In Gaffe-Prone Speech, Keir Starmer Calls for Return of “Sausages” From Gaza and Claims Keeping Winter Fuel Payments “Risks” Market Meltdown
In a gaffe-prone conference speech, Keir Starmer called for the return of “sausages” from Gaza and suggested he had to cut pensioners’ winter fuel allowance or “risk” a Liz Truss-style market meltdown.
Keir Starmer claimed keeping winter fuel payments in place could have sparked a Liz Truss-style meltdown on markets as he launched a bid to reboot his fledgling premiership today.
The PM acknowledged fury at the decision to strip the benefit from 10 million pensioners – but said he could not “risk” showing the world “as the Tories did that this country does not fund its policies properly”. …
Ahead of a showdown vote on winter fuel with unions tomorrow, Sir Keir told the hall that there would be “no return to Tory austerity” and he would “protect working people”.
“If you can’t take that on faith, perhaps because you’re concerned about the winter fuel allowance, then I get that,” he said. “But the risk of showing to the world – as the Tories did, that this country does not fund its policies properly… that is a risk we can never take again.”
At one point Starmer mixed up his words and called for a return of “sausages” instead of Israeli hostages.
I call again for restraint and de-escalation between Lebanon and Israel. I call again for all parties to pull back from the brink.
I call again for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the return of the sausages… the hostages, and a recommitment to the two-state solution, a recognised Palestine and a safe and secure Israel.
The sausages were just an unfortunate bodge, of course. But the claim that he had to cut the pensioners’ fuel allowance to avoid a market meltdown is plainly disingenuous – even Starmer can’t seriously believe the markets were perched ready to throttle the U.K. had Labour failed to make that £1.4 billion cut, particularly in light of the huge spending commitments implied by the bumper public sector pay rises being handed out at the same time. Starmer will be pilloried for offering such a flimsy rationale for his unpopular policy, and deservedly so.
Stop Press: Allison Pearson, who’s just returned from Israel, says in the Telegraph that the reason Starmer said “sausages” instead of “hostages” is because he doesn’t care about them.
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Hamas had better return the sausages, or else. Hopefully they’re Beef and not Pork…
It was maybe one of those Freudian Slips. ——My friend had one of those once. He was having dinner one night, and he meant to ask his wife to pass the salt, but instead he said, “You fat pig you have ruined my life”.
Not new but extremely funny, always.
This is probably the funniest 2TK will ever manage to be.
And it is a perfectly reasonable demand and achievable ambition. If they are pork sausages, neither the Jews nor the Muslims will want them anyway. (Although… where I used to work many years ago my Jewish college would tuck into a bacon sarnie like it was going out of fashion…)
A good friend and drinking buddy who is as good a Muslim as I am a Christian, won’t eat pork because his deceased mother would not have approved. He tells a good story of shutting the door on the last leavers from his mother’s funeral and cracking open a beer or few with his father, sister and brother only to scramble to hide the evidence when the doorbell rang again to indicate another mourner had arrived rather late.
It is a bit like that in Madagascar, there’s plenty of Pigs around but not everyone will eat pork.
The funniest 2TK will ever be. Too right, he comes across as being a bit less fun than Oliver Cromwell.
That’s two useless, completely inconsequential “gotcha” pieces of “news” in the DS in one day.
Starmer said sausages instead of hostages. Tee hee hee, what a nincompoop.
Pretty underwhelming stuff.
Agree though the reference to the “Liz Truss-caused meltdown” is interesting. For a start as we know it’s a distortion of the truth but it’s also an attempt to cement the idea that we have no real choice about certain things (but only things that the left wants). I wonder how many voters think to themselves “well, if we want to be independent and cut taxes, perhaps we should borrow less internationally”.
And spend less on trivia.
It helps to underline what a useless wanker he is.
Like singing hitler has only got one ball
Not that sstarmer is as bad as Mr hilter.
Yet.
It’s rather disappointing that this kind of thing gets more attention than their madcap policies n Net Zero, for example. Just as in the lockdown Johnson had to go because of Partygate, not because he foisted all the stupid regulations on us in the first place.
True enough. But politicians are always prepared to ‘discuss’ facts and policies but there is little chance of them coping with ridicule (Two Tier, Free Gear, sausages etc.) and that paves the way for more focused criticism.
Free the Palethorpe 6 goes on your tee-shirt
Lol.
But on a more serious note he and others in a position of power never ever mention the fact that the UK may be complicit in war crimes/genocide by continuing to supply arms and intelligence to Israel.
Regular flights from Cyprus by the RAF in order to identify targets for Israel to bomb.
I wonder how much that costs us in terms of borrowed cash. (Don’t worry about the lives of innocents lost though).
On a no doubt more popular topic on here – why on earth does nobody in the MSM interrogate the bag carriers who govern us as to why there is no mention of the 300 to 400 BILLION that they spaffed away in Clown World. Yet the 22 billion black hole is somehow more important?!
Obvoiusly quite a few of the winter payment recipients won’t be around in 5 years time but I promise you the survivors won’t forget.
Labour is toast next electon.
Was the US complicit in genocide in helping the UK and Russia against the Germans in the 1940s?
Ludicrous justification.
What a prize fin de cloche. Plenty of money for funding useless university “research” (see article below) and plenty to hand to various third-world Swiss account holders for “Climate Aid”, but no money for pensioner’s heating…?
Pull the other one chap, you’re not even fooling yourself, you absolute tool.
Well his Dad was a toolmaker if you didn’t know (still a few people in the UK he’s not told yet!)
‘Keir Starmer, sausage harmer!’
The winter fuel payment funds must now be hypothecated to build homes for battered sausages!
Starmer should go for a couple of pints with Biden.
And unions and MPs are furious about the scrapping of winter fuel payments for 10million pensioners, with a vote at conference potentially happening tomorrow.
Sir Keir will not be present – as he is dashing off to New York straight after the speech to attend the UN general assembly.
Never lose sight of what your most important priorities really are.
Blimey, he’s doing a Biden. The man’s both a tool and a plank. Is there not a day that goes by that we don’t hear of one balls up, dropped clanger or worse? Actually, this might be worse. Possibly after he takes pensioners’ bus passes off them he’s going to start on the pub closing times. It’ll be to ”save the NHS” though, so all for a good cause. I’m wondering what else The Grinch is going to pull out of his bag of tricks before the year is out; ”Pubs could be forced to close their doors early under “nanny state” measures to target harmful drinking. Mr Gwynne said the idea was being examined by ministers as part of efforts to improve health and tackle anti-social behaviour. Prof Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer, has told ministers that if current trends continue, 60 per cent of the NHS budget will eventually be spent on diseases that could have been prevented. The current figure is 40 per cent. The crackdown on drinking is under consideration alongside measures to target obesity, including pushing the food industry to reduce the fat, sugar and salt content of everyday foods. Insisting Labour was “not the fun police”… Read more »
I think it’s morally reprehensible that teetotaller-types like Andrew Gwynne run around armed with statistics correlating unverified, anecdotical information about certain people’s drinking habits with illnesses which happened to befall them or crimes they happened to have committed to justify forcing people who neither committed such crimes nor fell ill with the diseases in question to bow to their puritan fibs.
Perhaps they could bring in legislation that means Greggs has to sell 2 apples before they are allowed to sell a sausage roll – that works well in other sectors.
Haha…well it doesn’t seem that long ago that the public were being bribed all over the world to take an experimental injection they didn’t need and they’d be given a free ice cream/McDonalds meal/beers etc as a reward. I did read somewhere that Starmer was going to sign off on legalizing euthanasia finally. I am pro-euthanasia but with very strict criteria and regulation, and I can envisage the Labour government going the way of Canada, which is truly unethical and horrific on every level. Even here in the Netherlands I’ve read of young people who have chronic depression and the doctors have signed off on them to go for ‘assisted dying’, just so long as experts agree they meet the ”unbearable suffering” criteria. I disagree with this aspect entirely because I just see it as society and experts have failed an individual, which certainly does not justify them having state-sanctioned suicide as their only option to end their mental suffering, plus how can they be deemed to be of sound mind? Was it not Robin Williams who said, ”suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem”, then went on to tragically kill himself? So the system is open to… Read more »
It’s certainly not the sort of thing to be rushed through though;
”Labour’s newly elected government will “fast-track” a vote on assisted suicide—which will almost certainly see the practice legalised—despite serious concerns around the PM’s own cabinet table that this will lead to elderly people being urged to end their lives.
Sir Keir Starmer will “accelerate the process” so a vote can take place before Christmas, according to The Mail on Sunday. That’s far sooner than reports were suggesting just a fortnight ago, coinciding with Starmer’s health secretary, Wes Streeting, warning that the horrific state of end-of-life care in Britain means the health service is not ready for legalisation.”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/uk-starmer-to-rush-through-assisted-suicide-legislation/
Rather than even more regulations on what we can and can’t eat, why not educate people instead? Today’s young seem to have very little idea of what constitutes a healthy diet. Home economics has disappeared from schools. Learning about healthy eating and how to cook should be part of the curriculum. Also there should be encouragement to grow/produce healthy food. Instead the government seems keen to get rid of as much valuable farm land as possible. There is a massive (100s of acres) solar farm being built near us, on prime Gloucestershire farmland. Think instead if this had been turned over to vegetable production how many thousands of people it would feed. The government is just plain stupid.
Over 20 years ago my eldest and I toured the local comprehensive school. After a couple of hours the not quite 11 year old’s head was close to exploding. The last room had the grandiose title of “Food Design and Technology” [every petty functionary loves a title]. “Mum what’s this?” It’s cooking says I [my Mum was a Domestic Science teacher] and the Head of the Department who was standing there jumped down my throat “It’ a lot more than that!” she spat at me – lovely woman disliked by my 3. None of them got a huge amount out the 3 yearsof weekly lessons. I suppose when there are so many genders to teach, cooking doesn’t seem that important.
Assuming he was reading an “autocue” output, they’ll take the script writer to the cleaners, more than likely. Reminds me of what happened when the system failed at a party do like that. The minister involved did not have a clue what to say when that occurred.
its an example where people like Farage, and to a lesser extent Trump, can wipe the floor with most ‘career’ politicians – because they speak of things they generally believe in, they can do it without prompting. Wether people like them or not, it’s a talent to be admired I think
Does the “sausages” gaff trump the “blessed are the cheesemakers” of Python fame?
I prefer Freudian sausages, with mash, beans and ketchup, although I have to be careful not to starmer the sofa.
We have to live within our means, and the sooner we realise that, the better. Most pensioners are comparatively well off, and the milking of this issue is unseemly.
Most? How many?
What is ‘comparatively’ well off? Compared to who?
It would be nice to see some trustable statistics to back up your assertion. I know a lot of pensioners who can just about afford a car. Are they ‘comparatively well off’?
Are the ones who will die as a result of insufficiently heated homes also ‘comparatively well off’?
Yes—–Cold kills 20 times more than heat does, but our absurd government would rather piss money away on climate aid to fight the manufactured global warming crisis, and remove the winter fuel allowance.
Most young people have the opportunity to be well off and work for a living, but a few million choose to sit on their arse doing nothing and sponging of the taxes that pensioners have paid all their working life. Hundreds of thousands of young people also choose to queue each morning at chemist shops all over the country waiting to sup methadone. It is all about choices and I choose pensioners over scroungers.
I agree to an extent, however the implementation of this so far has been a total car crash… the optics are ‘we get bugger all back from many, many years of paying etc, except state pension of course, and this little ‘gift / bribe’ is now being pulled as well’… a symptom of all the myriad of benefits used to prop up underpaid workers / pensioners… we never used to have all these things, and people managed
The fact that he called for restraint between Israel and Lebanon shows how clueless he is. Israel has ramped up it’s attacks on Hezbollah, who have a lot of their weapons and fighters in Lebanon, and isn’t attacking the Lebanese government or infrastructure.
If you listen to Larry Johnson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNPKQHk24zA, from 2m30s), Hezbollah is “essentially a government” providing many services to southern Lebanon. Israel is characteristically indiscriminately bombing and killing hundreds of civilians there, whereas Hezbollah is fighting Israel’s military. Israel’s history is a history of violence.
What a crock of disingenuous excrement. “Effectively a government”? With what mandate exactly? Surely Hezbollah’s “history is a history of violence”?
That’s the thing with anti-semites; your blatant bigotry doesn’t stand up to the slightest of scrutiny.
Well, perhaps you can believe Alastair Crooke, former British diplomat, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpyggZag3qI, from 2m20s onwards. In the past eight hours, the Israeli attacks have killed 100 Lebanese and injured 400 … Hezbollah manages a huge slice of Beirut and the country … Of course you will not believe the China’s “blistering condemnation of Israel” before the UN Security Council on 20th inst.: “Thousands of communications devices in Lebanon, including pagers and two-way radios, were detonated remotely and simultaneously. The explosions caused thousands of civilian casualties. China hereby registers profound shock and grave concern over this development. Children playing in the streets lost their eyes, mothers shopping in supermarkets had their limbs maimed, doctors on their way to work were critically injured. These, and other, harrowing scenes are distressing beyond imagination. Remotely detonating communications devices in indiscriminate attacks causing mass civilian casualties and panic in society is unheard of in history. This act is, without a doubt, a gross violation of a country’s sovereignty and security, and a blatant breach of international law, particularly international humanitarian law, is an act that tramples on human lives with unconscionable callousness. The attacks were so outrageously brutal and atrocious that they deserve nothing less… Read more »
Nothing Alastair Cooke says detracts from the fact Hezbollah is a theocratic ultra conservative terrorist organisation.
And I don’t think anyone needs to take lessons on what does or doesn’t constitute human rights violations from the authoritarian dictatorship that is the CCP.
You’ve been so Spielberged (aka Israeli propaganda) from 1948 onwards.
Just read some history and think – as too many here should do.
You need to look back further than 1948 to understand why and how Israel was created. You also need to look further back than 1948 to see how the Arab population of what is now Israel increased dramatically due to migration. Migration that followed Jewish success in turning desert into fertile land. But then that wouldn’t fit your anti-Semitic narrative.
“We stongly urge countries with influence over Israel to take tangible steps to stop Israel from going down the wrong path”
That’s, let me think for a moment – maybe the USA, no?
They’ve been promulgating peace for decades.
I often wonder why peace has not been happening – maybe something to do with the FACT that the US has been providing munitions to Israel for the last 70 plus years.
Good job they’ve not given them nuclar bombs is it not….
Well, I have just been listening to Jeffrey Sachs talking from the UN (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMNx9v-ctcM) particularly on the subject of invoked nuclear wars. He said the following about Israel, which I think (others will not) hits the nail on the head:
Israel is not trying to live in peace with its neighbours, Israel is trying to pound into its neighbourhood we are the regional power, we have nuclear weapons, we can defeat you, we can bomb you, we can assassinate your leaders, we can act with impunity, you need to fear us.
And what is so provoking Israel is the other side does not fear them, the other side is fighting them, and what Israel wants is not peace, it wants dominance and it wants to be feared.
Perhaps he knows something we don’t …… and the hostages have been slaughtered and turned into sausages.
I didn’t think it would be possible to have a more embarrassing Prime Minister than Sunak. I was wrong; Two-Tier-Free-Gear-No-Idea-Keir would easily win the Gold Medal in the Embarrassing Prime Minister Olympics.
Sir Keir is an intelligent and dilligent man¹ who wouldn’t ever make such a trifling mistake. It was probably sausages all the time! But by now, they have certainly spoiled!
¹ At least he identified as one in the not too distant past. Things might have changed in the meantime, though, as he seems generally uncertain about the concept and may still need to make up his mind about it.
Maybe starmer had had too much red wine with his sausage casserole lunch?
“An unfortunate bodge”. No, the man is a buffoon, well out of his depth. And we have four more years…..
He is undoubtedly our wurst Prime Minister.