Keir Starmer calls Boris Johnson a ‘complete bullsh*tter’ who ‘took p*ss out of public’ | Labour leader Keir Starmer also labelled the Tories in the Conservative leadership race as ‘B-grade candidates’ – and said he would take any of them on

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  1. > In a ferocious attack on the departing Prime Minister, Mr Starmer said his legacy was to ”debase politics and drag everybody into the gutter”.

    Quoted by the Mirror, on Johnson:
    > ”I think that he is a complete bullshitter. And I think he’s been found out and I’m really struck with the Partygate stuff because it wasn’t just that he did things which broke the rules.

    > ”It’s that he then took the piss out of the public with his ridiculous defences afterwards.

    > ”And in the local elections, I accept that not everyone on doors was saying ‘it’s that that’s done it for me’, but there was a general realisation that this guy bullshits, and if he’s bullshitting about that, he’s probably bullshitting about everything.

    > ”All this stuff about levelling up – when people can see there’s not much happening around near then – I think this, there’s this sense that this guy doesn’t mean a word that he says, and that goes very, very deep… I mean that’s why I don’t think there was ever any way back for him from that.

    > “And I think it’s really good for the country that we’re seeing the back of him.”

    And on the next Tory leader:
    > ”I think they’re all B-grade candidates, I really don’t mind which of them I go up against…most of them are tainted by having propped up Johnson.

    > “It’s no good now Rishi Sunak saying now, ‘I’m the guy with principles, I’m the guy with integrity’. He propped him up for three years. Truss the same.

    > ”I constantly get this question – which of them do you fear? I don’t fear any of them.

    > ”They’re a busted flush, the whole project is broken. I think the Tories have been more divided for longer than people think.”

    There’s more from Starmer in the article, on the corrosive toxic politics the Right have foisted on the UK, and on Brexit.

    It’s refreshing to hear some forthright home truths from him. I prefer the spelling “bullshiteer” but you can’t have everything.

  3. Some focus group inspired comments there.

    Can see Keir’s Malcolm Tucker figure demanding ‘more fucking swearing’ to connect with white ven men

  14. to me Kier Starmer has the best job in the world. Every week he gets to tell Boris Johnson to his face how much of a bellend everyone thinks he is

  16. There is one positive legacy from Johnson’s tenure. The politeness around calling out the lies of politicians is gone. Watching Mick Lynch call Tory ministers liars, to their faces on national TV is refreshing. Long may it continue

  17. We’ve had over a decade of crap Tory rule. It is absolutely, unequivocally, time for a change. The whole country is fed up with lies, lies, and more Tory lines. The country is going backwards, and we need a new government.

  19. God I fucking love that. There’s something absolutely poetic in hearing him say those words he can’t say in parliament.

  22. Kier Starmer for PM. Relatively high integrity, non-politics professional background. Reasonably boring and efficient. At least appears to want something for someone other than himself.

  23. Keir’s pretty imperfect, maybe even a pretty bad candidate.

    But I’ll take him over any of the tory goblins any day.

    Also if the tories lose the next election, how are we gonna celebrate priti patel being out of gov? I’m thinking burning a witches effigy of her…

  25. I hate to do this, but Kier is the lesser of two evils. It sucks that that’s the choice we’re given, but it’s important to wake up to reality and understand that it really is the ONLY choice we’ve got – yes, he’s probably very right leaning for labour but that doesn’t mean the better alternative is just to let the Tory party rule our country for the rest of time

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