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.

Mother's Day is triggering and offensive to those without mothers or who have mothers who have died.

Many organisations now allow you to opt out of Mother's Day marketing.

The PM should be more sensitive about this and not make social media posts that may cause distress for many.

There's probably a reason for that. People are maybe concerned that we are moving away from traditional celebrations relevant to the UK. Only last week a school was in the news because they were not going to celebrate Easter. Maybe people who were using mothers day as an excuse to vent was a red herring....

Honestly I really want National Ice Cream For Breakfast Day promoted.

Why can't I have it?

If I don't I will scccrweammm and scccrweammm about just how unfair it is.

Politicians having social media is a fucking nightmare. It just whips up ridiculous faux outrage. Who cares?

'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'

Mother's Day isn't one of the various bollocks days.

'Mother's Day is triggering and offensive to those without mothers or who have mothers who have died.'

Lots of celebrations trigger some people for one reason or another doesn't mean we ignore them. Strategies to cope always more useful than avoidance ime.

Of course mother's day is bollocks.

Have you SEEN the threads over the past week?!

And I still demand my Ice Cream Day instead of Mothers Day which I don't celebrate.

Why do you keep mocking Mother's Day?

I don't think that the knee jerk comments are as prevelent or as angry about Jewish, Sikh and Hindu holidays/festivals as they are about Islamic holidays although some people will moan about any holidays/celebrations that aren't Christian. Islamaphobia is rife on Twitter and this thread is definitely an Islamaphobic dog whistle and many like-minded people have answered the call.

Because the whole thing about Starmer not saying something about it is absolutely ridiculous.

I would rather he just ran the bloody country and didn't waste taxpayers money employing people to work out which days are important and which aren't.

Honestly people have gone completely mental on this over the last few days. For all the angst and drama it causes so many women would be better off without it.

Yes but that's the whole point. There's so much rubbish being spouted on social media and the media in general. Maybe a school didn't celebrate Easter but it doesn't mean Easter is cancelled like I've seen people saying on social media. Our very diverse school always celebrates Easter, Christmas, Diwali, Eid.
Look at all this fuss about Keir Starmer "ignoring" mothers day when he has actually posted about it on several forums. Not a peep about the fact he didn't mention Eid on Instagram. People are just constantly looking for things to be offended about, especially if anyone dares to send a message of goodwill to Muslims.

Starmer would be better to stop doing ALL these goodwill messages. Its such complete nonsense. If theres a halting of all of them, no one can be offended.

Why do them? Its a waste of time. Its just leading to people bitching about how they aren't getting attention.

Nothing is achieved by them. Theres no soft power gain.

Honestly, if it causes this many problems ditch it.

The PM should PM not PR.

Proving that X Monkeys will unthinkingly do whatever they're told.🙈 I hope they're getting their arses handed to them on the many other platforms too.

Thick, racist fuckwits.

@AlltheprettyseahorsesEid is not a “tradition”. Eid is a major religious festival. Like Christmas or Hannukah.

Hmm maybe you're right. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Then people would complain he was ignoring Christian festivals and dig out tweets from years ago showing when he wished people a happy Eid. People are just ranting about this stuff the whole time on social media. It doesn't matter if he posts or not, they're constantly finding stuff to be outraged about. People are constantly finding ways to demonise minorities and claim that the government only care about immigrants etc.

If he had posted a Mother's Day message, then £ to a penny those same people complaining that he didn't would be complaining about how much of a hypocrite he was due to many women "not being able to afford to have children because of the budget/CoL/the sky being the wrong shade of blue, or whatever reason they can dredge up.

Fair point

Listen, he also ignored ‘speak like a pirate day’ Napping Day, Hobbit Day AND World Lindy HOP day. The man is dead to me, DEAD to me!
I don’t care if we ARE on the brink of WW3 - he needs to get his priorities sorted .

'Listen, he also ignored ‘speak like a pirate day’ Napping Day, Hobbit Day AND World Lindy HOP day. The man is dead to me, DEAD to me! I don’t care if we ARE on the brink of WW3 - he needs to get his priorities sorted .'

Again, 'pirates day' and napping day' are not comparable to Mother's Day. Why thr derision about a day that is important to many women and their familes?

He either does X or he doesn't.

P.s We aren't on the brink of WW3, no need to scaremonger.

I haven't heard any Muslims complaining about the lack of an Eid post on Instagram. He either does Instagram or he doesn't.

I'm no fan of Keir Starmer, but I can't imagine it occurring to me to notice or care if he acknowledged Mothers' Day on social media

He does X for some things. He does other channels for other things. The way he uses different channels will evolve over time.

He doesn't need to vomit everything out on a single account, just like they will spread news stories across different outlets.

This stuff isn't hard.

This stuff isn't hard.

You wouldn’t think so, would you?!

Oh, I think it exactly figures! The venn diagram is probably a circle.

I'm sure the PM has enough to do without acknowledging a day made up by card manufacturers.