Keir Starmer’s excuses over lockdown-busting curry and beer jolly have shattered like a poppadom
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NO wonder Keir Starmer is losing the plot — his pathetic excuses over Labour’s lockdown-busting curry and beer jolly have shattered like a poppadom.
Yesterday — increasingly rattled, tetchy and evasive under fire — he sounded far more like his irascible, chippy old mentor Jeremy Corbyn than a rational candidate for Prime Minister.
Again and again Starmer spewed out the same scripted, threadbare soundbites, angrily insisting there was no party and no rules were broken.
Meanwhile Angela Rayner’s self-serving twaddle that there were “no gatherings” would make Iraq’s Comical Ali blush.
Dozens of MPs and aides scoffing a Friday night curry at 10pm, washed down with San Miguel? That’s a “working break”? Do us a favour.
How much work got done afterwards? Correct: Naan.
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A lawyer of Starmer’s experience knows his defence is shot full of holes. He would be better off apologising and hoping to move on.
But, having tried to destroy Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak over similar or lesser breaches, he can’t.
After months slinging mud, he has the gall to accuse Tories of mud-slinging — and begs voters to look the other way.
They won’t. But what did he expect?
Maybe the same preferential treatment he seems to be getting from Durham Police.
Brazen Beeb
IN Ukraine they name streets after Boris.
And as our PM became the first world leader to address the nation’s parliament, President Zelensky and his grateful MPs stood repeatedly to applaud.
Boris announced a new £300million injection of UK military support too.
Remainers and the Left cannot bear seeing Brexit Boris hailed a hero internationally, especially with Starmer’s pettiness and hypocrisy now exposed.
Which is why the BBC, the Remainers’ broadcaster, reported it as they did: By immediately letting leftie Lib Dem Layla Moran accuse Boris of a “cynical” stunt before tomorrow’s local elections.
Note to BBC journalists: Wheeling out your mates to make cheap political jibes as war rages in Europe is not “balance”.
It is derangement.
Sort it, Rishi
RAMPANT inflation is a global issue. But it falls to the Tories to alleviate hardship here.
When Boris admits “there is more we can do” he’s massively understating it.
This is a crisis unseen for a generation. Chancellor Rishi Sunak needs a whole new raft of measures to cut our bills.
Slashing business rates for retailers would help supermarkets keep prices down. But funding it with a web sales tax is bonkers.
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That just whacks those who shop online, including customers of the same supermarkets.
But whatever’s up his sleeve, Rishi needs to produce it fast. Many are in dire need.