Wtf with this weird Keir Starmer pic on BBC news

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Is it me? Why is this picture so staged? It looks really odd, why??

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There is a weird vibe of "the courtiers crowding round the king".

I remember seeing the same one with Boris. No one commented at all. Is this another Labour trashing thread?



@EasternStandard "Surely you can accept people feel differently to you about images"

Of course I do. It's just a little strange to focus on this image- when every incoming government have produced one exactly the same. If not wierder



@timetodecide2345

Indeed.

Not particularly, I actually voted labour, the photo just had a weird look about it. Like someone said up thread it looks like a stock image rather than one taken naturally.

Saw this today

Bet he has a particularly pleasing Baritone.

As for the ex PMs, I'd say

Sunak - treble

May - 'I'm a soprano really, but I like to help out the Altos from time to time'

Cameron - respectable tenor

Brown - Bass

Blair - Tenor with a Dylan nasal edge whenever somebody had a guitar in the vicinity

Johnson - Shane McGowan Sings Gilbert & Sullivan

Major - Tenor that struggles on the high G and above

Thatcher - 'I'd never do something as frivolous as sing, not when I've got the Poor and the Miners to stamp on'.

Allowed herself a few bars of Evita after entertaining Pinochet, though.

Truss - How dare you ask if I can sing?Everybody knows I should have played Mary in the school Nativity with my solo version of Little Donkey. But they gave my part away to somebody called something stupid like Jessica who had red hair. I told them THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE, but they laughed and handed me the Donkey ears anyway. I was cheated out of my role by that conspiracy between Jessica's mum, Mrs Chumley the Head and Freddie Twatterson's dad who was the caretaker.

Gosh they played a blinder casting Gillian Anderson to play her didn't they? She looks identical to her in this photo.

@NeverDropYourMooncup

Wasn't Blair in a band before he went into politics? Sure I remember reading he modelled himself on Mick Jagger.

ETA. Found it! Ugly Rumours, it was called.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/apr/27/labour2001to2005.tonyblair2

I guess within a few years we won't be able to tell by looking at a photo what has been manipulated and what hadn't. Which is quite scary in itself.

As for flights. I know they all look like they like holding court but have they really taken all the press on their private flight??

Wouldn't you want a drink and to watch a movie/have a sleep??

I saw Chris Mason talking about it earlier and he called it 'the huddle', as though it is a known press thing (although I had never heard of it).

The press pack come on all big trips like this, they still sleep and eat, both pm and journos if they want, but they’re all working.

Standard stuff.

It's a couple of photos of the Prime Minister looking absolutely ridiculous. Hardly a Labour bashing thread.

But it was nothing new to see Boris looking ridiculous so people probably didn't notice

All this seems quite tame compared to John Major's time. Anyone else old enough to remember when Will Self got the sack for snorting heroin in the toilet of John Major's private jet?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/self-admits-taking-heroin-on-pm-s-jet-1268111.html

If it were a Labour trashing thread why would that be wrong?

A Labour PM and government is open to hostility and ridicule just as much as any other.

I thought there were hints at it wanting to be a deep state trashing thread. The links below were to when Starmer referred to such things as conspiracy theories, back in March.

Are we allowed to refer to deep state nowadays? Or does it have to be done euphemistically?

lol

I think Starmer would be a slightly shaking tenor, originally wanting to sing "Those were the Days My Friends" while thinking about how he'd been tricked into taking the helm just as WW3 was due to break out, but then breaking out into "Unstoppable" as he decides to join Trump et al to stop it.

Positive thinker, me.

I reckon Starmer is an unexpected counter tenor.

Talks like Brian Badonde

😂 That is so true!

I am surprised by how poor his speech-making style is for a KC, particularly one who’s done jury advocacy.

I reckon he’d be the warbly, off-key dad singer type:

He's all adenoids and a machine gun approach. John Culshaw was on Countdown this week and has got the impression nailed. Agree he can talk properly but lapses into Mr Badonde far too easily. Think he's realised he's out of his depth.

It's the 'huddle' always happens. Not always photographed