BEST BITS: Keir Starmer grilled by MPs at PMQs

[@PeterAstley-ph2qq]

You can see Starmer's irritated with Badenoch's incompetence. Don't know why, long may she reign.

[@bouncy19661]

@@PeterAstley-ph2qq really, she's as much use as a chocolate kettle

[@royboy565]

Can't see her being leader this time next year.

[@bouncy19661]

@@PeterAstley-ph2qq en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_over_People why do you want more of the same from liblabcon

[@michaelgriffiths5723]

I want PR

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

Me too

[@jamessherburn]

Will someone please explain irony and hypocrisy to Badenoch.

[@TheCam920]

She doesn't care, she knows she's lying

[@jamessherburn]

@TheCam920 Yes, I believe you're right. One hopes that when surfing a lie 'tis not a beech that awaits but the rocks. Sharp barnacled rocks.

[@mothgirlx6707]

“Proportional representation is not our policy… he didn’t do too badly in the system as it is” 😂How well he did isn’t the point, he’s advocating a fair electoral system, Labour are not doing themselves any favours, I don’t know why they’re justifying themselves of the same things they accuse Tories of, they’re the ones in government right now

[@californiadreamin8423]

Farage subverted this country by PR and his disgraceful behaviour in the EU Parliament, and his failure to represent the needs of U.K. fishermen in the EU Fisheries Committee….because it was “a waste of time” !!! Meantime he jogs across the pond frequently to the detriment of his Clacton constituency. Is PR what you want ? Seriously ? Buy in haste , repent at leisure.

[@royboy565]

I am left leaning and believe P R is the way forward. It can't be a fair democracy when labour get over 400 seats with 9.7 million votes and Reform (who I could never vote for) got 5 seats with 4.1 million votes. The percentage of votes should be reflected in the number of seats. This would stop tactical voting and every vote would count.

[@californiadreamin8423]

@@royboy565 I love tactical voting if it keeps companies masquerading as political parties, led by its self appointed majority shareholder, whose sole aim is to damage the country.

[@mothgirlx6707]

@@californiadreamin8423 what you’re talking about is not an issue with PR, it’s Farage, the fact he won a seat in the Clacton means he’d do it regardless.

[@colinmelling6369]

Starmer answering a question 😂😂🤣😂🤣 that will be the day.

[@klopp69320]

Children in the playground again STARMER dodging questions as per normal and passing the buck again

[@royboy565]

He is doing what the tories did for 14 years. I don't like it but in some respects I don't blame him. That's why pmqs is a waste of time.

[@vincelicata5880]

Answer the effing question

[@royboy565]

No P M ever has in my experience.

[@adammcallister2260]

You must be new to politics. Politics is about talking forever without ever having to saying anything useful.

[@dextercool]

Kemi is like a cartoon character, not a party leader.

[@MO-ss5mj]

Nah

[@royboy565]

At least cartoons can be funny or interesting. Badenoch is funny but not in the same way.

[@HamiyetTerkinn]

badenough hacked a website didnt she ... starmer should have reminded her ...

[@ClaireHosie-l8o]

Thanks for doing a balanced post

[@TheUnwoken]

the irony about kemi's politician with convictions, I think she needs to turn around and look at all the Tories and conservatives with convictions first. I swear these Tories and their bad actors( I know the tax inheritance put a toll on your "farmland" rich boys, but come on spend a little. also the pounds going up last time I checked, the pound equals 1.2 Euro so I say that's a win from the tanking Lizzy did last year and the 13 years and 10 months since the thieves took over the country

[@THEE4DARKESTCORNERZ23]

Strategy Starmer doesn't have to answer superficial questions. Let Kemi talk on...... durrrr

[@WVislandia]

Give Scotland the right to a referendum for independence.

[@Believe-you-me-]

Once in a lifetime remember….

[@shabbydabbydo314]

​@@Believe-you-me-democracy isn't a faustian pact signed in blood.

[@Mason4PM]

I'm English but if I could I'd vote for you to leave

[@TheCam920]

A bit weird how it's a "union" but one country gets to decide if you leave or not

[@shabbydabbydo314]

@@WVislandia it's a democracy, people have a right to change their mind.

[@antestyle101]

"We are here to stop him from damaging the economy" says the party that crashed our economy 😂😂

[@danielp9721]

Get him.out hes a liar

[@pauleverett3508]

Im just hearing blah blah blah we need action NOW this is bul××hit

[@RegHoldsworth-ri7hh]

They call it traditional.

[@Stuboy]

Its astonishing how Tories talk about the state of things having been the architects of where we are at its breathtaking hypocrisy ,,id be embarrassed to show my face let alone speak

[@OrphanAnnie10]

That's true, but Starmer is just as bad and making wrong policies, that will weaken this country. I always voted Labour but couldn't in the General election.

[@Stuboy]

​@@OrphanAnnie10He's had 5 months in office to repair 14 years of damage , did you expect 14 years of neglect to be undone in weeks? Probably take at minimum 10 years to get back what we had , that's how bad the Tories are , just continuing the privatisation where Maggie left off

[@Stuboy]

Liz truss the disaster Boris the clown Sunak Clegg & Cameron Teresa May my god it's no wonder we have a country left , my grandfather said unless you're a millionaire never vote Tory that was in the 80s he said that how true

[@OrphanAnnie10]

@@Stuboy No, I expect the leader of the opposition to stick to his manifesto and not go for the section of society that have taken the brunt of this since austerity with the consertive coalition. The OBR sent him the same letters as the the party in power got, so he knew that bad decisions, covid and leaving the EU had hurt this country, so he shouldn't have given people false hope that he would tax the energy companies windfall to lower bills for SMB and 2 parent working families and he would make life fairer so the people with the broadest shoulders payed their taxes. I didn't trust him and had a gut feeling about him from the beginning and I was right. Rishi sunsk at least gave cost of living payments for energy for people suffering the most. When a Labour leader makes a Tory leader look kinder then it says it all.

[@OrphanAnnie10]

@@Stuboy You took your original reply down 🤔I've never voted Tory but Kier is acting worse than a Tory. I voted Green and a seat in a Central city went Green after being a Labour safe seat for Decade's. Starmer knew what "all those clowns did" and still promised so much to get into no 10.

[@JoshAFC]

The way keir just proves everyones points and sits down again all smug like hes done something is crazy

[@JoshAFC]

And i hate the tories as much as anyone to be clear. But keir is making it so, so easy for them. Theyll get power 100% at this rate

[@PLl-jr8xi]

These people are all the same. I can't believe people still think their vote counts or means anything.

[@grahamlaidlaw3854]

Usual Eat, Sleep, Repeat, answers to the questions and still they bang on about the £22 billion black hole. Change the ruddy tape for god's sake.

[@royboy565]

Just copying the tories "there is no money left" note that they banged on about for 14 years.

[@seantaylor6154]

@@royboy565 Only difference is there was money left when Liebour took over

[@royboy565]

@ Sean Taylor After Labour bailed out the banks after the world banking crisis they left a debt of 980billion. Tories took over and after 14 years of austerity still managed to increase the debt to 3 trillion. Even before covid it was at a record high of 1.3 trillion. So blowing a hole in tories being good with the economy.

[@stevefoster5789]

What 2 Tory politicians have been convicted

[@rhobatbrynjones7374]

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.

[@stevefoster5789]

@@rhobatbrynjones7374 If that is correct they were given a fixed penalty notice and if that is paid there is no conviction .I thought he would know that being a lawyer

[@stevefoster5789]

@@rhobatbrynjones7374 It cant be them they were given fixed penalty notices and if you pay them it don't count as a conviction.I thought Starmer would have known that

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

​@@stevefoster5789 other way around

[@Mr1bigmick]

Still waiting for him to publish the details of the 20 billion black hole. Probably waiting for Diane Abbot to add it all up.

[@royboy565]

Doesn't need to as OBR have seen the details and agree with it.

[@robincampbell6213]

22 billion black hole is Table 7 of the doc below www.gov.uk/government/publications/response-to-the-obr-review-of-the-march-2024-forecast-for-departmental-expenditure-limits

[@scrhasbeenrenamed]

46th

[@leeroychang]

Wasn't the 22bn£ black whole found to be false? Scourges. The lot of them.

[@bouncy19661]

All they have to do is tax the rich

[@dualbrinky]

The £40 Billion black hole was revised down to £22 Billion. Pay attention mate, its pretty important.

[@leeroychang]

@bouncy19661 you do not understand our current tax system.

[@leeroychang]

@@dualbrinky our current debt is 2.5T£ so it's not really any different that any other year. That's 2,500bn£. It's a rounding error.

[@bouncy19661]

@leeroychang really? I understand that Ireland is a tax haven

[@BrianWillcox-qp2hr]

Keir Starmer was grilled & then eaten by MPs !

[@royboy565]

Think you must have watched a different pmqs to the rest of us.

[@Sarah-r9w]

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[@الهام-خ8ب]

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