Keir Starmer ignoring Mother's Day

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AIBU to think it's a bit of a glaring omission?

Nothing on Twix today except something about Ramadan, and an RT about Myanmar.

Lots of upset on there about him ignoring Lent too.

It's probably too late to expect anything now.

What's his objective here? It feels so... deliberate. And bizarre.

Fully expecting some to accuse me of dog whistling. But I'd still be interested in why they think he's done it.

I've heard he bought his wife a bag of mini eggs and then asked if he could share them. Bastard.

The Downing Street account doesn’t belong to the PM. He can do what the fuck he likes on his personal SM accounts - just like you.

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I put jam on first too. Then plonk clotted cream on top of that.

I've no class, me! 🤣 Maybe Starmer should tweet about his preferred order of these things. Then everyone will know who should be offended and who shouldn't! 🙄🤣

Maybe we could take it in turns to be offended?

Kemi, have you not got anything better to do with your time?

I find your suggestion offensive.

If anyone wants a perfect example of playing chess with a pigeon, this thread is it.

The Labour party posted about Mothers Day on X, Instagram and Facebook. I hadn't even considered that Keir Stamer would or wouldn't post about it until seeing this thread.

YANBU He's a disgrace. Today is International Potato Day and he's posted nothing. Furthermore I bet he's having chips for tea. The potato murdering bastard.

You can’t it’s not your turn until Tomorrow at 9am

I’ve heard he never puts down the next customer bar on the conveyor belt when he does the weekly shop …

Don't he silly. No different to wishing somone happy Christmas or happy new year. Do you lose respect for him for that too? Like I said, I don't like him anyway so wouldn't be bothered if he said it or not, but clearly others are bothered.

I wish politician stayed off social media

it’s creates too many issues (Trump) and too many are riled up by non issues such as this nonsense

Might be no bad thing.

Give over. He says Happy Christmas. Does that rattle your cage too? If he says it, you dont have to take it on board. Like him saying Happy Eid. I dont care because its not relevant to me, but its relevant to others, so if he says it, thats fine too. Not everything is about you. You do you...

Here we go. If you're upset, go on the very quiet Gaza threads. This one isn't for that particular subject.

I just don't think we need a load of trite platitudes like "hope all mums are being spoilt" from politicians on what is basically now a commercial day. He's not a religious leader so he doesn't need to pontificate on lent. It's simple politeness to acknowledge a major religious holiday on an official twitter account. Although it wouldn't bother me at all if he didn't acknowledge Eid or Easter or Diwali. He's not the head of state.
A personal tribute on his personal IG is lovely it that's what he wants to do.

This just does it for me. Heinous. There are no words.

Im not 'very upset' about this.

Why must women who have different views be very upset, professionally offended, fummin or hating.

I'm a woman with a view.

KS and his comms team should do better. I won't hold my breath.

Nonsense. My husband and I both do a lot all year round for our kids because that's our job, but it doesn't mean that it's not nice to have a bit of recognition for that. It's not hard to make a little bit of effort once a year to say "Hey, I notice everything you do for our family and I appreciate it." That doesn't mean that my daughter, stepdaughter and husband don't also say thank you on other days of the year, or that I don't thank them. It doesn't have to be commercial at all.

So you think that he should have acknowledged Eid on Instagram, then? To be "consistent", and "inclusive"?

The Red Cross doesn’t sell Christmas cards….

Ok, you're not very upset. I take that back.
However, you did think it was an issue that Keir Starmer had posted about Eid on X but not mothers day, because you want him to be consistent.
So I can assume you feel it's also an issue that he poster about mothers day on Instagram but not Eid. It's exactly the same inconsistency.

I read this as ‘winding up’ as in closing down, given the reason stated. I don’t think any government departments or public bodies should be on there anymore to be honest.