Keir Starmer

[Captain Turdseye]

[Bjornebye]

I've just seen some snippets from PMQ's. I'm really warming to Starmer. He isn't going overboard with criticism, acknowledging that it doesn't help the predicament we are all in. He isn't gong full attack on Tory lies etc either because he knows how they will spin it in their favour. He is hopefully going to slowly dismantle them with facts and I tell you right now, they will be shitting themselves. Starter would have won the last election IMO if he had been given a 12 month run up to it. 

 

I bet you in the next 24 hours there will be a negative story about his past somewhere. 

[Jairzinho]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

I've just seen some snippets from PMQ's. I'm really warming to Starmer. He isn't going overboard with criticism, acknowledging that it doesn't help the predicament we are all in. He isn't gong full attack on Tory lies etc either because he knows how they will spin it in their favour. He is hopefully going to slowly dismantle them with facts and I tell you right now, they will be shitting themselves. Starter would have won the last election IMO if he had been given a 12 month run up to it. 

 

I bet you in the next 24 hours there will be a negative story about his past somewhere. 

 

He wouldn't have got close. 

[Bjornebye]

5 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

 

He wouldn't have got close. 

You're probably right actually. With Brexit. 

[Jairzinho]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

You're probably right actually. With Brexit. 

He'd probably have killed the Lib Dems stone dead but possibly lost a couple more leave voting seats in the North.

 

The gig post Brexit should in theory be a much easier one.

[Bjornebye]

49 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

He'd probably have killed the Lib Dems stone dead but possibly lost a couple more leave voting seats in the North.

 

The gig post Brexit should in theory be a much easier one.

Yep thanks to Brexit 

[Captain Turdseye]

 

“Three cheers for Brexit”

[Johnny Utah]

18 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

I've just seen some snippets from PMQ's. I'm really warming to Starmer. He isn't going overboard with criticism, acknowledging that it doesn't help the predicament we are all in. He isn't gong full attack on Tory lies etc either because he knows how they will spin it in their favour. He is hopefully going to slowly dismantle them with facts and I tell you right now, they will be shitting themselves. Starter would have won the last election IMO if he had been given a 12 month run up to it. 

 

I bet you in the next 24 hours there will be a negative story about his past somewhere. 

Caught a bit of this on 5 Live yesterday. Call me cynical but I found a lot of it quite nauseating.All the Labour and SNP contributors opening with ‘I’d like to start by offering my sincere congratulations to Boris and Carrie’.Not the place for it.He’s a fucking cunt.Just don’t mention it at all.

 

Starmer seemed to do a decent job but I wish he had of went after that cunt Rabb a bit more.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

I read that some of the journalists in Westminster circles refer to him as IKEA Starmer because he's so wooden. 

 

To be fair to him, he's starting to say some of the right things. But, in a rather uninspiring manner. Where's the passion? 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

This report really needs to be dealt with - properly and quickly.

 

 

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

1 hour ago, Nelly-Torres said:

I read that some of the journalists in Westminster circles refer to him as IKEA Starmer because he's so wooden. 

 

To be fair to him, he's starting to say some of the right things. But, in a rather uninspiring manner. Where's the passion? 

I hear a Scottish, former Labour politician has started his own party (side note, how is Respect doing these days?), and he has loads of passion. You might be interested in him. Corbyn was passionate, too. Didn’t carry him that far in the last election. 

Ikea Starmer. Wonder what it would have been if his name wasn’t Keir? Shame he doesn’t have a stutter, isn’t it. 

[Strontium]

Keir Hardly would be a better option, if we're doing infantile nicknames.

[VladimirIlyich]

29 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

I hear a Scottish, former Labour politician has started his own party (side note, how is Respect doing these days?), and he has loads of passion. You might be interested in him. Corbyn was passionate, too. Didn’t carry him that far in the last election. 

Ikea Starmer. Wonder what it would have been if his name wasn’t Keir? Shame he doesn’t have a stutter, isn’t it. 

Was he actually named after the founder of the Labour Party?

[Jairzinho]

26 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Keir Hardly would be a better option, if we're doing infantile nicknames.

Once the woodenness has finally been shaken off I'm hoping he gets called Starmzy.

[Jairzinho]

10 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Was he actually named after the founder of the Labour Party?

Well, it was either him or Keir Dullea.

 

Which, presumably, will actually be another moniker given to him.

[VladimirIlyich]

7 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Well, it was either him or Keir Dullea.

 

Which, presumably, will actually be another moniker given to him.

Who Keirs.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

51 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

I hear a Scottish, former Labour politician has started his own party (side note, how is Respect doing these days?), and he has loads of passion. You might be interested in him. Corbyn was passionate, too. Didn’t carry him that far in the last election. 

Ikea Starmer. Wonder what it would have been if his name wasn’t Keir? Shame he doesn’t have a stutter, isn’t it. 

All fair points. 

 

But, he's still a bit dull. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

11 minutes ago, Nelly-Torres said:

All fair points. 

 

But, he's still a bit dull. 

I find him way less dull than Corbyn. 

[Jairzinho]

Neither of them are particularly charismatic or inspiring.

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

I guess that depends on what you’re inspired by. I was, for the first time in a very long time, a little bit inspired by PMQs. Seeing him actually hold government to account without it being a pantomime, a shouting match, and showing actual authority and competence, was just what the doctor ordered as far as I’m concerned. 

[Pureblood]

2 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

I guess that depends on what you’re inspired by. I was, for the first time in a very long time, a little bit inspired by PMQs. Seeing him actually hold government to account without it being a pantomime, a shouting match, and showing actual authority and competence, was just what the doctor ordered as far as I’m concerned. 

New manager bounce.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

4 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

I guess that depends on what you’re inspired by. I was, for the first time in a very long time, a little bit inspired by PMQs. Seeing him actually hold government to account without it being a pantomime, a shouting match, and showing actual authority and competence, was just what the doctor ordered as far as I’m concerned. 

Could that be because the Houses of Parliament were fairly empty? And the subject matter? And that he was up against Raab rather than the clown? 

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

1 minute ago, Nelly-Torres said:

Could that be because the Houses of Parliament were fairly empty? And the subject matter? And that he was up against Raab rather than the clown? 

 

I’ve seen plenty of him, so I don’t think so. 

[lifetime fan]

Thought he was less authorative than last week, and Raab did throw him off his stride with giving the care worker deaths figure in his first answer.

 

Looked like Starmer then had to change his second planned question and didn't do it that well.

[Numero Veinticinco]

46 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Thought he was less authorative than last week, and Raab did throw him off his stride with giving the care worker deaths figure in his first answer.

 

Looked like Starmer then had to change his second planned question and didn't do it that well.

I thought there were points where he was absolutely savage. On PPE, when he responded saying it wasn’t an opinion... it comes across like he’s holding a disciplinary hearing where he has the government answering to him. I like it a lot. Long way to go, but looks competent at the very least.