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Originally Posted by Escapee
I saw an interview around the time of the election, which I think was with David Starkey. When discussing Starmer being a liar, the presenter said "What, worse than Boris" and the response was "Worse than Blair".
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That may well have happened but that's one person's opinion, maybe plenty of others would agree (if roles were reversed, they were talking about a Tory and I was a Tory fanboy this is where I'd say "well all politicians are liars" or something similar) however I'm sure you'd equally find many who would disagree.
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Originally Posted by Escapee
Boris didn't attract this level of scrutiny less than 3 months into his leadership,
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I think that would be more about how much was going on hidden in the background. Boris has always loved his "bumbling Mr Bean" gimmick so I don't think we were specifically looking for his corruption to show itself so soon.
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maybe the bar has been set higher, but if so it's Labour that has set the bar higher with their claim to the moral high ground at every opportunity when they were in opposition.
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In fairness, almost any party could claim the moral high ground when the previous shower of shit was in power but let's face it, that is the job of the Opposition.
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Starmer is not going to get away with things now he's in power like he did with Beergate.
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I think I can agree with that. 14 years of Tory corruption and mishandling of almost everything made it very easy to criticise them and as you say, Labour will be held to account and so far they're not doing a very good job of it. However, I'll reserve full judgment on Starmer (if he's still PM) by the end of his first term. If Labour matches (or if it can be imagined, exceeds) the Tories for corruption, lies and cronyism etc then I'll equally want them out of power, although perhaps not as strongly as I did for the Tories, they had 14 years to perfect the art (and super-charge my contempt for them).