Andrew Marr: I was wrong to believe in Keir Starmer

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• OC

  @octarinehk · 11 months ago

  “Make the country slightly less sh*t” isn’t quite the goal we were all hoping for.

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• HI

  @hignman · 11 months ago

  I am absolutely sick of being told as a fact that Starmer is “decent”. This is a man who straight up lied to become leader.

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• SA

  @saetia7 · 11 months ago (edited)

  The reason ID cards are unpopular is not because Starmer isn't out campaigning for them Andrew, it's because the general public can see that it is another unnecessary incrimental intrusion into their private lives. People are more technologically savvy than they were when Blair was in charge, they have seen how their data can be used against them by dictators, algorithms and fraudsters - they aren't going to be compelled by "ease of use" when they understand that it is a massive risk congregating all of that data instead of compartmentalizing it and that when it does exist it will inevitably be used beyond what it is initially proposed for.

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• CL

  @clusterm2 · 11 months ago

  I'm not a 'political editor' but even I could see that Starmer's Labour Party had only one policy, and that was sitting on the fence....Jeez, it was obvious they had nothing to offer.

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• RU

  @russellwhitfield235 · 11 months ago

  I’m 20 minutes in, I can’t bear listening to this anymore

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  @619wisey · 11 months ago

  But I thought the adults were back in charge Andrew? 😂

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• DE

  @DeanCowan · 11 months ago

  Keir Starmer is a perfect civil servant. He should never have become a politician.

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• ST

  @stuartriches2551 · 11 months ago

  Surely “show me your Palantir ID if you want to buy a burger” is radical enough?

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• MA

  @mairimcgonigill4347 · 11 months ago

  Better late than never, Andrew. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, are you?

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• GO

  @goldennuggets75 · 11 months ago

  Anyone who ever believed the adults were back in charge was extremely naive. What we have is incompetents, fools, sentimentalists, traitors.

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• DA

  @davebrown5539 · 11 months ago

  Decent and honourable, no he is a bloody bare faced liar

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• KA

  @karlarcher8773 · 11 months ago

  To think the Labour top team was anything but idealogues before the election is astounding.

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