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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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MorrisZapp · 13/10/2023 17:12

I like his hair, I think it's stylish.

verdantverdure · 13/10/2023 17:17

beguilingeyes · 13/10/2023 17:00

Aside from the print media, which is almost solidly Tory. The Express, Mail and Telegraph rabidly so, you've got a Tory at the helm of the BBC and (ex) political editor Laura Kuenssberg who practically swooned whenever Johnson was around and gave away the postal vote results for the last election while it was still embargoes.

Bless her, she was so excited about her mates winning she just couldn't keep it to herself!

verdantverdure · 13/10/2023 17:18

Crikeyalmighty · 13/10/2023 14:43

It does make me laugh all this going on about lefty smear campaigns. Most of mainstream printed media is right wing- even the BBC it seems these days.

Presumably all that rubbish going around pre Brexit about 3 million Turks before Xmas , cheaper food and shoes and mass Facebook posting about sovereignty and other such crap wasn't the work of 'right wing' forces then?? Or doesn't it count if it's right wing propaganda and aligns with your views ?

If you're far right enough everyone else is a lefty aren't they?

verdantverdure · 13/10/2023 17:19

MorrisZapp · 13/10/2023 17:12

I like his hair, I think it's stylish.

Me too. It is.

jgw1 · 13/10/2023 17:26

MorrisZapp · 13/10/2023 17:12

I like his hair, I think it's stylish.

Its not in But Jeremy Corbyn's league though is it.

RowcheRascal · 13/10/2023 17:30

couldn't gie a feck about his hair as long as he sorts out the NHS/Schools/Poverty/ Lack of Affordable Housing etc

Anniegetyourgun · 13/10/2023 18:01

jgw1 · 12/10/2023 20:22

Oh heck, apparently I'm a communist, but I don't have the hat, does that mean I'm not?

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Of course you don't have it. It's on someone else's head at the moment. You have to wait your turn. Yes, only the one hat. Waste not, want not.

Anniegetyourgun · 13/10/2023 18:12

Moonbowlspoon · 12/10/2023 21:44

I revile the Tories and everything they stand for but for some reason I find it difficult to dislike Michael Gove. I have no idea why, it defies all logic.

There was a children's programme, round about when my sprogs were small (in their 30s now), called Pob. If you were of watching age then you probably liked Pob. Michael Gove is exactly what one imagines Pob would look like if he were to grow up. So, subconscious early years indoctrination. (You can't be the same age as me or you would have feared Pob as you despised him.)

Did y'all hear we're apparently supposed to be having more babies now? I guess that's to make sure we don't have any room for foreigners. Not sure where the 2-child benefit cap fits into that but I suppose Gove knows. Thank fuck I'm way past that age. It'll be the mines for me, no doubt.

verdantverdure · 13/10/2023 18:36

RowcheRascal · 13/10/2023 17:30

couldn't gie a feck about his hair as long as he sorts out the NHS/Schools/Poverty/ Lack of Affordable Housing etc

Good.

AdamRyan · 13/10/2023 18:48

Anniegetyourgun · 13/10/2023 18:12

There was a children's programme, round about when my sprogs were small (in their 30s now), called Pob. If you were of watching age then you probably liked Pob. Michael Gove is exactly what one imagines Pob would look like if he were to grow up. So, subconscious early years indoctrination. (You can't be the same age as me or you would have feared Pob as you despised him.)

Did y'all hear we're apparently supposed to be having more babies now? I guess that's to make sure we don't have any room for foreigners. Not sure where the 2-child benefit cap fits into that but I suppose Gove knows. Thank fuck I'm way past that age. It'll be the mines for me, no doubt.

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I said exactly this to DP earlier

jgw1 · 13/10/2023 19:44

ilovesooty · 13/10/2023 19:03

Its probably Sunak's jumper that puts them off.

LaBohemia · 13/10/2023 21:20

I'm more concerned he doesn't seem to know what a woman is?

jgw1 · 14/10/2023 06:27

LaBohemia · 13/10/2023 21:20

I'm more concerned he doesn't seem to know what a woman is?

At least Johnson did, which is why he let one run the country for him.

Roussette · 14/10/2023 08:02

jgw1 · 14/10/2023 06:27

At least Johnson did, which is why he let one run the country for him.

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Oh so true!
And didn't we know it?!

Lostcotter · 14/10/2023 08:05

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.

This. We get the government we deserve. If they don’t vote for him because of a bad haircut it’s very sad but it is what it is.

Lostcotter · 14/10/2023 08:08

jgw1 · 13/10/2023 09:38

Yes, but how good does But Jeremy Corbyn look for 74?

Amazing.

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Corbyn is not 74! The oldest crush I’ve ever had 😂

jgw1 · 14/10/2023 10:02

Roussette · 14/10/2023 08:02

Oh so true!
And didn't we know it?!

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To be fair Carrie had at least as much of mandate to run the country as Sunak does.

EasternStandard · 14/10/2023 10:03

jgw1 · 14/10/2023 10:02

To be fair Carrie had at least as much of mandate to run the country as Sunak does.

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Corbyn was good though. Maybe a few wanted him

EasternStandard · 14/10/2023 10:04

Just noticed the positive PR on this thread. Quite a change from rest of site, I’m sure he’ll appreciate

BIossomtoes · 14/10/2023 10:06

EasternStandard · 14/10/2023 10:03

Corbyn was good though. Maybe a few wanted him

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Corbyn was certainly good for Tories.

jgw1 · 14/10/2023 10:06

EasternStandard · 14/10/2023 10:03

Corbyn was good though. Maybe a few wanted him

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Corbyn's hair.

EasternStandard · 14/10/2023 10:08

jgw1 · 14/10/2023 10:06

Corbyn's hair.

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He’ll be happy you’re still standing, given current affairs

jgw1 · 14/10/2023 10:09

EasternStandard · 14/10/2023 10:08

He’ll be happy you’re still standing, given current affairs

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I think there is one thing we can be certain of, that Corbyn will have been more successful leading a party at a GE that Sunak.

What does that say about their hair?

EasternStandard · 14/10/2023 10:12

jgw1 · 14/10/2023 10:09

I think there is one thing we can be certain of, that Corbyn will have been more successful leading a party at a GE that Sunak.

What does that say about their hair?

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Is that why he did so well last time?

Yes hair. I suppose that’s all supporters can say now

I’m sure he’ll take it gladly