Kier Starmer & voice coach during tier 4 lockdown

How lovely for Starmer that he was well enough to have a voice coach (whatever that is) to his house on Christmas Eve 2020.
As for me, I had Covid and was extremely ill that day. I was too ill to even bother to open any gifts on Christmas Day, and a few days later, I was hospitalised for the next twelve days.
How lovely for Starmer that he was well enough to invite someone into his home that day.
Mind you, I hope she wasn’t too expensive because if she was, he wasted his money.His delivery is boring and monotonous. Lord knows how he was ever a lawyer. It’s a good job he didn’t work in the Criminal Court because the juries would have been asleep.

mokryna

BJ was having lots of parties with many people.

No he wasnt.

Mt61

How hypocritical of Kier Starmer to have had a voice coach over for lessons during
Tier 4 lockdowns on Christmas Eve!

I am absolutely raging mad that I stuck fast to these lockdown rules, that I hardly saw my parents during these lockdowns, didn’t notice my dad’s dementia because mum always came to the door, couldn’t attend my Aunts funeral, ended up with severe depression & he’s got the gall to put this woman down as a key worker, I thought that was for emergency services, care workers, & shop staff?
What was so urgent that he needed a voice coach on Christmas Eve, he wasn’t even PM?
To think that they gave BJ so much flack, it’s truly unbelievable 😩

How do you know this is true? Where is your information from?

You certainly just seem to want to be angry but raving mad? Be kinder to yourself.

I've never really understood these parties that Boris was alleged to have.

Work is being used as an excuse for KS, but Boris' parties were in number 10. People who were all working together anyway.

I don't care about KS and his elocution lessons, apart from the fact they have done nothing to assist his horrendous speech delivery.

But I'm not overly convinced that the parties at Number 10 were that bad. It's not as if they were inviting all and sundry. It was just those who were working there.

Also, Dominic Cummings decided to tell this party business to the press. And he's hardly someone to be admired.

Maybe he had to repeat Christmas Eve tongue twisters with her?
Santa's sleigh sliding swiftly through the slippery snow.

I am genuinely sorry for the grief suffered by Mt61 through the loss of communication with his relatives.
Lockdown did not affect me personally except that I spent much of it alone, but I thought then that much of the outrage was manufactured to score political points. It succeeded and now we have this Labour government .

Increasingly the rank hypocrisy of Starmer is being exposed , sharing beer and sandwiches (but he and Rayner were working) and now this voice coach. On Christmas Eve?

Maybe speech therapy is a euphemism?

Grandmabatty

I'm not seeing it in the Guardian nor The independent. Which media is it in?

No don’t suppose it will be in of those labour rags

mokryna

BJ was having lots of parties with many people.

That’s old news and justifiably criticised, but interesting to hear another addition to Starmer’s list.

escaped

So, why did the speech coach need to visit him personally?
I gave French language lessons on Skype during lockdown, and it was possible to correct accent and intonation online.
Unless he has a speech impediment where he needs to be shown where to place his tongue in his mouth, I don't get it.

Oh up close & personal!

Could he not have had a lesson on zoom?

So, why did the speech coach need to visit him personally?
I gave French language lessons on Skype during lockdown, and it was possible to correct accent and intonation online.
Unless he has a speech impediment where he needs to be shown where to place his tongue in his mouth, I don't get it.

Barleyfields that made me laugh .

Oh right, yes Mt61 … the curry and beer ‘party’!

Voice coaching? Yes. right, pull the other one

LizzieDrip

Mt61 I’m sorry that lockdown caused you so much sorrow.

I presume you were equally raging mad with Boris Johnson for attending all those parties that he lied about?

Yes I blinking was as well as Labour having curry & beer

I'm not seeing it in the Guardian nor The independent. Which media is it in?

Indeed. It’s what you say rather than what your voice is like. If this is his voice after coaching Lord knows what it was like beforehand. His delivery is incredibly boring. The money would have been better spent on Reeves or Rayner.

Mt61 I’m sorry that lockdown caused you so much sorrow.

I presume you were equally raging mad with Boris Johnson for attending all those parties that he lied about?

Work

This is a non-starter, but good for a 5 minute bout of hysteria I suppose

Not much of a barrister if incapable of clear diction.

did KS need a voice coach because of his work?

FriedGreenTomatoes2

mokryna

BJ was having lots of parties with many people.

I got castigated on here once as it was pointed out to me that two wrongs don’t make a right.

Maybe more so in the case of Starmer, being a lawyer.

True but KS was working.

Oh dear, if true how's he going to get out of this one .

mokryna

BJ was having lots of parties with many people.

I got castigated on here once as it was pointed out to me that two wrongs don’t make a right.

Maybe more so in the case of Starmer, being a lawyer.