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Keir Starmer chased by protesters with a noose.

117 replies

Languishingonthesidelines · 07/02/2022 18:53

Starmer was bundled into a car after a mob of protesters angry about the Savile case swarmed around him, apparently waving a homemade noose and scuffling with police. No doubt the same knuckle draggers who erected a gallows in parliament square just a week after Sir David Amess' murder.
Johnson really has become a mini me trump and has inadvertently or not enthused violent protesters to attack a prominent politician. Hopefully this will backfire against him...

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KaptainKaveman · 07/02/2022 20:48

He's a corrupt lying piece of shit. I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire. The shame, the shame of having a deceitful intellectual pygmy like that as our leader.

HalfwomanHalfcookie · 07/02/2022 20:48

Lolamento if you don't like them being called neanderthals, would fucking crazy bastards be OK?

cakeambush · 07/02/2022 20:55

Fat Alex knew exactly what he was doing making that comment. He's called up the knuckle-dragging herd of troglodytes who are now going after Starmer. He did it deliberately.

Wheresmywoolyjumpers · 07/02/2022 20:58

Christ on a cross, no wonder Boris (or Alexander as he is really called) hired his new advisor by singing 'I will survive' to him. Perhaps the people apologising don't understand the concept of dog whistle statements? Or just dont care? If his advisor of 14 years feels he went too far and it is not excusable as the normal cut and thrust maybe we should listen to her.

Cam77 · 07/02/2022 21:04

Politically I’m more aligned with Corbyn than Starmer, but I think Starmer will make an excellent prime minister. I can see Johnson eventually giving way, and probably Sunak becoming leader, but I think the Tories have done too much damage on any number of scores and Labour will win the next general election - perhaps not outright but enough for Starmer to become PM.

bellinisurge · 07/02/2022 21:08

Small word of praise for David Lammy (who I dislike - dinosaur hoarding nonsense). He put himself between protesters and Starmer. Shows he does have some courage after all.

Crowdfundingforcake · 07/02/2022 21:10

Would never have happened if it hadn't been for Johnson's stupid intemperate comments.
He needs to go (Johnson). He's turning this country into a pit of despair and hatred.

Dreamstate · 07/02/2022 21:12

I read what Boris had said about Starmer. It didn't make me get up and go chase the guy. There is a level of personal responsibility and accountability these people need to accept.

If Boris told you to go jump off a cliff would you?

I mean come on.

I'm neither here nor there on politics, same shit different colour but even I find it incredible to say its all Boris fault.

No its the person who decided to do something and made a conscious decision to chase another person down.

BerylStrip · 07/02/2022 21:13

That poor man - honestly, he must wonder what on earth he's done to deserve this. The Cabinet members who have been saying "it is just the cut and thrust of politics" should be made to watch that video again and again until it finally sinks in what their boss has done.

My fear, though, is that still there are people saying that they can't see what the fuss is about, they think 'Boris' should be allowed to get on with running the country and that they still think the Tory party is the best bet for this country.

For the first time in my life I am genuinely frightened of the direction the UK is heading in. I am frightened that if the Tories win the next election our democracy is likely over to all intents and purposes. I am frightened of how many people in the country seem unable to see the sheer amount of damage being done by this government and how many of their civil liberties are in the process of being taken away from them.

GrandmasCat · 07/02/2022 21:14

Johnson really has become a mini me trump and has inadvertently or not enthused violent protesters to attack a prominent politician.

Don’t be silly, Johnson is not a mini me of Trump, is his twin brother but with white gloves, just like Mickey Mouse.

What I find more abhorrent if all this situation is to know the majority of the people think he is doing the job right and do not realise that the level of corruption and behaviour is akin to that of those present in dictatorships in the third world, the only difference is that we are never going to accept it because things like these do not happen in this country… even when we have all the evidence around us.

Wheresmywoolyjumpers · 07/02/2022 21:21

@Dreamstate - yes they have responsibility too. Too being the operative word. But they were primed by the statement in parliament. What is missing from the apologists is any inkling that Boris has responsibility here too. But then, he never took responsibility for what he did to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe either. There is an established link between extreme right wing views, believing left leaning politicians are paedophiles or enablers of them, and violent acting out. So, there is no way any decent politician should be making untrue statements like this.

BerylStrip · 07/02/2022 21:27

@Dreamstate

I read what Boris had said about Starmer. It didn't make me get up and go chase the guy. There is a level of personal responsibility and accountability these people need to accept.

If Boris told you to go jump off a cliff would you?

I mean come on.

I'm neither here nor there on politics, same shit different colour but even I find it incredible to say its all Boris fault.

No its the person who decided to do something and made a conscious decision to chase another person down.

No, I wouldn't do ANYTHING Boris told me to.

But the fact of the matter is that the far-right 'meme' about Kier Starmer somehow letting Jimmy Saville go has come to public prominence now because of his deliberate abuse of Parliamentary privilege to basically defame Kier Starmer knowing there are literally no repercussions for him. If he'd said this outside of Parliament there would almost certainly be a lawsuit in it for him - and he knows it.

Johnson is not entirely to blame, I concede that, but he is in part to blame and you should be able to see this. It's no different to Trump and his messages to his supporters when he lost the election and look how that turned out.

PerkingFaintly · 07/02/2022 21:27

Fucking hell. Fucking hell.

PerkingFaintly · 07/02/2022 21:31

There is no get out for Johnson, just because the physical attackers ALSO have personal responsibility.

There is not a shortage of blame here. It can't be juggled and lost between actors.

cakeorwine · 07/02/2022 21:33

The videos I have seen are disturbing and intimidating.

Who would be a politician?

iklboo · 07/02/2022 21:35

Boris is not so much Britain's Trump as its follow-through.

BerylStrip · 07/02/2022 21:37

@PerkingFaintly

There is no get out for Johnson, just because the physical attackers ALSO have personal responsibility.

There is not a shortage of blame here. It can't be juggled and lost between actors.

The "get out" is he simply does not care. It is no use trying to apply normal standards of behaviour to a sociopath who is also a narcissist. He knows - full well - that literally nothing can be done about him as it stands and unless a large group of Tory MPs are willing to stand up and be counted, and it seems they are not, he is bullet proof.

Even were he to be voted out at the next General Election I am by no means certain he would depart 10 Downing Street. When he was sacked as Foreign Minister by Mrs May he refused to leave the government flat for nearly a month.

In the UK, after a General Election, if a new party is elected the convention is that the current Prime Minister goes to the Monarch and tenders his resignation, and suggests that the new PM is the leader of the political party which has won the GE. There is no other mechanism in our system for replacing him. Do you think he'd go quietly ? I am not sure he would.

iklboo · 07/02/2022 21:38

People who need to insult like the lefties here are clearly lacking in intellect

Oh, the irony.

Pan2 · 07/02/2022 21:42

As someone said of N Farage -I would piss on Johnson if he was on fire, just the bits that weren't on fire.

cakeambush · 07/02/2022 21:43

@iklboo

Boris is not so much Britain's Trump as its follow-through.
Magnificent
Musicalmaestro · 07/02/2022 21:43

BerylStrip
But the fact of the matter is that the far-right 'meme' about Kier Starmer somehow letting Jimmy Saville go has come to public prominence now because of his deliberate abuse of Parliamentary privilege to basically defame Kier Starmer knowing there are literally no repercussions for him. If he'd said this outside of Parliament there would almost certainly be a lawsuit in it for him - and he knows it.

Yes, I agree completely. Sadly I don't think many people understand this.

ppleasebob · 07/02/2022 21:49

Johnson then has the audacity to tweet how disgraceful the behaviour towards Kier Starmer has been! Jesus wept, the sheer arrogance and ignorance!

ppleasebob · 07/02/2022 21:50

@ppleasebob

Johnson then has the audacity to tweet how disgraceful the behaviour towards Kier Starmer has been! Jesus wept, the sheer arrogance and ignorance!
Keir even!
Thelikelylass · 07/02/2022 21:54

Hand on heat when I glanced at that title I thought it said 'moose' and all sorts of bizarre 'Northern Exposure' images came into my head!

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 07/02/2022 21:57

@iklboo

Boris is not so much Britain's Trump as its follow-through.
Thats fantastic 🍷
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