At least no refrigerators were included. On Tuesday, Boris Johnson received treatment with Good Morning, UK. A difficult nonsense interview with Susanna Reed, who found the Convict shorter than usual with convincing answers. Keir Starmer’s turn came on Wednesday. And if the opposition leader had hoped it would be easier, he would be disappointed. There should have been no concessions for being trustworthy and not spending the last five years trying to avoid the program. After all, he was also begging for a way out. Although with much greater dignity, untouched by Johnson. A little consolation.
The convict’s interview took place at number 10. Starmer’s interview was in the ITV studio and this time Richard Madley was allowed to join in the fun. Although he struggled to get a word in the edgeways. It’s not something you can often say. The Labor leader seemed tense, nervous and unhappy from the start. It was as if the next 20 minutes were a beating of punishment that he could not avoid, not an opportunity to sell his party’s policies and garner all sorts of homeless votes ahead of Thursday’s local elections.
Reed wasted no time in delving into Labour’s plans for an unforeseen tax on energy companies. Here Starmer had a decent story to tell. He was only looking to tax the extra profits, and even BP’s chief executive said an unforeseen tax would not stop his company from investing in cheaper green energy. But even now Starmer was able to sound defensive. It was as if he was expecting a return.
No one came, as Reed seemed pleased enough with his answers and moved on to raising national security. Will Labor keep it if they win the next general election? Starmer was not at all clear, except that he would definitely not present it in the first place. But he could not be more precise than that, for it was impossible to know in what way the Tories would leave the economy. In its current form, the election looks catastrophic or completely catastrophic.
Still, Cair would not be withdrawn. He may keep the tax he would not pay, but he may not. And the best explanation he could offer for how he would replace the £ 12 billion to be spent on the NHS was to reimburse the money. lost in fraud during the Covid pandemic. It did not sound like the most convincing plan.
After Madley briefly raised the complete history of Oliver Dowden’s claims of an election pact between Labor and the Liberal Democrats, Reed moved on to Beergate. What exactly had happened in Durham when Starmer was filmed out the window drinking beer and curry at home for £ 200, bought for 20 to 30 of his aides? Yes, a chip in Madley, holding the front page of the Daily Mail, which for the seventh day in a row led the story, what was going on? One might think that Lord Rothermeier, the owner of the non-home Daily Mail, was furious that Labor had promised to abolish homeless status.
At least this time, the Labor leader was able to categorically deny that Durham police had recently questioned him about the incident. He had refused to answer the question three times the day before, for reasons best known to him. Something we usually expect from Johnson. Still, he managed to do it while he still looked and sounded awkward. Mutable on the border. Putting snippets of information under duress, instead of just tearing down the whole story as a desperate attempt to undermine Labor’s integrity. As a sign that he was doing something right and that the Tory establishment was worried.
Because the whole thing is so obviously nonsense. It’s just that Starmer and some assistants had something to eat after a day’s campaign. Which was completely within the rules, as the Durham police had already concluded.
It was not a party like the Dos or the Boris and Marty Party for free for everyone in the Downing Street Garden, where employees and empty parts of flower beds had to be removed. And it wasn’t as if something was planned. No one had entered the curry office singing “Happy Five Days to the Upcoming Hartlepool Elections.” Hell, what party do you remember serving food at 10:00? And serve only one bottle of beer?
What was needed was for Starmer to control the situation. To own the curry. To own the interview. To own the room. To be honest, yet rightly to ignore the Mail’s attempts – aided and abetted by The Convict’s own mouthpiece, the Sun – to denounce every politician as equally sold. Bad each other. Reducing everyone to their own level is straight from Johnson’s book.
However, Starmer was left to decline, and Johnson Shills triumphed over his imaginary guilt. No more than the absurd Nadine Doris, who is unable to distinguish between truth and falsehood. Although the public seems to be, the Mail campaign has had little effect, as voters are still in a hurry to identify Convict as the real sinner. So maybe the Labor leader’s discomfort is just a transitional mistake.
Of course, that seemed to be the opinion of the Tory Party. Why else would you send an idiot like George Justis to grab the headlines by reminding people not to shop at Waitrose. Let them eat Lidl cake. How to overcome the crisis with the cost of living with one easy solution. Rarely has the government seemed so contactless. It’s time for Starmer to stop apologizing for himself. Conservatives must apologize.
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