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To think Starmer seriously needs a better haircut

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RogueFemale · 12/10/2023 01:49

The current hair is just awful, a weird 50s throwback style. Why isn't the Labour party hiring people to style him to look (and sound) professional for leadership? It's not enough these days just to be yourself and jog along. It's serious.

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tpxqi · 12/10/2023 01:51

What do you think about his policies? Or lack of them. Or does that not matter. The country is on its knees, his haircut is not the thing that will save it.

FerretFarago · 12/10/2023 01:54

Awful hair didn’t hold Boris back professionally or romantically!

ilovesooty · 12/10/2023 02:04

He looks a bloody sight more professional than Johnson ever did.

MeinKraft · 12/10/2023 02:14

He does look and sound professional.

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RogueFemale · 12/10/2023 02:15

This isn't a discussion of Labour policies, but about looking the part to get elected. Starmer needs a better haircut to be taken seriously by voters across the board. Polling says people are doubtful about him, and part of it is because of how he looks.

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ilovesooty · 12/10/2023 02:18

RogueFemale · 12/10/2023 02:15

This isn't a discussion of Labour policies, but about looking the part to get elected. Starmer needs a better haircut to be taken seriously by voters across the board. Polling says people are doubtful about him, and part of it is because of how he looks.

How did Johnson's haircut contribute to getting the electorate to take him seriously then?

I honestly don't imagine any barriers Starmer has with regard to winning votes are anything to do with his haircut.

willstarttomorrow · 12/10/2023 02:21

This is why the electorate get the people the vote for. No charisma, not 'fun' bad hair cut.....

Much rather some old Etonian who despises the people who votes them in, holds them in such contempt they do not even bother to hide the fact they the 'rules do not apply to them', bankrupts the country and causes massive division just to get elected on a 3 word slogan. Well over a decade of this shite and people are worried about a lack of 'personality' and a bad haircut? Politics never used to be about personality and was all a bit staid and people from maybe impressive backgrounds but quite often not, being boring about things they knew about and were a bit passionate about and the electorate deciding if they trusted them on these issues. I miss this.

Snowjive2 · 12/10/2023 02:21

People need to grow up. We need to stop voting for people based on how they look - the issue is the government of a country, not who gets to stay on a reality TV show. I’m disgusted by the idea that Sir Keir Starmer’s hair would even enter the consideration of any voting adult.

Besides which, he has exactly the same hairstyle as Rishi Sunak.

QueenBitch666 · 12/10/2023 02:25

But does he know what a woman is 🤔

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RogueFemale · 12/10/2023 02:26

Snowjive2 · 12/10/2023 02:21

People need to grow up. We need to stop voting for people based on how they look - the issue is the government of a country, not who gets to stay on a reality TV show. I’m disgusted by the idea that Sir Keir Starmer’s hair would even enter the consideration of any voting adult.

Besides which, he has exactly the same hairstyle as Rishi Sunak.

The fact is that looks do influence voting. Look at how Thatcher changed her look and voice to get elected. Yes it'd be lovely if everyone voted on the basis of policies (mostly people don't vote at all).

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etmoietmoietmoi · 12/10/2023 02:29

Our last PM looked like he brushed his hair with a knife and fork and he seemed to be pretty popular.

This is why the electorate get the people the vote for. No charisma, not 'fun' bad hair cut.....
Exactly.

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RogueFemale · 12/10/2023 02:30

I continue to maintain that the way a politician looks has an effect on their popularity, especially in this day and age. I think it's naive to pretend otherwise.

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RogueFemale · 12/10/2023 02:33

etmoietmoietmoi · 12/10/2023 02:29

Our last PM looked like he brushed his hair with a knife and fork and he seemed to be pretty popular.

This is why the electorate get the people the vote for. No charisma, not 'fun' bad hair cut.....
Exactly.

It was calculated and manipulated. It worked well, the casual toff look, man of the people. Then it suddenly didn't work so well.

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ilovesooty · 12/10/2023 02:34

QueenBitch666 · 12/10/2023 02:25

But does he know what a woman is 🤔

That didn't take long...

ilovesooty · 12/10/2023 02:35

RogueFemale · 12/10/2023 02:30

I continue to maintain that the way a politician looks has an effect on their popularity, especially in this day and age. I think it's naive to pretend otherwise.

No wonder the voting public get what they deserve then.

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RogueFemale · 12/10/2023 02:42

ilovesooty · 12/10/2023 02:35

No wonder the voting public get what they deserve then.

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Yes, the electorate is generally ignorant. And also apathetic, - over 30% don't bother to vote.

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RogueFemale · 12/10/2023 02:47

Snowjive2 · 12/10/2023 02:21

People need to grow up. We need to stop voting for people based on how they look - the issue is the government of a country, not who gets to stay on a reality TV show. I’m disgusted by the idea that Sir Keir Starmer’s hair would even enter the consideration of any voting adult.

Besides which, he has exactly the same hairstyle as Rishi Sunak.

How else do you explain the polling saying people are ambivalent about Starmer?

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Snowjive2 · 12/10/2023 03:32

Which polls, OP? The polls have confirmed that Labour has had a consistent 16-20+ points lead over the Tories for a long time now.

Lonesomefetter · 12/10/2023 03:36

Yup ready for the slightly more midbrow show that is politics.

Seaitoverthere · 12/10/2023 04:03

I can’t see anything wrong with his hair, what on earth are you going on about ? How very strange this thread is.

ThreeLeggedKitten · 12/10/2023 04:06

i guess he could go orange, get highlights and comb over like trump

ThreeLeggedKitten · 12/10/2023 04:12

I think he’s quite attractive but would never co fess that in real life

ApolloandDaphne · 12/10/2023 04:37

I've just scrutinised pictures of him and cannot see what is wrong with his hair. As a pp said it's pretty much the same haircut as Rishi Sunak has. Neat and tidy. What sort of hair cut would you like to see? Mullet? Shaved? Curly perm?

Seaitoverthere · 12/10/2023 08:08

There isn’t anything wrong with his hair is there?! It’s just another Starmer bashing thread that some people like to post.

Bit similar to when Ed Milliband was got at for eating a Bacon sandwich. Bacon sarnies and haircuts are a big no no but selecting a candidate such as Johnson who at the time of selection had been sacked for lying twice is apparently fine . Sunak’s millionaire wife potentially benefiting from policies the Government introduced is ok but oh my goodness someone thinks Starmer has a dodgy haircut (dodgy haircut being in the eye of the beholder).

KimberleyClark · 12/10/2023 08:13

Do you think he’d look better with a Michael Fabricant haircut OP?

To think Starmer seriously needs a better haircut