Starmer being booed on the Royal Variety this evening.

[Netcurtainnelly]

When one of the Dead Ringers did an impression of Keir Starmer on the RVP tonight there was alot of booing.
ITV kept it in too.
How embarrassing for Starmer.

Says alot though about what people think of Starmer.😀

Anyone who goes to an event like that and boos has no manners.

That would be my view whoever the politician or public figure was.

Do you endorse behaviour like that in a theatre @Netcurtainnelly ?

They boo because it’s like a pantomime performance, in the pantomime season.

Never been to a panto then? Booing the villain is encouraged. This was a comedy performance.

Its neither here not there what I think.

It just shows how much hate there is out there for the real Keir Starmer.

Terrible behaviour.
Why would an adult behave like this?
It wasn't funny.
I doubt politicians bother about idiots like this though.

"I doubt politicians bother about idiots like this though."

What does this mean? What does 'bother' mean in this context

Crass but at least it's allowed, their opinion and all that. Says more about them than Starmer. Trump would be sending the police round and insulting the booers on social media.

Looking at the audience, most looked very wealthy!

Rattling their jewellery.

Which of any prime minister or leader of a political party recently would not be booed by a mixed audience? I remember George Osborne appearing to deafening boos and jeers at the 2012 Olympics.

That’s very dramatic, OP.

It was a caricature of Starmer being portrayed, you say. An impersonation. An impression. So your thread title is misleading.

Give them a second thought.
Do you think this is the first time the PM has been booed at?

I have heard more negative Keir Starmer chants, booing etc at various events (Football, boxing) than any other PM. Including Thatcher.

I live in South Yorkshire. I doubt that there has been any politician more hated round here than Margaret Thatcher.

Considering they’d already done Trump, Blair and Boris Johnson, and none of those got a boo, it was quite striking tbh.

He is utterly loathed and despised. Has been for years.

Watching world darts championship. The chant is “Keir Starmer is a wanker.”

Unless you are younger than me thats not true surely. Thatcher thatcher milk snatcher was sung in our playground for weeks.
Johnson was booed a lot as was Sunak. Truss wasn't in post enough.

The WI booed Tony Blair at the Albert Hall

Obviously not by everyone as you don't tend to win a landslide majority in Parliament if so.

As an aside, Dead Ringers were embarrassingly bad.

Well if they don't think Trump deserves to be booed their opinion isn't worth much. Ditto Boris who helped us bumble out of the single market. They must be idiots.

I would imagine that 50% of the booing was because Starmer’s in power, i.e. just because he’s the incumbent. But he is truly loathed. And how!

The amusing thing is the left’s comical reaction. “How dare these people boo a Labour person. We’re all morally spotless and generally lovely because we’re left-wing!”

No Labour supporter will ever accept that their heroes can be shitty, self-important, arrogant, incompetent wankers. The left is a giant cult: no doubt or criticism allowed; it’s a virtuous life being left-wing; it’s beyond ridicule or reproach. 🙄

Newsflash: being left-wing doesn’t make you better, kinder, more capable or more humane than anyone else. Get over it.

In my 50 years I've never felt so much absolute loathing for a politician. Starmer makes me physically sick.

Wont get in next time though.