He did not say that. Starmer tries to keep Friday nights free...he does not book things on a Friday. I try and keep Saturday afternoon free too. I do not book things on a Saturday afternoon*...for my time with my "other" family. But when something important comes up... I deal with it and not go to football. Just like Starmer would. * Yes I keep all my Saturdays free for football and the Sky moves it to a Friday or Monday
Theresa May, when she was PM, said that her Saturday morning gym trip and church on Sundays were unmovable events in her diary. Were you outraged at this? It's just pathetic.
With respect, Beth, you aren't going to be prime minister. Starmer said: “So on a Friday – I’ve been doing this for years – I will not do a work-related thing after six o’clock, pretty well come what may." He could get away with that as DPP, and get his legal underlings to cover for him in the event of an emergency. Probably at leader of the Opposition too, because he wasn't a first responder to a national emergency. But just a few days before a GE, to tell everyone - by the way, I take Friday evenings off, come what may, is just naive. It just sounds terrible.
I've never heard of that, so how can I be outraged? Did she warn the electorate of that before she became PM?
Sounds delicious and hopefully you're right he'll defer his meal if Russia invades Estonia. So why did Starmer warn the electorate? Labour have run a good campaign but this must have had the Spads slapping their foreheads
He’s guilty of underestimating the desperation of right wing morons to latch onto literally anything I guess. Nadine Dorries fresh from a month off to do reality tv and going missing for months on end ready to put the boot in.
It really doesn't sound terrible, it sounds human. Nobody thinks he's going to switch his phone off on a Friday evening. He'll still be 'at work', he just won't plan any events that might conflict with this bit of family time.
People who have worked with him say he’s a workaholic. You obviously don’t have the career he has without putting some serious hours in. It’s ridiculous in 2024 to suggest anyone should be switched on and within touching distance of their desk for long hours every day. It’s detrimental to performance in any position. Johnson would unwind with some 3pm scotch and a few hours with a mistress. We all need downtime.
Boris didn't worry about PM much either. Boris Johnson could never be accused of wanting to be seen as politically engaged since announcing his resignation as prime minister in early July. Yet his apparent eagerness to abandon any pretence of parliamentary involvement would make grim reading for even his most ardent fan. For about a quarter of the considerable time that has elapsed, Johnson appears to have been abroad, enjoying a series of luxury holidays as the UK lurches through economic tumult and a deepening cost of living crisis. In addition, during the 108 days since he announced his resignation, Johnson has voted in parliament just once. For the record, that was a confidence vote on 18 July – into his own government.
Having spent a lot of time in Uxbridge he was the MP they deserved. The current bloke’s main ambition (as yet unfulfilled) is to open a chip shop in the town. Even Blair didn’t take it. Very odd place.
Dear Goldhawk and the few Members of the Tory party who have picked up on this. His Friday evening "off" is to enjoy a Shabbat meal with his Jewish wife and family.
Always struck me that Boris (thankfully ) wasn’t a detail man. I think he viewed his job as PM as being akin to the Non-Executive Chairman of a Board - leaving the Executive ‘work’ to his underlings.
It was his only route to the luxuries afforded to ex-Prime Ministers. The hard work bit was always beyond him. People knew that and voted Tory for the first time anyway.
It's antisemitism Beth, plain and simple. No, I don't really think it is, but you would think that having made these ridiculous attacks they might have backed off when they realised the Jewish angle. But no, in common with the shambolic nature of the whole Tory campaign, they just doubled down. Pathetic.
The Jewish angle has nothing to do with it. It's the inflexability that's suggested in what he said. I agree in practise he's highly unlikely to keep the evening safe in the event of a pressing matter - and a lot of pressing matters do seem to come last thing on a Friday. It's just the way it looks. He put his foot in his mouth. It happens. We move on...
