Page 11 | AIBU to be fed up with all the Keir Starmer threads

MyNameIsX · 23/01/2025 05:17

username299 · 23/01/2025 05:11

The Tories aren't socialist and I'm wondering what's socialist about our current economy. UKIP and the Tories have created the biggest fuck up in my lifetime with Brexit. If you're blaming a government who've been in for less that a year for the current state of the country, I'm not sensing critical thinking skills.

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Labour’s record, in six months, speaks for itself - look at the bond markets, look at their fiscal policy, look at the reaction from business. Where’s your critical analysis? Just look up - the west is heading to the right, and we are the anomaly.

It is estimated that approximately 3.5-4 million Labour voters voted to leave the EU, incidentally, but its fantastic you managed to weave Brexit into this (yawn).

username299 · 23/01/2025 05:11

MyNameIsX · 23/01/2025 05:04

Yeah, that would be it - nothing to do with socialists fucking it up then.

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The Tories aren't socialist and I'm wondering what's socialist about our current economy. UKIP and the Tories have created the biggest fuck up in my lifetime with Brexit. If you're blaming a government who've been in for less that a year for the current state of the country, I'm not sensing critical thinking skills.

MyNameIsX · 23/01/2025 05:04

username299 · 23/01/2025 01:26

It's not surprising. We have a right wing press owned by people who don't want a government unsympathetic to their interests.

Social media is a cess pit and many lack essential critical thinking skills. They spend a lot of time banging on keyboards with their knuckles catching flies.

I know, I know, I'm responsible for people voting for morons. They obviously lack capacity.

Yeah, that would be it - nothing to do with socialists fucking it up then.

MyNameIsX · 23/01/2025 05:03

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 22/01/2025 17:56

It's giving me flashbacks to 2016 when there were about 20 threads a day saying nonsense like, "AIBU to be concerned about the EU's plans to conscript everyone into an EU wide army?"

Just put a sock in it, already.

Starmer and his motley crew are such a rich source of material, so I think this story runs - as long as Labour are in power, anyway.

Hopefully, they will not serve a full term, and then your wish will be granted!

Allswellthatendswelll · 23/01/2025 04:07

YANBU and I really do think most of them aren't genuine from the tone and wording.

He's not going to resign. The government isn't going to fall. Elon Musk isn't going to install a new government. I suspect they will win again in five years with a smaller majority.

Most people are just getting on with their lives, hoping public services improve a bit, not working themselves into a frenzy over manufactured controversies.

SnowFrogJelly · 23/01/2025 01:33

Don't read them then!

username299 · 23/01/2025 01:26

It's not surprising. We have a right wing press owned by people who don't want a government unsympathetic to their interests.

Social media is a cess pit and many lack essential critical thinking skills. They spend a lot of time banging on keyboards with their knuckles catching flies.

I know, I know, I'm responsible for people voting for morons. They obviously lack capacity.

wholettheturnipsburn · 23/01/2025 01:16

Anniedash · 22/01/2025 18:00

It tells you how unhappy people are with this bunch of morons who have stumbled into government. This country is finished. There wasn’t much left by the Tories anyway, but now it’s well and truly finished.

Loads are perfectly happy though

I think he's started with the hard stuff but I really respect his quiet authority

Fleetheart · 23/01/2025 01:14

He is one million times better than the preceding chaos- and also there are some seriously competent people working with him. Yvette cooper for one. The media are doing their best to misrepresent a lot of good work. was never going to be easy or an overnight job. Why can’t they just shut up and actually pull together to try and improve this country rather than to try and destroy it.

Cattenberg · 23/01/2025 01:08

It is getting a bit weird now. All these threads speculating that Keir Starmer will resign soon. Why would he? Labour won the election only four months’ ago with Starmer at the helm and they have a huge majority. Unlike say, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, Starmer isn’t what some people call “an unelected PM”.

The idea that Trump (and Musk) might force Starmer out of office is weirder still. If that does happen, we can say goodbye to our democracy and enjoy being a puppet state of the US. The strangest thing of all is that there are (supposedly British) Mumsnet posters who would welcome this.

orangewasp · 22/01/2025 19:49

Agree. He's a seemingly decent, intelligent person with a plan and doing a reasonable job so far. The catastrophic tone on posts should be reserved for where they're needed - Trump for a kick off.

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 22/01/2025 19:21

Yanbu, there's so many of them

PizzaPunk · 22/01/2025 18:45

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 22/01/2025 18:42

There's so many of them that that in itself is an admin task!

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Oh don't be daft! 🙄

Admin task, my arse lol.

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MissScarletInTheBallroom · 22/01/2025 18:42

Kebabbky · 22/01/2025 18:18

It’s really easy… you just go on active conversations and hide them.

There's so many of them that that in itself is an admin task!

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MissScarletInTheBallroom · 22/01/2025 18:40

StuffedFullOfFromage · 22/01/2025 18:31

@MissScarletInTheBallroom

Just because you happen to not agree, doesn't mean people can't post FFS!

It's the catastrophic tone that does my head in.

No, the Labour government isn't going to collapse in its first year. Neither is the economy. None of that happened after Brexit, none of it will happen under a Labour government.

It's like these posters are reading off a script.

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Echobelly · 22/01/2025 18:36

I'm not exactly a fan of Starmer but I find newspapers and people online trying to present the Labour government as some kind of disaster that's in utter disarray pathetic. Yes they're disappointing and wrong about a lot of things but they are still 100% better than 14 years of Tory rule, which really was a disaster from Brexit onwards and is still responsible for the vast majority of this country's problems now.

Tekbrobillionaire · 22/01/2025 18:32

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 22/01/2025 18:00

This is exactly the tone of the threads I am talking about.

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Not the right kind of threads
Not the right type of replies

head to bluesky whilst you can still agree with everyone else on there

StuffedFullOfFromage · 22/01/2025 18:31

@MissScarletInTheBallroom

Just because you happen to not agree, doesn't mean people can't post FFS!

justteanbiscuits · 22/01/2025 18:30

Anniedash · 22/01/2025 18:00

It tells you how unhappy people are with this bunch of morons who have stumbled into government. This country is finished. There wasn’t much left by the Tories anyway, but now it’s well and truly finished.

I presume you vote Reform? Can you highlight parts of their manifesto which would have helped?

AlbertCamusflage · 22/01/2025 18:26

We need a special topic. Could just be called Starmer, or could be broadened to Pavlovian Politics for Knuckle Draggers

TheYearOfSmallThings · 22/01/2025 18:22

I mean at least it is a change from the VAT on school fees threads. I imagine if we could see a venn diagram of "Mumsnet posters who are cross about paying VAT on school fees" and "Mumsnet posters with a massive grudge against the Labour government" the intersection would be almost total.

Vaxtable · 22/01/2025 18:22

It’s free country. People can post what they like

just scroll on past

sjs42 · 22/01/2025 18:21

Anniedash · 22/01/2025 18:00

It tells you how unhappy people are with this bunch of morons who have stumbled into government. This country is finished. There wasn’t much left by the Tories anyway, but now it’s well and truly finished.

Indeed this.

HRTQueen · 22/01/2025 18:19

Mmm … sure you are and it makes perfect sense to start another

Kebabbky · 22/01/2025 18:18

It’s really easy… you just go on active conversations and hide them.