Not Meant To Be A Party Political Point...

[Paigntonian]

But Sir Keir Starmer is beginning, to my mind at least, to come across as cardboard, anodyne, unremarkable, everyday and dull.

[emmie]

i thought that he might shine more as time goes on, but i feel that he hasn't.

[shoota]

I've always thought that of him.
Labour need new blood.
(Preferably blue...)

[jno]

if people want flamboyant, they've already got it. But who would you trust to steer the country through a pandemic better?

[Paigntonian]

Thanks for your answers guys. I think Labour went for a safe option. And I'm not sure it was a good idea. Clearly, they were in Corbyn-withdrawal mode. I think at least two of the female candidates might have been a better bet. It is redolent in my mind of Major after Thatcher. While he won in 92 he lost by a landslide in 97.

[Paigntonian]

I am a Tory but I thought Lisa Nandy would have been a different kind of leader, more collegiate, a fresh attitude, someone from a modest background...

[Zacs-Master]

At the moment KS is like a kid in a sweet shop. Whatever the Govt do or say, it’s so easy for the opposition (ha ha) to rubbish it. He’s 100% Bette than Corbyn tho!!!

[anneasquith]

Labour need a strong leader, Starmer isn’t it .

[New Judge]

He's a lawyer. They are experts at dissecting issues in the comfort of agreeable chambers, six months after the event and then, three months later, suggesting to a police officer that he took the wrong decision when he Tasered a lunatic who was coming at him with a machete. Ask them whether they want tea or coffee and they have to scour Archbold's for some case law.

[Paigntonian]

Zacs. Quite agree. Utterly amazed that so many people fell for his odious pretense. But I do think that this government needs a robust Opposition and I just don't see the energy in Starmer.

[Zacs-Master]

Me neither. That’s why they can do what they want.

[jno]

a wise prosecutor knows when to stand back and let the defence cut its own throat. How he'd respond to more a more ept administration is hard to say until we see one.

[Paigntonian]

There are a lot of us on what we would call the centre-right unhappy with Boris. What we do about it I don't know. There are no discernable flag-carriers on our wing of the Party. We seem, like Labour, rudderless and floundering.

[Zacs-Master]

But they have an 80 seat maj.

[Paigntonian]

Zacs. Yes, we got that right and Right.
Don't really think that there was an overwhelming emotional tidal wave for Boris.
Methinks it had more to do with the ghastly Corbyn.
A huge majority for our lot, true, but there's something lackluster, posturing, insincere about Johnson.

[emmie]

the party picked him not the country.

[Paigntonian]

Emmie: You're correct but the same applies to every prime minister, of whatever, party, since the Eighteenth Century.

[Zacs-Master]

Oh yes, Corby was the final nail in Labour’s coffin

[Paigntonian]

And, daft as it may sound, there's another odd thing about Starmer. Why does he gel his hair and sweep it like an adolescent? It's a trivial point of course, but did he do that in court? It may be me (and probably is) but the first thing I notice about him now is his juvenile hair. That, and his rather odd habit of replying to interviewers by looking to his right and not to the interviewer or camera. I might have to lie down ina blackened room soon and rid my mind of Labour leaders...

[Zacs-Master]

You should maybe see beyond the superficial styling?

[Paigntonian]

No, Zacs, it's the superficial that wins or loses elections. People, generally, go with their gut. They don't read manifestos.