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)

On MN it’s considered child abuse if children have to share a room. Preferably they’ll have their own wing, and of course an added ‘playroom’ is mandatory. Parents should squeeze a small double into the downstairs loo to sleep themselves to facilitate it if necessary.

My DS’s had bunk beds because they liked sharing a room and liked the company.

It had nothing to do with the size of my house.

That won’t happen just because you pay more tax.
The NHS does need change. Not in the way some would have it go. But it is a very odd organisation. That is very politicised ( that needs to go for a start ), it seems to be mostly disorganised and unable to accept that things need to change. That it needs to review itself and continue to always improve.
There are marvellous people in it. Who do good work. And I am a great believer in the principle of it. But it will not change because more money is thrown at it.

My scouse dad will not have it that Andy burnham is a scouser!! Nearer Warrington…

he’s not really working class either tbh - I think Wes has a more WC background

I’m just disappointed that, once again, the Labour party is likely to end up with a middle aged, middle class, straight white man as its leader. It’s hasn’t really worked on the past…perhaps they should be more open to a wider range of potential leaders…!

I could not care less where a leader is from tbh. Their competence is more important. Their values. Their beliefs. Their principles. Or having any.

Starmer's Mum must have trained to be a nurse when it was vocational so it was definitely more working class in that era. You could be working class and own a business back in the day. My great uncle owned a garage and was definitely working class.

Ahr eh la.

He was born in Aintree. I’m from the next town. We were too scared to go there incase we got our heads kicked in, by the girls!

The students from Aintree used to come to our schools. We were terrified of them 😂

Perhaps Lord Alli will buy Andy Burnham some designer suits and glasses. Burnham currently looks like a union rep.

Oh you have made my day, after a horrible week, and all the horrific news.
this absolutely sums it up, so funny

Keir Starmer said his father listened to Beethoven, read the Guardian every day and drove an old Volvo.

Yes, I agree. No one who wears a black or dark grey shirt with a suit or trousers is to be trusted IMO. It’s laughable to see Starmer attempt to mimic Burnham’s (lack of) style of clothing to presumably make himself appear more likeable

AB will not be resolving the illegal immigration problem. Most likely you will be paying higher taxes to pay for them, rather than nhs nurses….

Born but not raised!! Although this is my dad’s fight (generations brought up round Stanley Park). He doesn’t trust the man 🤣

gladstone was born in Rodney street. But his father was a wealthy merchant so unlikely any bunk bed deprivation was going on

If Lego made a union rep, totally AB.
Also, he's an EVERTON fan. 😲

Harold Wilson was the MP for Huyton. Not a scouser though, he was born in W. Yorks.

Edwina Currie, Stephen Norris,Nadine Dorries and Esther McVey are scousers. There's something not right about a Scouse Tory.

In his last dying days as PM Starmer picked up on that casual look. Funny stuff

He did go to school on the Wirral though. I reckon that made him at least 20% wool.

I was born in Speke, but not raised there. My mum was though, and shared a bedroom with her twin sister and her younger sister. Outside toilet in a council house. Can’t get more working class than that, she is now the most middle class person I know 😂

Ramsay MacDonald
John Major
James Callaghan

All working class.

His background doesn’t matter. What does matter is that he doesn’t give a shit about women and girls, having very publicly backed self-ID and men using women’s single sex spaces until he announced his by election candidacy.

I don’t care what class someone is from. The ‘support one thing then change your mind when you see which way the wind is blowing’ is straight out of the Boris Johnson play book. Yet people voted for him

I understand he’s been pretty rubbish on anything to do with grooming gangs and with the GMP scandals but not sure how much authority he has there

After all the terrible Jamie Varley horrors, and the constant men in toilets threads….can we PLEASE have one that is fun and lighthearted and doesn’t have to bring this up.

Who is 'he'?