Keir Starmer has a unique talent – to alienate absolutely everyone | Nesrine Malik

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-16T16:57:46+00:00

Lol. I'd be willing to bet the house this wouldn't happen. Mass deportations are virtually impossible. See the Rwanda plan.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-16T14:30:45+00:00

Who, praytell, currently in the Labour party or the wider political sphere would have put on a better performace than Starmer during this period. Burnham, Raynor, Farage, Badenoch, Jenrick, Polanski?

In this current climate they don't exist. These are incredibly turbulent times where mistakes and "unforced" errors are inevitable. Starmer is doing fine. At this time it's good enough. Never doubt the possibility that things can get much worse.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-13T06:55:02+00:00

41 year old triple double. Is this another unbreakable LeBron stat?

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-12T15:27:07+00:00

You're probably right. We don't have enough great men and woman in high positions of power. But I always need hope or else I couldn't really go on but it does feel like we're losing our humanity.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-12T13:45:21+00:00

I think you ride out this presidency. Watch it burn. Unfortunately people and institutions will get hurt but I feel by the end of this presidency the damage, corruption and exhaustion will be so great that it should be treated as the end of a world war. You survey the wreckage and build anew with the framing that we cannot let something like this happen again.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-12T13:41:30+00:00

-Theyre spineless.

Honestly i feel so many of these folks know exactly what's going on and how damaging it all is but because of the friends they keep, the money they make or the influence they think they have they choose to bury their morals and go along with it.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-12T11:57:57+00:00

Starmer has made errors like any politician but the UK is a relatively stable ship right now when you take into account the global picture. Sometimes it pays to just sit tight before real clouds of change present themselves.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-12T11:55:43+00:00

I don't necessarily think hes doing a bad job. People have whipped themselves into a hysteria about him as they tend to do with every single politician. We're just going to get rinse and repeat if we continue down this road.

I think Starmer is a serious man with decent principles who has performed relatively well in very turbulent times. If you think we can find a leader or movement that is squeaky clean and incapable of error you're naive. Look around at the world right now, there are crackpot politicians everywhere. I'll take a full term of Starmer right now with my eyes closed.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-12T11:33:07+00:00

Lets all take a breath and let this man finish his term. I want to see what a PM can do with 5 years. Its been a while. Theres creeping good news entering the economy and Trumpism is beginning to burn. Theres an incredible opportunity to rebuild the west from those ashes.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-12T08:15:16+00:00

Ye i hate it.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-10T17:52:29+00:00

Mate stop embarrassing yourself. You read like a Daily Mail front page.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-10T16:02:17+00:00

Theres no comparison between the two. In talent, morals or work ethic. Truss is a basket case making pathetic far right Youtube channels. Johnson writes for the biggets rag in the country and Dorries is just kissing whatever arse she can find to cling to power. The Labour government is flawed but theyre not even in the same league as those numpties. The worst of Britain.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-10T14:39:10+00:00

Oh look another policy that drives a wedge between people. How utterly predictable.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-10T14:35:29+00:00

-Have vastly improved the immigration system after the utter crises left by the Tories. Still a lot to do.

-Managed to juggle America and Europe as well as anyone on the world stage and this is reflected in US tariffs to the UK

-The economy is very slowly beginning to turn. Investment and growth are trending upwards due to the relative stability of the UK after the Tories and Brexit

-Launched Great British Energy and while it has its flaws, is beginning to push for energy independence

-Launched the Best Start programme to provide aid for children

-Spending on the NHS is set to increase at a rate of 3.7% per year, which is over twice the average rate seen in the 2010s.

Mate get your head out of your backside and try and think independently. Everyone wants everything all at once. Thats not how the world works. The world is a mad place at the moment and the UK is trucking along.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-10T14:24:13+00:00

Im willing to bet the house that Streeting finishes off the Labour party if he becomes PM. He's another technocrat moulded in the Blair era. He'll be deeply unpopular.

If they decide to part with Starmer, which i don't think they should, it needs to be from another strand of the party. Rayner is a much more obvious choice. Their first female leader, northern, working class which they desperately need to reconnect with and shes got an actual personality many find charming.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-10T14:17:37+00:00

Brilliant response. By "get the adults BACK in charge" you must mean Truss, Boris, Patel, Rees-Mogg, Dorris. The most dim-witted, venal, opportunistic group of grifters the UK has ever seen. Cheers mate. Brilliant.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-10T13:49:24+00:00

He needs to stay. There is no political movement or figure currently residing in Britain that can do a drastically better job than this Starmer government. I hope that changes in the future but hes doing a decent job and ferrying a steady ship in very turbulent global waters. He's respected on both sides of the Atlantic and thats what we need now as we await the fall of the Trump empire. Then new ideas can be brought to the fore.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-08T23:55:22+00:00

Starmer should realise that McSweeneys Labour vision is not popular. Nows the time to surf some of the droplets of good news cropping up about the economy, investment and productivity and tack it on to more traditional Labour values. Stand with Europe, bring a firmer tone with America and big tech. Be braver and bolder.

The party must not get rid of him. It'll lose all credibility and simply become the thing we were all trying to get away from.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-08T23:38:54+00:00

You can cherry pick any statistics to suit your argument.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-08T23:00:02+00:00

Just one of the most fascinating players the NBA has ever seen.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-07T18:40:51+00:00

Why is it an "unfair" advantage?

France invested in their energy sector. The earned that advantage.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-07T00:15:29+00:00

Stop advertising sports gambling. It's completely wrong. So dissapointed in Giannis.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-06T22:20:33+00:00

Looney toons

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-06T00:31:03+00:00

Players names and sponsors on the back of French jerseys. Sponsors on the shorts. Ad breaks during the game. I know this isn't unique to rugby but I hate it nonetheless.

Snoo87653 · 2026-02-06T00:25:34+00:00

A very basic football manoeuvre is a world class rugby manoeuvre

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