What planet is Starmer on?

[Noeuf]

So, I vote Labour usually, I like their values etc. However wtf - at a time when Boris is vulnerable Starmer comes out tonight with a back up Boris speech? No need - the website has crashed, queues are huge - he didn’t need any reinforcement of his bag a booster message.
Just incredulous he’s wittering on.

Op in theory I think ok that he did it

But I can’t take to him atm or listen even

I still can't agree with people who are adamant that covid 'isn't that bad. '
I've had a dose of it and it was pretty awful
It can kill people and is worse than flu or a bad cold. It isn't a normal virus at all
It's getting people to understand this which is hard , although I do appreciate that not everyone agrees with me of course!
Nothing about covid is normal at all.

I'd argue that it doesn't really matter if Starmer is agreeing with Boris or not. Boris is basically already irrelevant. The tories will have a new leader before the next election....if Boris is somehow still in charge then, Starmer would be absolutely thrilled.

I felt like it was just trying to hard. Really the people who want jabs will get one whoever stands on TV and says so. Look at me I’m important rubbish (I’m a labour supporter) how about just getting out n about working at food bank or some such festive thing then add a covid message same time of you really really must. Or better still learn how to stick needles on arms and get few thousand in before Xmas. Surely someone an arrange it

I thought it was excellent. He came across as measured and sensible and putting the country first. He also didn't look like he'd fallen out of bed and he got in some good digs without running the risk of turning it into a childish attack - very well-judged. For him to turn down the chance to speak when leader of the opposition always gets a go after an address by the PM would have been utterly ridiculous. Can you imagine - "I want to be PM but I have nothing to say during this crisis so I'll give it a miss, thanks anyway?!" Yes, that would have been a really wise move .

He came across as our actual PM, which he hopefully will be one day.

He was given the airtime because of yesterdays broadcast by the PM, (rather than the PM doing a press conference) so he was responding to that and so he couldn't just go off piste about food banks and whatnot.