To feel relieved and optimistic that we finally have a PM who knows something about something

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So impressed to see the speed rioters are being dealt with. We have someone at the helm who knows something about the law. As opposed to the series of buffoons we have had in recent years who literally don't know how to pay for something in a petrol station, let alone how to manage a pandemic. And the worst of it was they were so thick they didn't even know that they didn't know.

I think Starmer knows what he knows, if you get my meaning -he has his areas of expertise, and will know when he needs to refer to someone else's area of expertise.

I feel more optimistic now than I have done for a very long time

Serious sexual offences then? Armed robbery?

You don't understand the criminal justice system at all, as predicted. You're just spouting soundbites.

There's no need to wait to sentence people who have admitted these offences. There's a whole host of reasons why trials (because the defendant has pleaded not guilty) take much longer to work their way through the system than a guilty plea for one of these offences.

Far too early to be singing his praises. It’s been little over a month. I agree he has dealt with the riot situation well, but I want to know how he’ll deal with all the other pressing big issues. Stopping the pensioners’ cold weather payments wasn’t high on anyones priorities.

He's only been in power for a month but I am not a fan of his approach to thoughtcrime on the internet.

Almost identical

I don’t see what people are seeing in him

He always looks slightly startled before he starts his monotone practised lines

How so?

This! 👏👏

So Kier's done well in clamping down on the rioters because he has friends in high places!?

If the Tories had done this, they would have been totally called out. But now it's Labour, it's OK...? Hmm, alrighty then...

I actually think he's stoked further division in a country that really needs unity at this time. He's not a leader at all.

Sunak is so ignorant he doesn't even realise how ignorant he is. That counts as thick in my book.

Sunak tried to make himself look normal by paying for petrol with a debit card and couldn't work out how to do it because he had never had to do anything like it in his life

Really? What about the 'protesters' who tried to set fire to a hotel with people in it? Surely that's attempted murder and arson.

If the Tories had done this, they would have been totally called out

Yeah right. The Tories were never called out - that was like a whole thing. Allowed to bleed the country dry, lining their own pockets during the pandemic. Have a read about Michelle Mone...

Plus what needs calling out? Would it be better not to have swift justice and more riots on the streets?

It is Keir. The letter e comes before the i.

The taught rule in English is usually to have the i before the e in words, except after c. Hence so many make the mistake.

But his name is spelt Keir.

He's good at stealing the winter fuel allowance from pensioners. No shilly shallying there, straight in.

Well he did such a good impression it was scary. I don't doubt sunak had economic expertise but some of his speeches and interviews as PM showed a total lack of gumption. If someone can't think on their feet and string together a coherent reasonable answer under pressure do I really want them running the country and representing us intentionally. Nah. I think Kier does seem more adult in a way we haven't experienced since Cameron, and if I'm being very generous, in small flashes with Theresa. The rest have been like kids running the show, embarrassing and utterly lacking in command

I think people are minimising the impact of the riots on innocent people living nearby and on the police who had to deal with them. Aside from the attempted murder mentioned above, trying to live your life with flying bricks and burning wheelie bins on the streets and having your community shops smashed up is not a trivial matter at all. Easy to say 'it's only property' when it doesn't affect you.

I agree that Starmer dealt with it very well. Cancelling his holiday and turning up to the relevant meetings was just one example of the contrast with previous incumbents.

Most of the cases didn't go to trial, they've been sentences after pleading guilty in the magistrates court or if more serious been committed to Crown Court for sentencing, or have entered guilty pleas in crowm court all of which happen quickly

This happens all the time with these sort of crimes

…and totally out of touch as he didn’t have sky tv and said it out loud.

...the far right/conservative voters

You place conservative voter in the the same breath as the far right extremists.

How insulting and so thoroughly typical of the modern Labour supporter.

No room in the world for any viewpoint that does not align exactly with your own.

I welcomed the news of the victory of the Labour Party. I think now that I should not have done so, not when their supporters are so clearly filled with hate for anyone who is even slightly to the right of them in political thought.

I think Sunak did very well in the televised debates. And his warnings from those debates will prove founded (as they did with Truss).

He was routinely being judged on his personal circumstance, there was a great deal of cattiness in terms of his wife's wealth. I think he got more and more frustrated with the loaded questions and approach in interviews.

It's becoming more like the Daily Mail comments section on here.

What one good thing for the majority of the country did Sunak do as PM? & since you can clearly see into the future, what’s the next set for life numbers please?

I didn't judge him on his personal circumstances. I judged the state of this country after fourteen years of Tory mismanagement. And I also voted to re-elect our local MP who is an excellent representative in parliament and who fights for this constituency.

And who was head of the CPS at the time? I’ll save you the google, it was Keir Starmer.

The issue is that he was judged by people online, but he and his colleagues got away with so much because there was nobody official holding them to account most of the time.

No one has been jailed for liking or retweeting.