How shameless and out of touch can the ‘son of a toolmaker’ be?
Keir Starmer can’t make it to his social media to criticise Israel’s confirmed overwhelming slaughter of civilians in Gaza or its use of banned weapons on Palestinian children. He can’t resist keeping children hungry in this country, waging war on the poor, sick, disabled and mentally struggling – or on journalists and others who speak out against Israel’s genocide.
But he can make it to X to claim putting up bus fares is saving UK families money.
Starmer posted on the social media platform that:
The £3 bus fare cap has already cut costs for families. We’re extending it — making travel simpler, cheaper and better for everyone.
Keir Starmer
However, as people were quick to point out, the “£3 bus fare cap” was a fifty percent increase on the existing cap of £2:
Starmer likes to claim he knows about poverty because his ‘toolmaker’ dad (who owned the factory) sometimes couldn’t put food on the table. He knows enough about poverty to think whacking the cost of things up by half on top is saving us money.
He couldn’t be more out of touch if he was permanently sealed into a sensory deprivation chamber under a mile of bubble wrap.
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We used to have MPs who came from working communities, and many of those who didn’t, were judged on “What did you do in the war?” Those days have long gone. University, the straight to being an “adviser” for their favourite political party with the intention of getting on the gravy train. Alternatively, CLAIM to be an adviser at the BoE, when you’re 22!
L.I.F.E. experience counts for nothing, hence the laws they pass, and the (lack of) understanding and morals, with their motto “Greed is good (for us).”
Some interesting and revealing poll numbers here:
Apart from constant references to his so called “struggling family when he was a child” and his mother “sat at the kitchen table trying to balance the household accounts” or some such *****, he made much of his mother suffering from illness/disability and how difficult it made life for her. Yet as far as as I know not one ‘journalist’ tackled him about this when he and Kendall were planning the swingeing disability benefit cuts.
I never could stand the man and thought the writing was on the wall on the very day of his election to LOTO, but never in my wildest imaginings did I think he and his government would sink as low as they have. Currently fanning the flames (no doubt literally at some point) of racism….
Quite. I am bemused by folk, including politicians and journalists who seem to think that what they call “boomers” (there never was such a generation in the UK, it was an American experience) had everything on a plate. My mother and father lived in a tied house, and my mother often told of times when she had 6d left at the end of the week, despite her working in agriculture and my father having a second job from time to time. My gran (widowed in 1929, with ten children to raise) lived in a rented house that had no running water, and no electricity. I mention these things not because they are unusual, but because they were exceedingly common! Starmer appears to have had a comparatively comfortable childhood by comparison. Yes his mother was ill, he tells us, but so were many folk, especially with the scars of war. My girlfriend in the late fifties (a friend who was a girl), only moved to our village, in a drier part of England, because her father was still suffering from the affects of surviving the Lancastria sinking, the village roadman, like one of my uncles, was what was termed a cripple at the time. The roadman lived in an almshouse (owned by one of the nobility whose name you would instantly recognise if I gave it), which had been condemned in 1900 as unfit for human habitation – a dirt floor, no electricity, no running water and rain running through a tiled roof. But hey, we had life easy, except for our PM!
‘Baby boomer’ really infuriates me too. There was a terrible piece in The Guardian yesterday (I know, I know) by their so called ‘Senior Economics Editor’ asking “Can a nation in crisis rely on the baby boomer generation to step up?” Absolutely no economic or political analysis of “the crisis” just full of vitriol, blame and resentment. Some good letters in response this morning though.
I sent in a letter complaining about the use of the word Boomer, and much of the drivel driving it. It didn’t get published. Mind you I’m banned from the G now anyway. So a badge of honour!
This (atrocious) article? https://web.archive.org/web/20250821115319/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/21/baby-boomers-wealth-tax-property-pensions
I agree: a once-decent newspaper uses vitriol and resentment to foster the ruling class’ divide and conquer strategy. You can see why reprobates like the Viner-managed guardian LOVE Keir Starmer.
Apparently the most important news in the world is that the G won a legal case a few days ago, judging that it was the top story on their website today. Included 4 related articles too.
Dafuq would he know about bus travel anyway?
Freeloading bastard charged the taxpayer a quarter mill for a chauffeur when he was dpp (Yes folks – he used to prosecute terrorists, y’know!) Despite living less than 4 miles – and a direct train ride – away from his office.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-keir-starmer-billed-taxpayer-nearly-250000-for-travel-expenses-at-cps/
Greasy, slimy sleazebag.