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Will Sir Keir still be PM in the Summer?

Let's say June 21st 2025. He's unpopular, now hated by many, he's stuttering even more and looks very jaded..

Michael Brown ● 61d34 Comments

Well thank god starmer is not over in Paddington?Think "sausages" was just about enough of him on the big stage

Julian Pavey ● 32d

Past prime ministers haven't attended, not part of the protocol.Farage Patel a nd Johnson are there brown nosing , shows the standard of the guests from the UK.

David Burke ● 32d

Yes important leaders were invited. Non entities and irrelevant people weren’t. Stammer topped the list of irrelevants.

Steve Taylor ● 32d

Not at all an embarrassment. Given who has been invited, it would have been an embarrassment if Keir Starmer had been invited. https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-inauguration-far-right-populists-giorgia-meloni-javier-milei/

Andrew Jones ● 32d

Ok so the we all know that Lammy is exceptionally stupid after seeing his pathetic performance on Mastermind but this morning he is sounding off on the radio about our ‘Special Relationship’ with the Trump Administration!! What a moron. Is our relationship so special that Deer Stammer is one of the few World ‘leaders’  NOT to be invited to the inauguration of the President of the United States. What an embarrassment for the UK.

Steve Taylor ● 32d

What links to China other than the norm we have always had close business ties with them.

Janice Evans ● 33d

“ Donald Trump is considering rejecting Sir Keir Starmer’s nominee for UK ambassador to the US in what would be an extremely rare move.Sources within the Trump team have told The Independent that it is still not certain Peter Mandelson’s credentials will be accepted by Mr Trump after he becomes president.While the threat of rejecting Lord Mandelson could be sabre rattling, strains between the Labour government and the incoming administration are being blamed. However, there also are concerns about Lord Mandelson’s perceived links to China”

Steve Taylor ● 33d

Heading for the exit!Like anyone who’s trying to make the most of their life, our Prime Minister does not have time to hang around with the hoi polloi.  Jump the queue!He's learning in Madeira.  Gets his family through too.

James Roy ● 47d

- Maggie Oliver the ex-cop turned whistleblower on grooming gangs sayes Keir is 'as guilty as anyone I know' .

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 48d

Boxing Day sales were not good.

Janice Evans ● 54d

Many shops now don’t have sufficient stock and the sales staff ‘proudly’ tell you to buy it online. This happened to me umpteen times at House of Fraser in George Street Richmond. Little wonder they went bust and had to be taken over by Mike Ashby’s Sports Direct Group.

Steve Taylor ● 54d

Why not, certain items can't be easily got on the street. Online sales have been slowly dropping since COVID-19 but were still up prior to COVID-19. Some people just do not have time to travel and shop. Many do not like travelling by public transport, and it's harder to drive these days. Supermarket sales I believe are up but things like clothes and especially fashion and fashion accessories are dropping year on year. People do not know where they stand in six months, and neither do small businesses or the hospitality industry, which could be the biggest hit and employ a large number of people. Rachel the receptionist is engaged on the phone, permanently. Posssibly because she has no clue in reality

Julian Pavey ● 55d

Well it would help if a good number of people stopped buying so much online. There are those, I've heard, who do their research in stores and then go home and order online.

Anne England ● 55d

Wait for further decline in 2025. All predicted by Rishi Sunak if Deer Keir got into No 10 and Rachel Thieves into No 11. “ Almost 170,000 retail workers lost their jobs during 2024 after a challenging year for high street firms, according to data.End-of-year figures compiled by the Centre for Retail Research showed the number of job losses spiked amid the collapse of major chains such as Homebase and Ted Baker.It said its latest analysis showed that a total of 169,395 retail jobs were lost in the 2024 calendar year to date.”

Steve Taylor ● 55d

Davey, please don't over intellectualise the debate.

Keith Iddon ● 56d

Yes - I voted Labour. In fact I didn't vote *for* Labour, rather *against* the wretched Tories. It's the Alien vs Predator theory in action.

Davey Harris ● 56d

He’s not going to jump in the next 2 seasons. Unless there’s a really major crisis we have him for the duration. But, I don’t rule out such a crisis. Have little confidence that he and his team could manage a ‘big sidewinder’ event. So who knows?

Russell Pearson ● 60d

Me neither but what about next time it will be another split vote.

Janice Evans ● 60d

No Paul.

Keith Iddon ● 60d

We get the government we tolerate - yes ? The same may be said for our local councils.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 60d

Reform.

Paul Campbell ● 60d

I heard Blair squealed like a little piggy post- Iraq to save his own skin..

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 60d

sorry..none of the big 4.

Keith Iddon ● 60d

I am afraid Blair and his second term lost me as a Labour voter due to what I saw and still see as their abject betrayal of working class people,in pursuit of a half baked dogma.I voted for neither of the big 4 parties this time.

Keith Iddon ● 60d

Unlikely.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 60d

I don't really care which Party are in if they are doing a good job becausethat's in all or interests, was disappointed about the tax on farmers, and think the winter fuel payment cut never gave pensioners time to prepare for the change, many now filling hospital beds including my neighbour taken into Ealing Hospital after a fall and now having to undergo an operation.  The elderly cannot move around properly when they get cold, the limbs seize up and they fall, I used to be proud of the fact people lived to a good age in the U.K.

Janice Evans ● 60d

I voted for Andy Slaughter, he’s been my MP for quite a few years, and I’m happy with the who I cast my vote for.Ask me in 4 years time if I’m happy with the  overall way this year’s election went.

Andrew Jones ● 60d

My view is exactly the same as Robert's.You might like to bear in mind that Labour does not have a mechanism for getting rid of leaders the way the Tories do with their letters to the 1922 Committee.Badenoch will be gone long before Starmer.

Susan Kelly ● 60d

Yes, I voted for them, and am bitterly disappointed by their lack of courage and some of the stupid mistakes they have made. But only blind partisanship could make anyone think that they are more dreadful than the last lot. And only a fantasist could think that they will soon be replaced, or that Starmer won't last long.

Robert Fish ● 60d

Not sure that she did. Something is very wrong both locally and nationally with the Labour party for staunch supporters, or at least staunch sometime ago, like Vanessa to become so disillusioned with them

N V Brooks ● 60d

Is there anyone on this Forum who actually voted for this dreadful lot? Vanessa Smith seems to have gone quiet. I may be wrong but I assume she voted Labour?

Brian Coyle ● 60d

I agree but I doubt he will see out next winter, a bit like many of the poor bloody pensioners his awful administration has forced to suffer.

N V Brooks ● 60d

None in the Labour Party have a clue how to govern for the great good of the whole of society. They talked the economy down, then raised crazy taxes without any undead the impact on retail and hospitality who suffered during Covid. Took a sledge hammer to winter fuel payments. Then raised IHT the most hated of taxes. Inflation rising, shops closing, unemployment will go up, benefits bill will rise. In just 6 months they have done more damage than 14 years of previous governments. They all need to go not just KS. At least people who voted for change got what they wanted an even worse situation.

Jayne Thorburn ● 61d

A fiver says he will, for better or for worse  ...

Davey Harris ● 61d