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.😀

You might not know anyone but for a start talk to people in hospitality, SMEs and look at the big drop in graduate jobs in a year.

Increased funding to the NHS? Is that “real” tho?

currently we have the ridiculous situation where doctors, who we have spent £1.5m training, are not able to get jobs in the NHS, rather they are ending up at Tescos or having to seek work in Australia a country which welcomes them with open arms and pays real money to their doctors.

I understand the increase in funding is paying for the increase in minimum wages for lower level staff and the increase in pension and NI costs.
so it is not in fact an increase in real funding as it plugs a gap created by government policy.

Maybe, but I genuinely wonder how you cut through in a media environment where people seem to prefer a personalised algorithmic media feed, often spewing pretty deranged or inaccurate 'news', which just reinforces their prejudices, to more balanced news outlets? You can't force people to follow political parties or government comms channels, although I know Labour have started working more with 'influencers' to try and get the messages out, which might cut through a bit.

Ultimately I think people need to take some responsibility to inform themselves about what the government is actually doing, good and bad, and come to some kind of judgment on that. I don't mean following the news obsessively, which I think is quite unhealthy, but just taking stock now and again. The country doesn't seem to me to be wildly better or worse than it was in July 2024 (although I could point to some improvements which other people have listed, and I'm hopeful of more - the animal welfare legislation today is also really welcome).

Starmer didn't come into power promising radical overnight change or wild charisma, and he and his government have pretty much delivered what was on their manifesto. I don't really understand wild swings in opinion towards the guy.

What about grooming gangs cover up
Lucy Connolly imprisonment while we are not sorting out these criminals coming to UK
While you may applaud minimum wage abd workers rights my son had his hours cut through RR ni heist my hey are a sanctimonious group of left wing students making this country poorer by the minute

I don't know what an SME is. And I don't know any graduates.

What cover up? An inquiry was launched two weeks ago by the Home Secretary:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgk2pj2ygko

Lots of politicians get booed.

We’re quite wealthy. Mostly, I look like a tramp😁

@GreenGrass555 i Don’t think the victims are on board with her hence Rupert Lowe taking on a private investigation c

700 crossed the channel Saturday. Is that down on the usual 800?

She's referring to the net migration figures, of which small boat crossings are a small percentage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0g0xnr7klt

I doubt very much that whoever is in government influences the people traffickers.

Can we stop pretending it’s a small percentage. No one will ever know the true amount of people who enter the country by boat because, by admittance on the government website, the figures are only of the people who they have actually caught.

SME is just small / medium businesses. I suppose if people don’t know anyone in hospitality, a business or a graduate it’s easier to go with Labour.

But the stress people are feeling from their policies is real, not the DM, algorithms etc

I think it would influence the people crossing greatly if they realised they wouldn’t get housed and had no access to any state benefits for a set amount of years, so I do think the government could do more to dampen the appeal of coming to this country.

It does. But didn’t Labour pledge to ‘smash the gangs’ anyway?

What would you want the government to do to prove they are taking this issue seriously? I'm afraid I don't see Rupert Lowe as a particularly good faith actor when it comes to tackling violence against women and girls.

Net migration.
I thought all the flag shaggers didn’t care if it was ‘boat people’ students or people coming to work - they’re all foreigners and brown people that you want out, right? You should be happy.

Serious question - what’s a ‘flag shagger’?

I bet they love Starmer’s belief in The Female Penis, though. That’s frightfully modern Labour, don’tcha know? 🥂 🍾

@GreenGrass555 they are deliberately not standing up to Muslim communities that have systematically hidden this travesty they are an absolute disgrace and traitors to this country. Rupert Lowe maybe what you say but Atleast he’s putting his money where his mouth is. Jess Phillips losing her shit in parliament was not a good look and showed where her loyalties were

He’s not exactly adored by the comrade writers of the Morning Star.

I'm afraid I just don't see it like that - the Home Secretary has launched an inquiry, yes, one victim has expressed unhappiness with the process but that's one in a group of many, and other groups have welcomed it. How is that covering anything up? Jess Phillips has spent a lifetime working on violence against women and girls (she worked for Women's Aid for a long time before Parliament), why on earth would she not want to see perpetrators brought to justice? Using this kind of language of 'traitors' and 'betrayal' to describe political opponents is making democracy impossible in this country.

I would strongly advise you to read the news, and stay off algorithmic media, it has a vested interest in whipping up hate against everyone not on the far-right, and making everything in this country look as bad as possible. It's not healthy for individuals or society. The vast majority of people, including Labour voters and politicians, are disgusted by grooming gangs and want to see the perpetrators brought to justice and victims supported.

Boris was and still is worse.

Absolutely. Lowe has an agenda and we all know what it is.