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)

yeah I live near Oxted (born in the north) and it’s not a working class town)

We have had one before, Gladstone, but from the surviving recording of his voice, he didn’t have a scouse accent.

OP said she doesn’t trust people that don’t come from Liverpool

I’ve lived around the world and my family comes from a myriad of backgrounds so I don’t really understand tribalism tbh!!

O I got shouted down for saying this other day on a thread about not supporting England and trying to explain that the people & government have made scousers not want to be English

I agree that I am total tribal.

Yep, don’t feel “English” more Irish meets Welsh TBH

My kids are walking round in Scotland kits. I told someone this she called me and the whole city pathetic. I told her to come back when she’d read some history on how this country as a whole has treated this city. Surprisingly she didn’t response 😂😂

I’m not bloody amused by it. Nothing against having a PM from Liverpool but I’d rather have Wayne Rooney than that cowardly misogynist.

For reference:

Sunak - Southampton
Truss - Oxford/Renfrewshire/Yorkshire
Johnson - Oxford/Somerset/London
May - Oxfordshire
Cameron - Berkshire
Brown - Fife
Blair - born in Scotland but grew up in Durham when he wasn't at school in Edinburgh
Major - Surrey
Thatcher - Lincolnshire
Callaghan - Portsmouth
Wilson - Yorkshire
Douglas-Home - London
Macmillan - London (apparently he regarded himself as Scottish, but as far as I can see he never lived there)
Eden - Surrey
Churchill - Oxfordshire
Attlee - London
Chamberlain - Birmingham
Baldwin - Worcestershire
MacDonald - Moray

I apologise for not going back as far as Disraeli and Gladstone, I thought the last century was enough.

I love Liverpool but this is a bit silly
my husband is an Irish Donegal but grew up in Birmingham
he has many Italian friends
DS3 lives in Newcastle, amazing city in people

Liverpool is unique and special to me, but I trust and love implicitly many other people

well apart from maybe Man U fans 😂😂😂

gladstone was born right in the centre of Liverpool

Is this ironic?

amyway back to bunk beds.
my boys had them from John Lewis so I feel these were very middle class bunk beds

I look forward to him telling the leader of the opposition to calm down, calm down at PMQs....
(Not funny)

My son asked if Keir and Mrs Keir sleep in bunk beds 😂😂
they may because my mum is convinced he has a ‘lavender marriage ‘ because someone on the dog walking field with a Collie said he does

No, I’m fighting a combination of extreme tiredness and insomnia and the only two famous scousers I could think of who were totally unsuitable and still alive were him and Ken Dodd. Then DH told me that Ken Dodd was dead, so it was Rooney. But, actually, I’d still rather have this cowardly misogynist than that cowardly misogynist.

He'll have his nose in the trough regardless, where he was born is irrelevant

We feel the same about you 😜

Exactly, a city/heritage/accent isn’t enough to make me trust or distrust anyone.

The first cohort of nurses when a degree became a compulsory requirement qualified in England in 2016/7 so even if they were all MC thats a minority percentage of the profession. Last I looked you didn’t have to be MC to go to university.

cant stick the man, self aggrandising weasel, everyone involved in this debacle should be kicked out the party.

where he is from seems to be an issue for anyone from the North more so than anywhere else!

Most Manchester United fans don’t have a vote in the UK. So not really an issue for this.