That Starmer fella...

Tbh I'd agree. I think that it was a neat illustration of the party leadership's failure to include people in their election team who were grounded in the real world.

Sunak is currently facing a similar problem where he's managed to isolate himself from reality and failed to play to his strengths. Basically just generally failed at politics since becoming PM.

Election day where she was successfully re-elected as MP with a majority of 33000? That sounds like hard work to me, I'm happy to give her a break.

Like it or loathe it, society as a whole has certain expectations, draw inferences, and make choices based on image.

Johnson's shabby shambles of an image manages to work, because he's posh and busts out quotes and words in Latin or Greek which lead people to believe he's smarter than he is. It ties into preconceptions. Sort of like millionaires in tatty wax jackets and rusted Defenders. Or like people assuming SBF was a genius for not wearing shoes.

But the point is it's on brand.

Also for clarity, I do have sympathy for her as a human for all the wider shit she takes. Just none left as in her role as a politician.

Just none left as in her role as a politician

What's your opinion on her voting record?

Your priorities are weird.

I'm not particularly bothered, but have you considered the possibility that the shoes were mismatched for a reason? Maybe medical? Perhaps an injury she got during door-knocking/campaigning? I don't know, and to be honest, even if not I'm not going to worry about.

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Lol! I guess it might read like that.

Imo Badenoch has the potential be an effective Tory leader who gains popular momentum over what will be an incredibly tough first term for Labour. The sense I often get from here and other lefty places is that she's a noisy idiot with a temper.

I don't have an in depth knowledge of where she's defied the whip. But generally yeah, other than environment, some tax, and armed forces her voting aligns with my views.

It still doesn't mean I have to energy to defend her gaffs or ability when people bitch about her.

weirdest boy band

Just out wi’ me old mucker in the Lakes. Yeah I come here all the time.

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Glow up

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The choice of “chore” jacket is very well planned given its roots.

Also well planned given its current gentrified status akin to the Labour Party.

Imagining a weird cheers where only the knuckles contact and no clink of glass

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Has he been mainlining Ozempic?

I think the big question is, what is Starmer's preffered pint?

My gut says Peroni but there is a chance he's a bitter man.

Obviously he has a look around on the way in and orders the majority pint.

At home with Shorty, I reckon he’s on the vodka orange. Tropicana, with bits.

he's a bitter man

He certainly comes across as someone who holds a grudge, yeah

Obviously he has a look around on the way in and orders the majority pint.

Lol

I suspect he is a whisky bore.

'can you taste the notes of caramel? It's the special casks they have, recovered from the Napoleonic sugar industry'

Based on vibes?

Clearly off the stout

He's definitely got the bitter vote.

Another view for Perroni or Birra Morreti, what he has with the lads post match

He was drinking lager with his curry when he got "caught" in the so-called curry-gate.

Hard to get a Hazy IPA in a curry house

Absolute Peroni man.

Feels like we have reached the point today where the media are now eating out of Starmer's hand.

Still wouldn't rule out a July surprise though, with a newspaper dropping a bombshell Starmer story.