Keir Starmer

[luka]

A notoriously racist misanthrope and a poverty food from when most people couldn't afford meat?

#savebennysson #bringhimhome

 

[IdleRich]

I agree if we're talking about the way some of the public view Britain, all the right wing lot obsessed with WW2, but I think the leaders still have to behave like politicians because that's the job. There are much smaller countries than us who still have ambassadors and attend international conferences.

Maybe the only positive of brexit could be a lowering of expectations. Other countries understand the UK is selfish and weak and doesn't want to play nicely with the other kids any more. We should maybe use that viewpoint to being what we do with our army more in line with our actual status.

I was talking to a friend in Portugal and saying about how the problem with the UK is that there are still loads of people who think thst the UK is the best country in the world, he said the problem with Portugal is thst NOONE thinks it's tthe best country - that's bollocks though, there are loads of people who love to buttonhole you and explain at length why the Portuguese empire is the bestest.

 

[IdleRich]

englands teh greatest country in the world. rich said it the other day he said theres a weird thing that happened to me in portugal i just read the news and watched youtube videos and i thought england was going down the pan then i come home and i realise its the greatest nation on earth.

Funny I just wrote something that began a bit like thst, finished differently though.

 

[IdleRich]

Too late for that I'm afraid.

But he knows about rold dahl

The Norwegian children's writer?

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

It's funny having seen and read enough of Starmer's meeting with Trump to know it went about as well as it could have, to then be confronted with GB News and Sky News Australia in the YouTube recommends floundering around trying to pretend it was a disaster. The kind of stuff that's so out of sync with reality you feel it could have been written beforehand.

 

[IdleRich]

I think that they pretty much do that.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

The US couldn't give a fuck about us and the special relationship is a fantasy.

Yes, the media witnessed another buttering from Trump but are reporting it straight.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

It's funny having seen and read enough of Starmer's meeting with Trump to know it went about as well as it could have, to then be confronted with GB News and Sky News Australia in the YouTube recommends floundering around trying to pretend it was a disaster. The kind of stuff that's so out of sync with reality you feel it could have been written beforehand.

But also, since Trump is always playing people, it's hard to get a definitive read (which is also why you can't say anything is an outright disaster, even Z's apparent humiliation.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Fucking starmer with all this cheering crowds outside of downing street bollocks and his 10o year pact. Nobody in the uk could have given a shit about Ukraine three 3 years ago.

 

[Benny Bunter]

As if cheering crowds outside of downing street isn't just set up like when blair got in

 

[Benny Bunter]

Boris johnson just as bad if not worse

 

[Benny Bunter]

Need to stop watching the news cos it winds me up something rotten, but I have to watch it cos of my job, I can't escape.

 

[Murphy]

Plenty of Brits were there on brothel tours

 

[IdleRich]

All UK bar girls with foreign accents are from Ukraine these days - recently observed in The Boar's Head (Ardington), The King's Arms (Oxford) and The Grand (Bristol)

 

[hmg]

Fucking starmer with all this cheering crowds outside of downing street bollocks and his 10o year pact. Nobody in the uk could have given a shit about Ukraine three 3 years ago.

It's a great evil. Luckily, it's already collapsing around him.

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

I was shocked to see even some of the press on the right praising him after the last week. Having said that, it reminds me of when a bunch of the liberal outlets in the US suddenly said Trump was acting more presidential during his first term when he decided to bomb someone or whatever it was. Nothing like aggressive foreign policy to unite the domestic press.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I was shocked to see even some of the press on the right praising him after the last week. Having said that, it reminds me of when a bunch of the liberal outlets in the US suddenly said Trump was acting more presidential during his first term when he decided to bomb someone or whatever it was. Nothing like aggressive foreign policy to unite the domestic press.

He bombed some of Assad's air bases and chemical weapons factories, which had been evacuated first because he'd given a warning before doing it so as not to piss off Putin too much. So he bombed something, not someone.

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

He bombed some of Assad's air bases and chemical weapons factories, which had been evacuated first because he'd given a warning before doing it so as not to piss off Putin too much. So he bombed something, not someone.

You get my point though. Him suddenly becoming "presidential" to critics because he dropped some bombs on foreign targets says something very cynical about those critics.

 

[Mr. Tea]

You get my point though. Him suddenly becoming "presidential" to critics because he dropped some bombs on foreign targets says something very cynical about those critics.

Yes, that's fair.

 

[hmg]

Net zero has been a bust, it's a crazy idea and there's no money it. However, there IS money in rearmament, just as there was money in experimental mRNA treatments and PPE. Almost as importantly, it "sells papers" in the old parlance. Of course the press are behind it.

Dead on arrival though, nobody backs Starmer's boots on the ground plan. This could be the end of him