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Keith is funny.
It's not though. It's a shit joke. It's not offensive, but it's not funny. And anyway, every joke/meme which undermines Sir Kier and Labour is playing into the hands of the Tories and prolonging the current shitshow which is having a real effect on people's lives.
That's inexcusable, so fuck off with the 'UH KEITH ITS SO FUNNI LOL'.
(And no, I'm not a centrist Dad, I never called Corbyn 'Magic Grandpa' and I don't have #FBPE in my Twitter handle. Calling me a Keir fan would be a stretch too.)
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This, it's in the same bucket as O-bummer and all of that nonsense. I've seen people (redditors) justify it as saying he's not fit to bear the name. And you don't have to like the guy to think it's pathetic.
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LOL, really? I mean, if a few hundred left shitposters on Twitter calling him Keith is going to undermine Labour's election prospects rather than, say, a leadership coup or pushing the party into a disastrous second referendum position, then perhaps he's not the strong and stable leader we need.
He's going to come under a shitload more scrutiny in the run up to an election due to issues largely of his (and his faction's) own making; a few people giggling about how apposite the moniker Keith is will be the least of his worries. And frankly, it is funny. It's funny that he really is a Keith and it's funny that such a tiny, trivial matter causes people to absolutely lose their shit over it.
FWIW, I started out as a supporter of his because I naively believed he would do what he said he would do. Not my fault he chose a different direction. I still reckon he'd be better than the Tories, though, but by his own admission on LBC the other day, only fucking just.
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Literally the only people trotting out Magic Grandpa were centrist dads with #FBPE in their Twitter handles. YMMV, of course, but for me, it was the common parlance of that constituency. Actual Tories or right wingers just used to say 'Corbyn'. It was only the 'trying to be clever' mob who insisted on Magic Grandpa and 'Corbynista', both of which meant you'd already lost the argument in my book.
Keith is funny. It's funny because it nails Starmer as a boring cunt, it's funny because his fans are riled about it without really knowing why and it's funny because it takes the piss beautifully without being offensive. Something centrist dads never quite managed in their four-year campaign.