The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?

[sadoldgit]

On 17/04/2026 at 12:04, trousers said:

It's all very well having "I wasn't told, guv" as a line of defence, but how credible is it that he didn't ask what the result of the security vetting was...? 

Why would he if he was told all was good to go? From what I understand it wasn’t about him not being told that he hadn’t cleared that particular vetting process but that he was told that the appointment was signed off by the people whose job it is to make sure all is ok. It sounds like Starmer has been caught up in a nightmare episode of Yes Prime Minister. It will be interesting to see what comes of the statement from Robbins this week.

Whatever you think of Starmer he is no fool. His main problem seems to be that he lacks the political nous of a career politician. As a lawyer he will been sharp on following due process. The fact that he hasn’t stepped down indicate that he is confident that the facts that he will present to the House this week will back up his position.

If it is proven that he deliberately lied to Parliament then of course he must go. I think, if that was the case, he would have gone already.

Apparently Boris Johnson failed the vetting process when May appointed him as Foreign Secretary but it would appear that the media didn’t see that as a big deal. Odd that considering his association with some very dodgy Russians.

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[Lord Duckhunter]

36 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

Whatever you think of Starmer he is no fool. His main problem seems to be that he lacks the political nous of a career politician. As a lawyer he will been sharp on following due process.

Due process, as per the ministerial code is if you mislead parliament, even “inadvertently”, you correct the record at the earliest opportunity. He found out he’d “inadvertently “ misled parliament on Tuesday evening, he should have corrected the record at, or after PMQ’s on weds.

Not so “sharp on due process” before The Guardian broke the story was he. 
 

You’re so biased it’s laughable, he might not be a fool, but you are if you believe he the pony excuses coming out of number 10. The bloke engaged in a cover up after appointing somebody clearly unsuitable for such an important role, and the net is closing in. Instead of owning it, and coming clean from the off, he’s demeaned the potion  of PM every bit as much as your arch villain Boris and he’s blamed everyone else apart from himself. I used to think he was an incompetent decent man, but it’s becoming obvious he’s an incompetent selfish liar, a typical politician…..