Starmer's Labour: Ghouls and Tools on the Ship of Fools

[Sebastian Cobb]

A lot of it wasn't just bigotry it was really remarkably odd bigotry.

[Johnny Yesno]

Philip Normal from Normal Island.

[Johnny Yesno]

MI5 warning over 'Chinese agent' in Parliament

What a stroke of luck for the government that this has come up at this difficult time for them. Poor Kieth will just have to purge another lefty, I guess. I feel the pain of his twisted arm already.

Edit: Oh, I see we already have a thread about this, although it doesn't mention the names of any MPs: https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=92183

[Paul Calf]

Well, look at this delight who I found sucking serious boot in Wes Streeting's replies

[king_tubby]

One of the lesser TBEU adjacent centrist parody accounts.

[EOLAN]

Sir Keith must be full on the PR charm offensive. Turning up unexpextedly on one of my favorite podcasts, Football Cliches.

On a segment where list and discuss three loves of football. Usually with number of past guests gets very precise to avoid overlap with previous guests. Like 'introductions in matchday programmes' or the 'goalkeeper kickout chants'.

His three specific choices are

-- Going to games
-- Goals
-- Playing football

[Quote]

Talking about a subject that actually enthuses him, clichés.

[pigamus]

He's like The Best of the Beatles in human form

[king_tubby]

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-labour-asl-staff-pay-cut-cash-crunch/

UK Labour asks staff to take pay cut amid cash crunch
Opposition party bosses accused of treating staff 'with contempt.'

[idunnosomename]

His enthusiasm for football basically matches Adam and Joe's football song then

[Paul Calf]

One of the lesser TBEU adjacent centrist parody accounts.

Thanks for the warning.

[EOLAN]

Two of his three annoyances are basically summarised as the commoners that are in my vicinity during matches. I mean he was ok with actual listed choices but it basically came down to that when he explained further.

Final annoyance was decent. Injury time never being right and the stadium clock stopping dead at 90 minutes. So 1 out of 6 ain't bad.

[olliebean]

Sir Keith must be full on the PR charm offensive. Turning up unexpextedly on one of my favorite podcasts, Football Cliches.

Hmm. Alongside the seemingly irrelevant photo in this tweet: https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1481613615446859779, I'm guessing a focus group has told him that people like football.

[Blinder Data]

To be fair to Starmer, his enthusiasm for playing football and Arsenal appears to be genuine (they're possibly his only non-political or legal interests). But like much else about him, it comes across as contrived/weak.

The irony is he's much more of a "lad" than Johnson and comes from humbler stock, but his funny voice and lawyerly manner makes you think the opposite.

[Buelligan]

Shallow and passionless.

[imitationleather]

Shallow and passionless.

But enough about Arsenal!!!!

[Bernice]

Sir Keith must be full on the PR charm offensive. Turning up unexpextedly on one of my favorite podcasts, Football Cliches.

On a segment where list and discuss three loves of football. Usually with number of past guests gets very precise to avoid overlap with previous guests. Like 'introductions in matchday programmes' or the 'goalkeeper kickout chants'.

His three specific choices are

-- Going to games
-- Goals
-- Playing football

Came here to post this. Not going to listen to it, obviously, but went straight to check out Twitter to see what his choices were. Unbelievable stuff. Presumably, his three footballing dislikes were 'diving', 'when my team loses' and 'people not singing God save the Queen at internationals'.

[EOLAN]

Came here to post this. Not going to listen to it, obviously, but went straight to check out Twitter to see what his choices were. Unbelievable stuff. Presumably, his three footballing dislikes were 'diving', 'when my team loses' and 'people not singing God save the Queen at internationals'.

For the record his three dislikes were more like:

-- fans leaving early
-- fans voicing 'uneducated' opinions during games
-- extra/injury time allocation and stopping of stadium clocks at 90 minutes.


Which was a bit more specific at least.

[idunnosomename]

Is throwing a banana an "uneducated opinion"

If he means racist and other bigoted cunts shouting insults he should just say so

[Sebastian Cobb]

To be fair to Starmer, his enthusiasm for playing football and Arsenal appears to be genuine (they're possibly his only non-political or legal interests). But like much else about him, it comes across as contrived/weak.

I think the fact that even the stuff he's genuinely passionate about feels like contrived bullshit they invented to make him seem like a person is hilarious tbh.

[Fambo Number Mive]

I'm not a football fan, so know nothing about going to see football, but what is wrong with fans leaving early?

[Buelligan]

Yeah, I mean they might have jobs or other commitments that mean they can't stay for the whole thing.  Family emergencies.  Or health issues or transport problems.  Who knows.  Still, it's a nuisance if their lives disrupt your enjoyment.

[Fambo Number Mive]

The Telegraph has published the story about Starmer having drinks with staff during lockdown.

[SpiderChrist]

I'm not a football fan, so know nothing about going to see football, but what is wrong with fans leaving early?

because it's seen as a lack of commitment (not by me, i couldn't give a fuck)

plus you'd miss the end of the game.

[Pink Gregory]

I'm not a football fan, so know nothing about going to see football, but what is wrong with fans leaving early?

Leaving early because your team is losing maybe, but do people really do that?

[Sebastian Cobb]

I'm not a football fan, so know nothing about going to see football, but what is wrong with fans leaving early?

Yeah, I mean they might have jobs or other commitments that mean they can't stay for the whole thing.  Family emergencies.  Or health issues or transport problems.  Who knows.  Still, it's a nuisance if their lives disrupt your enjoyment.

I'm not a fan either but people tend to leave in droves if their team is losing. It can be seen as a lack of support... 'fair weather fans' etc.

I used to drink in a pub on the way to Pittodrie, and the place would be packed before kick off, as in you couldn't move, and if they were doing badly it could fill up again within half an hour 'I'm not staying too watch that shite!'. If they were doing well it would fill up after full time.

In fairness Aberdeen is quite cold and miserable.

It's all a contrived and veiled message that he's dedicated and dependable through the good times and the bad, he won't throw in the towel like the other jokers!

[monkfromhavana]

Leaving early because your team is losing maybe, but do people really do that?

YES, or for "beating the traffic". You can't just support the team when they win, you should be there when they lose too.

[shoulders]

To be fair to Starmer, his enthusiasm for playing football and Arsenal appears to be genuine (they're possibly his only non-political or legal interests). But like much else about him, it comes across as contrived/weak.

The irony is he's much more of a "lad" than Johnson and comes from humbler stock, but his funny voice and lawyerly manner makes you think the opposite.

Yes. Tragic isn't it.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Labourlist are reporting that Labour doesn't have a full current member list due to a ransomware attack in October.

https://labourlist.org/2022/01/labour-beset-by-difficulties-as-party-does-not-have-full-up-to-date-membership-list/

[idunnosomename]

"cyber incident"


"someone downloaded an .exe instead of a .torrent file"