A good day to bury bad news - Starmer Edition

[butchstewie]

Seems it wasn't just Khomeini being buried yesterday.

By complete coincidence the following all got slipped out yesterday.

Labour minister Josh Simons resigns after falsely linking journalists to pro-Kremlin network

New Labour peer suspended over alleged inappropriate behaviour

"In a separate development, another of Sir Keir Starmer s new peers, Baroness Ann Limb, said she would not take up her seat in the Lords over claims about her time chairing the City & Guilds charity."

So in one day that's a minister gone, a peer suspended, another one won't take her seat until an investigation into her lying has been cleared.

No thread about the last two and you probably would never have heard of them if you didn't go out your way to look.

How underhand and cynical do you have to be to try to slip all that lot out yesterday hoping it'll get buried by events in Iran.

[Digga]

Try as they might, the bad news keeps pouring out and if Gorton and Denton are anything to go by, the public have lost patience and faith.

It’s interesting though - the ‘pro Russian’ trope is one they like to throw about.

[macron]

Yes, it's in all the other relevant threads multiple times, why does this need one all to itself?

You even said this in the Starmer thread

butchstewie said:

Can't think why he picked today.

[butchstewie]

Because Macron each of those events would sometimes warrant a thread in their own right.

Simons has one.

Instead we're now at a point where losing two peers in one day is almost just a throwaway comment on an existing thread.

That's the point - how have we got to the point where this sort of deviant behaviour has become so normalised.

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macron said:

Yes, it's in all the other relevant threads multiple times, why does this need one all to itself?

You even said this in the Starmer thread

butchstewie said:

Can't think why he picked today.

Quite.

Why do we need another Starmer/Labour thread?

[IanH755]

119 said:

macron said:

Yes, it's in all the other relevant threads multiple times, why does this need one all to itself?

You even said this in the Starmer thread

butchstewie said:

Can't think why he picked today.

Quite.

Why do we need another Starmer/Labour thread?

If you want all the constant bad news around Labour moved to one thread then, to avoid any hypocrisy you must also want every Reform disaster to be put within one single thread as well? Or what about the Tories, you'd want all their disasters putting in one thread too - just to avoid the blatant hypocrisy of course?

I mean I'd be happy with the above as it'd keep all the political news within just a few threads, but just as long as what PH does for one political party, it would also be forced to do for every political party, but somehow I don't think thats what you (pro-Labour) actually meant, was it - be honest!