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.😀

I think we can have women as a starter for 10!

Right!

So, that’s 51% of the population.

I imagine we may end up narrowing who Labour do like, to some residents of Islington?

Or narrow to those who like them.

The never interrupt quote is apt too.

True, but PC will need them in a coalition. I think it will be good to have a change, though.

Quite so @EasternStandard

I shall go first… Nope, sorry. Pass.

Well hes made it crystal clear that the taxpayers citizens of Britain are beneath contempt so he deserves all he gets imho

But he literally hasn't done what you have said. That's hyperbole.

I am a taxpayer citizen (as are virtually all adults) and don't see anything othe than political naivety, incompetence and poor policy making. So he stands virtually zero chance of getting my vote while at the same time I'd feel daft expressing hatred or loathing.

Maybe, but what we are talking is the rapid collapse of Labour support. Parties might mop up the dregs but it isn't a ringing endorsement of the Labour project.

Of course it isn't. Labour needs to get its act together. However, some absolute drivel is spouted. The (now deleted) thread about Starmer cancelling the next GE was a prime example.

I thought the impressionist was quite good. He nailed Starmer’s officious and self-important nasal voice.

Absolutely. You can thank the thick as mince Anna Turley for refusing to answer Phillips plainly yesterday instead of doging the question and being generally slippery.

They have blown through a hell of a lot of trust capital - it leaves everyone very on edge.

Good news story is the Tories under Badenoch can barely get half that, yet for some, she is the new Messiah.

Labour got barely 23% of the total electorate vote, now they are on 18% yet the way you're banging on, you'd think we'd just had the election.

3.5 years is a very very long time in politics.

I don't think he was expecting the crowd to boo, let alone so loud. I think he did quite well.

‘Badenoch…is the new Messiah’
Is she? Says who?

‘3.5 years is a very very long time in politics’
You say this in relation to this government’s tenure (in GE terms).
Do you accept that the media, the markets, the back benches, the economic data, the polls all influence precisely what policy Starmer can/cannot get passed?

As we have seen from their flexible manifesto, what people voted for, and what they are actually getting, are two very, very, different things….

What is it that you think that the Labour party will do to change their ever falling popularity in 3.5years? Is it reducing the numbers of jury trails, pushing through i.d. cards, putting businesses out of business, vastly increasing youth unemployment or failing to curb illegal immigration, or build any houses, is it that they are lining to undermine the supreme court ruling on sex segregated spaces or are they going to increase the number of teachers...maybe they can increase the uptake of soggy toast clubs from 20%?

Politics aside for the moment, Starmer is an unlikeble person - he’s shifty, brittle, chippy, disingenuous, lacking even a modicum of charisma etc etc.

Let’s be honest.

Wonder how Labour will measure lifting the supposed 550k children out of poverty.

Hopefully not the same way they’re recruiting 6,500 new state school teachers….

Labour is adamant it’s doing well and the electorate can show how they feel about that claim. I think losing Wales will be an issue for them.

True.

I wonder when Streeting will make his move…

And between now and then they can stick their fingers in their ears and pretend that the booing is the product of poor comms. Best they don't listen to the chants at sports venues. Booing is the least of it.

I suppose the people at the darts chanting Kier Starmer’s a wanker are millionaires as well? You are delusional if you think class has anything to do with his popularity, or lack of.

Says a lot about you that you think wealth has anything to do with class @xanthomelana

I don't agree with any of that hes not Captain personality but we had that with Johnson who was an incompetent buffoon.
Starmer is unfairly maligned by the press who hate him as he was head of CPS during the hacking scandal wasn't he? He's a decent bloke who's trying to turn things round, it's been such a short period of time so far and I don't think he's being given any chance.
Why werent People this angry when the Tories were running this country into the ground and pocketing everything that they could? Why aren't people aiming their anger at the private companies that are running our services like shit and the wealth hoarding that's going on? I genuinely don't get it

A few regular posters on here constantly go on about how brilliant Badenough is.

You think the next 3.5 years will be just decided on domestic issues? YOu don't think Putin/Russia may have some say in this?

After Brexit and a slight pick in economic data by 2019, the Tories were thinking "Thank fuck this EU stuff is coming to an end!"

Or perhaps after Covid, Sunak gave a sigh of relief and thought "Nothing else can be that bad..... can it?"

I think, come 2029, a lot of people will be turned off Reform but equally, wont forget the 14years of the Tories, so expect a very low turn-out & a coalition.... assuming no wider war in Europe.

But just to remove all doubt, i don't like this Labour Govt, they are a massive disappointment but the alternatives are the Tories a bunch of extreme right wingers or Reform a bunch of even more extremist.

However, 18months isn't long enough for any party to be written off, if the Tories win in 2029, how long will give them? a lot longer than the 4 months (or was it 4 days?) many on here have given them i bet.

You come across as very ignorant. Where are you getting your information from, other than dailymail and Facebook.

This is the sort of thing I find perplexing about the left.

Starmer’s obviously neither competent nor likeable. Why would you think he’s a “decent bloke”? Just because he’s Labour?

There were loads of Tories who detested Johnson. Why do Labour supporters feel they have to fall in line to defend their own obvious shits and losers? It comes across as cultish.