To not get the visceral levels of hatred people have for Keir Starmer

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I’m not suggesting he’s the greatest prime minister ever. I’m not even suggesting he’s good at all. But some people really, really passionately hate him.

He is a bit insipid and doesn’t have much charisma but overall he seems like a decent enough bloke who perhaps lacks the political skill and acumen he needs. He’s out of his depth basically.

But that’s not a reason to actually despise someone is it?

When did we get to a point where we can’t just disagree without painting the other person as the devil incarnate?

I didn't vote Labour in the last election

neither did I as I’m in the SE and in a constituency where labour cannot win. I voted LD and will vote tactically to ensure that reform or the Tories will not gain power again.

This is how many people will be thinking come the next GE in… checks notes.. 3 and a half years will act.

While I loathe the Tories and reform, and Labour is the least worst as far as I am concerned, my biggest disappointment with Starmer is that while he was in opposition, he and his team said NOT ONE SINGLE WORD about the massive harms that prolonged lockdowns were causing to our children. In that respect, he completely failed to be the opposition, as far as I’m concerned.

Agree, he wasn’t responsible for the decision not to prosecute, however he was head of the CPS and had to apologise for their shortcomings. You don’t apologise if there’s nothing to apologise for 🤷🏼‍♀️

I agree. But I think it's a reflection of how we as a society have less patience, less nuance, less of a sense of the long game. We've become so inured to the demonisation and othering of many groups in society, dismissing ideas and people out of hand, and the PM gets written off with similar conviction. It's a kind of unholy conglomerate of cult of personality, wild expectations and a culture of zero strikes.

The fact that he took responsibility for a decision he didn’t personally make, as head of the organisation at the time, was a mark in his favour for me. BoJo would have lied and blustered and made stupid jokes rather than front up to anything uncomfortable.

This-^^

I have said the same many times
he is a very well educated man who wouldn’t say what a women is . so he’s an absolute Tosser just for that .

I would really really like to ask him does he really believe that a man can give birth or is he just really just thick and stupid

To me he comes across as smarmy and very very boring he has a face like a wet fish that’s been stuck on the frozen counter a few days past his sell by date

he’s got no conviction on what he says and you just know that anything he announces is going to be reversed within a few days

can’t wait for him and the whole Labour Party to fuck off

Mr Starmer was head of the CPS when the decision was made not to prosecute Savile but he was not the reviewing lawyer for the case. An official investigation commissioned later by Starmer criticised both prosecutors and police for their handling of the allegations.

https://fullfact.org/online/keir-starmer-prosecute-jimmy-savile/

The problem is that so many other prime ministers had the habit of promising miracles, and the moon on a stick

I never realised how many voters want the moon on a stick

He’s done Nothing to improve state schools. In fact they’ve got worse, it seems. The education of young people in this country is a scandal, but he never talks about it. Let alone do anything about it.

Too busy hob nobbing in Davos or a.n.other country to bother about the children and adults in this one.

This Davos talk marks posters out as conspiracy sucker drivel imo

I think you’ve had too much internet

I'm not a labour voter but I do think he has brought an element of maturity to government

ive never seen this level of attack from the press before and it is alarm and baffling in equal measure.

he is literally criticised for everything.

I wish he'd tell trump to fuck off, but other than that I have no issues.

Quite. It’s telling that the ones who hate Starmer with the most intensity are the ones wanging on about globalists and Davos.

It’s just a right wing press hatchet job as usual plus the gammons!

How many u turns has Starmer done now? He’s a joke isn’t he really.. lets see (but I def can’t remember them all)..

Starmer u turns so far:
wfa
digital id
workers rights
waspi payments
tuition fees
2 child benefit cap

Anymore? It’s only been 18months

Was he in Davos? I thought he was criticised for NOT being there.

I agree. I don’t think he’s a very good politician, but don’t understand the hatred. I don’t remember that except back to Margaret Thatcher and there was the same about in certain parts of the country.

Anyone with political nous would not have made one of the first policies the change to Winter Fuel Payments even it meant that it would only come in another Winter later.

He really hasn't...

https://fullfact.org/government-tracker/

I think in thr press last week it was around 14 u turns but it might be more - a week is a long time in politics

Me too
he wasn't there was he?
Although I don't know why he wasn't there

People have short memories.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnsons-50-u-turns-27085865

He’s a Tory with a red tie.

Its multi-faceted:

the right wing have been poisoned against him by the right wing press/ social media. They went for the jugular and haven't relented since the beginning.

The left wing: are disappointed he tried to out reform Reform but he seems to have calmed down now he's realised it won't get him anywhere.

That's the problem. Everyone else's human rights except British citizens.
Hes a lying commie dirtbag