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Starmer being booed on the Royal Variety this evening.

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Netcurtainnelly · 21/12/2025 23:29

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.😀

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Nitgel · 22/12/2025 07:38

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

EasternStandard · 22/12/2025 07:36

OonaStubbs · 21/12/2025 23:54

I have heard more negative Keir Starmer chants, booing etc at various events (Football, boxing) than any other PM. Including Thatcher.

True. It’s not surprising although it seems to be more sections of the public feeling the same, now with this booing.

ACynicalDad · 22/12/2025 07:02

Tory voters largely went to reform and let him through, they didn’t swing directly to him. He actually got less votes than corbyn and his vote share only went up 1.6%. That wasn’t love for him it was whose the least worst. He was lucky to face a Tory party that had been in for 14 years and have Reform take away chunks of votes in constituencies across the country. Without them it would be a coalition.

firstofallimadelight · 22/12/2025 07:02

RampantIvy · 21/12/2025 23:58

I live in South Yorkshire. I doubt that there has been any politician more hated round here than Margaret Thatcher.

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Yes i remember chants about Thatcher from the 80’s

Twinkletwinkly · 22/12/2025 06:55

I think the booing was in panto fashion. But tbh I think the performance by the dead ringers deserved to be booed as it was crap. I didn’t recognise half the folk they claimed to be impersonating.

Prometheus78 · 22/12/2025 06:54

R1nt1nt1n · 22/12/2025 06:50

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You mean you don’t like my answer and have nothing to argue against it as it’s the truth.

I most definitely didn’t dodge your question. I referred to polls- they are irrelevant at this time.

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If the polls are so irrelevant, why are Starmer and co so obsessed with Reform?
It’s shaping policy - look at immigration, and Mahmood’s lurch to the right. Look at Rayner on manoeuvres, on the left. Look at Starmer’s attempts to kill local elections. Cause and effect.

I am confident that most would not offer odds of Starmer remaining as PM after May.

Anyway, all the best, my emoji-loving poster.

R1nt1nt1n · 22/12/2025 06:50

Prometheus78 · 22/12/2025 06:46

Funny how you seek to defend Starmer, and then conveniently dodge my question. Noted.

Methinks you are not a serious person to engage with, so I will pass, thanks.

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You mean you don’t like my answer and have nothing to argue against it as it’s the truth.

I most definitely didn’t dodge your question. I referred to polls- they are irrelevant at this time.

Prometheus78 · 22/12/2025 06:46

R1nt1nt1n · 22/12/2025 06:36

Why on earth would I obsess enough or care to look them off? We’re years off an election ( August 29)and a lot can happen in 4 1/2 years popularitywise.Tories were unpopular in ratings during their 14 years in power. This was always going to be a difficult time to run the country hence the Tories pretty much doing a runnner. They thought they’d sit back and let Labour take the flack for their crap. Unfortunately it’s back fired for them.

Methinks you might be clutching at straws a tad.

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Funny how you seek to defend Starmer, and then conveniently dodge my question. Noted.

Methinks you are not a serious person to engage with, so I will pass, thanks.

Pedallleur · 22/12/2025 06:45

TheAutumnCrow · 21/12/2025 23:36

They boo because it’s like a pantomime performance, in the pantomime season.

Oh no it isn't!!!

JaninaDuszejko · 22/12/2025 06:42

Keir Starmer has a massive majority and so whatever the Reform supporters think there isn't going to be an election any time soon. Booing at the Royal Variety performance sounds like a coordinated publicity stunt designed to get maximum coverage. However much booing there is Labour are still in power and will be for a while.

So, to take the Margaret Thatcher example, 'Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher' may have been sung in (some) playgrounds in the 1970s but that didn't stop her becoming Prime Minister in 1979 and remaining PM for 11 years.

R1nt1nt1n · 22/12/2025 06:36

Prometheus78 · 22/12/2025 06:29

And your comments please on Starmer’s personal ratings, and Labour’s polling.

Thanks.

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Why on earth would I obsess enough or care to look them off? We’re years off an election ( August 29)and a lot can happen in 4 1/2 years popularitywise.Tories were unpopular in ratings during their 14 years in power. This was always going to be a difficult time to run the country hence the Tories pretty much doing a runnner. They thought they’d sit back and let Labour take the flack for their crap. Unfortunately it’s back fired for them.

Methinks you might be clutching at straws a tad.

HelenaWaiting · 22/12/2025 06:33

Netcurtainnelly · 22/12/2025 01:31

Wont get in next time though.

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I was pretty disgusted by your schadenfreude and then you posted this, which gives you away, frankly.

Prometheus78 · 22/12/2025 06:29

R1nt1nt1n · 22/12/2025 06:27

Don’t think Labour voters across the country will be dressing up in black tie, travelling up to London and paying to attend The Royal Variety Performance.

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And your comments please on Starmer’s personal ratings, and Labour’s polling.

Thanks.

R1nt1nt1n · 22/12/2025 06:27

Prometheus78 · 22/12/2025 06:02

The booing is consistent with Starmer’s personal ratings - which are in the toilet, of course.

He has alienated significant parts of the electorate with his terrible policies, his lies, his weakness, and his incompetence.

He’s a nasty piece of work, and the sooner Labour are out of government, the better.

Don’t think Labour voters across the country will be dressing up in black tie, travelling up to London and paying to attend The Royal Variety Performance.

R1nt1nt1n · 22/12/2025 06:25

The type of people who can afford and would want Royal Variety tickets and black tie really aren’t going to be Starmer fans.

MerryAndBrightLaLaLa · 22/12/2025 06:20

🙄

Prometheus78 · 22/12/2025 06:02

The booing is consistent with Starmer’s personal ratings - which are in the toilet, of course.

He has alienated significant parts of the electorate with his terrible policies, his lies, his weakness, and his incompetence.

He’s a nasty piece of work, and the sooner Labour are out of government, the better.

Nopersbro · 22/12/2025 05:28

All things considered, I don't think it's Starmer who comes off badly here. Or the audience.

ColinOfficeTrolley · 22/12/2025 05:25

Maybe they were booing the so called 'impressionists'.

They really are fucking awful. And have to tell you who each person is that they're impersonating, because if you closed your eyes and they didn't give you the heads up, you wouldn't have a fucking clue who they were meant to be.

They really are the most cringe inducing type of human being to exist.

Can't quite put my finger on why, but people who earn a living by doing impressions, really do makee want to punch them in their pathetic mouths.

RampantIvy · 22/12/2025 05:15

Meadowfinch · 22/12/2025 02:45

His govt's policies have had a negative effect on a lot of people and damaged our economy. The govt's incompetent faffing with the autumn statement caused more damage and a lot of redundancies.

In politics the stakes are high. They've cocked it up, they deserve to be booed. I have no sympathy.

The conservative government's policies were no better.

Dgll · 22/12/2025 04:18

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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33.7% of the vote to get 63% of the seats isn't actually a huge amount of public support. It show that people were fed up with the Tories, not that they were in love with labour.

Toothfairy89 · 22/12/2025 04:18

I don't think its news that some people don't like Kier starmer. Some people were protesting and calling for a repeat general election in week 1!

HipHopDontYouStop · 22/12/2025 03:47

Orwellwasright2020 · 22/12/2025 00:01

He is utterly loathed and despised. Has been for years.

Has he now. Gosh.

Monty27 · 22/12/2025 03:46

@xanthomelana 😂

xanthomelana · 22/12/2025 03:42

Eggybreadwithnuts · 21/12/2025 23:44

Looking at the audience, most looked very wealthy!

I suppose the people at the darts chanting Kier Starmer’s a wanker are millionaires as well? You are delusional if you think class has anything to do with his popularity, or lack of.