Keir Starmer at it again..

[Templeton Peck]

I just found it very funny. Like something Chris Morris might have done.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

Might be that prematurely grumpy men are not their target audience? Not my thing but it’s harmless enough.

Obviously not aimed at eternally grumpy men either.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1799429743567061074

This is just astounding.

Bit of light hearted fun, what's wrong with that in a boring election run up.

 

[leedswolf]

Bit of light hearted fun, what's wrong with that in a boring election run up.

Nothing. Same as there's nothing wrong in somebody not caring much for it either...

 

[Johnny75]

It's just shit. Really really shit.

Drop them a line and ask why they haven't got Christopher Nolan in to do their scripted social media output.

Are you that angry with the Labour Party in its current incarnation that everything they do is shit?

 

[Templeton Peck]

Drop them a line and ask why they haven't got Christopher Nolan in to do their scripted social media output.

Are you that angry with the Labour Party in its current incarnation that everything they do is shit?

 

[Tredman]

That’s an odd reply to a conversation initiated by you and containing

It's just shit. Really really shit.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

This is a bit odd from Starmer?

(Ignore the hyperbole of the tweeter)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1799855277698605541

 

[Templeton Peck]

This is a bit odd from Starmer?

(Ignore the hyperbole of the tweeter)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1799855277698605541

He's got no answer to her problem.

 

[AndyWolves]

Do people put their heating on overnight in general? I've only done it when the kids are really little

 

[leedswolf]

Do people put their heating on overnight in general? I've only done it when the kids are really little

I don't turn my heating off. I just set the thermostat.

 

[sycophantia]

I don't turn my heating off. I just set the thermostat.

That's what I do. Wouldn't expect it to trip in at this time of year though, it has a couple of times last few weeks early mornings.

 

[AndyWolves]

Fair enough, mines on a timer and thermostat.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I just switch mine on for a hour or two when it’s cold. It’s off 99% of the time.

 

[Sniffer]

Not doing a Johnson then...

Nick Robinson’s Panorama interview with Keir Starmer, will be broadcast on Friday 14 June at 19:30.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Could they not have scheduled it better than that? Opening night of the Euros.

 

[ROVERT47]

Exactly, who wants to miss Scotland getting a bollicking

 

[The Saturday Boy]

With the exception of the first Corbyn question, which made him look deceitful, I thought that was probably Starmer's best effort yet. He still says things I don't agree with, but said them with a little more conviction and as a pragmatist I get it. I understand the "Ming Vase" analogy but what I really want is a little bit more on the "decade of national renewal". I think if he came out and said we're not doing much for the next 5 years (which he effectively has said) but after that this is what we would want to do...I don't think it would do much harm and might convince more people to vote.

Just add a little bit of vision to the pragmatism. Maybe the manifesto will.

 

[Del Woppio]

Aye, agree with every word there, in relation to both last night and today's manifesto launch. I get he wants to be cautious and only promise what's deliverable, but it'd be nice to hear some of the longer term aspirations, and the direction of travel other than just 'grow the economy, make services better'. Like make what better? Raynor keeps saying directly and indirectly that there's a left leaning guy in there who wants to affect real change that will make life better for the many. Hopefully once his feet are under the table we'll see more radical policy options being leaked out to test the water

 

[pr0sl0]

With the exception of the first Corbyn question, which made him look deceitful, I thought that was probably Starmer's best effort yet. He still says things I don't agree with, but said them with a little more conviction and as a pragmatist I get it. I understand the "Ming Vase" analogy but what I really want is a little bit more on the "decade of national renewal". I think if he came out and said we're not doing much for the next 5 years (which he effectively has said) but after that this is what we would want to do...I don't think it would do much harm and might convince more people to vote.

Just add a little bit of vision to the pragmatism. Maybe the manifesto will.

He just needs to lean into the "I'm a boring bastard, you've got me, guilty, but I'm competent, and don't you want politics to be about being boring and competent again?" angle, it shouldn't be that hard, but he really is just a very very awkward person who's better suited to courtroom legalese than public speaking. Not that I think it really hurts him (for now).

However, judging from the manifesto launched this morning, we're all going to be sorely disappointed about the vision thing...