Labour can't win

[verdantverdure]

Unless absolutely SHEDLOADS of people who voted Conservative in 2019 vote Labour this time.

That's right, isn't it?

FFS Clav. That is really low.

It is. I’m actually speechless.

I don't care how he spends his time with his family.

If it's alright for Sunak to micromanage making the beds and rechecking the dishwasher it's alright for the Starmers to spend a bit of time together.

Besides which the two immovable appointments in May's diary was the Saturday morning gym and Sunday church service. Credit to her.

Judaism is like any religion. Diverse in its manifestation of observance. Many secular Jews observe Shabbat. It's a hugely important tenet if their cultural identity. But hey, anything to smear Starmer, right?

Desperate Tories go for the low blow, I'm not surprised.

Harriet Harman of course has a string of driving convictions, including a ban for driving at 99mph and reversing into a parked car using her mobile phone - ironic that she was elected chair of the MPs' standards committee.

I have just checked. Baldwin's biography is not an authorised biography. So I don't know why you think his view is the authorative one.

Ah now. This is what it comes down to. Johnson too frit to stand in a by-election.

It's hardly relevant to the election, given that she is not a candidate.

Nobody blinked an eye when Theresa May wanted time off on Sunday for going to church

He prefers to go on holiday(s)

And forget who is paying for them.

Are the Tories being anti-Semitic now?!

Some of them are.

Didn't Boris Johnson miss all those early 2020 COBR covid meetings because he was off writing a book when he should've been being Prime Minister?

HauntedPollingBooth
Many secular Jews observe Shabbat

I have to say I'm a bit confused - are Starmer's wife and children Jewish or not?

I’m told by one of her friends that Victoria is very funny but refuses to be “a show pony” so won’t give interviews or pose for a shoot. She grew up in north London, the daughter of Bernard, an Ashkenazi Jew, and Barbara, who converted to Judaism. When I suggest that makes Victoria Jewish, and his children, too, Starmer demurs. “No, no, they’re not Jewish for reasons I won’t bore you with. Bernard’s dad’s family didn’t accept that.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/22/you-asked-me-questions-ive-never-asked-myself-keir-starmers-most-personal-interview-yet

And having parties at Chequers

Raab 'the beach was closed' was on holiday during the fall of Kabul. Think Johnson was holidaying then as well

Clav, read the room and stop. You’ve gone too far.

You are not confused Clavinova

I was replying to a post regarding Boris Johnson's parking tickets - which seat is Johnson contesting?

I am on this point.

RishisLeavingDo
And having parties at Chequers

Wasn't that investigated? Nothing came of it.

Selective quoting from you there, Clav. The rest of that part of the article makes ot clear that it his children he is referring to as not being Jewish, not his wife. It says:

The family occasionally attend a liberal synagogue. “Pretty much every week” there’s a challah and they say kiddush with Bernard, or sometimes with Victoria’s sister on Zoom. Their Jewish heritage is important, he says. “And we’re very keen for the children to know about it, to understand it. Half of the family are Jewish, they’re either here or in Israel.” No one was directly affected by 7 October. “Thank God,” he says. But they’ve been affected by the war. “No doubt about that.”

Tory peer Danny Finkelstein, on the How To Win An Election podcast, on his party's response to the Starmer 6pm finish stuff.

“I think it's lamentable to attack him over that. I really honestly do."

Yes it is!!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/AMA/5107465-ama-with-tom-baldwin-author-of-keir-starmer-the-sunday-times-bestselling-biography-of-the-labour-leader