Before I head off for Easter (yes, with my family), and switch off Twitter, some Good Friday thoughts about Keir Starmer.
First, the bleeding obvious, he’s very, very boring, and a bit self-centred. You do not want to have to spend an evening with this guy. 1/
One of those mornings where you just long to run your fingers through @patrickkmaguire's gorgeous mane of hair whilst he reads you the Times editorial.
Column in this morning's Times: Keir Starmer talks as if the Labour left have been routed. That isn't quite true. And Tony Blair and his shadow cabinet know it. https://t.co/0egLroVkWk
Labour’s @YvetteCooperMP is pledging to introduce a beefed up version of Asbos - ‘Respect Orders’ - to tackle antisocial behaviour.
The new orders would come with a power of arrest if breached https://t.co/9yIqt66syX
Glad to see Labour committing to cutting red tape here. When I was on the Tower Hamlets council we spent months - and a great deal of public money - arguing against central government impositions of disabled toilets.
The list goes on and on. From accessible toilets and swimming pools to picnic areas and car parks, central government is spending countless hours micromanaging these small decisions from behind a desk in Whitehall.
@LeoKearse Not really sure this format works at present. Is the joke that women are such bad swimmers that even a relatively unfit male-bodied individual would win a race against them?
@calum_1989@LeoKearse@MatthewdAncona I’ve supported Leo through thick and thin, but you’ve got to admit, he’s no Geoff Norcott. If he wants to get on as a stand-up he’s going to have to spend less time on this preachy political stuff.
@stellacreasy I hope Dan’s going to give them a stern talking to at the next dinner. Vigilantism isn’t an appropriate way of attacking asylum seekers. That’s why we need a Labour government to take charge of this.
@thetimes Drag them down to the Southside basement and get security to rough them up a bit. Nothing fatal, just enough to teach them a lesson. Violence is the only language these Momentum thugs understand.
@LeoKearse@MatthewdAncona Leo - have you spoken to your agent recently? You really can’t afford to be losing work at the moment, and tweets like this just risk upsetting the applecart.
@RadiatorClan @rocknroller912@supertanskiii I was under the impression that they merely had to be images likely to cause arousal to a normal man (such as myself), but I am happy to bow to your superior knowledge of the law.
@churnwell There’s a reason Glastonbury takes sensible, attractive young ladies like Tan and makes them blurt out offensive slogans like “I love Hitler” or “Oh Jeremy Corbyn” as they scramble around in the mud. Too much of Corbyn junior’s “hemp” in the air, methinks.
@stellacreasy Stella - I’m 100% with you on Corbyn, but can we lay off the housing officer slander here? This idea that we can just give free houses out to everyone is really damaging for those of who rent for a living.
@Masterofwhine@RadusGabriel@stephenpollard@TheNewsAgents The bearded old fool doesn’t know the first thing about housing, for a start. How can you “end rough sleeping” without it having a hugely detrimental effect on the well-being of the landlord community? Just the kind of soft bigotry we’ve come to expect, I’m afraid.
J er remy Corbyn is yet to provide evidence that he does not engage in violent antisemitic acts as part of a wish-fulfilment mechanism in his dreams. To my mind, that is the biggest proof that @Baddiel’s hypothesis is correct.
"[Baddiel] accepts that I’m not a racist, so why does he construct something that's allegedly at the back of my mind?"
@jeremycorbyn responds to @Baddiel’s characterisation of his alleged anti-Semitism.
Listen on @GlobalPlayer.
https://t.co/FYWXG5frT9
@lewis_goodall
@DearLor35226769 I met someone at a dinner the other day who claimed to have been Corbyn’s psychoanalyst around the run up to the Iraq War. He all but confirmed that Corbyn’s extreme views at the time stemmed from a deep-rooted and virulent racism against all things Judeo-Christian.
@Dorianlynskey@jeremyrh Dorian - David’s fancy dress parties were meant to be strictly among friends. And, no, you can’t just turn up in a bedsheet and say you’re Ghandi. Really poor form.