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Starmer VIII: Labour will set you free

Started by pancreas, March 16, 2022, 08:54:56 AM

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Sebastian Cobb

QuoteSome words you might want to keep an eye out for re Durham and Starmer.

'Buffet', 'music, '11pm'  👀

These are the claims I've seen from one person who claims to have witnessed the events. Down to Labour to show that's untrue.

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1522576349629661185

Blinder Data

Quote from: Blinder Data on May 05, 2022, 12:31:37 PMThere is little evidence "Beergate" has broken through among the wider public and I'm predicting the story will be dropped after today.

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I suspect he will be found not guilty as I don't think Starmer would've been stupid enough to break the rules and make a meal out of partygate, and there's a world of difference between one night of curries and beers during campaigning in April 2021 to constant parties in 2020. But it's a significant blow to Labour's line of attack.

Would he resign if found guilty? You would think he could front it out if Johnson and Sunak do too, but he would be badly weakened. If he does fall on his sword, maybe it's a blessing in disguise - his luck has been so bad it doesn't bode well for the future.

Might stick a quid on Yvette Cooper as next leader/PM just in case...

Sebastian Cobb

On a base-level I find it hard to resent people staying for some food and beers after work if they were in work anyway as the risk of exposure doesn't magically change between being on the clock and not.

Optics are terrible though.

When I used to have to work hours of overtime during "crunch periods", it was common for the company to get in curry/pizza/Chinese and beers as a "perk" (before bleeding us dry until the early hours).

If that's what he's saying happened, it doesn't sound any different.  Not that I wouldn't love to see the dishonest fucker go down for it.

king_tubby

Et tu Emma?

QuoteIf Starmer is found to have broken rules and is issued with a FPN, he's going to have to resign.

https://twitter.com/emmakennedy/status/1522559219253366800

Fambo Number Mive

If Starmer did resign after getting a FPN, that would amp up the pressure on Johnson and Sunak. Might end up being one of the few worthwhile things Starmer has even done as Labour leader.

Come on Kier, do something decent for a change.

Paul Calf

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on May 06, 2022, 05:03:36 PMIf Starmer did resign after getting a FPN, that would amp up the pressure on Johnson and Sunak.

But that might upset four racists in Stoke On Trent.

Sebastian Cobb

what's the probability of the next person being cut from the same cloth?

Paul Calf

The Uncertainty principle states that we cannot know the probability of an event with 100% confidence but we can predict the probability of this one with 100% confidence.

If it's Streeting, I will not be able to have enough showers to rid myself of the stink of having been associated with that party.

pigamus

If it isn't Yvette Cooper it'll probably be Lisa bloody Nandy, God help us all

Sebastian Cobb

Yeah I did have a sense of foreboding Cooper might be in there somewhere.

I've not heard a shit take from Nandy in a while, have they rotated her out of the soundbite crew?

shoulders


Johnny Yesno

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on May 06, 2022, 03:15:55 PMhttps://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1522576349629661185

This little run of shitposts made me laugh:

Quote from: PolProf Wariotifo @wariotifoReplying to @AaronBastani

my sources confirm this and also 'astronomical cleaning bill' 'highest up on the wall they've ever seen it'

3:06 pm · 6 May 2022

Quote from: Manic Kieth Preachers QC @wrb91Replying to @wariotifo and @AaronBastani

My source: "This is why he is banned from all the pubs in Bath"

3:17 pm · 6 May 2022

Quote from: red in the head @redntheheadReplying to @wrb91, @wariotifo and @AaronBastani

also hearing that when he left "he was 20 pints ahead"

3:20 pm · 6 May 2022

https://twitter.com/wariotifo/status/1522578626012717056


Psybro

Looking forward to seeing Johnson calmly destroy Starmer at PMQs with forensic pyrotechnics.

jamiefairlie

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on May 06, 2022, 05:03:36 PMIf Starmer did resign after getting a FPN, that would amp up the pressure on Johnson and Sunak. Might end up being one of the few worthwhile things Starmer has even done as Labour leader.

Come on Kier, do something decent for a change.

Would it fuck, they'd just laugh and point at him 'ha ha what ye day that fur ya stupid prick, whit a cock'

Fambo Number Mive

Halfway through Eagleton's biography of Starmar. Well worth a read based on what I've read so far.

Sebastian Cobb

Just heard on 6 Music Diane Abbott saying Starmer will need to consider his position regarding the police enquiry.

Sebastian Cobb

QuoteOfficers from Durham Constabulary, who initially said they did not believe an offence had been committed, announced on Friday they would re-investigate claims he might have broken pandemic social distancing regulations.

Police said they had U-turned on an earlier decision after receiving "significant new information".

It came a week after North West Durham MP Richard Holden penned a letter to the force in which he said he had discovered a "concerning new piece of evidence" about the 30 April event, which took place in the office of Mary Foy, the City of Durham MP, in the run-up to the Hartlepool by-election.

He claimed an online invitation showed the City of Durham Labour Party invited people to a "Quiz and Social in-person event" on the same night, "at the location where Keir Starmer was filmed socialising and drinking beer".

He also alleged that a Facebook message on the event page from local MP, Mary Kelly Foy, "encouraged attendees to have a 'greasy night', which Urban Dictionary defines as an evening which involves 'drinking too much'."

https://inews.co.uk/news/beergate-police-probe-keir-starmer-labour-mp-greasy-1616915?ITO=msn

the rest of the article hinges on whether the author intentionally typed 'greasy' to mean lash-up or 'great'.

king_tubby


Famous Mortimer

I presume that's where the term was popularised (I remember them making a big thing about just doing "greasy" crimes around season 4 or 5?)

Ferris

Quote from: king_tubby on May 07, 2022, 02:08:56 PMGreasy?



One of my biggest disappointments about moving to Nova Scotia is that there aren't any "stripclubs, the real greasy ones, out by the airport" regardless of what Corey and Trevor said.

Sebastian Cobb

I assume you can still lose all your money on VLT's though?

Ferris

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on May 07, 2022, 03:19:45 PMI assume you can still lose all your money on VLT's though?

Way she goes, bud.

I do frequent a properly gre-e-easy dive bar that has a huge VLT section in it. Grim but compelling.

king_tubby


shoulders

KEIR STARMER

DID I IN FACT DO THE PARTY

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: king_tubby on May 07, 2022, 07:19:13 PMHe's fucked this hasn't he?

Painted into a corner by his desire to look like a petty authoritarian cop. It's glorious.

It's like if a half inflated balloon possessed hubris.

king_tubby

What is the charge? Enjoying a meal? A succulent Indian meal?

Sebastian Cobb


Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on May 07, 2022, 01:35:29 PMJust heard on 6 Music Diane Abbott saying Starmer will need to consider his position regarding the police enquiry.

Cannot wait to see the low res picture of Keith she'll use when he resigns in shame.

Fambo Number Mive

If the new reports are true Starmer should resign, but the media is very quiet on the hypocrisy of Tories and their supporters, who claimed that we should ignore Johnson's lockdown breaches because of the war in Ukraine and trying to claim "it was all about cake" when it wasn't, going all in on Labour's alleged breaches. Hardly anyone outside of this forum seems to be remarking on the hypocrisy.