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.

The twitter racists didn't seem to irrationally hate Sunack as much did they? Although now some of them have decided he's "not English".

The irony.😂😂😂

When did it last upset you that a PM mentioned some events but not others? For eg Sunak didn’t mention Mothers’ Day but did do Eid (it’s been shown upthread). Did that make you say he shouldn’t do SM at all? Or that it’s ‘incompetence’ as others have suggested?

Exactly. Nobody goes round saying Happy Lent.

I don't think anyone says happy ramadon do they? Isn't it like Lent where you say peace and blessings or similar?

Usually only at the beginning and the end I think. I don't have a problem with it anyway.

It's Eid he mentioned, which is the celebration at the end of Ramadan. The nearest equivalent in the Christian calendar would be Easter, I suppose. (Not that close, as few people do such intense fasts for Lent. In any case, Ramadan is not always close to Lent in time; it just happens to be this year.) He did not say 'Happy Ramadan; on every day of it!

That's a really terrible social media strategy.

Doesn't a lot of gnashing count as outrage?

And the posters who've said it's disgraceful.

No gnashing here just calm observation, comment and criticism.

Not sure why we are all programmed to label other women's opinions as froth, outrage and hysteria. It's like we've been brainwashed to be misogynistic even though we are women .

Do men get accused of being outraged when they roll their eyes at other's behaviour? No.

The gnashing came from the OP, who saw a lot of it.

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

The No 10 comms team I imagine.

Well OP kicked the thread off by talking about "lots of upset" so I don't think you can solely blame this on the policing of women's opinions rather than the framing of the thread..

'Well OP kicked the thread off by talking about "lots of upset"

Lots of upset on Twitter she said. There has just been calm and polite criticism on here yet we've been accused of being outraged, offended and 'gnashing'.

People have said it’s disgraceful, incompetent and racist. I think those overreactions count as outrage, offence and ‘gnashing’.

It was the OP who talked about a lot of gnashing.🙈

Saying something is incompetent and disgraceful is criticism. It is not being outraged nor gnashing. Now if someone said its absolutely shocking! disgusting and appalling that would be a bit of gnashing.

Women are allowed to voice their opnions, we aren't hysterical.

I’m a woman too, and my opinion is that using such strong words for criticism suggests outrage. Criticism might be it was ‘poor’ or ‘disappointing’. Not that it was. As a woman my opinion is this is a load of nonsense confected by people who dislike Starmer.

It would never occur to me to expect the PM, male or female, to comment on Mothers Day, Diwali, Ead, Fathers Day or any other soppy, virtue signalling tripe. I want the PM to focus on doing his/her job.

It was the original poster who started with mentioning gnashing:

He could have done a text only one for X and it would have saved a lot of gnashing

So, someone is apparently gnashing.

Has anyone ever said something like that about Lent? Ever?

Happy Easter, of course. Warmest wishes for Lent? Seriously?

I expect Jacob Rees-Mog does!

Surely it's clever how it was done, mention EID on one platform and Mothers day on another. Otherwise it's multiple posts on the same platform and which do you do first, someone would be upset if he mentioned EID first. Some would be upset if it was Mothers day first then EID was posted about and it pushed the Mothers day post off feeds. He cannot win!

My thoughts exactly.