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 was really shocked yesterday to see on all the big pages, including Lloyds bank Marks & Spencer‘s Tesco et cetera even on the royal family page if they mentioned Eid there was a ton of comments underneath saying what about Mother’s Day but yet all of them had mentioned Mother’s Day hours earlier.

it was literally like a ln aggressive coordinated attack across the Internet yesterday very weird.

The people I've seen doing this are the same ones who get outraged by the fact that there's an International Women's Day. Go figure.

wtf?? Or are you joking? I can’t tell.

What the hell does the prime minister have to do with Mothers Day?

It’s Mothers Day. Celebrate with your mother, or your children. Do whatever you want.

And I’m sure Keir Starmer will do likewise.

This place baffles me sometimes.

He should've mentioned both on both platforms, obviously.

Either do social media responsibly and with equality, which as pm is pretty obvious, or don't bother.

If he'd posted about Mothers' Day on X I wouldn't have seen it because I wouldn't touch X with a barge pole. Not that I care that much whether he mentioned it or not. I saw it on Instagram, thought 'that's nice' and moved on.

He didn’t tweet about Ramadan. He tweeted about Eid. OP was mistaken about this (as well). He will tweet about Easter, which is the end of the period of fasting. Not that many people do any kind of Lent fast these days.

He will mention Easter. It hasn’t happened yet this year though. Eid has.

I'm aware of that. I was responding to someone asking if he should mention the Easter bunny.

I'm not joking, and if you can't figure that out, that's your issue, not mine.

I honestly couldn't give less of a shit.

I'm sure with Trump spitting out his dummy and threatening trade tariffs left right and centre, Starmer probably has more pressing matters to attend to...

Yeah it's depressing that certain groups has decided to make it a thing this year whereas I'm not sure 5 or 10 years ago it would have been. Not a great direction for online discourse to be going.

Only when he shops in Waitrose. Politics of envy.

Keir Starmer needs a full time employee to manage all his social media and keep up with what International Day, National Day or other Religious Event he should be commenting on today.

4th January
I would like to celebrate World Braille Day with all blind people on social media

6 February
I would like to celebrate National Ice Cream for Breakfast Day with you all (yes really it's a day)

3 March
This week we celebrate British Pie Week with pride.
4 March
Today is World Obesity Day where Keir would like to stand in solidarity with those of you battling against eating all the pies.

21 April
Take a brew with me during your break on National Tea Day!

4 May
May the fourth be with all Jedi followers celebrating in the UK today

5 June
(Embarrassing picture of Keir eating)
Celeb The Big Lunch with your friends and neighbours
(Embarrassing picture of Keir eating)
Support British Traditions on Nation Fish and Chips Day
(Embarrassing picture of Keir with a glass of Gin)
Support British businesses by having a glass of gin with Keir
18 June
(Embarrassing picture of Keir eating sushi at a picnic)
Today is International Picnic day and International Sushi Day
25 June
(Embarrassing picture of Keir eating a Bakewell Tart)
Today is National Bakewell Tart Day so get baking and eating
Busy month June.

July 15
A helpful reminder to look out for the weather on St Swinthin's Day

August 14
Today is Falklands Day. We would like to honour the fallen and veterans who often get forgotten due to this wars association with Thatcher

September 19
I would like to say Arrrrrhhh to all pirates on International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

October 20
I'm going to share a little ditty
Even though it's a bit shitty
Happy National Poetry Day

November 10
Today we celebrate a group of unsung heroes on National Paralegal Day

December 2
Today we cut payments for pensioners further on Fuel Poverty Awareness Day

If we’re taking this seriously now, then I think it’s pretty bloody offensive to draw any sort of equivalence between Mother’s Day and Eid, quite frankly. Eid is a major festival of a major world religion. Mother’s Day is a tradition that hasn’t been connected with religion for the vast majority of people for many, many years.It’s like Pancake Day. And it is not usual at all to acknowledge Lent. Easter yes. Lent no.

incidentally, can I recommend a TicToc feed called CatsofRamadan? It will gladden your hearts.

I am REALLY loving the gem that World Obesity Day used to be in October. Then they moved it to March - during National Pie Week.

It's priceless.

'Starmer probably has more pressing matters to attend to...'

What, like posting on X about a religious event?

'If we’re taking this seriously now, then I think it’s pretty bloody offensive to draw any sort of equivalence between Mother’s Day and Eid, quite frankly. Eid is a major festival of a major world religion'

Doesn't have to be a major festival of a major wolrd religion for the UK 's pm to recognise it on X.

Do social media or don't, keep it equal though.

Good so we will be all celebrating May 4th with Keir! Fab.

All these British Jedis will be delighted.

Starmer has released several posts about Ramadan including his hosting of events in Downing Street and Westminster Hall.

Mothers' Day is a UK tradition. Eid is not. I wouldn't criticise the Saudi Arabian government for posting about Eid but not Mothers' Day, it's only right to give our country the same respect.

Are all theose dates you painstakingly listed something that the majority of the UK recognise and celebrate @RedToothBrush?

Youre right though, he does need someone to manage his social media. I'll put myself forward and show them how to do it.

Mothers Day isn't an religious festival either. Nor is it celebrated globally (less than half the world's countries mark any form of Mother's day).

The UK is an outlier tieing it to the fourth Sunday in Lent (Roman rite) and calling it Mothering Sunday. Most countries which celebrate Mothers Day do so in May but dates range from early Feb through to late December.

Most countries use offficial channels to mention major, globally recognised festival dates - so Eid, Diwali, Hannukah Roman Christmas, Orthodox Christmas etc and official state days eg Independence days, Thanksgiving etc.

Personal channels are often used for less formal dates such as Mother's Day. And lets not pretend that Fathers day, DGP day etc are anything other than marketing inventions to cash in on the Mothers Day market. However any comms strategy with a brain will also target messages to the relevant audiences and vary those over time rather than waste money scatter gunning all messages to all channels.

All of this reminds me - must send a purple ink job to No 10 as my Mastadon LarryTheCat fangroup didn't get our personal mother's day message and all eighteen of us are offended that we didn't get a generic "happy mothers day to all mothers" message set up by the office junior in the comms department.

Except he did post about Mother’s Day…

And he’s showing the different demographics of the UK by sending them well wishes on their major celebrations. He does it for Hindus and Jews. Why should Muslims be treated any differently?

'Mothers Day isn't an religious festival either. Nor is it celebrated globally'

Who said it was a religious event or celebrated globally? It is celebrated in this country <the one that he is pm of> and that is what we are referring to.

You have equated it with Eid and Easter in more than one post. Its netiher relgious nor a major national festival. I note as usual you ignore the facts around Mothers Day.

Given we have tweets from various public sector organisations about various Bollocks Days, I don't see why Starmer isn't promoting many of these days. We need awareness of them to support British Businesses and to promote health. That's more important to the effective running of the country. Why should we be prioritising religion when businesses are struggling? There's an economic crisis and need to promote British in the face of Trump's tariffs. Why aren't we promoting health issues when so much of the national budget goes on healthcare?

Who is making these important decisions about which Days are Really Very Important and which are Utter Bullshit?