anyone seen starmer?

[Offwiththecircus]

From what I can see, after his entirely unconvincing "position" on gaza he has essentially disappeared from view. Blair notoriously used to do this a lot when he wanted to avoid legitimate questions, leaving brown nosing slaves to face questions from the proles.
So over to the mnet net, which I know has wise tentacles everwhere
Has the famous SIR dropped into your church fete/tombola recently? Selfies welcome.

People at various things I go to around town.
Yes I differ from some people's take on this on the thread. Such are forums/is society/democracy.
I am honestly not aware of any other "where is starmer" threads on here - maybe don't spend enough time on here. Feel free to link to them - I might find them interesting.
My posting the thread on December 18 was no sort of ploy at all - maybe I should have posted earlier - I had very definitely nattered about this apparent (to me) lack of appearance to several folks when out and about (see my first sentence) for quite quite some time before I posted. I may even be able to recall some of the other things I said quite quite some time before if you are interested.

They're not threads. It's a comment posters make to divert attention from actual governors. Often just that sentence.

No, not random people in the street.
I am not a street crazy/chugger.
Not sure what the

>> In London?
means.

But yes these are folk "out and about" (ie outside my house/away from my keyboard/phone)

I think I addressed the "troops visits" upthread.
Our poor poor boys (and girls)

>>As for the dramatic shift from Labour in the north. Well we all know why that happened in 2019. The circumstances are very different now. What have the Tories done for the people of the north since then, apart from inflate their cost of living?

Why did it happen?"
Yes - and also for the benefit of someone upthread - Tory "levelling up" is of course crap. Always was.
I actually made a bitterly mocking reference to this very soon after Boris's victory on a packed to hell train at Manchester Piccadilly. A few embarassed folk looked at the floor (if they had room to move their heads)

>>I have not accused you of anything . Far form it. You say repeatedly you are liberal left so I wondered whyyou were using a Tory attack line. And you haven't explained.
What is this "Tory attack line".
Suggests it is a "line" only used by Tories.
If you answer am more than willing to answer.

You're still doing that weird quoting thing @Offwiththecircus. Why? It makes your posts harder to read.

educate me.
Am not a pro at this place - would love to be able to selectively quote from things I am replying to - If I hit "quote/reply" I don't seem to be able to/allowed to chop out bits from the quote I don't want to reinflict on people/clog the thread with. Have never found an issue with the odd other place I have frequented (am not on broader social media)

What pray tell leads you to think that I am " liberal elite of metropolitan London" or indeed hang out with just such people?
Fair question.
Feel free to reply.
I do by the by think that the "liberal elite" exists.
It is not a myth in my view.
In fact describes a fair lot of Blarites/fellow travellers.
Mandy?

Just c+p the bit you want to quote. It's not hard. Like this:

I don't seem to be able to/allowed to chop out bits from the quote

... and then use the formatting buttons below to change the bit you've quoted into italics.

Or go old school and use more formal, grammatically-correct punctuation:

"I don't seem to be able to/allowed to chop out bits from the quote"

well people can use certain words/phrases/concepts without being all the same.
This isn't twatter.
I hope.

so I can't edit the quote/reply?
just copy/paste the bit I want to quote?
Am aware of that.
Though that loses the quote alert to the person quoted/and the context.
(yep I know I can tag them with a @ but that always seems somewhat intrusive/loud)

By the by (before wander upthread) I did see Laura's interview yesterday.
Summary (will try to comment more later) Not impressed/didn't much unfortunately change my views - educated me/reinforced my views more if anything.
Other folks feel free of course to comment on that public appearance.

Deleted - odd dupe post.

how very very curious that folks should focus so much on one word/label folks for using.
See my other reply.
I fear some folks are too much on twatter/social media.
sometimes things are just simple human discourse/communication.

Honestly, though , you keep doing it... the smug tone of 'Twatter'.

You've said it yourself. More than once. Early in the thread.

You have also replied to one of my posts several times so I think you are losing track a bit OP!

Yes perhaps you do spend too much time on SM @Offwiththecircus , you seem to be getting very confused with your posting. Take a break.

I would like to say I am also very confused.

Mostly by why anyone would vote for the current Conservative party.

I am confused as well.
Now we have established that Starmer wasn't MIA and that Labour have policies, are we now being told that that wasn't actually the question?

Who knows? This thread is very strange. It seems that nothing would impress the OP about Starmer short of him descending a mountain with tablets of stone - oh wait, that fucked Milliband over, didn’t it?

Folk need to remember that a politicians public profile is totally regulated by the media, so atm we have quite a bit of Sunak, due to the Houthi issues in the Red Sea and UK military being involved.

Starmer etc can say what they like as often as they like but atm wont get the coverage the Government will.

But having said that, many posters, esp those who claim to be floating or former Lab voters, are often very far from that, they have one aim only... Trash Labour/Starmer.

doing what?
simple answer please - have no desire for a ding dong?

I have never to the best of my knowledge even once said that I am "metropolitan urban elite".
Feel free to quote just one.