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Keir Starmer’s Goldilocks approach to dealing with the mainstream media is lukewarm porridge, and which maniac likes lukewarm porridge?
Writing about Keir Starmer has become like the qualities we’d hoped he’d embody when he became Leader of the Labour party; reliable but politically benign to the point of dullness while, for a multitude of reasons, necessary. Though I’d really like to get back to making fun of Tories, right now they’re rolling out the vaccine like a weekend dad dishing out Happy Meals to prove just how good a parent he is two days a week.
Some polls show Starmer’s approval rating is plummeting while Johnson’s increases. This could just be normal and nothing to really worry about, like balding. New leaders are like toastie makers. Very exciting to begin with, but ultimately you go back to the traditional 2-slice toaster, because who can be arsed with the effort of getting the most out of a cumbersome pile of plastic taking up too much counter space?
No one really knows when we teleported to Htrae, the Bizarro Dimension planet where everything is opposite, but here we are, deal with it.
And the Tories could always fuck it up, especially on Wednesday when the Polly Pocket…
