I’d rather vote Conservatives than for him to be Prime Minister.
Better than Rishi
Good grief.
Makes up the implication that anyone has called him a Saint and comes down to spending hundreds of words criticising him for being boring. Tries to turn him being exonerated by the police into an attack on daring to say he has some integrity. . Pretty poor stuff.
>Behind Sir Keir lurk the sharks of culture wars ready to feast on our sins.
The ‘culture war’ rhetoric is getting pretty desperate now, presumably they have to turn it up to 11 when compared with what the Tories are actually doing.
Yes, he’s not ideal, but I’d let most drunks rule over the current bunch
> ‘a little mouse shall lead them’
>”He looked and spoke like an insignificant elderly clerk, without distinction in the voice, manner or substance of his discourse. To realise that this little nonentity is the Parliamentary Leader of the Labour Party … and presumably the future P.M. [Prime Minister] is pitiable”.
> He “is a man I should say of very limited intelligence and no personality. If one heard he was getting £6 a week in the service of the East Ham Corporation, one would be surprised he was earning so much”
> “the continuance of your leadership is a grave handicap to our hopes of victory in the coming election … Just as Mr Churchill changed Auchinleck for Montgomery before El Alamein, so, I suggest, you owe it to the party to make a comparable change on the eve of this greatest of our battles”
The above are quotes about Clement Attlee the Prime Minister whose government put into place the National Health Service, massively improved the welfare state, built a million new affordable houses, hugely improved workers rights, made free secondary education a right, achieved near full employment and so on. He’s arguably one of the most notable Prime Ministers in British History and was admired across the House (including by Margaret Thatcher).
The pointing being that perceptions of “being boring” are entirely irrelevant to someone’s ability to lead a successful government. The nonsense in that article trying to somehow compare Starmer to a Dementor from Harry Potter or describing him as “sinister” because he’s not over flowing with charisma is just desperately stupid. People voted in Boris Johnson because he was entertaining to a certain sort of person and look how that turned out. No doubt if we looked back to 2016 the same author would have been praising May for being a “serious candidate” due to her cool demeanour.
We don’t need a saint, just someone who isn’t actually corrupt is a nice start!
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I’d rather vote Conservatives than for him to be Prime Minister.
Better than Rishi
Good grief.
Makes up the implication that anyone has called him a Saint and comes down to spending hundreds of words criticising him for being boring. Tries to turn him being exonerated by the police into an attack on daring to say he has some integrity. . Pretty poor stuff.
>Behind Sir Keir lurk the sharks of culture wars ready to feast on our sins.
The ‘culture war’ rhetoric is getting pretty desperate now, presumably they have to turn it up to 11 when compared with what the Tories are actually doing.
Yes, he’s not ideal, but I’d let most drunks rule over the current bunch
> ‘a little mouse shall lead them’
>”He looked and spoke like an insignificant elderly clerk, without distinction in the voice, manner or substance of his discourse. To realise that this little nonentity is the Parliamentary Leader of the Labour Party … and presumably the future P.M. [Prime Minister] is pitiable”.
> He “is a man I should say of very limited intelligence and no personality. If one heard he was getting £6 a week in the service of the East Ham Corporation, one would be surprised he was earning so much”
> “the continuance of your leadership is a grave handicap to our hopes of victory in the coming election … Just as Mr Churchill changed Auchinleck for Montgomery before El Alamein, so, I suggest, you owe it to the party to make a comparable change on the eve of this greatest of our battles”
The above are quotes about Clement Attlee the Prime Minister whose government put into place the National Health Service, massively improved the welfare state, built a million new affordable houses, hugely improved workers rights, made free secondary education a right, achieved near full employment and so on. He’s arguably one of the most notable Prime Ministers in British History and was admired across the House (including by Margaret Thatcher).
The pointing being that perceptions of “being boring” are entirely irrelevant to someone’s ability to lead a successful government. The nonsense in that article trying to somehow compare Starmer to a Dementor from Harry Potter or describing him as “sinister” because he’s not over flowing with charisma is just desperately stupid. People voted in Boris Johnson because he was entertaining to a certain sort of person and look how that turned out. No doubt if we looked back to 2016 the same author would have been praising May for being a “serious candidate” due to her cool demeanour.
We don’t need a saint, just someone who isn’t actually corrupt is a nice start!