Keir Starmer's time is up

[Elpenor]

It's like the holding a pint in the pub photo op thing where they look they've never even heard of beer before, never mind actually drinking the bloody stuff.

Guacamole with your fish and chips sir?

 

[Sue]

They take one tiny tiny tiny sip.

Except for man of the people, Billy 'ten pints' Hague, of course.

And bloody Farage.

 

[skyscraper101]

This football shirt stuff is just the latest opportunity to look 'not woke' and 'patriotic' - its no wonder Starmer and Sunak are off to a flying start condemning it. I bet 99% of England fans couldn't give AF were it not picked up by the media and spun as some sort of affront on 'our flag'. Load of bollocks as usual.

 

[SE25]

This football shirt stuff is just the latest opportunity to look 'not woke' and 'patriotic' - its no wonder Starmer and Sunak are off to a flying start condemning it. I bet 99% of England fans couldn't give AF were it not picked up by the media and spun as some sort of affront on 'our flag'. Load of bollocks as usual.

I only saw praise for the kit, including your England flag in display name types, on twitter before all the fuss

 

[PTK]

Any politician who professed to care for the welfare of ordinary people would condemn disgusting money-making racket that is the sale of “official” football shirts. They should sell for no more than ten quid. They should not change every season.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Any politician who professed to care for the welfare of ordinary people would condemn disgusting money-making racket that is the sale of “official” football shirts. They should sell for no more than ten quid. They should not change every season.

For the dubious privilege of wandering around advertising a betting company.

 

[PTK]

For the dubious privilege of wandering around advertising a betting company.

Yes, indeed. I had forgotten about the sponsorship aspect. Given that the shirts are sponsored, you would think that they would be free.

 

[Pickman's model]

Yes, indeed. I had forgotten about the sponsorship aspect. Given that the shirts are sponsored, you would think that they would be free.

why?

 

[two sheds]

Yes, indeed. I had forgotten about the sponsorship aspect. Given that the shirts are sponsored, you would think that they would be free.

People should be paid by the betting company to wear them, like sandwich boards

 

[PTK]

People should be paid by the betting company to wear them, like sandwich boards

It has always amused me that people willingly buy tee-shirts advertising coca-cola.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Margaret Thatcher pretty openly hated football and football fans. I don't think John Major particularly pretended to be interested in football either. Maybe it's more of a requirement these days but even now I don't think Theresa May bothered. David Cameron did and forgot who he supposedly supported. Not sure about Johnson?

John Major was a fan of cricket, iirc.

 

[PR1Berske]

It's a sign of the brainworms infecting so many politicians that a small flag at the back of the neck has now dominated three newspaper front pages, three radio phone ins, and four morning discussion programmes.

I believe that the sheer amount of money flooding into UK politics from Christian fundamentalists in the US is only getting higher in value and greater in volume. This "war against woke" can only be the result of all that money.

 

[GarveyLives]

Always at the forefront on the issues that matter.​

 

[Puddy_Tat]

from teh tweeter

 

[gosub]

Taking out that kid did his career no harm at all.

Taking out all those pensioners on the other hand..

 

[SpookyFrank]

This football shirt stuff is just the latest opportunity to look 'not woke' and 'patriotic' - its no wonder Starmer and Sunak are off to a flying start condemning it. I bet 99% of England fans couldn't give AF were it not picked up by the media and spun as some sort of affront on 'our flag'. Load of bollocks as usual.

It's the flag of a more powerful nation (Genova) that we adopted so that the bigger boys wouldn't pick on us. Hardly something to beat your chest about is it?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

the telegraph is reporting

"Labour Party threatened with legal action over ‘voter fraud’"

https://archive.ph/8n2Rg (paywall avoiding link)

oh dear...

 

[two sheds]

timing out for me

 

[Pickman's model]

timing out for me

Basically there's been concerns of vote-rigging with the e-voting thing the lp use, where the proportions voting for one candidate in person and via the e things are very different, there's no actual oversight and other parties use a different bit of software which perhaps the lp should use too

 

[two sheds]

ta I'd expect nothing less from them

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I see he's described as a promising boy. Always promising and never delivering

Nailed it.

 

[ID47]

It's the flag of a more powerful nation (Genova) that we adopted so that the bigger boys wouldn't pick on us. Hardly something to beat your chest about is it?

So foreign muck then, a second hand saint and his flag from Turkey FFS! If George was around today and a half decent footballer he would be proudly wearing this not the sodding 3 lions:

 

[JimW]

The Turks didn't arrive in Anatolia until many centuries after George.

 

[ID47]

The Turks didn't arrive in Anatolia until many centuries after George.

I wrote 'if he was alive today'. Of course statistically he would probably be Muslim not Christian too. As I'm sure you are aware 'Turks' arrived in present day Turkey a few centuries after Islam.

 

[Raheem]

Nike was behind the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914

So that's why there's been no new album.

 

[brogdale]

the telegraph is reporting

"Labour Party threatened with legal action over ‘voter fraud’"

https://archive.ph/8n2Rg (paywall avoiding link)

oh dear...

Not really news to those of us from Croydon.

 

[PTK]

I wrote 'if he was alive today'. Of course statistically he would probably be Muslim not Christian too. As I'm sure you are aware 'Turks' arrived in present day Turkey a few centuries after Islam.

If he were alive today, George would not be supporting the England team. Mind you, he must have been delusional, if he did indeed claim to fight a dragon, but that claim may have been attributed to him after his death.

He is of course the patron saint of some other countries too, and it would be confusing if the teams from Portugal and Georgia wore the same strip.

 

[Pickman's model]

If he were alive today, George would not be supporting the England team. Mind you, he must have been delusional, if he did indeed claim to fight a dragon, but that claim may have been attributed to him after his death.

He is of course the patron saint of some other countries too, and it would be confusing if the teams from Portugal and Georgia wore the same strip.

Not to mention russia

 

[agricola]

Basically there's been concerns of vote-rigging with the e-voting thing the lp use, where the proportions voting for one candidate in person and via the e things are very different, there's no actual oversight and other parties use a different bit of software which perhaps the lp should use too

Ip Man - now there is a film remake to avoid

 

[two sheds]

FA defends multicoloured cross on England shirt as tribute to 1966 team

The Football Association has defended the multicoloured St George’s Cross on the back of England’s shirts after Rishi Sunak joined the criticism

www.theguardian.com

“The new England 2024 home kit has a number of design elements which were meant as a tribute to the 1966 World Cup winning team,” an FA spokesperson said. “The coloured trim on the cuffs is inspired by the training gear worn by England’s 1966 heroes, and the same colours also feature on the design on the back of the collar. It is not the first time that different coloured St George’s Cross-inspired designs have been used on England shirts

This shows how disgusting Starmer is. His knee-jerk response to the design which is a pure homage to the 1966 World Cup Win shows just how low he will go. He has no respect. He should resign now