Keir Starmer ignoring Mother's Day

Lent is a very important part of the Christian calendar, but not a word from him.

I think it's absolutely fine to voice your concerns about any celebration, providing you dont shut people down just because they dont agree with you. The difference on here being that there are some trying to close down people just for voicing an opinion. It's just do tedious and predictible...

Bizarre thread. 😂 Are you expecting him to wish you happy birthday OP?

@RedToothBrush if it helps National Ice Cream Day is celebrated on the 20th July https://www.calendarr.com/united-kingdom/national-ice-cream-day/

Don't read them? Scroll on by? Not compulsory you know to go onto threads you have no interest in. There's lots of threads where I just eye roll and scroll on by.

'He doesn't need to vomit everything out on a single account'

What an unpleasant turn of phrase.

Last year Mothers Day coincided with the beginning of Ramadan. Here's the PM's tweet. No mention of Mothers Day. No twatter storm.

I'm sure the PM has enough to do without acknowledging a day made up by card manufacturers.

Oh, I think it exactly figures! The venn diagram is probably a circle.

This stuff isn't hard.

You wouldn’t think so, would you?!

He does X for some things. He does other channels for other things. The way he uses different channels will evolve over time.

He doesn't need to vomit everything out on a single account, just like they will spread news stories across different outlets.

This stuff isn't hard.

I'm no fan of Keir Starmer, but I can't imagine it occurring to me to notice or care if he acknowledged Mothers' Day on social media

I haven't heard any Muslims complaining about the lack of an Eid post on Instagram. He either does Instagram or he doesn't.

'Listen, he also ignored ‘speak like a pirate day’ Napping Day, Hobbit Day AND World Lindy HOP day. The man is dead to me, DEAD to me! I don’t care if we ARE on the brink of WW3 - he needs to get his priorities sorted .'

Again, 'pirates day' and napping day' are not comparable to Mother's Day. Why thr derision about a day that is important to many women and their familes?

He either does X or he doesn't.

P.s We aren't on the brink of WW3, no need to scaremonger.

Listen, he also ignored ‘speak like a pirate day’ Napping Day, Hobbit Day AND World Lindy HOP day. The man is dead to me, DEAD to me!
I don’t care if we ARE on the brink of WW3 - he needs to get his priorities sorted .

Fair point

If he had posted a Mother's Day message, then £ to a penny those same people complaining that he didn't would be complaining about how much of a hypocrite he was due to many women "not being able to afford to have children because of the budget/CoL/the sky being the wrong shade of blue, or whatever reason they can dredge up.

Hmm maybe you're right. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Then people would complain he was ignoring Christian festivals and dig out tweets from years ago showing when he wished people a happy Eid. People are just ranting about this stuff the whole time on social media. It doesn't matter if he posts or not, they're constantly finding stuff to be outraged about. People are constantly finding ways to demonise minorities and claim that the government only care about immigrants etc.

@AlltheprettyseahorsesEid is not a “tradition”. Eid is a major religious festival. Like Christmas or Hannukah.

Proving that X Monkeys will unthinkingly do whatever they're told.🙈 I hope they're getting their arses handed to them on the many other platforms too.

Thick, racist fuckwits.

Starmer would be better to stop doing ALL these goodwill messages. Its such complete nonsense. If theres a halting of all of them, no one can be offended.

Why do them? Its a waste of time. Its just leading to people bitching about how they aren't getting attention.

Nothing is achieved by them. Theres no soft power gain.

Honestly, if it causes this many problems ditch it.

The PM should PM not PR.

Yes but that's the whole point. There's so much rubbish being spouted on social media and the media in general. Maybe a school didn't celebrate Easter but it doesn't mean Easter is cancelled like I've seen people saying on social media. Our very diverse school always celebrates Easter, Christmas, Diwali, Eid.
Look at all this fuss about Keir Starmer "ignoring" mothers day when he has actually posted about it on several forums. Not a peep about the fact he didn't mention Eid on Instagram. People are just constantly looking for things to be offended about, especially if anyone dares to send a message of goodwill to Muslims.

Because the whole thing about Starmer not saying something about it is absolutely ridiculous.

I would rather he just ran the bloody country and didn't waste taxpayers money employing people to work out which days are important and which aren't.

Honestly people have gone completely mental on this over the last few days. For all the angst and drama it causes so many women would be better off without it.

I don't think that the knee jerk comments are as prevelent or as angry about Jewish, Sikh and Hindu holidays/festivals as they are about Islamic holidays although some people will moan about any holidays/celebrations that aren't Christian. Islamaphobia is rife on Twitter and this thread is definitely an Islamaphobic dog whistle and many like-minded people have answered the call.

Why do you keep mocking Mother's Day?