Keir Starmer reacts furiously after PM accuses him of IRA tolerance
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- A row erupted at prime minister's questions after Boris Johnson accused the Labour leader of supporting an 'IRA-condoning politician'. Johnson criticised Starmer for his tenure as shadow Brexit secretary under Jeremy Corbyn, but was himself reprimanded by the Speaker for repeatedly dodging questions. A clearly angry Starmer demanded Johnson 'do the decent thing' and withdraw the comment, pointing to his work combating Northern Ireland terrorism as the former director of public prosecutions, which the prime minister refused
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I don't think Boris realises he's not Trump and can't get away with the same tactics in UK.
@Freddy K says the people of the UK...if you want your leader to be lying through his teeth to cover up his incompetence, then please make sure to not vote next time.
@Freddy K I never mentioned anything about ,boris.
Learn how to read.
@Freddy K "Says who"
Yo Momma.
Yet he has gotten away with it in a 10+ year political career....
Just imagine if Trump had to face Joe Biden and AOC and the rest of the Democrats in a chamber as small as the Commons! He would be ripped to shreds every week and his party would get rid of him within three months at the outside.
Boris trying to draw attention away from his abysmal record on COVID-19, education and the economy. Only a fool would be distracted by this pathetic attempt.
we live in an age of fools, unfortunately
Edzi07 - And the biggest fool of all is one who sleepily dreams he isn’t... Y’know? ;P
Think of the average person.
Now half the population is stupider than that, they also have the right to vote.
johnmg88 - And yet I would rather my life be in the hands of that “average person” and their vote than the clever psychopaths that currently run our system from back rooms...?
@@PaulusAlone fair point.
Remind me which IRA supporter has just received a peerage from Boris.
Correct but that still does not make the comment false.
@@ranichso735 It does. Starmer is not an IRA supporter.
@@trildi Oh yes he is - just check the facts
@@trildi he has " form" on it. Go do your research.
Liz Glaisher you’re making the accusation, you provide the evidence.
Such a cheap shot from a PM who seems incapable of actually answering questions or engaging in proper debate. He got caught out when Keir Starmer detailed his long record of supporting peace efforts in Northern.Ireland and prosecuting IRA militants. Boris was too lazy to do even a cursory check before makimg such a ludicrous and offensive accusation.
Indeed. And couldn't even muster the humility to apologise and admit his mistake when he was called out on it.
Boris just doesn’t care if he’s lying or getting caught out. He’s a disgrace.
How was it a cheap shot? Are you saying that Starmer did not support the IRA's suggestion to leave NATO?
He's not referred to as 'Bunter' for nothing.
I agree completely. Johnson's accusation is outrageous and an offence to any normal standard of decent debate within parliament. He should be expelled until he serves a full apology.
Well said Keir Starmer, I am not a Labour supporter or voter, but I am glad someone is holding this PM to account.
@@RafaelMichaelJackson you think boris is extreme right? you have no place discussing politics.
Lol you said “Boritonian” that’s implying boris for sure
@@leeboy29680-ol7gf He's a populist who panders to the extreme, much in the same way that Trump does.
@@RafaelMichaelJackson Even Corbyn's Left wasn't extreme if you are old enough to remember
@@RafaelMichaelJackson It's not exactly out of no where to suggest that Boris is a part of the extreme right... He's certainly massively inclined toward authoritarian rule - Look at how he's attempting to attack the judiciary and ensure that there is no scrutiny over the government when laws are broken as a great example.
You know Johnson is sinking when he resorts to ad hominem attacks and accuses Starmer of being unpatriotic. Of course Johnson will not do the decent thing and withdraw. Baseless personal attacks are all he has left.
But UK is run by looter culture now :-(
@@Bryt25 If Johnson was to do the decent thing, he would withdraw from his role as PM.
@@sharonbarker7448 boris has a mandate to distory Britain given to him by the vast majority of the English people now take your medicine and stop blaming the EU for a no deal Brexit which boris and his arch brexiteer's wanted in the first place, you get the pm you put in. Boris is a kid let loose in his very own sweatshop you can't blame him for gorging himself.
Very happy to see a Speaker with enough balls to shut down Boris’ ranting, and force him to either answer the question posed, or sit down and shut up.
Yes, I agree and highly rate the current Speaker.
Unfortunately the PM didn’t recant.......he never does.
The speaker needs to do that a lot more to Boris...
@Jamalynn Paris no you just need to vote for Biden
@Jamalynn Paris I would've LOVED to see Bernie tear Trump to shreds lol
Says PM who has an actual former IRA gun runner in his party.
And who gave a life peerage to a Brexit Party MEP who still considers herself a member of the RCP “in spirit”, and who still refuses to condemn the Warrington bombings.
Really, who?
Yeah, Clair Fox. Horrible woman.
Boris Johnson just deflects every question by Keir Starmer like the liar he is 😤
Starmer did support the IRA's request to leave NATO and Starmer did not deny that, he straw manned and grandstanded instead which makes him look like a liar and makes Boris stronger for anyone that is following it.
Boris is going off the same script at PMQs every week, pretending to be an opposition leader attacking a leader for all his accountability, while dodging straight forward questions and focussing on his next big U-turn.
Sounds like he's going off the Trump playbook
I don't think I have ever seen Boris that flustered & confused, even for him.
Boris is getting really desperate.
@Stewart Goldberg TTC Yes, desperate. The Tories will still be in power, but he knows his time as PM is ticking away loudly...
Boris all bluster and no substance!
Labour all fantasy and no democracy
@Anthony Clegg Labour undemocratic party and there lie aswell.
@Anthony Clegg like I said there all lie I've gotten use to it but Labour undemocratic and trying to stop brexit unforgivable and never forgotten
Bo Jo doesn't know what he is doing, U turns after U turns!
So like the opposition for the past 5 years then?
@@garethlawton5278 Boris washed his hands of everything May did but you want to hold Starmer to account for JV 🤔🤔🤔 Desperate......
BJ is a Bumbling fool and for the speaker to have to step in and tell BJ to actually answer the question is absolutely ridiculous. Also, did he get his hair cut at the butchers or what.
Here here 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He deliberately ruffles his hair before cameras roll. Boris Johnson is a fictional character.
Terry Foy Come off it! He’s a chancer.....
Plus.....did he do as the Speaker asked........withdraw the allegation? No. Typical Johnson.
The Speaker Lindsay Hoyle former Labour MP giving the multi millionaire Sir Keir Smarmy some support..
When you falsely accuse the opposition leader of being tolerant of terrorists, and then refuse to apologise, how much lower can you get?
Selling your country and party out for personal gain.
Make no mistake ... Brexit was bought.
@@emm_arr No it was voted for, then the brexit party voted into the EU parliament, then Boris voted in, smashing Labour, so 3 clear votes FOR brexit, or were you taking a nap! So you believe & make up fairy stories, very helpful.
@@kevinparker461 'No it was voted for' It was bought. For party donations.
@@kevinparker461 'so 3 clear votes FOR brexit' No. That's not so.
@@kevinparker461 'So you believe & make up fairy stories, very helpful.' You just dd that.
great to see starmer show us how useless boris is
That last comment from Sir Kier was as strong as it gets! 🔥
When Boris gets violated he just turns to stuff that happened years ago it’s so petty too see lol
Reminds me of Trump!
It's petty but it wins general elections
Dean Blake 🛎🔚
KS: "I asked him to do the decent thing, but doing the decent thing and this Prime Minister don't go together" [drops mic]
A mic drop is meaningless when you leave the stage and become the leader of the most pathetic, anti-British, antisemitic party this country has ever seen just after it has been historically demolished in the polls... Boris simply shrugged and picked the mic up.
I wait to see if the Mail or Express report this matter fairly or at all!
May you live so long.
@@alexharrington6459 🤣🤣🤣
You'll be waiting a long time for any actual reporting coming from The Daily Mail. They haven't managed it so far.
"decency". Boris? You're having a laugh.
Johnson is so basic.
Boris bringing Trump tactics to UK. Compare Starmer's dignified answer with Boris's two faced response to Cummings tour of the north.
The way Keir Starmer responded though is how you fight that kind of attack. With a political record to defend what you're saying. Demanding BoJo to take it back really caught him by surprise
@Freddy K haha salty true, but hey BoJo looked like a fish out of water
@Freddy K Whos salty?
get him keir!
It's so embarrassing!
I know, Sir Keir can't take any criticism.
@@dragonfly6908 no, I meant Boris Johnson. It is so embarrassing to have him as prime minister. It's a disgrace.
Well said Keir Starmer....
Can the Prime Minister get removed from the House?
In this case the 1922. What has this country come to when we are dependent on that? But that is ‘first past the post’ and constitutional monarchy
@@RafaelMichaelJackson thanks you for answering my question
@@honeybadgergl motion of no confidence
@Cats Cradle poor james callaghan
@@normanchristie4524 I just think boris Johnson was a bit mean with his comment to Keir Starmer Even though I am a conservative and I Voted For Boris
Why is he acting like Jeremy Corbyn is still leader? Have they not dug up anything from Keir Starmers past yet?
It's all he can do. And he's playing the exact kind of dirty politics he was condemning just a week ago!
they must still be really hoping to find something, tough job, and it's their own pit they're digging
The best they've managed so far is buying a field for a donkey sanctuary.
@@TheGriffintatt The shame of it!
This PM has lied throughout his career, I don't understand why MPS Put up with this mockery of a leader who never answers a question ever, defaulting to Brexit and other spurious topics deflecting from his shortcomings. Shocking Shocking Shocking
Absolutely right . The Speaker should have called the PM to order over his disgraceful allegations and dismissed him from the chamber pending an official apology .
@@neuberg7315 The statement would need to be false for the speaker to do that whereas the statement was correct. Nobody can be expected to apologise for telling the truth.
@@ranichso735 Hi Ranich . i dont completely understand your reply. Boris Johnson's statement that Keir Starmer was an IRA sympathiser is surely a false one .
@@neuberg7315 He did not say that Stamer was an IRA sympathiser, he said that Stamer supported their wish to leave NATO.
@@ranichso735 Hi Ranich. Thank you for your reply. You will have seen by the sequence of the vid that 'supporting the IRA bid to leave NATO' was a red herring thrown in by Johnson at the end of the discussion in order to ameliorate the circumstances of the serious misstatement that he had made an avoid an apology.
Wow. 'He's so smart', they kept on telling us over and over again. Does anyone else still think that's true?
Uh...............no.
@@normanchristie4524 Didn't think so.
The guy that sacked his own MPs for perceived lack of loyalty is criticising Starmer for being loyal to his leader.
Stammer protects nonces so what you on about 🖕🏻
@@damianll8662 Liar!
@@damianll8662 Okay and Bozza doesn't?
@@damianll8662 Any evidence on that one buddy?
@@damianll8662 Haha, you've just invoked Murphy's law. I bet someone unearths a picture of Boris and Epstein being besties in the next few weeks xD
Boris: Calls Keir an IRA sympathiser.
Also Boris: Has Ex-IRA members in his party.
But the press, even the guardian, let that slide in favour of beating corbyn, they won't bring it up now.
The British state colluded with Loyalist paramilitaries throughout the troubles but that's never mentioned
Lol who's ex ira in the tory party
He couldn't answer the question so resorted to petty smear tactics. Really low.
Or-or-or-order
@@RafaelMichaelJackson
ODAAAAA!
Yeah bercow was the boss😂
Haha, or-or-or-ORDER!
The Speaker is the former Labour MP Lindsay Hoyle, i wonder which side he represents?.
@@dragonfly6908 when you become speaker you denounce your party membership and become an independent.
Johnson is struggling.
Such a joy to see both Keir Starmer and the speaker thrash this useless waste of space.
Such a joy to see our Prime Minister needle the party that supports terrorists around the world.
@@designanddirection Deal in generalisations, why don't you?
Johnson still won't say who paid £15,000 for his winter holidays. He's unfit for office.
Watching Kier take apart Boris is like watching a Killer Whale toy with a racist seal
Grow up
@@samhlr8590 open your eyes
Bully boy Boris clutching at straws
Would not answer the question and reverted to insults
Starmer should sue him
For deformation of character
Boris is doing the doggy paddle he learnt from May. I wonder if he'll cry or hum a little tune when he steps down?
@@billgowland3250 childish
@@samhlr8590 you certaintly are
If you can't take it don't dish it out
Can't somebody send Johnson to speech lessons? Might be beneficial if he could form a coherent sentence!
Starmer can wipe the floor with Johnson. He's a trained and experienced lawyer.
And prosecuted criminals
to the credit of the Speaker he finally turned up and did his job - told Johnson answer the question or sit down and shut up. The Speaker is within his rights to demand the Prime Minister answers the question directly. Congratulations to Kier and the Speaker for shutting down Johnson. Sadly the media have decided to use a head line that gives oxygen to the lies Johnson would have you believe
Looks like this week they failed to get Boris sober In time for PMQs. Clearly struggling with a drink problem.
Or covid brain damage?
@@emm_arr As if he ever had covid
@@yingyang1008 I've wondered that too.
@@emm_arr People will literally believe anything if it's on TV
History is gonna look back at the British public who voted him in over corbyn badly.
Lie lie lie , the only word Boris knows,
I wouldn't trust Boris with my goldfish let alone a country.
Boris is still better than all the current alternatives.
the replies are why we're in this mess, i got some magic beans for sale lads, hit me up for details.....
@@moonshot9056 That's the problem, there are no options.
and this is what they spend their time on while being paid tax payer's money.
André Guerra This is important. This is Johnson trying to devalue the Opposition leader...
@@normanchristie4524 arguing about who backed who?? Who's backing the people??
MP's salary at present is £81,932 and this does not include their expenses.
Boris Johnson is the result you get when you insist the kid who came last in sports day gets a medal aswell.
Lol you reckon Eton do that aye?
Pathetic display from Bunter having to resort to disgusting slurs might have worked with Corbyn not with someone as smart and competent as Kier
Where does he get all these dead cats?
I wish his words at least were in order.
That is a complete lie from the PM and as a sane British Person I don’t expect that sort of language from the PM.
Can you prove it was "a complete lie"?
Perhaps one of the other questions didn't go well for Boris.
There is only so much news each day. If the news story is Boris going on about the IRA and Starmer then Boris's other answers that day will not be in the news.
Boris knows how the news works.
I would like to know what other questions went badly for Boris.
Boris always stutters
Shakib Rahman Traditionally, a. Certain type of stutter was an upper class affectation. There was a foreign diplomat who spoke five languages fluently but on,y stuttered in English. It is a way to disarm and dominate the listeners.
Getting grilled by the next Prime minister
If it were anyone else he'd have been kicked out for the rest of the day which he would have rightly deserved.
To be fair rather be in the IRA than have anything to do with Boris
Boris would not no the decant thing if it was to hit him on the face ,if he was too tell the time I would check my watch as there not a once of truth comes out of his mouth
I hope the phoney, endearing and clownish persona the media portrayed of him is beginning to lose its appeal with the people. The facade is slipping to reveal an incompetent, bullshiting and arrogant blusterer. How he got to be the Major of London is anyone's guess!
Keir just did the British version of ‘Have you no decency?’
Keir Starmer is a Primeminister in the making, shaping up to be a very capable leader.
It’s just a shame he’s the leader of the wrong party !
@@AJ-qn6gd Well stay with Boris then, the wrong leader for the right party. People need to stop following parties like they are religions or something
Seriously ? His failure to get shut of Rayner showed his leadership credentials , totally non existent. Johnson is a sitting duck yet Starmer consistently misses the target , the bloke is woeful .
You're a perfect example of why there should be an intelligence test for those eligible to vote, Alan.
@@jamesjamieson1347 With a 148 IQ I would go first to save you any embarrassment.
Clutching at straws there
Its about time this government was gone.
789uknick Four. ......................long.................................years.
And that's the opposition?
No wonder we are in the state we are in.
Pathetic.
I saw what you did there! Did you?
Alexander Whatabout de Piffle Johnson!
Wrote to my local MP six weeks ago, in reply...nothing. REpresentative democracy DEAD in UK
ian dixon they go off for summer recess. They have the right to a holiday...
This was never a proper democracy anyway. We elect our own dictators.
If I was an mp I would have a discord group chat for pupils of the community, ask your mp to make one.
@@chazzboi1009 Having reduced our country ti its pitiful ,they deserve nothing,but our contempt
I feel your pain, Ian... I have been the victim of very serious corruption in a country that our government has offered help to... I wrote to the FCO, in both countries, the embassies (representing in both countries), the ambassador, the PM and Mr Raab. In short, ONE response from Messrs Raab's minions, who had clearly not read the email enough to understand it, thus the response was completely irrelevant to my message and request for help... So, I concur with you (outside the holiday period to boot! ;-) ) ... I don't feel that this would have happened previously. In matters of people putting 'pen to paper'; asking for assistance, it is very English, that it should be read, understood and properly responded to, minimally; anything else is embarrassing and unprofessional - dare I say, shoddy. I hope that you DO receive something in the near future. For me, I have washed my hands of the current government for now, which is a shame isn't it.
That hair though!!🙃😳🤣🤣🤣
Mushroom hair 🍄
Trump hair.
Just a battle of the hair cuts ! Kier drops the microphone! Boom!
“This is an….erm….Labour leader, who…..supported the IRA and um, what was I going to say….the Right Honorable Gentleman, as I well understand, um, I give way to the Honorable Member….”
Boris only supported leave to further his own career, he used to be a remaining as well and even wrote articles on it you can still read
He was promised the chance to become PM as part of the deal
The Boris Johnson dance, balls going one way and Johnson going the other 😂🏴
I can imagine the best of us, nominated scientists, economists, philosophers, planners and artists would represent the commoner more honourably and deliver than than this cesspit of snakes at parliament we have.
Add a few commoners to that list and I'm pretty sure you're right.
Starmer skewers him every time, it’s why the Tories won’t tolerate him for long
He really doesn't though
Ethan Sproule that’s funny, because to anyone paying attention he looks like a bumbling old Etonian who has nothing but bluster and bare faced lies against an esteemed QC.
❤❤❤❤❤❤Go on Keir.
Trump and Johnson the "Special Relationship"
Johnson is a despicable individual who will lie his way out of any corner for his own ends. The slur about Kier Starmer was unforgivable.
Listening to the speaker and the PM speaking gave me an aneurism
Why are we still having to listen to the ramblings of Boris as even Stevie wonder can see Boris isnt honest
Starmer is a helm
'No honour' Johnson at it again!
What a relief a big majority who have posted comments certainly are not backing him up, hoping its a reflection of how UK citizens get that Boris is not close to up to the job of being this countiys Prime Minister baffoon indeed! and his dream of following in the shoes of Churchill have fallen through.
Now that is a Speaker = Lindsay Hoyle. When you compare Lindsay Hoyle and the Twerp Bercow = Enough Said.
Are those loadspeakers in the round holes with metall grids above the benches, please someone answer, i can´t find any info on it
Smear tactics....what a surprise.
Calling anyone in labour a ira supporter reminds me of that point in canandian politics where if you didn't want war in the middle east, they just called you something like jihadiats jack or taliban Justin for daring to want peace.
HOW DO THESE PEOPLE LIVE WITH THEMSELVES? OH YEAH I FORGOT THEY HAVENT GOT ANY EMPATHY
This is Trump Jr. We here in the USA are voting ours out!
Hahaha, sure you are.
4 more years bro
That's not what the bookies are saying
If this is what Johnson's coming up with to attack Starmer's brilliance at rightly holding Government to account then is shows how desperate Boris Johnson is.
Well said Starmer.
Well by Keirs logic he shouldn't be lecturing Boris until he's been the prime minister then.... lol
That's silly. lol.
@@emm_arr I know
@@catearth8864 You are correct with your first post. I would say amusing rather than silly.
His flyaway bowl cut hairstyle is really distracting me.
That's the point of it. Like Trump. The hair distracts from what he tries to do.
That's the idea. He very deliberately ruffles it before every appearance.
Boris Johnson is an awful speaker. Fluffs, bumbles, tripping over words, no substance. No statesman.
You've blown it Boris, no way back for the Tories now!
Starmer makes Boris look like the joke he is
Hasn’t Boris just made Claire Fox a member of the House of Lords?
he actually was stating starmer supported his ira supporting leader which is true , of course gaurdian won't ever be truthful on boris
The King of U turns strikes again!
And he's as annoying as something stuck in the U bend.
'Up the RA!
Time for Johnson - The Wilderness Years, preferably from 2020 to whenever he shuffles off his coil. He's done quite enough damage for one lifetime.
But the British people did give him a huge majority which is a mandate for him to do what ever he likes so you can't really blame him for doing just that. As you keep telling the Scots they voted against independence in 2014 so live with it. You voted by an 80 seat majority for boris and co so no point crying over spilt milk just get on with it
@@Minime163 I'm sorry to say I've have been on the losing side of every vote in the UK in the last ten years, though I'm not a Scot so couldn't vote in 2014.
@@KazakhToon that's tough but borises new plan could damage Ireland economy and worst case scenario the violence could come back to northern Ireland and we don't get a say in it but crying about it and saying its unfair here will only give us a place to vent our frustration. At the end of the day we have to just get on with it as we did during past recessions and during the troubles