Keir Starmer

[HazelyCosmicJove]

1 minute ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Chris Mason is a snivelling little shitweasel who is so enamoured by the flotsam of the Tory party that he regularly self flagellates for all to see at the Garrick, before heading home and indulging in onanism over photos of Thatcher eating kids while a ‘Best of Mosley Speeches’ blasts out.

 

First class twat.

Had to look that up - never heard it before :) from Onan, son of Judah (Gen. 38, 7–10), who "spilled" his seed "on the ground.". I will have to pinch that one for future use.

 

I don't find him very impressive either. I can't imagine him holding anyone's feet to the fire in an interview. Strikes me as the sort of journo who will go into an interview with a prepared set of questions but then not challenge any answers. If he can tick off all of his questions he will think he has done a good job.

 

If he does have any political bias (and how can a political editor not) then I doubt he has the cojones to let it show. I haven't seen any evidence of bias one way or the other.

[HazelyCosmicJove]

5 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

https://x.com/ChrisMasonBBC/status/1836375294397080063

 

 

As an aside Chris Mason picks up 325k a a year 

The salary range for the top CS grade SCS3 is £125k - £208k so she won't be the only one. Any SCS2 at the top of the band will also be getting more than him.

[Section_31]

[HazelyCosmicJove]

7 minutes ago, HazelyCosmicJove said:

The salary range for the top CS grade SCS3 is £125k - £208k so she won't be the only one. Any SCS2 at the top of the band will also be getting more than him.

Just realised that they are the rates from 1/4/22 so will have gone up recently.

[Numero Veinticinco]

26 minutes ago, HazelyCosmicJove said:

Had to look that up - never heard it before :) from Onan, son of Judah (Gen. 38, 7–10), who "spilled" his seed "on the ground.". I will have to pinch that one for future use.

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

5 hours ago, lifetime fan said:

Mate I’d have loved a Corbyn government but he wasn’t electable. 
 

Whether that’s his fault, the right wing press or even some in his own party can be debated, but he couldn’t get into power. 
 

As far as Starmer is from my politics you can’t in all good conscience argue there’s not been a massive improvement already. 
 

 

There's been an undeniable improvement; it's a bit of a stretch to call it a "massive" improvement.  There's no real sign of anything getting much better for the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country.

 

(Also, I don't want to get into a world of hypothetical arguments again, but the simple fact is that the "unelectable" Corbyn got more votes in 2019 than Starmer's Labour did this year.)

[Numero Veinticinco]

That is a fact, it just isn’t the only relevant fact. Though one for the Corbyn thread, no doubt. 

[Section_31]

Pensioner's winter fuel payments now being compared to Sue Gary's wages by GMTV. Scenes.

[an tha]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxgdgkew81o

[Arniepie]

1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

Pensioner's winter fuel payments now being compared to Sue Gary's wages by GMTV. Scenes.

is kwarteng on there every day now?

[Numero Veinticinco]

55 minutes ago, an tha said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxgdgkew81o

 

Most important phrase here is 'central tenets'. Basically this is all rumours and after dinner drinks bollocks and somebody with an axe to grind. 

[Section_31]

12 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

is kwarteng on there every day now?

 

Farage was on today!

 

Madely was moaning about the price of a bottle of wine recently, couldn't tell if he was taking the piss given that's what he got done for shoplifting back in the day.

[Section_31]

2 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

 

Most important phrase here is 'central tenets'. Basically this is all rumours and after dinner drinks bollocks and somebody with an axe to grind. 

 

It's Simon Case isn't it? Presumably because he's been pushed out, Mr 'I'm too sick to turn up at the Covid inquiry and my whatsapps disappeared'

[Arniepie]

3 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

Farage was on today!

 

Madely was moaning about the price of a bottle of wine recently, couldn't tell if he was taking the piss given that's what he got done for shoplifting back in the day.

fella from gb news was on newsnight last night 

[Section_31]

Just now, Arniepie said:

fella from gb news was on newsnight last night 

 

Should have a GF sweepstake on how many Reform ogres are on Questiontime this year, I'm going for 12 

[Arniepie]

5 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

 

Most important phrase here is 'central tenets'. Basically this is all rumours and after dinner drinks bollocks and somebody with an axe to grind. 

im not sure ive ever seen the bbc try to justify a story before.

[Numero Veinticinco]

12 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

im not sure ive ever seen the bbc try to justify a story before.

Yeah, that’s a good point actually. ‘It’s important to tell you these nameless rumours’. I’ve long wanted the BBC to be fucked off, Labour coming into power hasn’t changed my mind. 

[Jairzinho]

Yep, it needs to get in the fucking bin.

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

I read that Gary Linekar alone costs 100,000 (monthly) licence fee payments. That’s like 8500 people paying for just him. Cunt is on 700k per ear. 
 

I cancelled my licence ages ago. The news is a disgrace, the website is wank, their TV Shows are mostly low rent bollocks, they don’t show live football much. Their coverage of the Olympics is alright. Wimbledon is alright. The rest isn’t something I want anything to do with. 

[Lamb Bhuna]

On 17/09/2024 at 16:39, Section_31 said:

What some deride as centrism I'd call "ordinary folk". Virtually nobody you meet in everyday life outside of specialist bookshops gives a fuck about politics. They just want a job, somewhere to live and an education for their kids.

 

Does/did/has the right ever provided these things or claim to do so in the future? 

 

Are the Tory frontrunners or farage or any of those cunts talking about wages or housing or schools? Or are they talking about made up shit designed to Stoke mob rage?

 

The "mob" is part of the problem. This vast, thick, lazy feckless rabble that is attempting to hold a gun to our head lest they kick off if we don't listen to their "legitimate concerns". The same dickheads who laud Thatcher and Johnson and Alan fucking sugar. 

 

Every single one of those rioters should have been fucking shot as far as I'm concerned. Anyone who can't tell the difference between there, they're and their should be forced to go back to school, anyone who parrots conspiracy theories should be neutered too. 

 

I'm sick of thick bastards getting their own way. They did with brexit, with Johnson, with truss, then they still fucking rioted. They're the enemy withhn and it's time we clipped the wires off this ticking social timebomb.

 

A cretinous diatribe

[Section_31]

 

 

"Gnasher, who is this Gnasher?"

[Mook]

19 hours ago, lifetime fan said:

Mate I’d have loved a Corbyn government but he wasn’t electable. 
 

Whether that’s his fault, the right wing press or even some in his own party can be debated, but he couldn’t get into power. 
 

As far as Starmer is from my politics you can’t in all good conscience argue there’s not been a massive improvement already. 
 

 

 

There's not been a massive improvement at all, skint people are possibly even more skint now than they were six months ago. The first thing Labour should have been looking at was the extortion the power companies have been getting away with but here we are heading into Winter with prices going up.

 

I'm hoping the budget improves things to an extent but I won't be holding my breath.

[Jairzinho]

38 minutes ago, Lamb Bhuna said:

 

A cretinous diatribe

 

Welcome to the forum, new person who has never been here before.

[Tj hooker]

Lead story on Politics live , Rachel Reeves is only going to put pictures by or of women in Number 11 , and once again how much Sue Gray is getting paid and tensions in Number 10 .

No agenda by the BBC no siree .

[Megadrive Man]

Agree with this.