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Wednesday, 1 January 2025

 QUEUE JUMPER STARMER

I can't speak to the truth of what is about to follow, it's taken from a You Tube video which has been viewed 220,815 times since being posted on 1st January,

see it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzwA0hISrvA&t=8s

It purports to show Sir Keith Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, on holiday with his wife and two children in Madeira visiting a toboggan ride where hundreds of mainly British tourists are waiting, some for as much as three hours, for their turn.

What the video reports is that, to the accompaniment of boos and cat-calls, such as "get to the back of the queue", Starmer's children were taken to the front of the queue for their ride on these traditional wicker-work toboggans.

If true then it is no way to win friends and influence people, especially when, according to some recent surveys, Starmer is the most disliked and distrusted PM in modern times.

Not only has he, if the report is true, managed to alienate a great many Brits patiently waiting their turn but has presented to the wider world an image of a Prime Minister totally at odds with the British values of fair play and generosity that he is supposed to represent abroad.

 

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