Dr Le Comte de St Germain

Shadow Home Secretary. Lord of the Bins. Free valuations of new and antique cheeses.

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@rodbishop15 I am Saul become Paul. Have discovered that my private school/Russell Group, rugby playing, RP speaking, young professional, black sons are routinely stopped for no reason and don’t even bother telling me. @pritipatel , what the hell is going on?

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@linmeitalks Agree - Farage would be a terrible prime minister. He has no interest in the mechanics of government, only of permanent insurrection.

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@MattCrivelli @Bengaloonatic As a Brit, I was AMAZED to discover that homes in the US state of Hawaii don’t have central heating!! They’re living in the dark ages in very there.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

The country is not being governed and Labour say there won't be a Prime Minister till September.

Keir Starmer is off on a farewell tour and Andy Burnham wants a summer holiday. Neither is thinking about our national security.

We need to cut welfare and fund our military.

[Royal Mail @RoyalMail]

Moving home?

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[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

While we are doing our autopsies of Keir Starmer’s unimpressive premiership, I’d like to suggest he is a prime example of a certain personality type that causes us problems.

He has been a high achiever his whole life. From the 11+ onwards he passed tests and ascended every hierarchy he found himself in. This, I believe, shaped his worldview in a way that made him absolutely unsuited for the office.

For Starmer, you accept the rules of the system, you play the game, and when you win you get rewards. Number 10 was just the last objective that he earned by mechanically playing society like a video game - it was his by right for ticking all the boxes correctly.

His visible confusion and inability to grasp the job of actual leadership is, I think, a result of never having had to deal with the world beyond whichever social game he was playing at the time. Law is such a bounded game where a rigid, goal oriented thinker like Starmer can and did thrive.

A better leader would be someone who has some experience doing something which contacts base reality, where outcomes are not socially determined. Business, STEM, the military etc all fall into this category. Those people who spend their careers in the purely social feedback loops of law and politics do I think make poor leaders even if they excel at the process that gets them to the leadership.

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

I think this hashtag needs to be trending tonight, don’t you?

#GeneralElectionNow

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@StatisticUrban Starmer was sanctimonious, hypocritical and brittle. His lack of people judgement was rooted in these characteristics, along with an arrogance developed in the legal arm of our awful civil service. Still, at least he has his unique, Parliament-sanctioned pension.

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@GaardenTrasch @aljhlester It’s very worrying the way eurosceptics are starting to dominate the press. All we have left are the Guardian, Observer, Independent, Times, FT, Mirror, Sky News and ITN. And the American and European press, naturally. How are we going to tell all the little people they’re wrong?

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@larabirdsnp You looked and acted like a spoilt teenager.

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@WardlawSteve @FestAKINBUSOYE @LTDAForum Fair point. I draw the line at life changing, permanent physiological changes for a condition that is not life threatening. Such changes would be justified if the alternative was death or severe physical impairment. In this case, they’re not: the damage vs reward balance is wrong

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@WardlawSteve @FestAKINBUSOYE @LTDAForum Leukaemia is an illness that will kill if not treated. It’s not even a close comparison.

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@WardlawSteve @FestAKINBUSOYE @LTDAForum You must feel a little bit uncomfortable about experimenting on children.

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@skisidjames @DavidGauke Yes, but Reform’s economic policies come with a host of government intervention policies that would look perfectly at home in the Green manifesto. They’re not right wing, they’re just anti-immigrant Labour.

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@SangitaMyska Yes, it is truly a terrifying prospect.

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

In the sectors driving future growth - life sciences and AI - the UK far outstrips the EU and *would not do so* if we'd spent the last 5 years in their regulatory regime. On Brexit Day tomorrow let's remind ourselves that when it comes to the future we're better off out https://t.co/vsFZ2wjez8

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@yuanyi_z He was on the Radio saying that he couldn’t understand Starmer’s departure because of his “solid achievements”. Sadly, the interviewer missed the opportunity to ask him to list them.

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@GaardenTrasch @Muinchille And the EU has solved all this “democracy” nonsense by simply appointing commissioners that can’t be voted out. How I yearn to once again be dominated by a steely-eyed commissioner!

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@TrumpDailyPosts Trump

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@Maquiavellum3 Argentina didn’t even exist when Britain took over the uninhabited islands. The lease on Hong Kong expired in 1997 - unlikely Argentina, the UK honours its international treaties.

[Dr Le Comte de St Germain @comte_st]

@TheTweetOfGod “Humbled her”. Not heard it called that before.