Keir Starmer's time is up

[Leighsw2]

We all used to look like that back then. I looked a lot like the moody one at the back (except I had a massive flat-top).

 

[RileyOBlimey]

Can I just take this opportunity to call George Galloway a cunt?
Cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt

He’s certainly an indefatigable cunt.

 

[Sue]

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edgy

It's very Smash Hits* 1986(?).

*The black and white's obviously an attempt to be more NME but to no avail.

 

[Raheem]

There are worse before-they-were-famous photos.

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18 years of Prime Ministerial history, and counting, there.

There are some still worse ones, supposedly.

 

[Kaka Tim]

the idea that a few "personality" photographs, a moist eye moment with piers morgan and a natty soundbite or two is going to suddenly make the public embrace stammer is just delusional - this stuff enhances and reinforces a narrative - but you have to have something to actually enhance.
The Eton sociopath on a zip wire or looking like a sack of shit chimes with how people see him - " a character" "his own man" and - importantly - not a run of the mill establishment politician (he got brexit done!).
Every attempt by starmer to play this pathetic game has the exact opposite effect to what they intend - it further entrenches the (essentially correct) narrative that he is another corporate, status quo politician in a suit with a marketing team .
Why cant these cunts see this? How many times do they keep pulling the lever marked "Blair 1997" before they realise that it it does nothing other than accelerate the labour party down the road of utter irrelevance.

 

[emanymton]

the idea that a few "personality" photographs, a moist eye moment with piers morgan and a natty soundbite or two is going to suddenly make the public embrace stammer is just delusional - this stuff enhances and reinforces a narrative - but you have to have something to actually enhance.
The Eton sociopath on a zip wire or looking like a sack of shit chimes with how people see him - " a character" "his own man" and - importantly - not a run of the mill establishment politician (he got brexit done!).
Every attempt by starmer to play this pathetic game has the exact opposite effect to what they intend - it further entrenches the (essentially correct) narrative that he is another corporate, status quo politician in a suit with a marketing team .
Why cant these cunts see this? How many times do they keep pulling the lever marked "Blair 1997" before they realise that it it does nothing other than accelerate the labour party down the road of utter irrelevance.

I only realised recently what Johnson's secret weapon is. As much as I hate the cunt unlike many other politicians he actually has a personality.

Or maybe he doesn't bury his personality to appeal to the results of 15 focus groups that all contradict each other.

 

[two sheds]

I only realised recently what Johnson's secret weapon is. As much as I hate the cunt unlike many other politicians he actually has a personality.

Or maybe he doesn't bury his personality to appeal to the results of 15 focus groups that all contradict each other.

Strikes me as all being for show though. Wouldn't call it an actual personality.

 

[bemused]

I vote Green and don't really follow the Labour politics. But, I'd pay good money to see Jess Phillips as Labour leader just for the pure entertainment of watching Johnson having to deal with a real human being at question time.

Feel free not to give me the inevitable list of why she's an awful person.

 

[steveseagull]

Feel free not to give me the inevitable list of why she's an awful person.

That would take me several days so i shall pass

 

[JTG]

I vote Green and don't really follow the Labour politics. But, I'd pay good money to see Jess Phillips as Labour leader just for the pure entertainment of watching Johnson having to deal with a real human being at question time.

Feel free not to give me the inevitable list of why she's an awful person.

Lol

 

[elbows]

Well I never, it turns out that Gordon Brown is actually on the same page as me when it comes to some aspects of the future. I didnt really know which thread to stick this in and since Starmer is hardly setting the world on fire with a bold new vision, I thought I'd stick it here.

Gordon Brown: Boris Johnson’s mistakes could still catch up with him

Exclusive: ex-PM cites example of Margaret Thatcher whose political demise came soon after landslide win

www.theguardian.com

“People are being tested through this crisis. I think you’re going to see big changes in personnel at the end of it,” he said. “I would be looking for people whose names we don’t know yet to come through in the next year or two … it’s going to be a younger generation, who are going to sweep aside some of the conceptions of the older leaders.”

“In 1987 when she got a massive majority, people thought Mrs Thatcher could go on for ever and by 1990 she was out. The mistakes that she was making caught up with her,” he said.

“It takes time for people to see what is really going on. It might look, if you take a picture of today, [that] Boris Johnson can survive all the mistakes that have been made. But I think when you look at it over a period of years, I’m not sure that that’s going to be the same response. And it’s a bit like a fast-moving train that … can pick up speed but then suddenly, suddenly, it grinds to a halt.”

A younger generation have had to live through some terrible events and tragedies that you never thought would happen in one decade, but actually are determined to do something about it, and to some extent they think our generations failed their generation, they want to be the generation that will make the changes.”

 

[Pickman's model]

There are worse before-they-were-famous photos.

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18 years of Prime Ministerial history, and counting, there.

The bottom picture's well composed and actually pretty good. The top one's shit mind You can tell which group of twats got someone with some notion of photography

 

[steveseagull]

Well I never, it turns out that Gordon Brown is actually on the same page as me when it comes to some aspects of the future. I didnt really know which thread to stick this in and since Starmer is hardly setting the world on fire with a bold new vision, I thought I'd stick it here.

Gordon Brown: Boris Johnson’s mistakes could still catch up with him

Exclusive: ex-PM cites example of Margaret Thatcher whose political demise came soon after landslide win

www.theguardian.com

Well yes. Me too. Rather weak though. I have worked with Gordon Brown (post PM) on a couple fo projects and I found him an OK guy. Still full of good ideas but not a lot of willingness to shout about them across the roof tops.

 

[RileyOBlimey]

the idea that a few "personality" photographs, a moist eye moment with piers morgan and a natty soundbite or two is going to suddenly make the public embrace stammer is just delusional - this stuff enhances and reinforces a narrative - but you have to have something to actually enhance.
The Eton sociopath on a zip wire or looking like a sack of shit chimes with how people see him - " a character" "his own man" and - importantly - not a run of the mill establishment politician (he got brexit done!).
Every attempt by starmer to play this pathetic game has the exact opposite effect to what they intend - it further entrenches the (essentially correct) narrative that he is another corporate, status quo politician in a suit with a marketing team .
Why cant these cunts see this? How many times do they keep pulling the lever marked "Blair 1997" before they realise that it it does nothing other than accelerate the labour party down the road of utter irrelevance.

Don’t take for granted Starmer and Mandelson want Labour in Government.

 

[JTG]

I'm sorry but I still can't get over the idea of PMQs featuring Philips talking about herself at length

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Don’t take for granted Starmer and Mandelson want Labour in Government.

I'm sure Starmer does if only because he'd like to be PM.

 

[ska invita]

i didnt see the interview but ive learned
Starmer is proud of his hair
He fancied himself as a student

Twat

 

[JTG]

I'm sure Starmer does if only because he'd like to be PM.

Imagine his first year in office. 12 glorious months of vague hints that he might tell us what he intends to do any minute now

 

[RileyOBlimey]

I'm sure Starmer does if only because he'd like to be PM.

He’s doing a bloody good impression of someone wanting Boris to stay PM.

 

[Pickman's model]

i didnt see the interview but ive learned
Starmer is proud of his hair
He fancied himself as a student

Twat

A bit more work and that'll be a fine haiku

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I'm sure Starmer does if only because he'd like to be PM.

or is he aiming at a peerage for services to the conservative party?

 

[NoXion]

i didnt see the interview but ive learned
Starmer is proud of his hair
He fancied himself as a student

Twat

A laser-like focus on only the most substantial issues from Sir Quiff, I take it?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Strikes me as all being for show though. Wouldn't call it an actual personality.

He has a personality. A bitter, entitled, insecure and vengeful personality. His one strength as a politician is his ability to (mostly) hide it with his affable buffoon persona.

 

[TopCat]

Bab bab bab.

 

[steveseagull]

Keith's ratings are now officially as bad as Jezza's without the deranged press attacks and attacks from his own PLP.

They will go lower.

Exclusive: Keir Starmer’s ratings plunge to same level as Corbyn

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is seen by the public and by Labour’s own supporters as a better potential Prime Minister

www.standard.co.uk

 

[Argonia]

sinking ship

 

[steveseagull]

They are going to have to do something radical at some point like replace him with a human.

 

[Argonia]

The problem for me is that New Labour were essentially neoliberal/Thatcherite and having them in the same party as Corbyn just makes no sense. They are so divided, I can't see any leader being able to bridge that divide and make them a coherent option again.

 

[hitmouse]

I think it must be Kieth's old band. He's the one at the front with the JAMC/pubic hair on his head.

Just realised, we never took suggestions for what Starmer's goth band should be/have been called. I can't actually think of any good ones right now, but I'm sure there must be some.

 

[lazythursday]

The problem for me is that New Labour were essentially neoliberal/Thatcherite and having them in the same party as Corbyn just makes no sense. They are so divided, I can't see any leader being able to bridge that divide and make them a coherent option again.

I think there's an argument to be made that the neoliberal consensus is over and therefore many of the New Labour remnants are also pivoting away from all that. Luke Akehurst was claiming on Twitter the other day that there is broad consensus within the Labour Party on domestic issues (which I'm sure isn't true, but clearly the right have few ideas left beyond the wave-the-flag cultural stuff). I'm sure many of them are looking closely at Biden - NL tended to be obsessed with the US. If you look at someone like Rachel Reeves clearly she's moved leftwards with the prevailing winds. These people just want to be in charge, and they will tailor their policy offer and beliefs accordingly with what is perceived to be acceptable / 'sensible'.