In normal circumstances anyone who could train Woodentop Keir Starmer NOT to sound like a broken old robot who bores the nation to death, might be seen as an asset.
Hell, they might even qualify for a medal.
However it wasn’t normal times in December 2020 when the then leader of the Opposition allowed actress and “communication skills expert” (and family friend) Leonie Mellinger to come into Downing Street and give him “acting lessons” when much of the country was under Tier 4 restrictions.
Yep, while only essential key workers were allowed to mix Starmer invited Ms Mellinger into No 10 to give him a bit of face to face training – which could very easily have been done on Zoom.
On any level THAT would appear to break the law because there is no way on God’s earth Mellinger could have been classed as a “key worker”.
Keir Starmer has strongly denied breaching Covid lockdown rules.
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Yet, when asked this week if he’d broken the rules Starmer’s arrogant response to the journalist who’d asked the perfectly legitimate question was “Of course not.” And he managed to look at her like she was you-know-what on his shoe while he said it.
He may come to regret that response because on what planet could having face to face acting lessons with a voice coach on Christmas Eve in a Tier 4 area NOT be breaking the rules. And in case you’ve forgotten the people who were classed as “key workers” back then it was doctors, nurses, people working on the front line in health, social care and transport.
Nowhere was there a category for “washed up actresses”!
Doesn’t Starmer get it. People wouldn’t be quite so incensed about this if he hadn’t been the bozo who was pushing the rules down all of our throats and using them to try and oust Boris.
Has he forgotten the sacrifices decent, ordinary people made to keep to those rules? Fathers were banned from the birth of their babies. People weren’t allowed to touch, or say goodbye to their dying parents. Grieving relatives were forcibly separated in churches and crematoriums unable to give each other comfort as they buried their dead.
And Christmas in 2020 was all but cancelled for millions of families thanks to those damned rules. Yet Keir Starmer thought it was okay to have acting lessons because he needed help on how to make a speech about Boris’ Brexit deal?
The hypocrisy is staggering!
Keir Starmer himself pushed forcefully for Covid rule breaking laws to be implemented.
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But rather than admit what he did was wrong – and very probably illegal – he gets Downing Street lackeys to say they won’t “engage” in this because it happened when Labour was in Opposition.
What? First, that sounds like an admission to me. Second, are Starmer’s idiot people actually saying that the rules didn’t apply to Opposition politicians? Are they saying that NOT being in Government was a defence for breaking the law?
Sorry, but the law and the rules apply to everyone. And those rules couldn’t have been clearer: “Everyone must work from home unless they are unable to do so. Residents in Tiers 1-3 should not enter Tier 4 areas.” And it very much appears Mellinger did.
And just to remind you what Starmer’s view on rule breaking at the time was (he was talking about it applying to Boris and the Tories) he said: “ Honesty, integrity and truth matter in our politics.”
Yes they do matey. And with every day that passes we can see that Starmer wouldn’t know the truth or honesty if either slapped him in the face.
These were the laws Starmer pushed for so forcefully and so vociferously. In fact he demanded deeper, tighter ones.
But maybe that’s because he always knew it was one rule for him and one for the rest of us plebs?
Remember how he damned Boris to Hell and back because he had some cake on his birthday. Remember how he said Boris and Rishi had lied to parliament and to the British people and had to go?
Well Starmer now needs to be asked in parliament if HE broke the rules and if he lies – well surely he has to go too? Even Rachel Reeves screamed at the time: “There cannot be one rule for Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak and another for everyone else.”
And she’s right.
Rachel Reeves was right when she said “There cannot be one rule for Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak and another for everyone else.”
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Of course if he had a shred of decency or self-respect he’d just go. If he was a man of his word he’d go. But he hasn’t and he isn’t.
This man’s a disaster and every day it becomes clearer he isn’t fit to lead this country. Every day brings yet another catastrophe – most of which are of his own making and stem from his own misjudgment.
And what does it say about a PM in waiting that he had to take acting lessons because he needed help to deliver a speech in response to Boris’ Brexit deal because he knew he couldn’t connect with people?
THAT’S not a leader for God sake. Yes, Maggie Thatcher had voice coaching but she had a passionate political conviction. She knew what she wanted and how to deliver it and she possessed a distinct ideology. Starmer possess none of those things.
He STILL has no idea how to connect with the British people.
And they’re right. His popularity rating is minus 42. More than 62% Brits think he’s doing a terrible job as PM and the Reform Party – that came from nowhere and has just five MP’s – has just taken the lead over Labour.
The game’s up for Starmer. The British people, even lifelong Labour voters, now see him for exactly what he is.