Starmer Christmas message 😳

[BeardofHagrid]

What an odd video. Almost like a deepfake with sentences spliced together and lack of human warmth.

The version that @BeardofHagrid posted was edited by the Daily Mail I think @MrsKwazi

Hey judgy, I had no idea about his brother. Didn't even know he had one.

For people making horrible comments- I hope you feel a bit of a shit knowing now that his cancer suffering special needs brother died yesterday - I doubt he was exactly feeling 100% recording this

He's mentioned him before in speeches, but I guess you were focused on the bits you could take the piss out of.

I wonder if anyone who was criticising Starmer's Christmas message will bother to come back and acknowledge that it may have been really difficult for him?

Is that you, Victoria?

Oh how witty - do you not feel just a tinge of shame?

Sure, but you made a nasty snide remark about him/his mother, without knowing anything about him or his situation.

The only person "judging" is you.

A better person would just admit they got it wrong, instead of going on the offensive.

.....and you re till doing it.

Why would you show yourself up like that? If you're like that in real life people will draw their own conclusions about you I suppose.

High horse - down boy

Still showing yourself up. You're just demonstrating what you are.

Best ignored.

Probably. The likes of that generally are.

Yes. Here is video from no. 10

Edited as @BIossomtoes is right. Best ignored.

For those who want more information about the PM’s brother, see below.

A spokesperson for the prime minister said: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Nick Starmer. Nick, 60, died peacefully on the afternoon of December 26 after battling cancer. We ask for privacy for Nick’s wider family at this time.”
Starmer has spoken in the past. about his protectiveness towards* *Nick, who developed learning difficulties after complications during his birth.
At school, Nick was labelled “remedial” and told he would never be able to read, though he proved this wrong. He was put in a special group who took lessons at a village hall and did not sit exams, and he left school without any formal qualifications.
He later gained a technical qualification and worked in scrap cars and scaffolding, but he struggled in life. His lifelong health problems made it difficult for him to hold down a job long term . ..

The prime minister has used his brother’s story as an example of how people of working class do not always go on to lead more comfortable lives than their parents.
Speaking of his brother’s experience, he said: “The whole thing is so poignant … Nick has had a really tough life. So that dream our mum and dad had for us hasn’t come true. There’s this real, deep sadness in me about that for my brother, and for them.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/27/keir-starmer-pays-tribute-to-brother-who-died-on-boxing-day

But you're not, are you.

What is wrong with you?

His brother has just died as he had cancer. He could well have been pre=occupied. I didn't see his broadcast myself.

It's sad to see how little shame the shallow judgy people on this thread have now that they know the context, and sadder still that they've fallen for a Daily Mail edit designed to show what the Daily Mail wants people to see. Shallow and intellectually lacking.

No, his father!

And his mum worked in the NHS

I'm a Tory but I don't think Keir Starmer is bad or an evil person. I just disagree with him policy wise.

Quoting you pointy, as it bears repeating.

I said that Starmer did not sound hopeful enough and given the now exposed background to this, that would make sense. However, he could have been more personal in the video and acknowledged he is going through a tough time. That is what would have made people warm to him. The Guardian article is good, we need more like this from Starmer. It is the Instagram/social media generation and whilst I do respect his very clear desire for privacy, that won’t get him votes in the future. People want to know he is humane.
Let’s hope that his brother having SEND means he will sort out SEND in the education system! Still cannot forgive him for charging VAT on kids with SEND whose parents were forced to send them to small private schools. If anything, it makes me even more angry realising he would understand how difficult their ridiculous VAT policy is.

However, he could have been more personal in the video and acknowledged he is going through a tough time

He would have been torn apart for doing that.