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Oboogie wrote: ↑Wed May 14, 2025 12:28 pm Whoever it was they are remarkably inept, they failed to burn down two houses Starmer no longer lives in and set fire to a car which isn't his. The burning of the Reichstag it was not.

The kind who only said a few swear words on X no doubt?

A wizard did it.

Rafael Behr is such a good political commentator/writer. This piece is very perceptive, and I very much concur with Behr’s analysis.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisf ... VcIda3yyuA

Keir Starmer is caught in yet another trap of his own making

They do say that Bluesky people don't really do humour.

https://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/ex ... -with-keir

I wake up around 5.30am and wonder if that’s a normal time to get up. Grok tells me most people get up around an hour later, so I stay in bed and scroll Lee Anderson’s X feed - he’s usually cooing in a racist way.

Victoria needs her sleep, so I let her lie-in while I go and ask the focus group we keep in a static caravan behind Number 10, what to do for breakfast. Back when I was in opposition they’d recommend a bowl of porridge with hazelnut milk, vanilla paste and goji berries, a cup of rooibos and a Guardian. Now I’m PM they’re more likely to recommend a Greggs bacon bap, can of Monster (Mango Loco) and a Sun.

I like being Prime Minister. There’s less anxiety and more presence than when I was leader of the opposition. Not having a vision is very liberating. I’m a Capricorn. So I crave routine. Morgan [McSweeney] is really into that too and before we start work we like to chant mantras in front of GB News. In opposition it used to be “follow the crowd, not your conscience”, but now I’ve got a thumping majority we’ve changed it to “follow the mob, not your conscience”.

If it’s a week where we’re releasing a white paper on immigration that surrenders almost entirely to populism, I’ll remind whoever is on the broadcast rounds that they now think multiculturalism has failed and migrants are in fact to blame for our poor housing and public services.

If they suggest that this cowardice validates the hateful nativists who stubbornly insist they don’t recognise the diverse country they’ve lived in their entire lives, and who will also never vote for me, I’ll ask Angela if she wants to retain the ministerial car and then look meaningfully at the crossed out pictures of Zarah, Jeremy and Dianne I keep on my desk.

At least they tried.

Suspect arrested. He’s Ukrainian.

The following quoted text is not my own, but it is entirely congruent with my own thinking on the matter, therefore I paste it here for Mailwatch consideration.

Amidst all the righteous outrage and solemn pledges never to vote Labour again, it needs to be understood that what Labour is doing is planning for the NEXT election. A single term in office (let alone 10 months) isn't sufficient to turn around the utter shitshow served up by 14 years of Tory ruin. So make the difficult decisions now and hope that in 4 years, things are better and the voting populace shrug their shoulders and have forgotten the tough times we're going through now.

Starmer’s choice of words on Monday was a complete mis-step, however, this isn't about here and now, it's about who wins the next election.

That's always been the plan.

Remember Brexit? The first and only time a country has voted to impose economic sanctions on itself?

We don't talk about it anymore, do we? Despite the absolute shithole it created.

I'd rather a lawyer in charge than that latin-spouting straw-haired gibbon in a blue suit that cost countless lives during the pandemic.

Or, indeed, a frog-faced, nicotine-stained professional grifter.

So we’re in the first phase of the successor long-term plan to the “priceless porcelain vase” plan to get elected to government. A second term in 4 years’ time is absolutely crucial to Labour’s long term plan to get the UK back to where it ought to be.

Just keep those words - long term” in mind.

He needs to keep those words "long" and "term" in mind too, such is the fizzing pissedofftitude of many who showered Starmer with a huge yet shallow majority. This is not where he should be but the situation is not currently irretrievable.

A shock to The System could be fatal, as Gordon Brown will confirm.

Keir isn't the most natural speaker, but delivered a killer line in today's PMQs.


30p Lee asked some long rambling question about migrant returns.

In his reply, Starmer welcomed 30p standing in for his leader.
The followed it by congratulating Farage (who is holidaying in France) for being "First through the e-gates".

Starmer keeping quiet and doing nuffink took Labour from demoralised to landslide. More of the same, well doing something anyway, will win the next one.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7804k13x52o

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a blistering attack on UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and the leaders of France and Canada - saying that they had "effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power".

He also accused Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney of siding with "mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers".

Netanyahu was speaking after Thursday's deadly attack on Israeli embassy staff in Washington. Days earlier, the UK, France and Canada had condemned Israel's expanded offensive in Gaza as "disproportionate" and described the humanitarian situation as "intolerable".

Downing Street has pointed to Sir Keir's condemnation of the Washington attack.

In that post, external, Sir Keir called antisemitism an "evil we must stamp out".

All three countries denounced the Washington killings, which saw embassy workers Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, shot dead at an event hosted by the Capital Jewish Museum.

The suspect, Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, repeatedly shouted "free Palestine" as he was arrested, police said.

Social media accounts linked to the suspect indicate that he was involved in pro-Palestinian protest movements. Investigators say they are working to verify online writings purportedly by him that accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza and criticise US policy.

Next week he'll be accused of being a Zionist in league with Netanyahu.

He'll be haunted by this deal. Haunted, I tell you.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ch ... 56625.html

This is a deal that will weigh Starmer down for the rest of his time in politics. It is like Gordon Brown “selling the gold”. Actually, it is worse, because selling the gold was a sensible decision: the government should not be speculating in precious metals on behalf of citizens – it was simply bad luck that the price went up afterwards.

The expulsion of the population from Diego Garcia was the most disgusting episode in UK post war foreign policy but never even made a ripple among the public even with an ITV John Pilger documentary. And neither will this latest episode.
Perhaps John Rentoul should do some reporting instead of 'just asking questions.'

Rentoul was “just asking” if Ed Milliband was going to be sacked the other week.

8 out of 10 people think Diego Garcia plays for West Ham. So, despite what various people on Twitter say, Chagos will not be an issue at the next election.

The others think he's in that film they're always making jokes about on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

I'm not an election expert like John Curtice, but I think the by-election was in fact a victory for Starmer.

The Glasgow based professor apparently predicted a two horse race (SNP Vs Reform) for this by-election on his doorstep.

R4 Today's big take this morning was framed around the third placed party (Reform) not winning. I assume the winning Labour party were granted their say but didn't stick around to find out.

Don't know why Labour won but the prospect of Reform winning may have motivated turnout.

The greatest political quandary of our age must be why Reform/,Farage (they're increasingly indivisible) get so much slavish media coverage.