Sir Keir Starmer #2

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If you want to invent imaginary crimes feel free, It seems to be a speciality of the Labour Party. I’ll stick with the actual criminal conviction that she (finally) fessed up to I think.
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Fuckin’ Nora… another one. This one’s fiddled £4bn but Starmer still has her in charge of “tackling corruption “ and is sticking by her!

Minister named in Bangladesh corruption probe https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3zqen209go
 
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Theodore said:
If you want to invent imaginary crimes feel free, It seems to be a speciality of the Labour Party. I’ll stick with the actual criminal conviction that she (finally) fessed up to I think.
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Fuckin’ Nora… another one. This one’s fiddled £4bn but Starmer still has her in charge of “tackling corruption “ and is sticking by her!

Minister named in Bangladesh corruption probe https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3zqen209go
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In terms of embezzlement 4bn is pretty bleeping impressive! :ROFLMAO: :cautious:
 
You couldn't make this tit up. The anti corruption minister is (allegedly) involved in a massive corruption 😂🤦‍♀️

We are fucked with this lot leading us. With the Tories we were no better off but at least (leaving aside the Liz Truss interlude) you felt you kind of knew where you stood. This is just one disaster after another, it's embarrassing.

I would love to know what discussions are happening behind the scenes. I do wonder though whether Keir is so utterly arrogant he just thinks that none of it matters.
 
I see that Starmer has decided to appoint Mandelson as US ambassador. That appointment is everything that's wrong with UK politics and I don't have the energy to express how disappointed I am in Starmer right now. I actually feel a fool for having thought that for a long while that he was desperately dull and a poor politician, but basically a sound character.

He is so clearly not.
 
How rare is it for a party member to state in such a blatant way as Dianne Abbot has that a Prime Minister isn’t fit for purpose? She could have restrained herself to disagreeing with him on the one issue…but she took it further and claimed he ‘has no feel for politics’ etc.

outside of a leadership contest, does this happen much? I can imagine Keir wants her head on a block.
 
Eye_Spy said:
How rare is it for a party member to state in such a blatant way as Dianne Abbot has that a Prime Minister isn’t fit for purpose? She could have restrained herself to disagreeing with him on the one issue…but she took it further and claimed he ‘has no feel for politics’ etc.

outside of a leadership contest, does this happen much? I can imagine Keir wants her head on a block.
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Well, firstly she's not wrong, but secondly, Starmer tried to manoeuvre her out before the election but failed: so no love lost on either side. She's got absolutely nothing to lose. In fact, from an interview she gave soon after Starmer was forced to let her stand in the elections, she pretty much said that she had been on the verge of quitting until she realised that Starmer was trying to force her out. That's when she decided to stand her ground, and she won. He won't have been happy about that.

In the wake of Frank Heston's racist comments about her, she said that Starmer treated her like a 'non-person' at the time, and hadn't reach out to her personally. So, clearly, from her point of view, she's in a 'no f*cks given' state of mind where he's concerned. And he's pretty much powerless against her unless she messes up again as with her racism letter and gives him a real excuse to remove the whip. I was surprised that she didn't vote against the government in the two-child benefit cap vote. That suggests, she doesn't want to lose the whip again unnecessarily, but she'll continue sniping from the sides, but just staying within bounds.

I suggest that Streeting is the person that Starmer needs to keep an eye out for. He's clearly quietly on manoeuvres. Although, the reality is it really isn't that easy for Labour to remove a leader, let alone the PM: the party isn't relentlessly ruthless like the Tories. So, Starmer will be pretty safe barring a personal scandal or something completely catastrophic happening.
 
emmer_moans said:
and yet he wants grannies to freeze in their homes, their safe spaces. He's such a monotonous robot who hates women and breaks all his promises. I can't see him lasting the full term.
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This is a man who was embarrassed to have his friends over to his house when he was a kid because they had holes in their lino. He was superficial and thin-thinned from an early age, overly-worried about what other people thought of him ... those aren't good traits to have if you're PM.
 
monga said:
Guessing the endless speculation forced their hand??
news.sky.com

Two men charged over Manchester Airport incident in July

The Crown Prosecution Service says no police officers will be charged in relation to the incident.
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I think it may be a combination of being forced to take action and a determination that if they had to do so, they weren't going to leave any wiggle room for this thugs to claim racism/ police brutality etc.
 
Ndrangheta said:
This is a man who was embarrassed to have his friends over to his house when he was a kid because they had holes in their lino. He was superficial and thin-thinned from an early age, overly-worried about what other people thought of him ... those aren't good traits to have if you're PM.
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That says an awful lot about him and none of it good. No wonder he's now FreeGearKeir. He probably still resents his parents for putting him in Dunlop trainers too :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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