How does someone like Keir Starmer receive a knighthood?

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I can't help wondering how Keir Starmer ever got to be made a sir? I always thought sirs were people who had done something special?

am LOL at the idea David Bowie is smarter than kier Starmer

Of the list I gave some have brains, some charisma, no doubt some have both. The unfortunate prime minister appears to have neither.

i honestly don’t see why someone shouldn’t be pleased that they received a knighthood for their public service (in this case, as DPP)

And you don’t rise through the ranks of barristers without brains. What a bizarre comment.

I don't need you to address my points thanks, they are all indubitably true. You can find them by googling, as you all seem keen that other people should do.

KS was generally viewed as a good leader in the CS. I know a number of people who worked directly with him over the years, all say the same thing, a decent man, team player.

This article seems to agree.

He turned down a peerage on leaving the CS.

Well, for starters your point about the council elections is incorrect. The councils where elections were initially cancelled asked for the elections to be postpones themselves - because they were having their boundaries redrawn, meaning they would have to hold new elections within 2 years at considerable cost to the local taxpayer. It was a prudent and sensible move designed to prevent waste. And then Reform came and stopmed all over it with their incompetent boots. Link below, because unlike some people here I like to back up what I'm saying.

www.gov.uk/government/news/councils-granted-flexibility-to-finish-reorganisation

And yes, they'll probably get in. Which is great, because it means they have 2 years to completely fuck things up and show themselves up for the stupid useless grifters they are. Then in two years, people can elect better people.

And if you're wrong about this (which you are), you are bound to be wrong about everything else you have posted.

I simply cannot believe for one moment he is less popular than the buffoon that was Boris Johnson.

Oh come on, he clearly does have brains. I don't personally care for charisma in a Prime Minister, it isn't an important qualification in my mind.

Either way, I suspect you'll be doing as you're told - Moscow must be loving it. The question is, does Mr F have the necessary brains and charisma you desire? For me, I dislike the slimy git, but everyone has their own choices to make.

Johnson had the rw press largely on his side though.

Do you believe that everyone who disagrees with you is in the pay of moscow?

Reading this thread is like being in the company of a lot of children with their fingers in their ears shouting la la la

Not for a moment, however many people are demonstrating a great ability to be manipulated.

Also, I must most vehemently disagree with your comparison, there seem to be some on here who speak far less sense than the vast majority of children I know.

We will not agree. I will therefore, respectfully, leave you to your views now. I wish you a delightful day.

You're on a hiding to nothing trying to claim that Keir Starmer has no brains.
Passed 11+
Got three A levels at a time when most of the population left school at 16 with minimal qualifications
First in Law from Leeds
Postgraduate qualification in law from Oxford
Called to the bar 1987, the year he was 25
QC at the age of 39
Director of Public Prosecutions 2008

This is not the CV of a fool.

There was a depressingly common view that Johnson was a good laugh, that people would enjoy having a pint with him, etc etc. He worked hard on that image. It's telling that a highly intelligent ex-lawyer with a strong reputation for integrity, a rock solid marriage, children carefully kept out of the private eye, close, loving relationships with his parents and siblings, etc etc, but perceived as a bit dull is getting so much more flak than the flamboyant ex-journalist and noted philanderer on his third marriage with an unknown number of children and a professional reputation for being unreliable and dishonest.

His old boss Max Hastings on Johnson: Johnson would not recognise truth, whether about his private or political life, if confronted by it in an identity parade. Ihttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/boris-johnson-prime-minister-tory-party-britain

When it comes to who should be running the country, being 'a good laugh' should be near the bottom of the list of qualities we look for.

Any examples OP?
Come on you just don't like him do you?
He's had a career of public service and was head of the DPP. He's done more than a lot of those awarded such titles do you question them too?

He avoids PMQ 's like the plague

Percentage attendance seems to be broadly in line with predecessors

Passed the 11 plus??? I would hope so.

3 'A' levels (BBC grades,hardly genius level)

Leeds University? Not prestigious at all or difficult to get in to in 1970's/80's.

The entrance requirements for an Oxford postgraduate law course even now are a first class degree (from anywhere) and the ability to speak English.

100% this. Starmers biggest problem is he isn’t an elite. He will always struggle for support from the large portion of the British public who are bootlickers, desperate for a Johnson to treat them like his Victorian housemaid because that’s the only treatment they are comfortable in

You don't know what you're talking about. Keir Starmer is a year younger than me so we were going through the school system at the same time. At that time A levels of BBC indicated a candidate at the top end of the ability range of those taking A levels, and of course only a small minority of the population did take A levels. I went to an extremely academic school, not unlike his, and getting AAA was a rare feat. First class honours degrees were very rarely awarded.

So odd that 2 separate posters think that becoming a QC/KC results in a knighthood.

Why ?

Most people aren't that interested, bright, or in contact with a reliable source of information.

this is so true
I partly blame the BBC, they gave him a platform to show off his roguish lovable buffoon character
In fact he is a lying charlatan with no morals either personal or public

Don't you think he's done anything special?
David Beckham got one for kicking a football around. Is that special enough for you?

He became a QC and the director of public prosecutions. Presumably a lot more than you will ever manage.

Just to muddy things, it's fair to say that as a result of his ball kicking skills, David Beckham made more money for the UK as a whole and paid more tax than the OP could ever dream of.

The only one shouting and posting nonsense here is you. You've been shown to be wrong about the council elections - so what else are you wrong about?

Your tactics of not addressing it when you are challenged with the truth show you for what you are.