Someone needs to do a 2Tier Downfall parody because he seems to be in exactly the same mindset as the former Austrian artist was in in 1945. Apparently he believes London is on the banks of Denial in Egypt
I’ve become fond of Kemi over the past few months, especially after that defence of Jews. She’s shown now that she can give Our Great Leader a good slap round the chops too. What a shame she doesn’t have a real party to lead.
I swear I *did* know what “psephological” meant before I looked it up - that was just to make sure.
Does Kier really think taking us back into the EU will subdue Restore, who are essentially UKIP Mk2?
Do Burnham fans not realise that rabbiting on about getting him back in parliament, makes normal folk think there must be no real talent in their existing 400+ MPs?
Hi Gareth, they are rubbish. But let’s remember Starmer isn’t saying that EU stuff to the country, he’s saying it to Labour voters who went Green. He keeps talking about the ‘national interest’ but he is myopic, he can only focus on what he thinks will serve his short term interests.
The Burnham point is well made. Imagine your party being so talentless that no a one of your MPs is considered up to the job to lead it…..
I hardly dare say this, but in some way I feel sorry for Keir Starmer. He’s been promoted twice to roles that were well beyond his capabilities. Someone or persons have persuaded him that he can do anything he wants if only he puts his mind to it, when quite clearly he can not. That’s unfair on him and deeply unfair on the country (I don’t care much about the Labour Party) both times. There’s not much you can really say about the man other than he’s never going to set the world on fire either with his personality or his intellect. No wonder he let another man buy his suits and specs for him.
Agreed. Although I’m not at the feeling sorry for him stage quite yet!
History of littered with people who the ‘back room guys’ put in place as a sort of puppet or front man, who then failed on all sorts of levels.
I think a lot of the problem is that we don’t have whole cabinets/parties of real politicians anymore. They are all technocrats or managers. Proper politicians are something else.
Love him or loath him Boris J is a politician. So is Trump. I’m not sure who at the top of British politics fits the bill apart from Farage. Rayner I guess. But that’s scary.
Excellent rage-dump as usual, Low. Personally, I like Kemi more with every week that passes.
Can't disagree with your assessment of most of the party she is saddled with the hollow remnants of, I have to admit. Mel Stride had a good, detailed interview with Liam Halligan the other week though, and seems to know his stuff, with plenty of real-world business experience.
Yes, the thing that has confused so many with Starmer saying in the aftermath of the mauling, that he realises that he hasn't driven change strongly enough and fast enough (paraphrasing), is that he isn't speaking to the Man on the Clapham Omnibus.
He is grovelling to the insane socialists in his own party. What the voting, tax-paying public wants is just not even visible to him at this stage. They will continue to get what they are given. Good and hard. That is perhaps the most astonishing thing about his mentality, don't you think?
I don’t think Starmer is unique in this. British people have clearly, respectfully, and ‘non-racistly’ been asking for a reduction in immigration since around 2010. And have been ignored ever since. Starmer et al are just extending that contempt for public opinion to everything else, especially EU membership and trans issues.
They are not democrats, they are technocrats, they believe the British public are at best an inconvenience to be ignored, at worst, a rabble to be locked up.
I’ll look out for that Mel Stride interview. Liam Halligan is usually good. Though it’s always fun to play Liam Bingo with his inevitable ‘I’m of working class Irish stock’ reminder!
Haha, yes he does like to mention it a bit in passing about his lineage. Fair enough, as he is second-generation Irish and he actually did a tribute to his dad the other week, as he had recently passed away. Interestingly, his father did build up his own company (plumbing or similar I think) from scratch when he arrived in London from County Mayo after the war. Quite reminded me of the saga of the Toolmaker’s Son. Okay, no it didn’t in any way, as it sounded real….
From across the pond, I simply cannot understand why there are still more than a handful of diehards voting for Starmer, unless they're all beneficiaries of the welfare state and the faithful who would NEVER change their vote even if their life depended on it.. Just as mind-boggling are the idiotic women voting for the "Greens" oblivious of the inevitable outcome of a party dependent on a rapidly growing muslim contingency jumping on the bandwagon in the hope of a quicker pathway to electoral success. That there are still so many ignorant of where the country's heading is very dispiriting.
It was just revealed that the country spends more on welfare than it raises in income tax. Thats why so many vote Labour, because it is in their interest to do so, any other choice risks turning off the money taps!
As far as the Greens are concerned, I genuinely think there is a level of cognitive dissonance going on that is almost like a mass hysteria ( if that’s not just a bit confusing). I think they want to condemn the ‘war in Gaza’ and everything flows from there. But when this leads to Jews being stabbed in the street in London, they cannot cope, so pretend it’s not happening. They’ve somehow, despite all evidence to the contrary, convinced themselves that the Greens are the ‘good’ people. It’s nuts.
"He’s put the ‘mentalist’ into ‘environmentalist’, and the ‘Green’ into, ‘There’s been another stabbing in Golders Green’." Your style of humour is so good.
If we’re looking to the Lib Dem’s to save us, we really know it’s all gone wrong!
A decent Labour leader would be a start. But all the contenders seem to believe their constituency is 411 or so Labour MPs, not the 70 million British people they are actually meant to represent.
I was really thinking about Streeting the other day. I realised he had talked a good talk on the NHS but had actually done nothing but bung doctors the money they were demanding, no strings attached.
Yes. Waiting lists are down a bit, but how could they not be? And I expect that’s due in part to people tragically dying before they could be treated. He’s hardly taken the NHS by the scruff of the neck, and though I expect I would have disagreed with many of his policies to sort the situation, at least he would have been doing ‘something’ to bring the numbers down.
That he is the best on offer really says something.
Excellent summation as ever LSO. Except for the bit about Restore, the rejects from Reform 😂 although I won't laugh too hard cos folk laughed at Reform two years ago and look where we are now.....Still, I don't think Restore are organised enough, they come across as chaotic. They had to bus in shed loads of volunteers to win in great Yarmouth, you can't replicate that across the country.
Keiff is grimly clinging on.....the process, the process....🤣
Someone needs to do a 2Tier Downfall parody because he seems to be in exactly the same mindset as the former Austrian artist was in in 1945. Apparently he believes London is on the banks of Denial in Egypt
Ha ha. What a great idea! Looking forward to seeing that Francis.
I’ve become fond of Kemi over the past few months, especially after that defence of Jews. She’s shown now that she can give Our Great Leader a good slap round the chops too. What a shame she doesn’t have a real party to lead.
I swear I *did* know what “psephological” meant before I looked it up - that was just to make sure.
Agreed about Kemi, Valda, we could have done with this version of her at the time the Tories went for Truss/Sunak.
Ha Ha Yes and I definitely managed to spell it without it going wrong five times.
I love how Labour are so inept at optics.
Does Kier really think taking us back into the EU will subdue Restore, who are essentially UKIP Mk2?
Do Burnham fans not realise that rabbiting on about getting him back in parliament, makes normal folk think there must be no real talent in their existing 400+ MPs?
They're such a car crash.
Hi Gareth, they are rubbish. But let’s remember Starmer isn’t saying that EU stuff to the country, he’s saying it to Labour voters who went Green. He keeps talking about the ‘national interest’ but he is myopic, he can only focus on what he thinks will serve his short term interests.
The Burnham point is well made. Imagine your party being so talentless that no a one of your MPs is considered up to the job to lead it…..
I hardly dare say this, but in some way I feel sorry for Keir Starmer. He’s been promoted twice to roles that were well beyond his capabilities. Someone or persons have persuaded him that he can do anything he wants if only he puts his mind to it, when quite clearly he can not. That’s unfair on him and deeply unfair on the country (I don’t care much about the Labour Party) both times. There’s not much you can really say about the man other than he’s never going to set the world on fire either with his personality or his intellect. No wonder he let another man buy his suits and specs for him.
Agreed. Although I’m not at the feeling sorry for him stage quite yet!
History of littered with people who the ‘back room guys’ put in place as a sort of puppet or front man, who then failed on all sorts of levels.
I think a lot of the problem is that we don’t have whole cabinets/parties of real politicians anymore. They are all technocrats or managers. Proper politicians are something else.
Love him or loath him Boris J is a politician. So is Trump. I’m not sure who at the top of British politics fits the bill apart from Farage. Rayner I guess. But that’s scary.
And lingerie for his wife!
Excellent rage-dump as usual, Low. Personally, I like Kemi more with every week that passes.
Can't disagree with your assessment of most of the party she is saddled with the hollow remnants of, I have to admit. Mel Stride had a good, detailed interview with Liam Halligan the other week though, and seems to know his stuff, with plenty of real-world business experience.
Yes, the thing that has confused so many with Starmer saying in the aftermath of the mauling, that he realises that he hasn't driven change strongly enough and fast enough (paraphrasing), is that he isn't speaking to the Man on the Clapham Omnibus.
He is grovelling to the insane socialists in his own party. What the voting, tax-paying public wants is just not even visible to him at this stage. They will continue to get what they are given. Good and hard. That is perhaps the most astonishing thing about his mentality, don't you think?
I agree completely James.
I don’t think Starmer is unique in this. British people have clearly, respectfully, and ‘non-racistly’ been asking for a reduction in immigration since around 2010. And have been ignored ever since. Starmer et al are just extending that contempt for public opinion to everything else, especially EU membership and trans issues.
They are not democrats, they are technocrats, they believe the British public are at best an inconvenience to be ignored, at worst, a rabble to be locked up.
I’ll look out for that Mel Stride interview. Liam Halligan is usually good. Though it’s always fun to play Liam Bingo with his inevitable ‘I’m of working class Irish stock’ reminder!
Great to hear from you 👍
Haha, yes he does like to mention it a bit in passing about his lineage. Fair enough, as he is second-generation Irish and he actually did a tribute to his dad the other week, as he had recently passed away. Interestingly, his father did build up his own company (plumbing or similar I think) from scratch when he arrived in London from County Mayo after the war. Quite reminded me of the saga of the Toolmaker’s Son. Okay, no it didn’t in any way, as it sounded real….
I do like him. It’s just that as you say, he likes to mention it as much as Starmer!
"And now everyone in his own party has turned into a Ukrainian rent boy. They all want to see the back of Keir Starmer."
Pure poetry.
🙏
From across the pond, I simply cannot understand why there are still more than a handful of diehards voting for Starmer, unless they're all beneficiaries of the welfare state and the faithful who would NEVER change their vote even if their life depended on it.. Just as mind-boggling are the idiotic women voting for the "Greens" oblivious of the inevitable outcome of a party dependent on a rapidly growing muslim contingency jumping on the bandwagon in the hope of a quicker pathway to electoral success. That there are still so many ignorant of where the country's heading is very dispiriting.
Hey alexei!
It was just revealed that the country spends more on welfare than it raises in income tax. Thats why so many vote Labour, because it is in their interest to do so, any other choice risks turning off the money taps!
As far as the Greens are concerned, I genuinely think there is a level of cognitive dissonance going on that is almost like a mass hysteria ( if that’s not just a bit confusing). I think they want to condemn the ‘war in Gaza’ and everything flows from there. But when this leads to Jews being stabbed in the street in London, they cannot cope, so pretend it’s not happening. They’ve somehow, despite all evidence to the contrary, convinced themselves that the Greens are the ‘good’ people. It’s nuts.
"It’s nuts." I think you may mean THEY'RE nuts!
So brilliant, as usual 👏🏻
Thank you so much Bettina. Very kind of you.
You are a life raft of sanity.
"He’s put the ‘mentalist’ into ‘environmentalist’, and the ‘Green’ into, ‘There’s been another stabbing in Golders Green’." Your style of humour is so good.
Many thanks! Glad you like it! 🙏
It's all very sad. I wish the LibDems had a decent leader.
If we’re looking to the Lib Dem’s to save us, we really know it’s all gone wrong!
A decent Labour leader would be a start. But all the contenders seem to believe their constituency is 411 or so Labour MPs, not the 70 million British people they are actually meant to represent.
Wes Streeting might work out. The rest are all a bit scary.
Agreed. But he’s the best of a bad bunch.
I was really thinking about Streeting the other day. I realised he had talked a good talk on the NHS but had actually done nothing but bung doctors the money they were demanding, no strings attached.
Yes. Waiting lists are down a bit, but how could they not be? And I expect that’s due in part to people tragically dying before they could be treated. He’s hardly taken the NHS by the scruff of the neck, and though I expect I would have disagreed with many of his policies to sort the situation, at least he would have been doing ‘something’ to bring the numbers down.
That he is the best on offer really says something.
Yes. It's all very sad.
Excellent summation as ever LSO. Except for the bit about Restore, the rejects from Reform 😂 although I won't laugh too hard cos folk laughed at Reform two years ago and look where we are now.....Still, I don't think Restore are organised enough, they come across as chaotic. They had to bus in shed loads of volunteers to win in great Yarmouth, you can't replicate that across the country.
Keiff is grimly clinging on.....the process, the process....🤣