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Wasn't Keir Starmer gorgeous?!

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SoberCurious · 03/06/2020 09:18

Well what do you reckon?

Wasn't Keir Starmer gorgeous?!
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Mammyloveswine · 05/06/2020 07:26

Oh I have total crush on him! So clever and a silver fox! He would make a wonderful pm!

StarbucksSmarterSister · 05/06/2020 02:06

He looks like a teenager!

I much prefer him now.

Allmyeye · 05/06/2020 00:48

I always thought him very attractive from his Director of Public Prosecutions days. I love the name Keir but don’t think I was aware of it before I saw him. It’s just the right side of unusual. Not quite as attractive now but how many of us completely keep out looks as we get older. Knowing he’s intelligent, has a social conscience and is probably the best thing to happen to Labour since John Smith is attractive in itself.

FoodologistGirl · 05/06/2020 00:33

Keir Starmer is named after Keir Hardie found of the Labour Party I think

starlight13 · 04/06/2020 23:53

He's nice, yes op. His name is quite unusual - who knows another 'Keir' and if so, what do they do and are they gorgeous?

ITonyah · 04/06/2020 23:38

Nice to have someone educated to a high standard leading the Labour party at last!

IDefinitelyHaveFriends · 04/06/2020 23:36

On the private school thing the question is what happened to the existing pupils when it changed. Did they get a note saying “we’re private now, cough up or don’t come back in September”? Or were they allowed to stay on for free while the fee paying pupils filtered in from year 7? The latter seems more likely but I’ve never seen a specific answer.

The Oxford thing is simply ridiculous. Are you not qualified to lead a left wing party because you went to university (with a grant and no tuition fees)? Because you went on to postgraduate study? If you excel in your first degree are you meant to turn down an postgraduate offer from any university which has got more than its fair share of posh boys?

PierceHawthornesSexDungeon · 04/06/2020 23:34

He's growing on me. Not like a wart.

Everlandia · 04/06/2020 23:34

I wouldn’t kick him out of bed for eating toast anyway! Mind you, when you compare what’s on the other side of the dispatch box it’s really no contest is it? Grin

Pantsomime · 04/06/2020 23:29

Banana Man

Wasn't Keir Starmer gorgeous?!
FangsForTheMemory · 04/06/2020 22:39

Intelligence is always sexy IMO.

Unless you're a member of the current Cabinet.

DownstairsMixUp · 04/06/2020 22:39

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PalmaSprings · 04/06/2020 22:34

Wow i was expecting to be like 'what, no way!' but the picture proved me wrong!

Mrskeats · 04/06/2020 22:22

I think he's v attractive

MsTSwift · 04/06/2020 22:22

Dh similar age his parents a blue collar manual worker and him mum a secretary no one in his family had been to university he got to Cambridge - if you met him you would think him “posh” similar manner to KS but he is actually far from it.

tattychicken · 04/06/2020 22:18

It was a state grammar when he started. And then converted to private a few years later. I know the school. So yes, when he graduated it was from a private school. His parents came from an ordinary background.

SheWranglesRugRats · 04/06/2020 22:12

Also, Oxford as a postgrad isn’t about being posh on the same way it was for undergrads.

FliesandPies · 04/06/2020 22:10

The difference between him and Bozo could not be more marked so it gives voters something to really get their teeth into.

Wauden · 04/06/2020 22:07

Watching him at PMQ has brightened up lockdown as I do like a clever legal who looks good.
I like his quiff and expression. Smile

MadameBee · 04/06/2020 22:07

He still is Grin

AnyFucker · 04/06/2020 22:06

I'd ride him like Seabiscuit

Hi Keir 👋

SheWranglesRugRats · 04/06/2020 22:06

He went to a state primary presumably and a state grammar. His parents could hardly have known it would go private Confused

FliesandPies · 04/06/2020 22:04

My only point is he did attend fee paying school and he went to Oxford. I'm correcting the posters that have repeated several times that he went to state school. He didn't.

And you're determined to correct that every single time, despite not having concrete evidence to back it up?

My beef with Starmer is his position on self-id and it's a bit worrying to see people talking themselves into voting for someone because potentially going to a state school is a valued credential in a Labour leader.

Fair enough on self-id, that's an understandable beef but if that's your issue then make that plain instead of trying to slate him in other ways. People aren't going to vote for him based on his schooling - they voted for Corbyn and he went private. There are many other important factors which will sway people's votes.

Fizzydrinks123 · 04/06/2020 21:53

My only point is he did attend fee paying school and he went to Oxford. I'm correcting the posters that have repeated several times that he went to state school. He didn't.

My beef with Starmer is his position on self-id and it's a bit worrying to see people talking themselves into voting for someone because potentially going to a state school is a valued credential in a Labour leader.

I don't care either way where he went to school.

I'd like a Labour leader that doesn't live down the rabbit hole with magical thinking on self-id.

ITonyah · 04/06/2020 21:53

I went to Cambridge from a comp in the 80s so it can definitely be done!

I don't find KS at all attractive but think he's doing a good job