To think we don’t know how lucky we are under Starmer.

[SevenYellowHammers]

Russia have a mad despot who is responsible for the deaths of Russians and Ukrainians and has caused untold damage on the world’s environment and economy. But he’s still in power.

The USA have a mad despot who’s causing deaths worldwide and has started a war he can’t win causing untold damage to the world’s economy and environment. But he’s still in power.

Israel have a mad despot who is committing genocide and putting Jewish people at risk across the world. But he’s still in power.

In the UK, we have a dull bloke who’s doing his best to stand up to the mad despots while not leading us into war. And we’re all trying to get rid of him.

YANBU. It’s a media driven nightmare.

And we Germans have the AfD - a bunch of democracy-hating fascists. I am German and I genuinely fear that something resembling the NSDAP (Hitler’s party) will return sooner or later.

If he's so good as the PM of this high tax, high immigration utopia, why do you think the Labour MPs are now about to get rid of him?

Is it too much to ask for a leader who isn't a raving lunatic AND has a coherent plan for economic growth??

Just not being a raving lunatic is a pretty low bar as a qualification for being a PM!

Pretty sure those pesky election results played a role in it as well.

People are literally being radicalised by the media and social media. It's scary.

Agree totally. He's the most stable person we've had in power for years. Sunak notwithstanding (also boring but stable).

We really don't want to enter the shit storm we had with the Tories, with musical chairs again. Leave Starmer in.

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Good one OP, very funny.

Edit.
Perhaps I should clarify. He has just appointed Harman who believes children as young as 10 can consent to sex, paedophilia doesn't exist unless there is actual harm, and that women can have penises. He is destroying us in a different way.

The comedians are out in force again, led by OP.

Agreed. He's quietly getting on with the job.

AND has a coherent plan for economic growth?

No one has a coherent plan for economic growth because it’s unpalatable. Anyone suggests it they won’t be voted in!

If he's so good as the PM of this high tax, high immigration utopia, why do you think the Labour MPs are now about to get rid of him?

I thought immigration was lower now vs the Tories? How low do people think it should be?

Agree, we need sensible, calm and level headed atm

Why does he get such bad press ?! He’s a lovely decent man.

We'll have our own mad despot soon enough

Because some people have a vested interest in destabilising the government.

You’re setting a very low bar for comparison.

Agreed, OP. I think he's doing a great job of handling the assorted shitstorms overseas. No PM can be all things to all men (or women), and while I'm as GC as they come, and the COL crisis has hit us hard, and I'm in the NHS watching it crumble, I'm willing to let some of these things slide - temporarily - while we just focus on trying to avert WWIII.

I think Starmer is a useless PM lacks direction, lacks accountability but the alternative is scary. I don't want to see Farage posing outside the door of Number 10. A racist misogynist should not be given a chance and is not a good alternative.

It’s the usual. The right wing parties can do whatever they like and get little scrutiny, Labour or left leaning have their backgrounds scoured to find a mole to make a headline mountain. Case in point, Farage’s multiple donations totalling over £5million from Christopher Harborne and £200k from JCB, also accepting donations in crypto that are untraceable - very little reaction. Starmer and wife getting football tickets and some clothes - utter fucking outrage.
It’s the fact that the media peddles this shite and people believe it without thinking critically about why it’s being fed to them this way that convinces me we’ll continually vote against our own interests.

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That’s an excellent way of summing it up

Ha my response that includes Farage taking large donations that are barely reported on by the media has been hidden! Ironic

Well, figures I obtained from Oxford University Observatory on Immigration (peer reviewed statistics with no recommendations or bias) show that immigration is small and diminishing. The cost to the economy is 0.45% for illegal immigration. I accept that a tiny percentage of a big figure is still a lot but I doubt it’s anything like the massive issue a lot of people seem to believe it to be.

Taxation is a necessity if we want free at point of entry healthcare, education, policing and so forth. I can’t see a way around it. It would be better if wealthy tax dodgers were called to account. Perhaps if the media reported them with the vigour they report on illegal immigration?

I didn’t say Starmer was “so good” or that it was a utopia. Feeling a sense of relief that we have a PM who isn’t as bonkers as Trump, Netanyahu and Putin isn’t a utopian dream or, at least shouldn’t be.