Friday 24 May 2024
Let the telly decide
Sir Keir Starmer brands Rishi Sunak 'desperate' and says 'of course there will be TV debates'
In an interview with Sky News, The Labour leader also defended his policy U-turns, saying they are the "practical reality of Tory damage to the economy".
Sir Keir Starmer has accused Rishi Sunak of "sounding a bit desperate" after the prime minister accused him of "chickening out" of TV debates.
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I'd be careful what I wished for if I were Sir Keir. Although Sunak has very little to say, he can at least string a sentence together and sound plausibly oily. Starmer always seems ill at ease. I heard him on Rado 4 this morning. For a barrister, he is extraordinarily anxious and flat-footed when he responds to questions.
Still, he has to do the public fronting-up. His front bench are terrifying.
Rayner: coarse, vindictive and ignorant.
Reeves: probably the best he's got, but comes across as an ambitious headmistress.
Lammy: Sweaty African dictator.
Cooper: radical sourpuss.
Dodds: embarrassing mad auntie.
Streeting: sit-com gents' outfitter.
McFadden: cadaverous Stalinist.
Miliband: God have mercy on us.
There are weeks to go to the General Election and I am already fed up with the circus.
A really smart party leader would avoid accusing the other leaders, just smile and present his or her manifesto.
I guess there are no smart leaders available.
Sam - I think you are right, Starmer is so unimpressive it isn't easy to see how he climbed so high and he could flounder against Sunak. I like your front bench description but yes it's terrifying. All we can hope for is that the permanent administration will limit them, which seems likely enough but a dismal prospect all the same.
DJ - I haven't followed it closely so far, but Sunak seems more likely to restrict himself to smiling and presenting his manifesto.
I understand that, if Labour are elected, all Labour MPs will each be allowed to have two homes, which will be lived in, by them, at the same time and, when they sell the one they have, allegedly, lived in continuously (yes, I know), they will be exempt from paying any form of tax.
A proposal said to have been put forward by Angela Raynor.
Penseivat
Penseivat - blimey she's a sharp one is our Angela. That idea is likely to be passed by a large majority and give her popularity a boost too.
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