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Netcurtainnelly · 2025-12-21T23:29:34+00:00

When one of the Dead Ringers did an impression of Keir Starmer on the RVP tonight there was alot of booing. ITV kept it in too. How embarrassing for Starmer. Says alot though about what people think of Starmer.😀

MrsArcher23 · 22/12/2025 11:11

Was the audience booing at Starmer because they don’t like him or at the Starmer impersonation because they don’t like him being mocked? Take your pick…

KimberleyClark · 22/12/2025 11:10

EasternStandard · 22/12/2025 11:08

Yeh I saw that, I can see you like Labour. But why miss things that are impacting people in a big way?

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Like you are ignoring all the good things Labour have done?

EasternStandard · 22/12/2025 11:08

SeaAndStars · 22/12/2025 11:05

I've looked at lots of things. I just wrote a list.

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Yeh I saw that, I can see you like Labour. But why miss things that are impacting people in a big way?

SeaAndStars · 22/12/2025 11:05

EasternStandard · 22/12/2025 10:59

Have you looked at what’s going on with jobs? Particularly for young people.

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I've looked at lots of things. I just wrote a list.

EasternStandard · 22/12/2025 10:59

SeaAndStars · 22/12/2025 10:53

Labour currently -

banning trail hunting
banning puppy farms
banning caged hens and crated pigs
increasing funding to NHS
raising minimum wage
reinstating erasmus
setting up breakfast clubs
set up a scheme to house veterans
flood defence schemes
special measures on water firms
ended train strike
set up GB energy
4.2 million new NHS appointments since July 24

Have you looked at what’s going on with jobs? Particularly for young people.

Prometheus78 · 22/12/2025 10:56

RampantIvy · 22/12/2025 10:04

Think a lot of Labour supporters have jumped in op. I don’t think it’s any secret just how unpopular Labour and Starmer currently is. The lies, the freebies, what they’ve done to the economy,

I think a lot of Tory supporters are blind to the fact that their party didn't do any better.

I'm no Starmer fan either, but the Tories tanked the economy well before Labour came into power.

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Define ‘tanked the economy’, please?

Which metrics are you using?

Prometheus78 · 22/12/2025 10:55

Terrytheweasel · 22/12/2025 09:29

I have a lot of respect for Starmer. There are undoubtedly things that he could improve on but he’s doing some great work. People need to stop reading the dailymail.

I don’t read the DM.

I do subscribe to Bloomberg and the FT, and read the Guardian and DT.

What great work has he done, please?

SeaAndStars · 22/12/2025 10:53

Labour currently -

banning trail hunting
banning puppy farms
banning caged hens and crated pigs
increasing funding to NHS
raising minimum wage
reinstating erasmus
setting up breakfast clubs
set up a scheme to house veterans
flood defence schemes
special measures on water firms
ended train strike
set up GB energy
4.2 million new NHS appointments since July 24

TheAutumnCrow · 22/12/2025 10:47

EasternStandard · 22/12/2025 10:19

True. I’m not sure what pp is reading to miss how people are feeling.

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Telegraph? They have this.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/22/starmer-booed-at-royal-variety-performance/

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/22/starmer-booed-at-royal-variety-performance

LakieLady · 22/12/2025 10:20

Spingless · 22/12/2025 01:15

In my 50 years I've never felt so much absolute loathing for a politician. Starmer makes me physically sick.

There are several politicians I've disliked more*, but imo he's the worst leader Labour have had in my lifetime.

I'm so ancient that I can remember Gaitskell dying and Wilson becoming leader, so that's a lot of leaders. I just don't see the point of Starmer.

*It would be a very long list, but includes the likes of Enoch Powell and Ann Widdecombe, with a special loathing reserved for Cameron whose fucking stupid referendum gave us Brexit.

EasternStandard · 22/12/2025 10:19

xanthomelana · 22/12/2025 09:38

People don’t need to read the daily mail to not like him. They are feeling the effects of his government every day, employment at its highest over the past five years, tax increases, backtracking on election pledges that got him voted in etc. You’d have to be living on the moon to not understand why the public despises this government.

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True. I’m not sure what pp is reading to miss how people are feeling.

RampantIvy · 22/12/2025 10:04

Charlenedickens · 22/12/2025 08:40

Think a lot of Labour supporters have jumped in op. I don’t think it’s any secret just how unpopular Labour and Starmer currently is. The lies, the freebies, what they’ve done to the economy,

Christ if they’d not spent billions on the benefit cap removal and dealt with doctors instead, not closed down rhe North Sea so we had to take our gas from nordics, only to reverse that stupid decision a few weeks ago when rhe job losses and cost to utilities bit, it’s an endless list of bad decisions, negatively impacting the British public, even unite, who is as far left as it gets said they need to break with them due to the impact on the working person, so booing is no surprise.

what is eyebrow raising is people havering on about bad manners, when no one in Britain, and quite frankly most of the developed world, doesn’t know just how unpopular and catastrophic Labour have been, even Labour knows it.

Think a lot of Labour supporters have jumped in op. I don’t think it’s any secret just how unpopular Labour and Starmer currently is. The lies, the freebies, what they’ve done to the economy,

I think a lot of Tory supporters are blind to the fact that their party didn't do any better.

I'm no Starmer fan either, but the Tories tanked the economy well before Labour came into power.

xanthomelana · 22/12/2025 09:38

Terrytheweasel · 22/12/2025 09:29

I have a lot of respect for Starmer. There are undoubtedly things that he could improve on but he’s doing some great work. People need to stop reading the dailymail.

People don’t need to read the daily mail to not like him. They are feeling the effects of his government every day, employment at its highest over the past five years, tax increases, backtracking on election pledges that got him voted in etc. You’d have to be living on the moon to not understand why the public despises this government.

Terrytheweasel · 22/12/2025 09:29

I have a lot of respect for Starmer. There are undoubtedly things that he could improve on but he’s doing some great work. People need to stop reading the dailymail.

Monsteraplants · 22/12/2025 09:26

BelleDeJourRose · 22/12/2025 01:08

Well if they don't think Trump deserves to be booed their opinion isn't worth much. Ditto Boris who helped us bumble out of the single market. They must be idiots.

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It’s almost like people are allowed a different opinion to you.

Prometheus78 · 22/12/2025 09:19

Charlenedickens · 22/12/2025 08:40

Think a lot of Labour supporters have jumped in op. I don’t think it’s any secret just how unpopular Labour and Starmer currently is. The lies, the freebies, what they’ve done to the economy,

Christ if they’d not spent billions on the benefit cap removal and dealt with doctors instead, not closed down rhe North Sea so we had to take our gas from nordics, only to reverse that stupid decision a few weeks ago when rhe job losses and cost to utilities bit, it’s an endless list of bad decisions, negatively impacting the British public, even unite, who is as far left as it gets said they need to break with them due to the impact on the working person, so booing is no surprise.

what is eyebrow raising is people havering on about bad manners, when no one in Britain, and quite frankly most of the developed world, doesn’t know just how unpopular and catastrophic Labour have been, even Labour knows it.

Great post.

FrizzyFrizbee · 22/12/2025 09:12

Tammygirl12 · 22/12/2025 03:27

You mean like politicians themselves boo in thr Houses of Parliament.

Booing is not beneath them. They practically made this into a sport themselves

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Good point

HopSpringsEternal · 22/12/2025 09:06

Nanny0gg · 22/12/2025 00:22

The WI booed Tony Blair at the Albert Hall

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Oh yes I remember that!

5128gap · 22/12/2025 08:52

It surely can't have escaped your notice until now that when one party is in power, those on the other side politically often 'hate' the PM? Do you recall the outright celebrations on the death of Margaret Thatcher, despite many on her side of the spectrum believing her to be the 'best PM we ever had'?
I don't think KS is well liked. However it wasn't so long ago that a crowd of thousands at Glastonbury were singing Jeremy Corbyns name. So I think we need to be careful about drawing conclusions about the sort of behaviour people exhibit in a crowd at any given moment. Mostly people just like to make a noise and join in.

Charlenedickens · 22/12/2025 08:40

Think a lot of Labour supporters have jumped in op. I don’t think it’s any secret just how unpopular Labour and Starmer currently is. The lies, the freebies, what they’ve done to the economy,

Christ if they’d not spent billions on the benefit cap removal and dealt with doctors instead, not closed down rhe North Sea so we had to take our gas from nordics, only to reverse that stupid decision a few weeks ago when rhe job losses and cost to utilities bit, it’s an endless list of bad decisions, negatively impacting the British public, even unite, who is as far left as it gets said they need to break with them due to the impact on the working person, so booing is no surprise.

what is eyebrow raising is people havering on about bad manners, when no one in Britain, and quite frankly most of the developed world, doesn’t know just how unpopular and catastrophic Labour have been, even Labour knows it.

Lou7171 · 22/12/2025 08:39

Netcurtainnelly · 21/12/2025 23:37

Its neither here not there what I think.

It just shows how much hate there is out there for the real Keir Starmer.

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I really don't understand why he gets so much hate tbh

VicountBiscuit · 22/12/2025 08:36

Unsurprisingly really. The man is completely detestable. Even my Labour voting friends think he's awful. He clearly doesn't give a toss how he's perceived though.

butterpuffed · 22/12/2025 08:33

Nitgel · 22/12/2025 07:38

Yea ita.panto. dead ringers is also chiefly aimed at radio 4.listeners.

Maybe it comes across better on the radio, as it didn't go well on TV. I wouldn't have known it was Starmer unless they'd said.

Impressionists shouldn't have to say who they are, it should be obvious.

trainkeepsgoing · 22/12/2025 08:28

Not a surprise!

NoWordForFluffy · 22/12/2025 08:12

letsallchant · 22/12/2025 00:32

Obviously not by everyone as you don't tend to win a landslide majority in Parliament if so.

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Oh come on, god knows why people are still banging this drum. Labour got 63% of the seats with 33.7% of the vote (the people who voted; it's about 25% of the people eligible to vote). It's an issue with FPTP, not a measure of actual popularity.