Keir Starmer's Poor Parents
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I have brought this up several times in other threads and not got an answer, do forgive me for creating a thread of its own.
However as he often points out his father was a toolmaker while his mother a nurse, both were skilled jobs, toolmakers were really well paid.
Oxton where Starmer loved as a child is a really nice place, not exactly Tower Hamlets?
Why was his parents paupers?
However as he often points out his father was a toolmaker while his mother a nurse, both were skilled jobs, toolmakers were really well paid.
Oxton where Starmer loved as a child is a really nice place, not exactly Tower Hamlets?
Why was his parents paupers?
I don't think he's ever tried to sell the idea of him being born into desperate poverty, only to graft his way up, just that's he comes from a fairly normal background, not another Eton Boy of the 'ruling elite'.
You don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
You don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
Oliver Hardy said:
I have brought this up several times in other threads and not got an answer, do forgive me for creating a thread of its own.
However as he often points out his father was a toolmaker while his mother a nurse, both were skilled jobs, toolmakers were really well paid.
Oxton where Starmer loved as a child is a really nice place, not exactly Tower Hamlets?
Why was his parents paupers?
Didn't his mum have Stills Disease from a young age, so while she was technically a nurse I suspect alot of the time was wasn't able to work and therefore a one parent income family? However as he often points out his father was a toolmaker while his mother a nurse, both were skilled jobs, toolmakers were really well paid.
Oxton where Starmer loved as a child is a really nice place, not exactly Tower Hamlets?
Why was his parents paupers?
P-Jay said:
I don't think he's ever tried to sell the idea of him being born into desperate poverty, only to graft his way up, just that's he comes from a fairly normal background, not another Eton Boy of the 'ruling elite'.
You don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
^^^ ThisYou don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
Challo said:
Oliver Hardy said:
I have brought this up several times in other threads and not got an answer, do forgive me for creating a thread of its own.
However as he often points out his father was a toolmaker while his mother a nurse, both were skilled jobs, toolmakers were really well paid.
Oxton where Starmer loved as a child is a really nice place, not exactly Tower Hamlets?
Why was his parents paupers?
Didn't his mum have Stills Disease from a young age, so while she was technically a nurse I suspect alot of the time was wasn't able to work and therefore a one parent income family? However as he often points out his father was a toolmaker while his mother a nurse, both were skilled jobs, toolmakers were really well paid.
Oxton where Starmer loved as a child is a really nice place, not exactly Tower Hamlets?
Why was his parents paupers?
Also he didn't live in Oxton (in Cheshire) - he grew up in Hurst Green which is next to Oxted (Surrey).
Zetec-S said:
P-Jay said:
I don't think he's ever tried to sell the idea of him being born into desperate poverty, only to graft his way up, just that's he comes from a fairly normal background, not another Eton Boy of the 'ruling elite'.
You don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
^^^ ThisYou don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
Even if his mother couldn't work, toolmakers were still very well paid.
I tried to get an apprenticeship as a toolmaker when I was leaving school
His father was a toolmaker in a factory, mother a nurse, one of four kids, mother had long term severe illness. Grammar school boy (joined before the school went independent, existing students were kept on until 16, got a bursary to stay on to 18). Aspirational working class family in skilled trades, if we must put people in boxes.
Oliver Hardy said:
I have brought this up several times in other threads and not got an answer, do forgive me for creating a thread of its own.
However as he often points out his father was a toolmaker while his mother a nurse, both were skilled jobs, toolmakers were really well paid.
Oxton where Starmer loved as a child is a really nice place, not exactly Tower Hamlets?
Why was his parents paupers?
I don't think he said they was.However as he often points out his father was a toolmaker while his mother a nurse, both were skilled jobs, toolmakers were really well paid.
Oxton where Starmer loved as a child is a really nice place, not exactly Tower Hamlets?
Why was his parents paupers?
He's living rent free in your head though, if you think this is worth a fresh thread
P-Jay said:
I don't think he's ever tried to sell the idea of him being born into desperate poverty, only to graft his way up, just that's he comes from a fairly normal background, not another Eton Boy of the 'ruling elite'.
You don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
Is there still such a thing as a Labour Party, the existing Party has moved so far to centre right it has disenfranchised the true lefties. Those people are simmering in the background ready to cause You don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
SKS troubles and strife.
Oliver Hardy said:
I have brought this up several times in other threads and not got an answer, do forgive me for creating a thread of its own.
However as he often points out his father was a toolmaker while his mother a nurse, both were skilled jobs, toolmakers were really well paid.
Oxton where Starmer loved as a child is a really nice place, not exactly Tower Hamlets?
Why was his parents paupers?
I did a tool maker’s job for an engineering company whilst I was doing industrial training for my degree. Probably at a similar time KS’s father was working It is not complicated job and certainly not particularly well paid. However as he often points out his father was a toolmaker while his mother a nurse, both were skilled jobs, toolmakers were really well paid.
Oxton where Starmer loved as a child is a really nice place, not exactly Tower Hamlets?
Why was his parents paupers?
crankedup5 said:
P-Jay said:
I don't think he's ever tried to sell the idea of him being born into desperate poverty, only to graft his way up, just that's he comes from a fairly normal background, not another Eton Boy of the 'ruling elite'.
You don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
Is there still such a thing as a Labour Party, the existing Party has moved so far to centre right it has disenfranchised the true lefties. Those people are simmering in the background ready to cause You don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
SKS troubles and strife.
TBH, there are plenty of them online crying into their keyboard "if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything" and trying to say if only they'd stayed the course with Magic Grandpa voters would be still screaming to vote for him now. The only thing they seem to hate more than the Tories, are the grown-ups in Labour. If they can't be rid of that whole cabal, they need to keep the likes of Dianne Abbott deep in the back benches. Corbyn should lose in Islington North, which will keep him out of the Commons at least.
P-Jay said:
The only thing they seem to hate more than the Tories, are the grown-ups in Labour.
Standard. They hated Blair too. Some people would rather be ideologically pure and impotent than compromise and make things better. 
Of course it seems that the only people the two right wing parties hate more than the left wing parties is each other, so it’s not purely a leftist thing.
P-Jay said:
crankedup5 said:
P-Jay said:
I don't think he's ever tried to sell the idea of him being born into desperate poverty, only to graft his way up, just that's he comes from a fairly normal background, not another Eton Boy of the 'ruling elite'.
You don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
Is there still such a thing as a Labour Party, the existing Party has moved so far to centre right it has disenfranchised the true lefties. Those people are simmering in the background ready to cause You don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
SKS troubles and strife.
TBH, there are plenty of them online crying into their keyboard "if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything" and trying to say if only they'd stayed the course with Magic Grandpa voters would be still screaming to vote for him now. The only thing they seem to hate more than the Tories, are the grown-ups in Labour. If they can't be rid of that whole cabal, they need to keep the likes of Dianne Abbott deep in the back benches. Corbyn should lose in Islington North, which will keep him out of the Commons at least.
Zetec-S said:
P-Jay said:
I don't think he's ever tried to sell the idea of him being born into desperate poverty, only to graft his way up, just that's he comes from a fairly normal background, not another Eton Boy of the 'ruling elite'.
You don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
^^^ ThisYou don't have to have a Dad who worked down t' pit to be in the Labour Party.
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hstewie said:
hstewie said:The Article said:
The Labour leader told the BBC he was not claiming to be in "great poverty" when growing up, but said he could relate to those currently facing difficulties as the cost of living crisis hits households.
Seems hypocritical.
Pretty sure his Dad owned the Tool Making factory. It was Oxted Tools. I'm sure he was more hands on with the tool making then say Elon Musk is with building rockets but it's one of the most misleading things Starmer says.
https://order-order.com/2024/06/14/starmers-father...
https://order-order.com/2024/06/14/starmers-father...
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