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But the last 2 pages are still about everyone talking about how they don't care about flags. Bloody flags. Also slightly unfair to say flags was one of his key electoral strategies, wasn't it just a leaked paper from some pr advisors who said he should use it? I haven't seen a peep from him about it. It's all from the Tories and some labour advisors. I'm sure not all advice in pr advisory papers is necessarily followed
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Flag chat is back! Thanks, Ben!
Also slightly unfair to say flags was one of his key electoral strategies, wasn't it just a leaked paper from some pr advisors who said he should use it?
Yeah, you're right (I didn't remember so looked it up). But the leadership came out backing it.
And this was in the original guardian piece about the leaked presentation:
In WhatsApp messages, sent within hours of one briefing, senior officials ordered: “Please prioritise the union jack header images, not the plain red ones.”
I've not been paying attention to see if Starmer's been positioning himself in view of flags on camera whenever he can, though. He doesn't seem to be rocking the flag pin, thank Christ.
You're totally right about the BS going on while flags are given inches in newspapers and in the BBC. To be fair, though, I think most people in here have agreed for once and have said fuck the flag talk (even if it was supposed to be one of Starmer's key electoral strategies). And to be fairer, everytime someone calls out Starmer for not taking a position on an important issue, someone else calls it political nous.