Keir Starmer ignoring Mother's Day

Oh dear, OP. Egg on your face.

"I was wrong" can be such a tricky phrase, OP.

It's pretty standard to feed different content to different platforms, recognising the differing audiences and systems. Most corporates will have strategies for each platform and be clear on the audiences and content types they'll focus on for different platforms. Just as they seed different stories into different media outlets.

If the platforms you're on aren't giving you the kind of content you want to see, maybe you should rethink where you're getting your information.

It seems we are at "but not Halal Easter Eggs" (Google Annual outrage calendar if this won't load)

Good grief OP. Nutters like you are the reason why most sensible people and companies have given up on X.

What's the point in posting the same things everywhere?
He's appropriately used his personal social media FB and Instagram to talk about the mothers in his life. I don't think that should come from the no 10 twitter account. TBH I'm surprised No 10 still has a twitter account that place is a cesspool these days

PMs have better things to do than tweet about celebrations invented by card companies. Like spending precious time with their own families.

Have other PMs mentioned Mother’s Day? It wouldn’t cross my mind to expect him to. How odd.

The PM's office marks all the major religious festivals.

Why shouldn't he mention a religious festival celebrated by millions in the UK?

Should he also "certainly not" mention Diwali, Hanukkah, or the many other festivals celebrated by people living and voting in the UK? Because I think his account did that too and continues to do so. Were you outraged then?

Instead of getting upset by things that aren't true and aren't important concentrate on things that make the world a better place. Maybe be part of making the world a better place. You will be happier and live longer.

The only person ‘gnashing’ is you!

Thank fuck this is an anonymous forum, because you’re making such a twat of yourself it’s embarrassing!

Dunno mate... I'm more upset about him ignoring and aiding genocides but 🤷🏼‍♀️

Wrong and nasty. Says a lot about you though…

Imagine the apoplectic rage when Eid coincides with Christmas Day 🤣

I hope he's got far more important things to focus on than some commercial money-making event (or a date on a religious calendar). I don't think it's part of a PM's job.

This time 1000

ffs.

First post says it perfectly!

You're not his mother. People don't go around wishing all and sundry happy mother's day - they say it to their mother. Nor do people go around wishing all their friends and colleagues a happy Lent. People do say happy Christmas or Eid mubarak as a general greeting.

They are totally different types of events, and greeting traditions.

Personally I'd be entirely unbothered if the PM mentioned none of them - it's not part of his job. But as swathes of the populace seem to demand it for some reason, it's entirely proper to stick to the big celebratory or commemorative events that have communal social greetings - the way you might wish a stranger a happy new year. If the PM did all possible religious or cultural occasions he (or his comms team) would get nothing else done.

And where would you stop? I don't see you complaining about the lack of a message for St Quirinus's day, his failure to acknowledge Pretzel Sunday, or the fact he didn't wish us all a pleasant Take a Walk in the Park day. All of which were also on 30 March.

Why on earth should he mention it - what has mothers day got to do with the government???

My condolences. Are you ok? Can we help at all?

Why can't he mention Eid or indeed any occasion if he wants to? He hasn't got to (he's running a government, not a calendar of holidays) but why shouldn't he if he chooses? I am sure he'll mention Easter and Christmas, which are frankly the only such occasions that most nominal Christians in the UK do celebrate. And he's not a Christian anyway; he's agnostic/atheist and his wife and kids are Jewish. Rishi Sunak was Hindu and celebrated Diwali - do you object to that? The King is the head of the C of E, so it's his job, not the Prime Minister's, to acknowledge Christian occasions.

While I have quite a few genuine disappointments in Starmer and his government (the Winter Fuel Allowance cuts; the increase in employers' NI contributions; the cuts in PIP; the foreign aid cuts), this complaint is ridiculous, Why does he need to wish anyone but his wife and (late) mother a happy Mothers' Day. None of us is his mother or the mother of his children! And why would you expect him to mention Lent? 'Happy Easter' perhaps, bur that's not for a while!

What utter bollocks

There is clearly no place for Mums in his socialist utopia. He thinks children should separated from parents at birth and raised in an ideologically pure environment by social workers from Camden Council.

He totally ignored my birthday last month too.
AND he never sent me a condolence card when my cat died. Bloody unforgivable. I mean ffs he’s only running a country, the man needs to get a grip.