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Leslie still talls more sense than Matt here.

I don't even understand that one. Is there supposed to be a pic of someone with a crash helmet in there somewhere?

Calling someone a helmet is what middle class person calls someone when they want to sound hard and tough.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2024 1:59 pm Calling someone a helmet is what middle class person calls someone when they want to sound hard and tough.

Oh, I was reading even more into it than it even said - I thought the bit about Jez having a motorbike was linked to the helmet bit.

You'll be amazed to hear that Andrew Feinstein isn't romping home in Holborn and Pancras.

Looking like a proper vanity run. If it's about Gaza, don't the Greens have the same policy? Why not support them?

Fake news.

Talking of Feinstein

This is a really good interview with Starmer in the Guardian. And one thing strikes me about it: he has a strong record of actually helping people, even when there were no cameras, when there were no peers to impress, and no money or promotion in it.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ar ... SApp_Other

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Mon Jun 24, 2024 7:39 am This is a really good interview with Starmer in the Guardian. And one thing strikes me about it: he has a strong record of actually helping people, even when there were no cameras, when there were no peers to impress, and no money or promotion in it.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ar ... SApp_Other

The fact he worked for and with clients such as climate activists and miners and death-row Jamaicans is interesting - I didn't know. That's commitment, and actually effecting change. I didn't know because he's not been beatified like St Jez the placardist.

I'm not a great fan of Starmer, nor am I great fan of the abdication to the central seething problem of British politics, rather than the challenging of it: the conceit that drives 'what people think' on immigration, economics, climate etc, the toxic grip the Mail and co have and *how* they have it. But I get it. It's a shit game, but it's the game.

But the fact he actually has done stuff to help people, and not just little stuff, is important.

I'm currently reading Tom Baldwin's biography of Starmer. I'm only about one third of the way through (into his pupil days as a lawyer), but there's a lot of that.

Famously, Starmer's repositioning of Labour has been in the direction of leftwing mobs.

Staunch Labour he was backing Jeremy Hunt in the 2019 Conservative leadership election.

Evidently flounced off after he lost a candidate election in 2010 and grifted to the right.

Off topic and I don’t mean to get personal, but my god that man’s head is a near perfect egg shape.

I'm getting a strange urge to bash him on the bonce with the back of a spoon.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 11:35 am I'm getting a strange urge to bash him on the bonce with the back of a spoon.

Poor chap.
Maybe the first columnist whose actual photograph looks like AI "art".

This is a really good podcast on who (bar something utterly freakish) will be PM on Friday afternoon.

I think the key takeaway is that he has literally saved people’s lives, when it wasn’t glamorous or helpful to him - in terms of career or attention - to do so. And to make the obvious comparison, he has led a life of getting on and doing it even when it’s been a hard job, as opposed to his predecessor who just wanted to complain and be congratulated for it, or the last 3 of his opposite numbers who have been self-entitled, lazy, stupid wasters.

I think we’re going to be in safe hands.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o ... 0660203835

This plonker is the Express’s senior political correspondent giving a take completely irrelevant to what Keir is saying.
It might have been News Agents or a similar podcast commenting on how irrelevant the once all powerful press barons are to this election. It feels good.

Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 5:48 pm This plonker is the Express’s senior political correspondent giving a take completely irrelevant to what Keir is saying.
It might have been News Agents or a similar podcast commenting on how irrelevant the once all powerful press barons are to this election. It feels good.

I agree with Starmer. He needs to make time away from the job, and whether he is the PM or not he is still a father. Yes there will be times when he may well need to work long hours, act of terrorism for example. I want my Prime Minister and his or her cabinet to take major decisions with a clear mind and properly rested.

There are plenty of examples in history of people making bad decisions whilst exhausted. Working 24/7 is not a good idea. Churchill went to bed during the war after all!!

Simon

There's also that small bit of life not being work. Not just for what it is, in and of itself (family, friends, etc), but the need to take a brief step outside any context you're in for too much of the time. Might actually help.

I would also assume he'll find it bloody hard to achieve...

Sunak’s full of bullshit anyway. He ‘s only claiming to work “24/7” because he thinks it’ll impress a few more gullible twats. In reality, he’s probably doing no more than PM Starmer would.