Starmer facing calls to adopt Trump-style media strategy and ‘not worry about mistakes’
Labour MPs have called on the prime minister to act more like the US president, who has made surprise calls to live TV news shows and held long meetings with cabinet members on camera.
The result is that Mr Trump dominates news coverage in the US, with a growing number of senior Labour figures believing Sir Keir would do well to adopt the tactic.
Just a guess here, but it is possible that Trump dominates news coverage in the US because he is interesting, uncovering colossal levels of fraud and waste and his opponents are generally entertaining. Starmer isn't interesting and his opponents are not entertaining.
It isn't clear which of his numerous mistakes Starmer should avoid worrying about, but presumably Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner, David Lammy, Ed Miliband and Bridget Phillipson are among them. Then we have mass immigration, freebies, budget debacle, school VAT debacle, dodgy CVs.
Oh - and 'sausages'.
It's a good job bungling has become the new normal.
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Exactly. Charismatic Maverick outsiders can do what Trump does, and they don't need to worry about mistakes. But bureaucrats like Starmer build careers on following rules, so mistakes are terrifying to them. Starmer's natural expression is that of a man who wakes up screaming every night because he forgot some detail or other.
It might stress Starmer enormously if he tried to be interesting and entertaining on a frequent basis.
Plus all of his broadcasts should contain trigger warnings "May cause drowsiness, do not operate heavy machinery while listening."
Cabinet meeting on camera - 100% certain they would avoid this at any cost.
It's easy to see that President Donald Trump is doing something right, as the awful BBC the Graun and other leftie bunches are desperately trying to report anything which denigrates his great performances, in dealing with everything thrown at him.
Today's beeboid headlines are a case in point, so don't bother reading the rubbish!
Rabbit should be more like a cat it has been suggested. He should stalk cats and grab them in his ferocious jaws instead of needing to be rescued and liberated by Tammly on Easter Saturday.
Starmer mistakes? Let us count the ways … does a hydra have as many heads?
Sam - yes Starmer does have that natural expression. He must find it very difficult to cope with his own incompetence and the disorderly consequences.
DJ - only this morning I was thinking that of all the Prime Ministers we've seen in recent decades, Starmer must be the one least likely to tell a genuinely funny joke.
Anon - yes, they would need weeks of rehearsal first.
Scrobs - that's it - as his enemies are the usual suspects, we know he is broadly on track to actually achieve something.
Tammly - and other rabbits don't seem to join in and help, they just get on with the business of the day.
James - when I began writing the post I realised there are too many mistakes for a simple list, although Labour voters made the biggest mistake.
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