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Samzidata quote of the day – voice coach challenge edition “Imagine being Keir Starmer’s voice coach. It’s like being David Lammy’s academic advisor or Bridget Phillipson’s charm consultant.”
– Madeleine Grant.
(For those who don’t – wisely perhaps – follow UK domestic politics, David Lammy is Foreign Secretary, and Phillipson is Education minister. Both are dreadful and therefore classic front-bench ministers in this administration.)
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The lady had an impossible job. For a man whose profession was a barrister, Starmer has a remarkably flat and nasal way of speaking. I can only imagine he bored juries into submission.
However, it seems clear that he and his voice coach did break lockdown laws (nor “rules”) by meeting in person on 24th December 2020. These were laws Starmer championed and wanted made stricter.
He has started to try and weasel his way out of it. In the Commons today he pointedly failed to declare he had done nothing wrong. That would have been tantamount to misleading the House, and is what did for Boris. Starmer is too clever to make that mistake. But I think his hypocrisy over this might just do for him. We will have to see. His huge majority might save him, but I have a feeling it might not. The Rayner administration could be on its way.
The police are now saying “it happened three years ago – too late to complain now”.
But there were plenty of complaints about Keir Starmer socialising with people at-the-time – drinking with people at the same time he was denouncing Boris Johnson for “partying” (eating a slice of cake) – the police refused to do anything, again this was at-the-time.
Even then it was clear there was two tier policing – Boris Johnson was punished, and Keir Starmer was not.
Paul:
Yes it looks as if Spanner has dodged a police investigation. But this will not go away. The meeting definitely took place, and his hypocrisy is amazing. It would help if the Leader of the Opposition would do something about it. Her job is to oppose, after all.
For a man whose profession was a barrister, Starmer has a remarkably flat and nasal way of speaking
Because he was a human rights lawyer, where cases are done via documents, often not involving directly in front of a judge.
Starmer always reminds me of the dog who appears to be driving a car with the caption “I have no idea what I am doing”
Talk about out of the frying pan, into the fire!
JohnK.
There have been many complaints about Sir Keir Starmer breaking the (absurd) Covid rules – but neither the media or the police care, they had one rule for Boris Johnson and another rule for Sir Keir Starmer.
As for Kemi Badenoch….
Both Liz Truss and Suella Braverman (who were not on good terms at one time – but have come to the same conclusions) have stated that the Conservatives were in office but not in power – that the real power was in the hands of officials and “experts”.
Priti Patel (like a Suella Braverman a former Home Secretary and now Shadow Foreign Secretary) has denied that the Conservatives were in office but not in power – and has even defended the immigration record of the last 14 years (which was an utter disaster).
I must state bluntly that I do not agree with the Priti Patel – and I think that Kemi Badenoch should also make it very clear that she, the Leader of the Party, does not agree with Priti Patel either – Kemi Badenoch has already said that she believes that the immigration policy under the last government was a mess pushed by officials and “experts” – that is not compatible with what Priti Patel has said.
I thought any distinctive regional accent was beaten out of ’em during their matriculation at public (by which I mean private in the US sense) school. Wasn’t Received Pronunciation (RP) made mandatory for politicians and con artists in the UK (North Ireland being the exception)? Now I gotta find some AI to get audio of Sir Keir Starmer with a Geordie accent. Straight outta North Sunderland!