Rodders Is Going To Do A St Tony......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63037696
..the penny has finally dropped. Sir Beer realised he must become Tory Lite to win. Now how is he going to clear out all the reds under the bed? He may just have a chance but they'll have to wrest Scotland from the Bravehearters and amputate the loony left and anti semites but credit where it's due, he's seen the way.

[naomi24]

Starmer might want to do a Blair but he doesn’t have either the personality or the leadership qualities.

[FatticusInch]

naomi24
//Starmer might want to do a Blair but he doesn’t have either the personality or the leadership qualities//

What are those qualities?
Care to give us a combined list from the previous and current leaders of the present government?
Starmer will need all the tips he can get should he gain the keys to Number 10.
What are the pre-requisites that might see him succeed in the role?

[Stableford]

Blair had charisma. Keir has nowt. The national anthem was just embarrassing... what a lettuce.

[naomi24]

I’d have said a prawn, stableford - but it amounts to the same thing really.

[Peter Pedant]

all he has to do is keep quiet and he will be elected at the next election
but we always really knew that didnt we

[Peter Pedant]

no Boris had charisma - talked any old rubbish and people thought "yes yes, it can really be like that!"

and I think the voting public is charisma-ed out for the near future

[ichkeria]

I’d be rather worried if I was a Tory.

There was glee in the eyes of Angela Rayner and it wasn’t faked …

[DTCwordfan]

I'm waiting for him to invade Russia or Ukraine without the House's permission - and then to be elevated to StTonetoo.

[FatticusInch]

I’m guessing I won’t get an answer(as ever from naomi24) about the qualities of leadership that Starmer will require if he does get into Downing St, so I guess it must be these?

Ok, in no particular order:

Lying, serial adulterer/multi-fartherer with a narcissistic streak and penchant for younger females, not averse to casual racism, anti-monarchist Bullingdon bully-boy happy to conspire to get a journalist assaulted, forgetful about clandestine meetings with foreign nationals, Peppa Pigophile and proroguer(unlawfully), hen-pecked protector of pooches over people.
Protector of predatory pouncer, evasive with the truth yet happy to holiday as the country hurtled headlong into a howling hurricane.
Flip-flipper with a catastrophic plan for growth cleverly designed to increase the wealth of the top 1% in the country.

Starmer hasn’t got a hope in Hell of matching up to that! Lol

[New Judge]

//...it certainly shows that the state owned enterprises of this country in the 1970s were not very good but you don’t need to look very far to find ones that are effective//

I've looked quite far and wide and with the honourable exception of the Armed forces, which by and large are second to none despite the efforts of successive governments to reduce them to mediocrity, I'm struggling to find any. I'd add to my list of one the fire & rescue services if the local authorities which run them together with the firefighters' trade union can be persuaded not to destroy the service. Certainly the major services upon which the public rely (police, the NHS, the ambulance service, the DVLA, the Passport Office, the Land Registry, HMRC) are, in the main, completely shambolic.

There are isolated partially successful enterprises set up by local authorities (Robin Hood Energy springs to mind) but in the main these local initiatives in energy and some in construction have proved expensive failures. Why anybody should consider a government or local authority the right organisation to act as an energy provider is a little mysterious.

[Peter Pedant]

Ed, did you quite recently say no other name will be tolerated
yeah foo to be exact
it is common knowledge if I refer to TTT as titting twitfoos twit, then he will thcweam until he is blue in the face and get this deleted

[Peter Pedant]

if I were a tory, if I were a tory
chrissakes
everyone knows, conditional in the apodosis ( would) demands a subjunctive in the protasis ( were - not was)