>Lord Geidt breaking up with Boris Johnson [over steel tariffs](https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-ethics-adviser-geidt-resignation/) feels like one of those stories about a woman breaking up with a notorious serial killer she has married behind bars. Killers serving life sentences are surprisingly popular on the marriage market – then again, Boris Johnson’s been surprisingly popular on the ethics adviser market. So maybe the steel thing is the politics version of getting your marriage to a homicidal sex offender annulled because he didn’t phone you on your birthday. Some things are just impossible to move past, you know? According to reports, Johnson is now toying with [not having an ethics adviser](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/17/boris-johnson-urged-not-to-scrap-ethics-adviser-role-lord-geidt) at all. Maybe just staying ethics-adviser single, and learning to love himself again. It’s called personal growth, actually – look it up.
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>That said, you get the feeling the one person Johnson really couldn’t stand to lose is Keir Starmer. The Labour leader has had another lacklustre week, which feels almost impressive, given he’s up against a prime minister who recently…
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>On Tuesday, Starmer told his shadow cabinet to [stop briefing the press](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/14/stop-calling-me-boring-keir-starmer-tells-shadow-cabinet) that he’s boring, telling them the actual boring thing was undermining Labour. Some round the table echoed his sentiments at length, which one attender described to the Guardian as “ironically, very boring”. Meanwhile, a pollster [produced a wordcloud](https://twitter.com/jamesjohnson252/status/1536275005167771649) based on focus-group comments about Starmer, which appeared to showcase the entire thesaurus entry for “dishwater”. The dominant word – yup, “boring” – was surrounded by a constellation of near-synonyms: “dull”, “bland”, “uninspiring”, “nothing”, “ineffective”, “useless”, “unsure” …
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>Inevitably, some people keep talking up “boring” as a virtue…
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There are degrees of boring – being predictable and measured is one thing, being someone you would avoid at the pub is another…
I mean there is a vast middle ground between “boring” and people playing cartoon characters like JRM and Boris Johnson.
The rate we’re going they’ll soon start getting their own WWE style announcements and intros when walking into the Commons.
My issue with Starmer is not that he’s boring, which he is, but that he has broken every one of his manifesto pledges in an attempt to court the right wing. He should have eviscerated Johnson at PMQs this week, but he’s afraid to call out the Tories over Rwanda and the rail strikes, two issues that as a human rights lawyer and leader of the Labour Party he should be vehemently opposed to.
He’s terrified to speak out on Brexit, and just today he dumped his pledge to make universities free, in a bid to look more fiscally responsible. The man is utterly spineless, and constantly at war with the left more than he is with the tories. Labour should ditch him pronto, there are plenty of top candidates who would do a better job, Streating, Burnham, Cooper, Thornbury to name but a few.
Dear Keir, your strategy of shutting the fuck up 99% of the time has lead us back from the brink of destruction. And we might actually win the next election. And we’re very unhappy about this.
I appreciate he saw that people mainly associated him with the word ‘boring’ and made a (somewhat cringe) attempt at trying to change that. Lord knows Boris doesn’t give a shit about changing the perception that he’s a liar. But, he’s trying too hard to please everyone that hes pleasing no one. He might be stable but he’s not strong.
The American left thought that a bit of boring would be nice after Trump, and look how well that’s working out for them
I dont find Starmer boring. I mean, what do they want him to do?!
Give me Starmer anyday over these lying charlatans.
I don’t care if he is boring, I want him to run the country, not date him
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>Lord Geidt breaking up with Boris Johnson [over steel tariffs](https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-ethics-adviser-geidt-resignation/) feels like one of those stories about a woman breaking up with a notorious serial killer she has married behind bars. Killers serving life sentences are surprisingly popular on the marriage market – then again, Boris Johnson’s been surprisingly popular on the ethics adviser market. So maybe the steel thing is the politics version of getting your marriage to a homicidal sex offender annulled because he didn’t phone you on your birthday. Some things are just impossible to move past, you know? According to reports, Johnson is now toying with [not having an ethics adviser](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/17/boris-johnson-urged-not-to-scrap-ethics-adviser-role-lord-geidt) at all. Maybe just staying ethics-adviser single, and learning to love himself again. It’s called personal growth, actually – look it up.
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>That said, you get the feeling the one person Johnson really couldn’t stand to lose is Keir Starmer. The Labour leader has had another lacklustre week, which feels almost impressive, given he’s up against a prime minister who recently…
>
>On Tuesday, Starmer told his shadow cabinet to [stop briefing the press](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/14/stop-calling-me-boring-keir-starmer-tells-shadow-cabinet) that he’s boring, telling them the actual boring thing was undermining Labour. Some round the table echoed his sentiments at length, which one attender described to the Guardian as “ironically, very boring”. Meanwhile, a pollster [produced a wordcloud](https://twitter.com/jamesjohnson252/status/1536275005167771649) based on focus-group comments about Starmer, which appeared to showcase the entire thesaurus entry for “dishwater”. The dominant word – yup, “boring” – was surrounded by a constellation of near-synonyms: “dull”, “bland”, “uninspiring”, “nothing”, “ineffective”, “useless”, “unsure” …
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>Inevitably, some people keep talking up “boring” as a virtue…
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There are degrees of boring – being predictable and measured is one thing, being someone you would avoid at the pub is another…
I mean there is a vast middle ground between “boring” and people playing cartoon characters like JRM and Boris Johnson.
The rate we’re going they’ll soon start getting their own WWE style announcements and intros when walking into the Commons.
My issue with Starmer is not that he’s boring, which he is, but that he has broken every one of his manifesto pledges in an attempt to court the right wing. He should have eviscerated Johnson at PMQs this week, but he’s afraid to call out the Tories over Rwanda and the rail strikes, two issues that as a human rights lawyer and leader of the Labour Party he should be vehemently opposed to.
He’s terrified to speak out on Brexit, and just today he dumped his pledge to make universities free, in a bid to look more fiscally responsible. The man is utterly spineless, and constantly at war with the left more than he is with the tories. Labour should ditch him pronto, there are plenty of top candidates who would do a better job, Streating, Burnham, Cooper, Thornbury to name but a few.
Dear Keir, your strategy of shutting the fuck up 99% of the time has lead us back from the brink of destruction. And we might actually win the next election. And we’re very unhappy about this.
I appreciate he saw that people mainly associated him with the word ‘boring’ and made a (somewhat cringe) attempt at trying to change that. Lord knows Boris doesn’t give a shit about changing the perception that he’s a liar. But, he’s trying too hard to please everyone that hes pleasing no one. He might be stable but he’s not strong.
The American left thought that a bit of boring would be nice after Trump, and look how well that’s working out for them
I dont find Starmer boring. I mean, what do they want him to do?!
Give me Starmer anyday over these lying charlatans.
I don’t care if he is boring, I want him to run the country, not date him