Starmer being booed on the Royal Variety this evening.

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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.😀

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You mean you don’t like my answer and have nothing to argue against it as it’s the truth.

I most definitely didn’t dodge your question. I referred to polls- they are irrelevant at this time.

If the polls are so irrelevant, why are Starmer and co so obsessed with Reform?
It’s shaping policy - look at immigration, and Mahmood’s lurch to the right. Look at Rayner on manoeuvres, on the left. Look at Starmer’s attempts to kill local elections. Cause and effect.

I am confident that most would not offer odds of Starmer remaining as PM after May.

Anyway, all the best, my emoji-loving poster.

I think the booing was in panto fashion. But tbh I think the performance by the dead ringers deserved to be booed as it was crap. I didn’t recognise half the folk they claimed to be impersonating.

Yes i remember chants about Thatcher from the 80’s

Tory voters largely went to reform and let him through, they didn’t swing directly to him. He actually got less votes than corbyn and his vote share only went up 1.6%. That wasn’t love for him it was whose the least worst. He was lucky to face a Tory party that had been in for 14 years and have Reform take away chunks of votes in constituencies across the country. Without them it would be a coalition.

True. It’s not surprising although it seems to be more sections of the public feeling the same, now with this booing.

Yea ita.panto. dead ringers is also chiefly aimed at radio 4.listeners.

Oh come on, god knows why people are still banging this drum. Labour got 63% of the seats with 33.7% of the vote (the people who voted; it's about 25% of the people eligible to vote). It's an issue with FPTP, not a measure of actual popularity.

Not a surprise!

Maybe it comes across better on the radio, as it didn't go well on TV. I wouldn't have known it was Starmer unless they'd said.

Impressionists shouldn't have to say who they are, it should be obvious.

Unsurprisingly really. The man is completely detestable. Even my Labour voting friends think he's awful. He clearly doesn't give a toss how he's perceived though.

I really don't understand why he gets so much hate tbh

Think a lot of Labour supporters have jumped in op. I don’t think it’s any secret just how unpopular Labour and Starmer currently is. The lies, the freebies, what they’ve done to the economy,

Christ if they’d not spent billions on the benefit cap removal and dealt with doctors instead, not closed down rhe North Sea so we had to take our gas from nordics, only to reverse that stupid decision a few weeks ago when rhe job losses and cost to utilities bit, it’s an endless list of bad decisions, negatively impacting the British public, even unite, who is as far left as it gets said they need to break with them due to the impact on the working person, so booing is no surprise.

what is eyebrow raising is people havering on about bad manners, when no one in Britain, and quite frankly most of the developed world, doesn’t know just how unpopular and catastrophic Labour have been, even Labour knows it.

It surely can't have escaped your notice until now that when one party is in power, those on the other side politically often 'hate' the PM? Do you recall the outright celebrations on the death of Margaret Thatcher, despite many on her side of the spectrum believing her to be the 'best PM we ever had'?
I don't think KS is well liked. However it wasn't so long ago that a crowd of thousands at Glastonbury were singing Jeremy Corbyns name. So I think we need to be careful about drawing conclusions about the sort of behaviour people exhibit in a crowd at any given moment. Mostly people just like to make a noise and join in.

Oh yes I remember that!

Good point

Great post.

It’s almost like people are allowed a different opinion to you.

I have a lot of respect for Starmer. There are undoubtedly things that he could improve on but he’s doing some great work. People need to stop reading the dailymail.

People don’t need to read the daily mail to not like him. They are feeling the effects of his government every day, employment at its highest over the past five years, tax increases, backtracking on election pledges that got him voted in etc. You’d have to be living on the moon to not understand why the public despises this government.

Think a lot of Labour supporters have jumped in op. I don’t think it’s any secret just how unpopular Labour and Starmer currently is. The lies, the freebies, what they’ve done to the economy,

I think a lot of Tory supporters are blind to the fact that their party didn't do any better.

I'm no Starmer fan either, but the Tories tanked the economy well before Labour came into power.

True. I’m not sure what pp is reading to miss how people are feeling.

There are several politicians I've disliked more*, but imo he's the worst leader Labour have had in my lifetime.

I'm so ancient that I can remember Gaitskell dying and Wilson becoming leader, so that's a lot of leaders. I just don't see the point of Starmer.

*It would be a very long list, but includes the likes of Enoch Powell and Ann Widdecombe, with a special loathing reserved for Cameron whose fucking stupid referendum gave us Brexit.

Telegraph? They have this.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/22/starmer-booed-at-royal-variety-performance/

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