

Yes, makes me jump every time when people get it wrong, but sit on my hands ;)

MissAdventure

Well, I've said my bit about Starmer.
I think it was very well played on his part.
I think he did exactly what the public want to see, and I think it was deliberately a very underplayed speech.

Agreed, 100%.

In our poor old country we need and desire moral leadership and Starmer has now risen above issues of party politics.

Is it only me who thinks it's ironic that our posh, Tory Prime Minister and his wife are plain Mr and Mrs Johnson but the Labour Leader of the Opposition and his wife are Sir Keir and Lady Starmer?

?

What's with the flag?

Calistemon

Is it only me who thinks it's ironic that our posh, Tory Prime Minister and his wife are plain Mr and Mrs Johnson but the Labour Leader of the Opposition and his wife are Sir Keir and Lady Starmer?

?

He only accepted the knighthood because it made his mum happy. And yet everyone thinks he’s posh because of it. His roots are probably more working class than most MP’s.

MayBee70

Calistemon

Is it only me who thinks it's ironic that our posh, Tory Prime Minister and his wife are plain Mr and Mrs Johnson but the Labour Leader of the Opposition and his wife are Sir Keir and Lady Starmer?

?

He only accepted the knighthood because it made his mum happy. And yet everyone thinks he’s posh because of it. His roots are probably more working class than most MP’s.

Keir makes a lot about his working class roots his father wears a tool maker but didn't mention his father owned the factory

And ???

MayBeMaw

Oops! Slightly supererogatory comment methinks!
I just have a thing about getting names right.

Isn’t it Keir Hardie?

Grany

MayBee70

Calistemon

Is it only me who thinks it's ironic that our posh, Tory Prime Minister and his wife are plain Mr and Mrs Johnson but the Labour Leader of the Opposition and his wife are Sir Keir and Lady Starmer?

?

He only accepted the knighthood because it made his mum happy. And yet everyone thinks he’s posh because of it. His roots are probably more working class than most MP’s.

Keir makes a lot about his working class roots his father wears a tool maker but didn't mention his father owned the factory

His grandfather was a mechanic and Keir was the first in his family to go to university. No idea how big or small the Oxted Tool Company was but it doesn’t strike me of a huge concern. Feel free to correct me, though. And Keirs good education was achieved through brains, not money.

I know all that.

It's just ironic.

Grany

What's with the flag?

what flag?

Calistemon

Grany

What's with the flag?

what flag?

Got it! I thought you meant I had posted a flag emoticon

A bit American-style, I thought.
Otherwise he spoke sense.

I thought the big flag was to show Labour's new focus on British values. He did stress being patriotic in our duty to get vaccinated. How that sits with different people, I'm not sure?

It was a copy of Johnson's background, I'm sure.