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Keir Starmer's time is up

Luke Akehurst looks like if Chris Evans got microwaved (and got burnt and exploded).
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Hopefully the silly slogans about the future are a sign that their next election campaign will be built around this song.

 
Have just seen the new catchphrase "Win the future".

Has no-one got the balls to tell him it's missing the word "in"? A rhetorical question, I know, but at least him saying he wants to "win in the future" make some sense.

"Win the future" is literally meaningless.

:facepalm:
But that's WiTF it don't work :mad:

I also hate the winners/losers shit
 
The youth who grew up in a world already remade in a Thatcherite conceptualisation of society, for whom Blairite public-private partnerships are a given and it is natural to see the market as the best way of organising things — these youth are natural Conservative voters.
This is a truth often forgotten. In our digital age, where so many younger people are encouraged to make a go at starting their own YT/Tiktok/etc account to make money, and to be individual businesses in a modern day equivalent of Thatcher's start-up economy, the old world is antique. If you're relatively young, got a mortgage, doing okay for yourself, you're not voting Labour.
 
"Win the future" is literally meaningless.

Which is the only thing I've seen from Starmer and pals in years that makes me think they might have figured out how this game works. We are living in the era of 'Brexit Means Brexit' after all.

Of course the one thing they haven't picked up on is you also need half a dozen newspapers on your side who will repeat your chosen piece of three-word gibberish so often that it actually becomes a real thing that a sane person might say.
 
Which is the only thing I've seen from Starmer and pals in years that makes me think they might have figured out how this game works. We are living in the era of 'Brexit Means Brexit' after all.

Of course the one thing they haven't picked up on is you also need half a dozen newspapers on your side who will repeat your chosen piece of three-word gibberish so often that it actually becomes a real thing that a sane person might say.
a sane person will say 'win the future' now. only they'll suffix it with 'is a really shit vacuous slogan' or similar

brexit means brexit is a mayism
win the future is a starmerism, a phrase which sounds like a great promise but is vacuous and devoid of meaning
 
You can look at the stars, look at the ocean;
The answer's somewhere, here's what I reckon:
Close your eyes, win the future, junk the morgue.

:p
 
a sane person will say 'win the future' now. only they'll suffix it with 'is a really shit vacuous slogan' or similar

brexit means brexit is a mayism
win the future is a starmerism, a phrase which sounds like a great promise but is vacuous and devoid of meaning

It doesn't sound like a promise at all to me. It sounds like "vote Labour so that Labour can win.... for reasons".
 
Starmer definitely did his best to lock up the youth vote back when he was DPP, but he's been out of that job for a fair few years now.

Anyway, they also seem to be going after the BFAWU, which will definitely help solve their funding crisis:

This is such an odd memory I almost feel like I dreamt it, but I swear I once met Ian Hodson and he gave me a packet of biscuits, baked by union labour of course. Fox's, iirc. I don't think that's why they're kicking him out, though.
 
This is a truth often forgotten. In our digital age, where so many younger people are encouraged to make a go at starting their own YT/Tiktok/etc account to make money, and to be individual businesses in a modern day equivalent of Thatcher's start-up economy, the old world is antique. If you're relatively young, got a mortgage, doing okay for yourself, you're not voting Labour.

I think a lot of ‘da yoot’ have already cottoned onto the “corporation of you” personal branding self-facilitating media node thing as being a con job.
 
No it's not. It's shit but it's not meaningless and 'win in the future' (when? 300 years from now?) would be even shitter. The future cannot be literally 'won' but if the only meaningful sentences were ones that were capable of being literally true then almost no literature or art would exist.
Win in future might have worked but if Labour want to tie themselves to wtf that down to them
 
Idk about anyone else, but I feel like the BFAWU thing is maybe a bit more of an important story, for the symbolism as much as anything else:

I mean, obviously union leaders are not the same thing as the workers they represent, but even so, for Labour/Starmer to be picking a fight with the union that represents Greggs workers and is doing more than anyone else to organise at McDonalds and Wetherspoons... well, it's an interesting way to reconnect with working-class voters.
 
He wants Geronimo dead... :(

Not that I actually care. But it's just a measure of how stupid and lacking in political skill Sir Keir really is. Total dumbo.

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He seems to have got his way. He'll no doubt go for a pint,accompanied by some photographers, to celebrate. He's also probably got first dibs on that cute little head which he'll have mounted and given pride of place on the wall in his Westminster office.
 
Idk about anyone else, but I feel like the BFAWU thing is maybe a bit more of an important story, for the symbolism as much as anything else:

I mean, obviously union leaders are not the same thing as the workers they represent, but even so, for Labour/Starmer to be picking a fight with the union that represents Greggs workers and is doing more than anyone else to organise at McDonalds and Wetherspoons... well, it's an interesting way to reconnect with working-class voters.
But he's going for the vote in famously union-hating northern towns remember, not the union-loving metropolitan elite vote. He is a cleverer person than you or I, that's why you struggle to understand his strategy.

(I do understand his strategy I think: get the Murdoch press on side. Nothing less, definitely nothing more)
 
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