AIBU to be amused at the prospect of a Scouse PM?

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OK, this is a lighthearted thread. It is not dissing Scousers, I am one.

I have never voted Labour, so I have no skin in the game. However, this morning I had the jolliest chuckle I have had for a very long time.

All because, very shortly, we may have a Scouser as our PM.

Our time has come. We have been undervalued for such a long time. Instead of the usual Eton Educated Old Boys network, we will have a down to earth man with a northern accent running the country.

And no, he is not a pretend working class person. He was born in Aintree, which is actually a couple of miles from where I was born. He is defo not posh. His parents moved to a naice town in Warrington and yes, he has a foot in both Liverpool and Manchester camps. He's an Evertonian.

It will be interesting to watch and see what makes him tick.

2TK is a champagne socialist who laughably trotted out that his dad was a toolmaker and he was working class. Well, I am WC and my kids go to a state school in the burbs of London and their mates are all MC from expensive houses. It is so far a cry from what goes on in other areas. KS doesn't have a clue what it is like for the rest of the country.

I didn't vote Labour, and not sure I still will. However, if AB gets to no.10 I will be glad that at last we have a person who understands what it is like in other parts of the country aside from the south.

AIBU to have a chuckle that our next PM will be a fellow Scouser (maybe)

KS is from a very working class background. He slept in a bunk bed shared with a brother until he went to uni. Mum and Dad did hands-on working class jobs. He went to grammar school because that was a thing everywhere back then, but that’s because he was clever, not because he wasn’t working class!

Imagining an Evertonian PM. Mad tha’, Lad!

Starmer isn’t working class at all. His dad literally owned the business and mum was a nurse, neither of which are WC occupations imo. He grew up in a semi his parents owned in a leafy area. None of that falls into WC category.

Also I absolutely love Burnham and won’t hear a bad word said about the guy! King of the north!

Gladstone was a born in Liverpool

I know him and trust me he ain’t what he seems but good luck to the people who did.

I hope it does rebalance things from a north/south perspective I really do. But he’s not a saint and I’m sure will bring plenty of his own issues/quirks.

Caaaalm down, soft lad 😄

He is nowhere near working class

Came here to say that
I’m a Scouser, I did a quick check on Scouse PMs
Gladstone was the first

we’ve had a Scouse PMs wife, not the same obviously

I love the fact that on MN sleeping in a bunk bed is working class
can’t stop laughing

Anyone else imagining Andy Burnham meeting with Donald Trump?

Starmer was born in Oxted and went to school in Reigate in Surrey.

I’ve lived in the SE for many years, including Surrey. Let me tell you straight, if you were born and brought up in Surrey, your experience of being WC is a far cry from a WC experience up north or elsewhere.

Being WC or MC in Surrey is like winning the life lottery.

Prime Ministers Questions will be like an episode of Harry Enfield.

He will be grand down the Scotty road for a few pints

I have hope for him.

I just don't want the status quo. If he leans hard left and I pay more tax, but that means deserving people get better NHS treatment and quicker doctors appointments, then I’m ok with that.

In contrast. If someone got in and emptied out and stopped the wave of illegal undocumented males entering our country, that would secure my vote too.

I just want someone bold to get shit done.

I love the idea of a Northern Prime Minister. It’s about time!

Ah yes, Keir Starmer’s factory-owning dad. Odd that no-one can ever name the factory or business that he owned. It’s almost as if it’s just rubbish made up by the press to discredit Starmer.

And nursing is absolutely a working class job, particularly in the 50s and 60s when it didn’t require a degree.

Oooh.... Please elaborate!

He was born in Southwark.
And while Surrey is indeed generally very wealthy, there are pockets of deprivation such as Merstham, Staines, and parts of Woking. Life for working class people here is not made any easier by the extraordinarily high rents and property prices.

Absolutely Bosch lad

I think having someone from outside London and the South East will be unusual (only Gordon Brown since the 1960s), but I don't think it's something to chuckle about.

I am NOT having a Prime Minister who wears a cagoule.
Put a shirt on man.

I thought Tony Blair was Scottish and Mrs T was from the East Midlands

Haha at the bunk bed post below