Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
On Starmer’s repayment of more than £6000 of gifts, these are all gifts he and his wife Victoria received since the election. His argument - which eluded me when listening to him just now in Brussels, but I have subsequently twigged - is that the ethics of receiving gifts are different for a PM who wants to restore confidence in politics than for a leader of the opposition. So on this version only post 4 July gifts need to be repaid, excluding the tickets at his beloved Arsenal - because going to the Emirates is ingrained in his life and it’s not his fault that for safety reasons he can’t sit in his normal seats. I am told however he doesn’t believe his ministerial colleagues need to repay their post-election freebies, including the Taylor Swift tickets, because (implicitly) they are lesser mortals: he leads, they don’t have to follow
The Conservatives polled 12.7 million or 47% of the votes cast in England in 2019. In July, Rishi Sunak's party got 6.3 million so roughly half so where did the 6.4 million voters who voted for Boris Johnson go?
The actual number of votes cast declined from 26.9 million to 24.3 million (the larger turnout drop disguised the increase in the number of registered voters).
Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats were also slightly down in the number of votes cast (700,000 in the case of Labour and 150,000 in the case of the latter). The Greens polled a million more votes and Reform 3.5 million than 2019. Another 470,000 or so more voted for other candidates than did so in 2019.
It's easy to forget churn and the British Election Study work will probably tease out a good deal more but we can probably say Reform and turnout were the biggest causes of the Conservative decline but there's a lot of other fascinating cross-party switching going on at the same time as well as the activities of one G.Reaper.
On Starmer’s repayment of more than £6000 of gifts, these are all gifts he and his wife Victoria received since the election. His argument - which eluded me when listening to him just now in Brussels, but I have subsequently twigged - is that the ethics of receiving gifts are different for a PM who wants to restore confidence in politics than for a leader of the opposition. So on this version only post 4 July gifts need to be repaid, excluding the tickets at his beloved Arsenal - because going to the Emirates is ingrained in his life and it’s not his fault that for safety reasons he can’t sit in his normal seats. I am told however he doesn’t believe his ministerial colleagues need to repay their post-election freebies, including the Taylor Swift tickets, because (implicitly) they are lesser mortals: he leads, they don’t have to follow
I went to a "Wales in MENA" function in Doha when World Cup was on - Mark Drakeford was there - as were various Welsh 'celebrities' - and also James Cleverly. I asked him outright why he was there - and he waffled on about HM Government supporting the 'Home Nations'... It was obvious he was there to chaperone the Drakester... I was about to challenge him on that when an embassy type intervened and whisked him away. He must have given him the secret signal.
My impression was that he was a waffling bullshitter but probably a safe pair of hands.
On Starmer’s repayment of more than £6000 of gifts, these are all gifts he and his wife Victoria received since the election. His argument - which eluded me when listening to him just now in Brussels, but I have subsequently twigged - is that the ethics of receiving gifts are different for a PM who wants to restore confidence in politics than for a leader of the opposition. So on this version only post 4 July gifts need to be repaid, excluding the tickets at his beloved Arsenal - because going to the Emirates is ingrained in his life and it’s not his fault that for safety reasons he can’t sit in his normal seats. I am told however he doesn’t believe his ministerial colleagues need to repay their post-election freebies, including the Taylor Swift tickets, because (implicitly) they are lesser mortals: he leads, they don’t have to follow
Man arrested driving home from court where he had been given a driving ban...
What is the betting he is driving this time next year regardless? Decent odds on I would guess, not sure what the answer is for these types who just ignore the judgments, aside from the expensive option of jail. Would like to see extremely punitive fines as an option if they have any assets.
Car gets scrapped, and any other vehicle they are found driving.
But there is no one actually checking. We need a future crimes division which would know a banned driver who ignores bans is odds on to be driving illegally and checks them out from time to time. Or something.
Apparently road traffic policing has been cut by about half since 2010. That's part of the reason why you have problems with crime like this, which can't be monitored with cameras/ANPR.
I also think that's why the number of slight injuries has fallen quite a bit more than fatal/serious injuries. The very high risk drivers (like this man) aren't being monitored closely enough.
ANPR will show insurance / MOT / tax / registered keeper and registered keeper's driving details can be crosschecked. So the Police could routinely check easily. Note: if they're disqualified they're not insured and if they are the policyholder then named drivers might not be covered either. I got shunted on the motorway, got details from the passenger not the driver and luckily got the reg and a witness because they didn't contact their insurer. Later I twigged that the actual driver was probably uninsured / banned.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
A big majority did not save Johnson nor will it save Starmer
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
I watched all the tory candidates speeches this morning except Badenoch.
Just watching her now on catch-up.
I am even more convinced she is not ready for prime time and would be well advised not to do a Hague and to lose this one gracefully.
A few more years. One of the top shadow briefs. Then maybe the time will come.
But it is not now.
They would be mad not to elect Cleverly after today.
I'm not wholly convinced by this notion of Kemi Badenoch as the political equivalent of an exceptional raw talent in the club academy.
I'm not sure where the idea comes from she'll mature and become a savvier politician, as her main drawbacks - the fact she throws verbal bombs so often some inevitably explode in her face, an obsession with more esoteric issues, and Truss-esque paranoid theories, are not ones that go away with a few more years practice.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
The wrongful expenses claim was revealed in 2012 by The Sunday Times but has resurfaced 12 years on because of Alli’s newfound notoriety for donating gifts including clothes and glasses to the prime minister and his wife, Victoria.
Uddin, a community campaigner appointed a peer by Tony Blair in 1998, was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in parliamentary expenses in October 2010 by stating that her main home was in Maidstone when in fact she lived in Tower Hamlets.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
A big majority did not save Johnson nor will it save Starmer
Really? Do you expect Starmer to be ousted? What odds would you like to offer?
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
A big majority did not save Johnson nor will it save Starmer
Really? Do you expect Starmer to be ousted? What odds would you like to offer?
Have you missed RAFgate?
That was a Starmer scandal for about 3 minutes earlier on.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
Stanley Baldwin waves from 1931.
National government!
The Tories themselves won 470 seats.
Ah, good times.
Had Theresa May not soiled the bed in 2017 the Tories were on course for roughly that (if not better.)
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
His behaviour has been fine. No different to the multitude of other politicians who accept gifts and declare them. If we want to move to state-funded parties, I’d be open to the idea. Currently, we have a different system - which all parties operate within.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
Stanley Baldwin waves from 1931.
National government!
The Tories themselves won 470 seats.
Ah, good times.
Had Theresa May not soiled the bed in 2017 the Tories were on course for roughly that (if not better.)
Cameron got only got 11,334,726 votes in 2015 to her 13,636,684 in 2017. You can't entirely blame her for the opposition not being split.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
A big majority did not save Johnson nor will it save Starmer
Really? Do you expect Starmer to be ousted? What odds would you like to offer?
Have you missed RAFgate?
That was a Starmer scandal for about 3 minutes earlier on.
I must have missed that one. Where did it rank in the League of Ills? Higher, or lower, than Donkeygate? Or, dare I even ask, Sir Keir’s shame - Currygate??
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
The wrongful expenses claim was revealed in 2012 by The Sunday Times but has resurfaced 12 years on because of Alli’s newfound notoriety for donating gifts including clothes and glasses to the prime minister and his wife, Victoria.
Uddin, a community campaigner appointed a peer by Tony Blair in 1998, was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in parliamentary expenses in October 2010 by stating that her main home was in Maidstone when in fact she lived in Tower Hamlets.
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
The Labour sleaze snake is now swallowing its own tail.
That's.... mind blowing
So the Generous Labour Lord, who underwrites the Labour PM's wife's designer panties, is also saving corrupt Labour MPs from the consequences of their own thievery
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
A big majority did not save Johnson nor will it save Starmer
Johnson survived scandal after scandal until eventually his MPs had simply had enough. It seems vanishingly unlikely that'll happen to Starmer.
People are getting rather overexcited about fairly small beer.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
Even if Team Labour have an attack of the wobblies, the lack of a red equivalent of Graham Brady's enormous postbag makes it harder to dump a poor Labour leader. It's certainly possible that Labour make it too hard to get rid of a failing leader (look what happened with Jez), but equally the Conservatives make it much too easy, and one of the things we all have to get used to now is that politics is going to be slower and more boring than it has been since 2015 or so.
So what's the mechanism? The sort of parliamentary process that Boris ran away from? Hardly. Starmer has been politically dumb, but nobody has accused him of anything that's against the written rules. The sort of awfulness that means that half his government resigns? Not much sign of that, either. A realisation of the howling void in his soul? It's possible, but he's been a lawyer and a politician, so unlikely. A realisation that he will lose and someone else will win, like the Biden-Harris dynamic? Maybe, but not until 2028.
In the meantime, the noise remains what it always has been. The sort of displacement that teenagers do when they are caught with their hands somewhere they shouldn't be. "What are you doing telling me off, look at them, you're such a hypocrite..." Real as Starmer's faults are, tedious as his complaints were, his sins are as nothing compared with those of Big Dog.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
A big majority did not save Johnson nor will it save Starmer
Johnson survived scandal after scandal until eventually his MPs had simply had enough. It seems vanishingly unlikely that'll happen to Starmer.
People are getting rather overexcited about fairly small beer.
I don't regard slurping up over 100k of freebies from someone with an access agenda and also choosing not to prosecute an alleged fraudster because she was a Labour peer small beer.
This one sums up much of what's wrong with this country:
More than £8 million is being spent building 15 “affordable” homes as councils struggle to meet green planning standards while keeping rents down.
The properties in Twechar, East Dunbartonshire, would cost £535,800 each to build and a senior figure in the authority said the outlay would be “ultimately repaid by tenants”.
A combination of low carbon heating systems, installing electric vehicle charging points and ensuring they meet “silver” building standards that as well as energy efficiency includes space for a home office, were cited as part of the reason for the expense.
On Starmer’s repayment of more than £6000 of gifts, these are all gifts he and his wife Victoria received since the election. His argument - which eluded me when listening to him just now in Brussels, but I have subsequently twigged - is that the ethics of receiving gifts are different for a PM who wants to restore confidence in politics than for a leader of the opposition. So on this version only post 4 July gifts need to be repaid, excluding the tickets at his beloved Arsenal - because going to the Emirates is ingrained in his life and it’s not his fault that for safety reasons he can’t sit in his normal seats. I am told however he doesn’t believe his ministerial colleagues need to repay their post-election freebies, including the Taylor Swift tickets, because (implicitly) they are lesser mortals: he leads, they don’t have to follow
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
A big majority did not save Johnson nor will it save Starmer
Johnson survived scandal after scandal until eventually his MPs had simply had enough. It seems vanishingly unlikely that'll happen to Starmer.
People are getting rather overexcited about fairly small beer.
Let's see how the polling looks in a few months before we decide who is getting "overexcited".
Sir "mile wide and an inch deep" won't survive a concerted push to get rid.
The entire Labour government - in essence, the UK - has been bought by one Labour Lord. It's not like he's even that impressive. He's not a squillionaire like Musk or Bezos, he's only worth £200m
I have close personal friends that are worth considerably more than that. I might ask them to buy Spain for me, or maybe Greece plus Montenegro for the carp
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
Even if Team Labour have an attack of the wobblies, the lack of a red equivalent of Graham Brady's enormous postbag makes it harder to dump a poor Labour leader. It's certainly possible that Labour make it too hard to get rid of a failing leader (look what happened with Jez), but equally the Conservatives make it much too easy, and one of the things we all have to get used to now is that politics is going to be slower and more boring than it has been since 2015 or so.
So what's the mechanism? The sort of parliamentary process that Boris ran away from? Hardly. Starmer has been politically dumb, but nobody has accused him of anything that's against the written rules. The sort of awfulness that means that half his government resigns? Not much sign of that, either. A realisation of the howling void in his soul? It's possible, but he's been a lawyer and a politician, so unlikely. A realisation that he will lose and someone else will win, like the Biden-Harris dynamic? Maybe, but not until 2028.
In the meantime, the noise remains what it always has been. The sort of displacement that teenagers do when they are caught with their hands somewhere they shouldn't be. "What are you doing telling me off, look at them, you're such a hypocrite..." Real as Starmer's faults are, tedious as his complaints were, his sins are as nothing compared with those of Big Dog.
Johnson certainly gives Sir Kier Freebie a lot of cover with assistance from the whatabouterers but he came to power claiming to clean up politics. "I am not as grubby as Johnson" is not much of a moral defence.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
A big majority did not save Johnson nor will it save Starmer
Johnson survived scandal after scandal until eventually his MPs had simply had enough. It seems vanishingly unlikely that'll happen to Starmer.
People are getting rather overexcited about fairly small beer.
I don't regard slurping up over 100k of freebies from someone with an access agenda and also choosing not to prosecute an alleged fraudster because she was a Labour peer small beer.
It really is not #SmallBeerKier
This one is particularly corrosive because it looks like corruption piled on corruption, thievery married to grift
On Starmer’s repayment of more than £6000 of gifts, these are all gifts he and his wife Victoria received since the election. His argument - which eluded me when listening to him just now in Brussels, but I have subsequently twigged - is that the ethics of receiving gifts are different for a PM who wants to restore confidence in politics than for a leader of the opposition. So on this version only post 4 July gifts need to be repaid, excluding the tickets at his beloved Arsenal - because going to the Emirates is ingrained in his life and it’s not his fault that for safety reasons he can’t sit in his normal seats. I am told however he doesn’t believe his ministerial colleagues need to repay their post-election freebies, including the Taylor Swift tickets, because (implicitly) they are lesser mortals: he leads, they don’t have to follow
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
The Labour sleaze snake is now swallowing its own tail.
That's.... mind blowing
So the Generous Labour Lord, who underwrites the Labour PM's wife's designer panties, is also saving corrupt Labour MPs from the consequences of their own thievery
That "panties" ... oh dear.
You really are a certain type, aren’t you. I've met you so many times.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
Even if Team Labour have an attack of the wobblies, the lack of a red equivalent of Graham Brady's enormous postbag makes it harder to dump a poor Labour leader. It's certainly possible that Labour make it too hard to get rid of a failing leader (look what happened with Jez), but equally the Conservatives make it much too easy, and one of the things we all have to get used to now is that politics is going to be slower and more boring than it has been since 2015 or so.
So what's the mechanism? The sort of parliamentary process that Boris ran away from? Hardly. Starmer has been politically dumb, but nobody has accused him of anything that's against the written rules. The sort of awfulness that means that half his government resigns? Not much sign of that, either. A realisation of the howling void in his soul? It's possible, but he's been a lawyer and a politician, so unlikely. A realisation that he will lose and someone else will win, like the Biden-Harris dynamic? Maybe, but not until 2028.
In the meantime, the noise remains what it always has been. The sort of displacement that teenagers do when they are caught with their hands somewhere they shouldn't be. "What are you doing telling me off, look at them, you're such a hypocrite..." Real as Starmer's faults are, tedious as his complaints were, his sins are as nothing compared with those of Big Dog.
A very close personal scandal could see him off
Starmer is a lying c*nt with no conscience, we know that now. And yes he's a lawyer, so he has pretty thick skin
But I suspect Starmer's Achilles heel is that family. If it looks like pain for them, he will go
For the purposes of clarity, I am not claiming there are any such scandals waiting to emerge, merely that is the kind of thing that could do it: topple Skyr Toolmakersson
Boris has extremely thick skin, but in the end his own MPs and ministers could no longer bear the drip-drip-drip, and he went, DESPITE winning and holding a large majority
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
The Labour sleaze snake is now swallowing its own tail.
That's.... mind blowing
So the Generous Labour Lord, who underwrites the Labour PM's wife's designer panties, is also saving corrupt Labour MPs from the consequences of their own thievery
That "panties" ... oh dear.
You really are a certain type, aren’t you. I've met you so many times.
Heteresexual men with no doubts about that sexuality? Yes, you probably have. Not in the mirror, tho
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
The Labour sleaze snake is now swallowing its own tail.
That's.... mind blowing
So the Generous Labour Lord, who underwrites the Labour PM's wife's designer panties, is also saving corrupt Labour MPs from the consequences of their own thievery
That "panties" ... oh dear.
You really are a certain type, aren’t you. I've met you so many times.
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
The wrongful expenses claim was revealed in 2012 by The Sunday Times but has resurfaced 12 years on because of Alli’s newfound notoriety for donating gifts including clothes and glasses to the prime minister and his wife, Victoria.
Uddin, a community campaigner appointed a peer by Tony Blair in 1998, was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in parliamentary expenses in October 2010 by stating that her main home was in Maidstone when in fact she lived in Tower Hamlets.
Man arrested driving home from court where he had been given a driving ban...
What is the betting he is driving this time next year regardless? Decent odds on I would guess, not sure what the answer is for these types who just ignore the judgments, aside from the expensive option of jail. Would like to see extremely punitive fines as an option if they have any assets.
In this case he has a Range Rover.
How about any vehicle driven while disqualified is taken as part of the fine.
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
The Labour sleaze snake is now swallowing its own tail.
That's.... mind blowing
So the Generous Labour Lord, who underwrites the Labour PM's wife's designer panties, is also saving corrupt Labour MPs from the consequences of their own thievery
That "panties" ... oh dear.
You really are a certain type, aren’t you. I've met you so many times.
Heteresexual men with no doubts about that sexuality? Yes, you probably have. Not in the mirror, tho
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
Even if Team Labour have an attack of the wobblies, the lack of a red equivalent of Graham Brady's enormous postbag makes it harder to dump a poor Labour leader. It's certainly possible that Labour make it too hard to get rid of a failing leader (look what happened with Jez), but equally the Conservatives make it much too easy, and one of the things we all have to get used to now is that politics is going to be slower and more boring than it has been since 2015 or so.
So what's the mechanism? The sort of parliamentary process that Boris ran away from? Hardly. Starmer has been politically dumb, but nobody has accused him of anything that's against the written rules. The sort of awfulness that means that half his government resigns? Not much sign of that, either. A realisation of the howling void in his soul? It's possible, but he's been a lawyer and a politician, so unlikely. A realisation that he will lose and someone else will win, like the Biden-Harris dynamic? Maybe, but not until 2028.
In the meantime, the noise remains what it always has been. The sort of displacement that teenagers do when they are caught with their hands somewhere they shouldn't be. "What are you doing telling me off, look at them, you're such a hypocrite..." Real as Starmer's faults are, tedious as his complaints were, his sins are as nothing compared with those of Big Dog.
A very close personal scandal could see him off
Starmer is a lying c*nt with no conscience, we know that now. And yes he's a lawyer, so he has pretty thick skin
But I suspect Starmer's Achilles heel is that family. If it looks like pain for them, he will go
For the purposes of clarity, I am not claiming there are any such scandals waiting to emerge, merely that is the kind of thing that could do it: topple Skyr Toolmakersson
Boris has extremely thick skin, but in the end his own MPs and ministers could no longer bear the drip-drip-drip, and he went, DESPITE winning and holding a large majority
Starmer is a career lawyer who reached the top, then a hobby politician who has reached the top in his second career. Starmer is in his 60s already and probably planned to step down during this or the next parliament in any case.
So it would not surprise me at all if Starmer goes in a couple of years, but weeks or months would leave me gobsmacked.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
A big majority did not save Johnson nor will it save Starmer
Johnson survived scandal after scandal until eventually his MPs had simply had enough. It seems vanishingly unlikely that'll happen to Starmer.
People are getting rather overexcited about fairly small beer.
I don't regard slurping up over 100k of freebies from someone with an access agenda and also choosing not to prosecute an alleged fraudster because she was a Labour peer small beer.
There are two reasons it's small beer as scandals go - firstly it's a bad look scandal, he's not broken any rules. Unless more comes out there's therefore not a breaking point you can hang a resignation on. Sure it's hit Starmer's ratings but not moved the polls much - if you didn't like Labour before it's confirmed that view, if you're sympathetic to Labour it might make you think less of Starmer but it's not a deal breaker. Secondly none of the opposition parties have clean hands on donations and freebies, and in the Tories' case have far bigger problems if are seen as such.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
A big majority did not save Johnson nor will it save Starmer
Johnson survived scandal after scandal until eventually his MPs had simply had enough. It seems vanishingly unlikely that'll happen to Starmer.
People are getting rather overexcited about fairly small beer.
I don't regard slurping up over 100k of freebies from someone with an access agenda and also choosing not to prosecute an alleged fraudster because she was a Labour peer small beer.
There are two reasons it's small beer as scandals go - firstly it's a bad look scandal, he's not broken any rules. Unless more comes out there's therefore not a breaking point you can hang a resignation on. Sure it's hit Starmer's ratings but not moved the polls much - if you didn't like Labour before it's confirmed that view, if you're sympathetic to Labour it might make you think less of Starmer but it's not a deal breaker. Secondly none of the opposition parties have clean hands on donations and freebies, and in the Tories' case have far bigger problems if are seen as such.
The polls where we've seen Starmer’s ratings fall haven't published VI - that's why the polls haven't moved much - there haven't BEEN ANY.
On Starmer’s repayment of more than £6000 of gifts, these are all gifts he and his wife Victoria received since the election. His argument - which eluded me when listening to him just now in Brussels, but I have subsequently twigged - is that the ethics of receiving gifts are different for a PM who wants to restore confidence in politics than for a leader of the opposition. So on this version only post 4 July gifts need to be repaid, excluding the tickets at his beloved Arsenal - because going to the Emirates is ingrained in his life and it’s not his fault that for safety reasons he can’t sit in his normal seats. I am told however he doesn’t believe his ministerial colleagues need to repay their post-election freebies, including the Taylor Swift tickets, because (implicitly) they are lesser mortals: he leads, they don’t have to follow
On Starmer’s repayment of more than £6000 of gifts, these are all gifts he and his wife Victoria received since the election. His argument - which eluded me when listening to him just now in Brussels, but I have subsequently twigged - is that the ethics of receiving gifts are different for a PM who wants to restore confidence in politics than for a leader of the opposition. So on this version only post 4 July gifts need to be repaid, excluding the tickets at his beloved Arsenal - because going to the Emirates is ingrained in his life and it’s not his fault that for safety reasons he can’t sit in his normal seats. I am told however he doesn’t believe his ministerial colleagues need to repay their post-election freebies, including the Taylor Swift tickets, because (implicitly) they are lesser mortals: he leads, they don’t have to follow
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
A big majority did not save Johnson nor will it save Starmer
Johnson survived scandal after scandal until eventually his MPs had simply had enough. It seems vanishingly unlikely that'll happen to Starmer.
People are getting rather overexcited about fairly small beer.
I don't regard slurping up over 100k of freebies from someone with an access agenda and also choosing not to prosecute an alleged fraudster because she was a Labour peer small beer.
There are two reasons it's small beer as scandals go - firstly it's a bad look scandal, he's not broken any rules. Unless more comes out there's therefore not a breaking point you can hang a resignation on. Sure it's hit Starmer's ratings but not moved the polls much - if you didn't like Labour before it's confirmed that view, if you're sympathetic to Labour it might make you think less of Starmer but it's not a deal breaker. Secondly none of the opposition parties have clean hands on donations and freebies, and in the Tories' case have far bigger problems if are seen as such.
It most certainly is NOT small beer. This was always what apologists for Johnson said, and that wasn't small beer either, it was blatant dishonesty combined with incompetence.
The difference between Starmer and The Clown is that many voters hoped Starmer was a boring straight man who was going to be honest and uncorruptible. He has proved he is nowhere close to that expectation.
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
The Labour sleaze snake is now swallowing its own tail.
That's.... mind blowing
So the Generous Labour Lord, who underwrites the Labour PM's wife's designer panties, is also saving corrupt Labour MPs from the consequences of their own thievery
That "panties" ... oh dear.
You really are a certain type, aren’t you. I've met you so many times.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
A big majority did not save Johnson nor will it save Starmer
Johnson survived scandal after scandal until eventually his MPs had simply had enough. It seems vanishingly unlikely that'll happen to Starmer.
People are getting rather overexcited about fairly small beer.
I don't regard slurping up over 100k of freebies from someone with an access agenda and also choosing not to prosecute an alleged fraudster because she was a Labour peer small beer.
It really is not #SmallBeerKier
This one is particularly corrosive because it looks like corruption piled on corruption, thievery married to grift
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
Even if Team Labour have an attack of the wobblies, the lack of a red equivalent of Graham Brady's enormous postbag makes it harder to dump a poor Labour leader. It's certainly possible that Labour make it too hard to get rid of a failing leader (look what happened with Jez), but equally the Conservatives make it much too easy, and one of the things we all have to get used to now is that politics is going to be slower and more boring than it has been since 2015 or so.
So what's the mechanism? The sort of parliamentary process that Boris ran away from? Hardly. Starmer has been politically dumb, but nobody has accused him of anything that's against the written rules. The sort of awfulness that means that half his government resigns? Not much sign of that, either. A realisation of the howling void in his soul? It's possible, but he's been a lawyer and a politician, so unlikely. A realisation that he will lose and someone else will win, like the Biden-Harris dynamic? Maybe, but not until 2028.
In the meantime, the noise remains what it always has been. The sort of displacement that teenagers do when they are caught with their hands somewhere they shouldn't be. "What are you doing telling me off, look at them, you're such a hypocrite..." Real as Starmer's faults are, tedious as his complaints were, his sins are as nothing compared with those of Big Dog.
A very close personal scandal could see him off
Starmer is a lying c*nt with no conscience, we know that now. And yes he's a lawyer, so he has pretty thick skin
But I suspect Starmer's Achilles heel is that family. If it looks like pain for them, he will go
For the purposes of clarity, I am not claiming there are any such scandals waiting to emerge, merely that is the kind of thing that could do it: topple Skyr Toolmakersson
Boris has extremely thick skin, but in the end his own MPs and ministers could no longer bear the drip-drip-drip, and he went, DESPITE winning and holding a large majority
Starmer is a career lawyer who reached the top, then a hobby politician who has reached the top in his second career. Starmer is in his 60s already and probably planned to step down during this or the next parliament in any case.
So it would not surprise me at all if Starmer goes in a couple of years, but weeks or months would leave me gobsmacked.
Personally I hope there are many more months of this abject humiliation - the country can (just about) stand it, and in the meantime, Starmer is poisoning the well of just about every craptacular social democratic idea and reinvigorating the right. Net Zero, the clamp down on free speech - he was in Europe today, he'll give the kiss of death to European reintegration too. Bless his (freebie) cotton socks.
PA Media @PA · 21m #BreakingNews Sir Keir Starmer has paid back more than £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality received since becoming Prime Minister, Downing Street has said
PA Media @PA The Prime Minister is covering the cost of six Taylor Swift tickets, four to the races and a clothing rental agreement with a high-end designer favoured by his wife, Lady Victoria Starmer
What a strange decision for a man who has done nothing wrong to take.
That opens the question to why just those gifts
Different rules when you're in government. All gifts over £140 go to the department the minister works for or you have to "purchase" them from the department.
The entire Labour government - in essence, the UK - has been bought by one Labour Lord. It's not like he's even that impressive. He's not a squillionaire like Musk or Bezos, he's only worth £200m
I have close personal friends that are worth considerably more than that. I might ask them to buy Spain for me, or maybe Greece plus Montenegro for the carp
It's not absolute wealth but spare or spending money that counts here. Many on PB could spend £10,000 or £100,000 without breaking sweat. For someone whose equivalent throwaway figure is £10 million, spending £1,000 is like a normal guy spending a mere pound, or £10 for the £100k person, because £10 million is a thousand times £10,000.
Not all rich people are generous of course, but their spending shows the same pattern. There was a Piers Morgan programme where he put to Lord Sugar that he'd spent £30 million on a private plane just to avoid airport queues. Sugar thought about it and agreed.
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
Continuing my posts digging into US polling. I had good news for the Dems and then a neutral one so now one for the Reps.
18 states have had three or more polls in the last month. 4 show no change, 3 show movement to the Dems, 11 have movement to the Reps (including California, New York and Florida). Yet, oddly, national polls show the race exactly where it was in 2020. Something doesn't quite add up - another reason to take US polls with a huge pinch of salt
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
Even if Team Labour have an attack of the wobblies, the lack of a red equivalent of Graham Brady's enormous postbag makes it harder to dump a poor Labour leader. It's certainly possible that Labour make it too hard to get rid of a failing leader (look what happened with Jez), but equally the Conservatives make it much too easy, and one of the things we all have to get used to now is that politics is going to be slower and more boring than it has been since 2015 or so.
So what's the mechanism? The sort of parliamentary process that Boris ran away from? Hardly. Starmer has been politically dumb, but nobody has accused him of anything that's against the written rules. The sort of awfulness that means that half his government resigns? Not much sign of that, either. A realisation of the howling void in his soul? It's possible, but he's been a lawyer and a politician, so unlikely. A realisation that he will lose and someone else will win, like the Biden-Harris dynamic? Maybe, but not until 2028.
In the meantime, the noise remains what it always has been. The sort of displacement that teenagers do when they are caught with their hands somewhere they shouldn't be. "What are you doing telling me off, look at them, you're such a hypocrite..." Real as Starmer's faults are, tedious as his complaints were, his sins are as nothing compared with those of Big Dog.
A very close personal scandal could see him off
Starmer is a lying c*nt with no conscience, we know that now. And yes he's a lawyer, so he has pretty thick skin
But I suspect Starmer's Achilles heel is that family. If it looks like pain for them, he will go
For the purposes of clarity, I am not claiming there are any such scandals waiting to emerge, merely that is the kind of thing that could do it: topple Skyr Toolmakersson
Boris has extremely thick skin, but in the end his own MPs and ministers could no longer bear the drip-drip-drip, and he went, DESPITE winning and holding a large majority
Starmer is a career lawyer who reached the top, then a hobby politician who has reached the top in his second career. Starmer is in his 60s already and probably planned to step down during this or the next parliament in any case.
So it would not surprise me at all if Starmer goes in a couple of years, but weeks or months would leave me gobsmacked.
Personally I hope there are many more months of this abject humiliation - the country can (just about) stand it, and in the meantime, Starmer is poisoning the well of just about every craptacular social democratic idea and reinvigorating the right. Net Zero, the clamp down on free speech - he was in Europe today, he'll give the kiss of death to European reintegration too. Bless his (freebie) cotton socks.
You mention Net Zero. Some would say Ed Miliband is the only minister who has got anything done so far.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
Even if Team Labour have an attack of the wobblies, the lack of a red equivalent of Graham Brady's enormous postbag makes it harder to dump a poor Labour leader. It's certainly possible that Labour make it too hard to get rid of a failing leader (look what happened with Jez), but equally the Conservatives make it much too easy, and one of the things we all have to get used to now is that politics is going to be slower and more boring than it has been since 2015 or so.
So what's the mechanism? The sort of parliamentary process that Boris ran away from? Hardly. Starmer has been politically dumb, but nobody has accused him of anything that's against the written rules. The sort of awfulness that means that half his government resigns? Not much sign of that, either. A realisation of the howling void in his soul? It's possible, but he's been a lawyer and a politician, so unlikely. A realisation that he will lose and someone else will win, like the Biden-Harris dynamic? Maybe, but not until 2028.
In the meantime, the noise remains what it always has been. The sort of displacement that teenagers do when they are caught with their hands somewhere they shouldn't be. "What are you doing telling me off, look at them, you're such a hypocrite..." Real as Starmer's faults are, tedious as his complaints were, his sins are as nothing compared with those of Big Dog.
A very close personal scandal could see him off
Starmer is a lying c*nt with no conscience, we know that now. And yes he's a lawyer, so he has pretty thick skin
But I suspect Starmer's Achilles heel is that family. If it looks like pain for them, he will go
For the purposes of clarity, I am not claiming there are any such scandals waiting to emerge, merely that is the kind of thing that could do it: topple Skyr Toolmakersson
Boris has extremely thick skin, but in the end his own MPs and ministers could no longer bear the drip-drip-drip, and he went, DESPITE winning and holding a large majority
Starmer is a career lawyer who reached the top, then a hobby politician who has reached the top in his second career. Starmer is in his 60s already and probably planned to step down during this or the next parliament in any case.
So it would not surprise me at all if Starmer goes in a couple of years, but weeks or months would leave me gobsmacked.
Personally I hope there are many more months of this abject humiliation - the country can (just about) stand it, and in the meantime, Starmer is poisoning the well of just about every craptacular social democratic idea and reinvigorating the right. Net Zero, the clamp down on free speech - he was in Europe today, he'll give the kiss of death to European reintegration too. Bless his (freebie) cotton socks.
You mention Net Zero. Some would say Ed Miliband is the only minister who has got anything done so far.
If you view making 100000+ people unemployed an achievement
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
Even if Team Labour have an attack of the wobblies, the lack of a red equivalent of Graham Brady's enormous postbag makes it harder to dump a poor Labour leader. It's certainly possible that Labour make it too hard to get rid of a failing leader (look what happened with Jez), but equally the Conservatives make it much too easy, and one of the things we all have to get used to now is that politics is going to be slower and more boring than it has been since 2015 or so.
So what's the mechanism? The sort of parliamentary process that Boris ran away from? Hardly. Starmer has been politically dumb, but nobody has accused him of anything that's against the written rules. The sort of awfulness that means that half his government resigns? Not much sign of that, either. A realisation of the howling void in his soul? It's possible, but he's been a lawyer and a politician, so unlikely. A realisation that he will lose and someone else will win, like the Biden-Harris dynamic? Maybe, but not until 2028.
In the meantime, the noise remains what it always has been. The sort of displacement that teenagers do when they are caught with their hands somewhere they shouldn't be. "What are you doing telling me off, look at them, you're such a hypocrite..." Real as Starmer's faults are, tedious as his complaints were, his sins are as nothing compared with those of Big Dog.
A very close personal scandal could see him off
Starmer is a lying c*nt with no conscience, we know that now. And yes he's a lawyer, so he has pretty thick skin
But I suspect Starmer's Achilles heel is that family. If it looks like pain for them, he will go
For the purposes of clarity, I am not claiming there are any such scandals waiting to emerge, merely that is the kind of thing that could do it: topple Skyr Toolmakersson
Boris has extremely thick skin, but in the end his own MPs and ministers could no longer bear the drip-drip-drip, and he went, DESPITE winning and holding a large majority
Starmer is a career lawyer who reached the top, then a hobby politician who has reached the top in his second career. Starmer is in his 60s already and probably planned to step down during this or the next parliament in any case.
So it would not surprise me at all if Starmer goes in a couple of years, but weeks or months would leave me gobsmacked.
Personally I hope there are many more months of this abject humiliation - the country can (just about) stand it, and in the meantime, Starmer is poisoning the well of just about every craptacular social democratic idea and reinvigorating the right. Net Zero, the clamp down on free speech - he was in Europe today, he'll give the kiss of death to European reintegration too. Bless his (freebie) cotton socks.
You mention Net Zero. Some would say Ed Miliband is the only minister who has got anything done so far.
Oh, I dunno, I think Starver and Reams have managed to spook the economy, just with their ineptitude and gloom, to the extent we are now facing an entirely unnecessary recession, when the economy WAS growing at a decent pace
They've created taxpayer flight and investor allergy, to the extent they are now reconsidering their non dom wankery
On Starmer’s repayment of more than £6000 of gifts, these are all gifts he and his wife Victoria received since the election. His argument - which eluded me when listening to him just now in Brussels, but I have subsequently twigged - is that the ethics of receiving gifts are different for a PM who wants to restore confidence in politics than for a leader of the opposition. So on this version only post 4 July gifts need to be repaid, excluding the tickets at his beloved Arsenal - because going to the Emirates is ingrained in his life and it’s not his fault that for safety reasons he can’t sit in his normal seats. I am told however he doesn’t believe his ministerial colleagues need to repay their post-election freebies, including the Taylor Swift tickets, because (implicitly) they are lesser mortals: he leads, they don’t have to follow
SKS is trying to dance on the head of a pin and it ain't going to work...
Reminds me of the time I argued me receiving tickets to Super League Grand Final tickets really wasn't a benefit because I hate rugby league.
That's actually a considerably more succinct and convincing argument than Sausages is trying to argue.
"Sausages" - you're on fire!
Starmer orders breakfast: "No sausages!"
Is that a westerner giving it the big "I am" in the middle east?
He was pretty big, and regarded as an Arab by many of the Arab tribes
We all remember the iconic scene. Emerging from the distance, piercing blue eyes, handsome as the sun ... and that was just the camel.
Sorry to be a Lawrence nerd, but you obviously don't. The iconic scene of the camel rider emerging from the distance was Omar Shariff. He did not have blue eyes! Labour supporters - always poor on detail.
On Starmer’s repayment of more than £6000 of gifts, these are all gifts he and his wife Victoria received since the election. His argument - which eluded me when listening to him just now in Brussels, but I have subsequently twigged - is that the ethics of receiving gifts are different for a PM who wants to restore confidence in politics than for a leader of the opposition. So on this version only post 4 July gifts need to be repaid, excluding the tickets at his beloved Arsenal - because going to the Emirates is ingrained in his life and it’s not his fault that for safety reasons he can’t sit in his normal seats. I am told however he doesn’t believe his ministerial colleagues need to repay their post-election freebies, including the Taylor Swift tickets, because (implicitly) they are lesser mortals: he leads, they don’t have to follow
On Starmer’s repayment of more than £6000 of gifts, these are all gifts he and his wife Victoria received since the election. His argument - which eluded me when listening to him just now in Brussels, but I have subsequently twigged - is that the ethics of receiving gifts are different for a PM who wants to restore confidence in politics than for a leader of the opposition. So on this version only post 4 July gifts need to be repaid, excluding the tickets at his beloved Arsenal - because going to the Emirates is ingrained in his life and it’s not his fault that for safety reasons he can’t sit in his normal seats. I am told however he doesn’t believe his ministerial colleagues need to repay their post-election freebies, including the Taylor Swift tickets, because (implicitly) they are lesser mortals: he leads, they don’t have to follow
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
Even if Team Labour have an attack of the wobblies, the lack of a red equivalent of Graham Brady's enormous postbag makes it harder to dump a poor Labour leader. It's certainly possible that Labour make it too hard to get rid of a failing leader (look what happened with Jez), but equally the Conservatives make it much too easy, and one of the things we all have to get used to now is that politics is going to be slower and more boring than it has been since 2015 or so.
So what's the mechanism? The sort of parliamentary process that Boris ran away from? Hardly. Starmer has been politically dumb, but nobody has accused him of anything that's against the written rules. The sort of awfulness that means that half his government resigns? Not much sign of that, either. A realisation of the howling void in his soul? It's possible, but he's been a lawyer and a politician, so unlikely. A realisation that he will lose and someone else will win, like the Biden-Harris dynamic? Maybe, but not until 2028.
In the meantime, the noise remains what it always has been. The sort of displacement that teenagers do when they are caught with their hands somewhere they shouldn't be. "What are you doing telling me off, look at them, you're such a hypocrite..." Real as Starmer's faults are, tedious as his complaints were, his sins are as nothing compared with those of Big Dog.
A very close personal scandal could see him off
Starmer is a lying c*nt with no conscience, we know that now. And yes he's a lawyer, so he has pretty thick skin
But I suspect Starmer's Achilles heel is that family. If it looks like pain for them, he will go
For the purposes of clarity, I am not claiming there are any such scandals waiting to emerge, merely that is the kind of thing that could do it: topple Skyr Toolmakersson
Boris has extremely thick skin, but in the end his own MPs and ministers could no longer bear the drip-drip-drip, and he went, DESPITE winning and holding a large majority
Starmer is a career lawyer who reached the top, then a hobby politician who has reached the top in his second career. Starmer is in his 60s already and probably planned to step down during this or the next parliament in any case.
So it would not surprise me at all if Starmer goes in a couple of years, but weeks or months would leave me gobsmacked.
Personally I hope there are many more months of this abject humiliation - the country can (just about) stand it, and in the meantime, Starmer is poisoning the well of just about every craptacular social democratic idea and reinvigorating the right. Net Zero, the clamp down on free speech - he was in Europe today, he'll give the kiss of death to European reintegration too. Bless his (freebie) cotton socks.
You mention Net Zero. Some would say Ed Miliband is the only minister who has got anything done so far.
Oh, I dunno, I think Starver and Reams have managed to spook the economy, just with their ineptitude and gloom, to the extent we are now facing an entirely unnecessary recession, when the economy WAS growing at a decent pace
They've created taxpayer flight and investor allergy, to the extent they are now reconsidering their non dom wankery
On Starmer’s repayment of more than £6000 of gifts, these are all gifts he and his wife Victoria received since the election. His argument - which eluded me when listening to him just now in Brussels, but I have subsequently twigged - is that the ethics of receiving gifts are different for a PM who wants to restore confidence in politics than for a leader of the opposition. So on this version only post 4 July gifts need to be repaid, excluding the tickets at his beloved Arsenal - because going to the Emirates is ingrained in his life and it’s not his fault that for safety reasons he can’t sit in his normal seats. I am told however he doesn’t believe his ministerial colleagues need to repay their post-election freebies, including the Taylor Swift tickets, because (implicitly) they are lesser mortals: he leads, they don’t have to follow
SKS is trying to dance on the head of a pin and it ain't going to work...
Reminds me of the time I argued me receiving tickets to Super League Grand Final tickets really wasn't a benefit because I hate rugby league.
That's actually a considerably more succinct and convincing argument than Sausages is trying to argue.
"Sausages" - you're on fire!
Starmer orders breakfast: "No sausages!"
Is that a westerner giving it the big "I am" in the middle east?
He was pretty big, and regarded as an Arab by many of the Arab tribes
We all remember the iconic scene. Emerging from the distance, piercing blue eyes, handsome as the sun ... and that was just the camel.
Sorry to be a Lawrence nerd, but you obviously don't. The iconic scene of the camel rider emerging from the distance was Omar Shariff. He did not have blue eyes! Labour supporters - always poor on detail.
On Starmer’s repayment of more than £6000 of gifts, these are all gifts he and his wife Victoria received since the election. His argument - which eluded me when listening to him just now in Brussels, but I have subsequently twigged - is that the ethics of receiving gifts are different for a PM who wants to restore confidence in politics than for a leader of the opposition. So on this version only post 4 July gifts need to be repaid, excluding the tickets at his beloved Arsenal - because going to the Emirates is ingrained in his life and it’s not his fault that for safety reasons he can’t sit in his normal seats. I am told however he doesn’t believe his ministerial colleagues need to repay their post-election freebies, including the Taylor Swift tickets, because (implicitly) they are lesser mortals: he leads, they don’t have to follow
SKS is trying to dance on the head of a pin and it ain't going to work...
Reminds me of the time I argued me receiving tickets to Super League Grand Final tickets really wasn't a benefit because I hate rugby league.
That's actually a considerably more succinct and convincing argument than Sausages is trying to argue.
"Sausages" - you're on fire!
Starmer orders breakfast: "No sausages!"
Is that a westerner giving it the big "I am" in the middle east?
He was pretty big, and regarded as an Arab by many of the Arab tribes
We all remember the iconic scene. Emerging from the distance, piercing blue eyes, handsome as the sun ... and that was just the camel.
Sorry to be a Lawrence nerd, but you obviously don't. The iconic scene of the camel rider emerging from the distance was Omar Shariff. He did not have blue eyes! Labour supporters - always poor on detail.
Didn't they both do some emerging on a camel?
I think Lawrence did quite a lot of emerging, but possibly not with Sherif Ali.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
Even if Team Labour have an attack of the wobblies, the lack of a red equivalent of Graham Brady's enormous postbag makes it harder to dump a poor Labour leader. It's certainly possible that Labour make it too hard to get rid of a failing leader (look what happened with Jez), but equally the Conservatives make it much too easy, and one of the things we all have to get used to now is that politics is going to be slower and more boring than it has been since 2015 or so.
So what's the mechanism? The sort of parliamentary process that Boris ran away from? Hardly. Starmer has been politically dumb, but nobody has accused him of anything that's against the written rules. The sort of awfulness that means that half his government resigns? Not much sign of that, either. A realisation of the howling void in his soul? It's possible, but he's been a lawyer and a politician, so unlikely. A realisation that he will lose and someone else will win, like the Biden-Harris dynamic? Maybe, but not until 2028.
In the meantime, the noise remains what it always has been. The sort of displacement that teenagers do when they are caught with their hands somewhere they shouldn't be. "What are you doing telling me off, look at them, you're such a hypocrite..." Real as Starmer's faults are, tedious as his complaints were, his sins are as nothing compared with those of Big Dog.
A very close personal scandal could see him off
Starmer is a lying c*nt with no conscience, we know that now. And yes he's a lawyer, so he has pretty thick skin
But I suspect Starmer's Achilles heel is that family. If it looks like pain for them, he will go
For the purposes of clarity, I am not claiming there are any such scandals waiting to emerge, merely that is the kind of thing that could do it: topple Skyr Toolmakersson
Boris has extremely thick skin, but in the end his own MPs and ministers could no longer bear the drip-drip-drip, and he went, DESPITE winning and holding a large majority
Starmer is a career lawyer who reached the top, then a hobby politician who has reached the top in his second career. Starmer is in his 60s already and probably planned to step down during this or the next parliament in any case.
So it would not surprise me at all if Starmer goes in a couple of years, but weeks or months would leave me gobsmacked.
Personally I hope there are many more months of this abject humiliation - the country can (just about) stand it, and in the meantime, Starmer is poisoning the well of just about every craptacular social democratic idea and reinvigorating the right. Net Zero, the clamp down on free speech - he was in Europe today, he'll give the kiss of death to European reintegration too. Bless his (freebie) cotton socks.
You mention Net Zero. Some would say Ed Miliband is the only minister who has got anything done so far.
Oh, I dunno, I think Starver and Reams have managed to spook the economy, just with their ineptitude and gloom, to the extent we are now facing an entirely unnecessary recession, when the economy WAS growing at a decent pace
They've created taxpayer flight and investor allergy, to the extent they are now reconsidering their non dom wankery
Though to be fair, being the Energy Secretary and shutting down the energy sector will take some beating.
Also PB Tories: Sir Keir should not have paid back the gifts.
Funny. Old. World.
He is hopeless and has just made it worse as the media are now asking why not the lot and Cabinet Ministers also had concert tickets and Starmer has seriously compromised them
You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
In the face of such biting invective from Big G, the bloke on the internet, Sir Keir will simply have to console himself with a bigger majority than any ever achieved by Clem Attlee, Harold Wilson - or any Conservative in history.
There is that. Everybody is needling Starmer and with some cause: his behaviour has not been good. But he does have an enormous majority and the field is his for the next five years. If TeamLabour hold their nerve (they won't, but for purposes of argument) he can do whatever he likes.
Even if Team Labour have an attack of the wobblies, the lack of a red equivalent of Graham Brady's enormous postbag makes it harder to dump a poor Labour leader. It's certainly possible that Labour make it too hard to get rid of a failing leader (look what happened with Jez), but equally the Conservatives make it much too easy, and one of the things we all have to get used to now is that politics is going to be slower and more boring than it has been since 2015 or so.
So what's the mechanism? The sort of parliamentary process that Boris ran away from? Hardly. Starmer has been politically dumb, but nobody has accused him of anything that's against the written rules. The sort of awfulness that means that half his government resigns? Not much sign of that, either. A realisation of the howling void in his soul? It's possible, but he's been a lawyer and a politician, so unlikely. A realisation that he will lose and someone else will win, like the Biden-Harris dynamic? Maybe, but not until 2028.
In the meantime, the noise remains what it always has been. The sort of displacement that teenagers do when they are caught with their hands somewhere they shouldn't be. "What are you doing telling me off, look at them, you're such a hypocrite..." Real as Starmer's faults are, tedious as his complaints were, his sins are as nothing compared with those of Big Dog.
A very close personal scandal could see him off
Starmer is a lying c*nt with no conscience, we know that now. And yes he's a lawyer, so he has pretty thick skin
But I suspect Starmer's Achilles heel is that family. If it looks like pain for them, he will go
For the purposes of clarity, I am not claiming there are any such scandals waiting to emerge, merely that is the kind of thing that could do it: topple Skyr Toolmakersson
Boris has extremely thick skin, but in the end his own MPs and ministers could no longer bear the drip-drip-drip, and he went, DESPITE winning and holding a large majority
Starmer is a career lawyer who reached the top, then a hobby politician who has reached the top in his second career. Starmer is in his 60s already and probably planned to step down during this or the next parliament in any case.
So it would not surprise me at all if Starmer goes in a couple of years, but weeks or months would leave me gobsmacked.
Personally I hope there are many more months of this abject humiliation - the country can (just about) stand it, and in the meantime, Starmer is poisoning the well of just about every craptacular social democratic idea and reinvigorating the right. Net Zero, the clamp down on free speech - he was in Europe today, he'll give the kiss of death to European reintegration too. Bless his (freebie) cotton socks.
You mention Net Zero. Some would say Ed Miliband is the only minister who has got anything done so far.
Oh, I dunno, I think Starver and Reams have managed to spook the economy, just with their ineptitude and gloom, to the extent we are now facing an entirely unnecessary recession, when the economy WAS growing at a decent pace
They've created taxpayer flight and investor allergy, to the extent they are now reconsidering their non dom wankery
Though to be fair, being the Energy Secretary and shutting down the energy sector will take some beating.
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You seem to console yourself with the PB Tories meme, but I doubt you can call Burley, Rigby, Peston and others as such
I expect many Labour voters are seriously disappointed in Starmer and one third regret their vote for him
Indeed Sunak's government is more popular than his
Funny. Old. World
Remember Obama's lovely tan suit. We want more of that.
And you've been caught.
The Conservatives polled 12.7 million or 47% of the votes cast in England in 2019. In July, Rishi Sunak's party got 6.3 million so roughly half so where did the 6.4 million voters who voted for Boris Johnson go?
The actual number of votes cast declined from 26.9 million to 24.3 million (the larger turnout drop disguised the increase in the number of registered voters).
Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats were also slightly down in the number of votes cast (700,000 in the case of Labour and 150,000 in the case of the latter). The Greens polled a million more votes and Reform 3.5 million than 2019. Another 470,000 or so more voted for other candidates than did so in 2019.
It's easy to forget churn and the British Election Study work will probably tease out a good deal more but we can probably say Reform and turnout were the biggest causes of the Conservative decline but there's a lot of other fascinating cross-party switching going on at the same time as well as the activities of one G.Reaper.
My impression was that he was a waffling bullshitter but probably a safe pair of hands.
So the Police could routinely check easily.
Note: if they're disqualified they're not insured and if they are the policyholder then named drivers might not be covered either.
I got shunted on the motorway, got details from the passenger not the driver and luckily got the reg and a witness because they didn't contact their insurer. Later I twigged that the actual driver was probably uninsured / banned.
Forget the undertones.
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
The wrongful expenses claim was revealed in 2012 by The Sunday Times but has resurfaced 12 years on because of Alli’s newfound notoriety for donating gifts including clothes and glasses to the prime minister and his wife, Victoria.
Uddin, a community campaigner appointed a peer by Tony Blair in 1998, was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in parliamentary expenses in October 2010 by stating that her main home was in Maidstone when in fact she lived in Tower Hamlets.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/lord-alli-lent-62000-to-bail-out-peer-in-expenses-scandal-57rpqg86v
That was a Starmer scandal for about 3 minutes earlier on.
Aw, bless him, he is only keeping another £94k worth of freebies. That is OK then. Bless his heart. Man of the people. Toolmaker's son.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/starmer-pays-back-more-than-6-000-in-gifts-after-donations-row/ar-AA1rAQBT?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=c1be6c4e5e3c497fb6347e153b53c812&ei=27
https://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2023/07/18/a-missed-opportunity/
"As for Badenoch, she can join the list of Tory hopefuls with more ego than achievement to their name."
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Better than Churchill?
One to ponder.
The Labour peer at the centre of the donations row bailed out a baroness after she was found to have wrongly claimed £125,000 in the parliamentary expenses scandal.
Lord Alli, a multimillionaire former banker and fashion entrepreneur, gave a £62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the expenses after the Lords authorities ordered her to refund the taxpayer.
Sir Keir Starmer would later announce that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which he ran at the time, would not pursue fraud charges against her.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/lord-alli-lent-62000-to-bail-out-peer-in-expenses-scandal-57rpqg86v
The Labour sleaze snake is now swallowing its own tail.
The longer it rolls on the more voters negative opinions become entrenched
So the Generous Labour Lord, who underwrites the Labour PM's wife's designer panties, is also saving corrupt Labour MPs from the consequences of their own thievery
People are getting rather overexcited about fairly small beer.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/keir-starmer-should-pay-48000-tax-on-freebies-accountants-claim/ar-AA1rySwf#:~:text=Sir Keir Starmer should pay tax on the,2019 – including football tickets, clothes and accommodation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8l9gpp8yro
So what's the mechanism? The sort of parliamentary process that Boris ran away from? Hardly. Starmer has been politically dumb, but nobody has accused him of anything that's against the written rules. The sort of awfulness that means that half his government resigns? Not much sign of that, either. A realisation of the howling void in his soul? It's possible, but he's been a lawyer and a politician, so unlikely. A realisation that he will lose and someone else will win, like the Biden-Harris dynamic? Maybe, but not until 2028.
In the meantime, the noise remains what it always has been. The sort of displacement that teenagers do when they are caught with their hands somewhere they shouldn't be. "What are you doing telling me off, look at them, you're such a hypocrite..." Real as Starmer's faults are, tedious as his complaints were, his sins are as nothing compared with those of Big Dog.
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More than £8 million is being spent building 15 “affordable” homes as councils struggle to meet green planning standards while keeping rents down.
The properties in Twechar, East Dunbartonshire, would cost £535,800 each to build and a senior figure in the authority said the outlay would be “ultimately repaid by tenants”.
A combination of low carbon heating systems, installing electric vehicle charging points and ensuring they meet “silver” building standards that as well as energy efficiency includes space for a home office, were cited as part of the reason for the expense.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/fifteen-affordable-homes-will-cost-council-8m-to-build-2g7nm2k87
Sir "mile wide and an inch deep" won't survive a concerted push to get rid.
I have close personal friends that are worth considerably more than that. I might ask them to buy Spain for me, or maybe Greece plus Montenegro for the carp
This one is particularly corrosive because it looks like corruption piled on corruption, thievery married to grift
You really are a certain type, aren’t you. I've met you so many times.
Starmer is a lying c*nt with no conscience, we know that now. And yes he's a lawyer, so he has pretty thick skin
But I suspect Starmer's Achilles heel is that family. If it looks like pain for them, he will go
For the purposes of clarity, I am not claiming there are any such scandals waiting to emerge, merely that is the kind of thing that could do it: topple Skyr Toolmakersson
Boris has extremely thick skin, but in the end his own MPs and ministers could no longer bear the drip-drip-drip, and he went, DESPITE winning and holding a large majority
How about any vehicle driven while disqualified is taken as part of the fine.
So it would not surprise me at all if Starmer goes in a couple of years, but weeks or months would leave me gobsmacked.
The difference between Starmer and The Clown is that many voters hoped Starmer was a boring straight man who was going to be honest and uncorruptible. He has proved he is nowhere close to that expectation.
Drip.
Drip.
SPLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH.
Not all rich people are generous of course, but their spending shows the same pattern. There was a Piers Morgan programme where he put to Lord Sugar that he'd spent £30 million on a private plane just to avoid airport queues. Sugar thought about it and agreed.
18 states have had three or more polls in the last month. 4 show no change, 3 show movement to the Dems, 11 have movement to the Reps (including California, New York and Florida). Yet, oddly, national polls show the race exactly where it was in 2020. Something doesn't quite add up - another reason to take US polls with a huge pinch of salt
They've created taxpayer flight and investor allergy, to the extent they are now reconsidering their non dom wankery
And VAR turns up !!!!!