Keir Starmer's Friday nights, and what to learn from the French election | Podcast #76

Im uncertain if this episode holds affection towards podcasts and disdain towards noncery. Please clarify.

The Starmer story is the biggest non-starter I've seen since Barack Obama wore a tan suit. It reeks of desparation from anyone trying to treat it as a gotcha

New leader of the country understands work/life balance and respects his wife’s religious traditions. Oh, the horror.

I think what we're all learning from this lineup is that Laura is kinda very very good at this.

The UK press used to call out Labour for being anti-Jewish, now they're saying they're too Jewish. It's almost like it's all nonsense and they're just want to bash Labour.

These kind of episodes really highlight how good of an leader Ava is. Wish she’d be in the middle more often.

No offence to the other guys but I really like this format, it’s still funny but much more brass tacks and informative.

22:22 very interesting point Laura about neoliberals using progressive political language which has caused a backlash. Whilst not actually enacting progressive policies.

Laura is awesome

It's ironic that there's histrionics over Starmer's Friday evenings, given how indolent Boris Johnson was, especially how he was constantly on holiday.

Hate the Tories now having a problem with Keir's Friday night when Sunak previously admired him for it, AND because he likes to practice his families religion, they should be careful trying to use this as an attack line

This Ava lady is very good. Much better than most of the mainstream media here in Australia. Also has a lot more grace and class than most of them. Carry on with the good journalism.

Angela Raynor needs to stay. She's the last carrier of the left wing flame at this point.

I do enjoy hearing Ava's thunderous claps from those mammoth mitts

I’m not sure the Tory prime ministers actually did any work. Boris was on holiday at the start of Covid and refused to come home. They famously had a wine fridge in the office. All those party gate parties (plus the ones we don’t know about).

I was showering while this was playing and I heard the firealarm and jumped out almost went head first into the wall thanks guys 😂😂😂

I'm a minute in and they're already talking about politics. How am I supposed to be parasocial with this?

0:49 This is not a big story but is not a complete none story either - it is in fact definitely a positive one for Labour. Keir is very controlling about what he opens up about particularly in regard to his his family. The reason he talked about spending his friday nights with his wife and family is because he calculated, correctly, that it makes him look more normal, more relatable, a decent 'family man', something other than a politics obsessed robot. Do you really think any floating voters undecided between Labour or Tory are going vote Tory because Rishi Sunak has promised to be working hard on a friday nights and NOT spending time with his family??? The story is a small but easy win for Labour and everytime the Tories bring this up it just makes them look more weird, and Keir more normal, more human. Reply

3:07 "he was a gay man so he had a lot to..." "atone for?" SEAN, PRIDE MONTH JUST ENDED.

Nice to see a politics Joe podcast episode about politics for once