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You seem to assume that because I've taken you up on some of your points that I have a problem with Starmer. I thought he was the best candidate in the leadership campaign and liked his initial period where he landed successful attacks on Johnson, but since then it's been a decent back into division, so when I see ostensibly Starmer supporting comments which gloss over his horrendous recent polling and jump on opportunities to flatter him I do find it quite exhausting yes, because it just represents the same old.
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I'm just pointing out that Starmer's superleague take was one of the very first out there (within four minuets of the announcement on Sunday evening by my reckoning) so it's not reasonable to frame it as a herd following exercise. If you've got other reasons for misframing what he did and when then I apologise, but no obvious ones immediately sprang to mind.
ReekBlefs
He made the statement before it was formally announced. He got his take out 12 hours before Lineker, ffs - the fact that he got there early was literally the point I was making. I almost admire your urgency to have a pop at Sir Keith but isn't it absolutely exhausting?