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)

Harold Wilson went to Wirral grammar

I am also a scouser but I don't care where people come from or their background . As a lifelong labour voter the important part for me is believing in and carrying out socialist principles as everyone should have an equal chance to be the best they can . NOT equality BUT equality of opportunity.

Did he? He did! Defo wool.

I don’t know much about him. I didn’t live in the UK for a while, and live down South.

I’m waiting to see if he thinks like a Scouser. Stubborn as f*ck, very opinionated and doesn’t like social injustice.

I think it’s going to be interesting.

I never knew either!

Whoaaa ! YEEES please ...can't wait for those fireworks 👍

Ahr eh, wash yer mouth out.

Margaret Thatcher was not Southern.

This is exactly how he thinks. Watch his speech at Anfield at the hillsbourgh memorial years ago. He stood as an Evertonain being boo’d cos he was government and made the most fantastic speech.

he sits by me in the match, can’t wait for someone to tell him he’ll have to move to the posh seats - i don’t think he will 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I am from the North and it's a nonsense to say people from the North are more working class than people from the South. There is a lot of poverty in London and the South East
Keir Starmer's background is just as working class as Andy Burnham's.
Keir Starmer was the first from his family to go to University, he went to Leeds University , Andy Burnham went to Cambridge and he wasn't the first from his family to go to University.because his elder brother went first .
Their parents backgrounds are similar. Keir Starmer probably had a more difficult childhood though because his mother has a chronic health condition and his brother has learning disabilities.

Plastic Scouser 😂😂

How bloody dare a middle aged, muddle class straight white man lead a country.

Harold Wilson was born in Huddersfield James Callaghan in Portsmouth and Tony Blair was born in Edinburgh

It would be nice to have some variety, though.

@Clavinova i was hoping Keir’s supporter would get Andy a session with a stylist to sort out the hair and eyebrow situation. I’m not massively observant or interested, but get totally distracted because he’s wearing the hair and eyebrows of a 20yr old. I don’t know what would work better, but he needs to lose the Grecian 2000.

I agree that plenty of working class kids went to grammar schools back in Keir’s day.

however… sleeping in bunk beds is (was?) hardly the reserve of the working class, even in the U.K.! My best friend from school is the daughter of an ex-Tory MP, as middle class as they come, lovely home… but she always shared a room with her sister and no one ever thought it should be otherwise. This is on the 00s also. A great deal of my friends shared rooms if the family had three or more children, from the poorest to the most well-to-do. This is totally unremarkable to me and definitely not a definite signifier of being working class.

Maghull native?

Wasn't she born in Grantham? East Midlands.

Harold Wilson. He went to Wirral Grammar.

Sorry, just saw @bittertwisted already answered!

Poverty and working class are not synonymous.

Still north of Watford Gap

I'm guessing you're from Maghull?!

Rumbled

Yeah, there are no working class nurses, working class small business owners, or working class homeowners...

A semi-detached house on a street with trees! Bourgeois to the core!

Yes it is a bit counterintuitive. They tend to be the nastiest ones as well. Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil my grandad would say. Which looks a bit snobby written down! But Esther is a piece of work.

So Gladstone was a scouser. Disraeli said he was ' intoxicated by the exuberance of his own verbosity '. Bit of a self own , Benjie. Scousers are very articulate.