No worries! The team should just order the arrest of 100 native Brits for no reason at all. That would make Starmer happy again.
Posted on 09/02/2024 3:24:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Keir Starmer’s entire senior team forgot to wish him a happy birthday at their morning meeting in Downing Street, his spokesperson has admitted.
However, all was not lost when the prime minister turned 62 on Monday – as he revealed that his daughter was picking up a new Siberian kitten to bring to the family’s new home.
He spent the rest of the morning at a primary school in Orpington, south London, to promote the government’s scrapping of single-word Ofsted ratings, where he was pressed on issues including the economy, the Conservative leadership contest and Labour cronyism allegations – but not on how he was planning to celebrate his special day.
Asked by reporters how Starmer would be marking the event, his official spokesperson admitted: “Regrettably, I think we all forgot to wish him a happy birthday at the 08.30 this morning, which I feel a bit embarrassed about.”
A No 10 insider later admitted that it was “really bad” that the team had forgotten Starmer’s birthday, although he is understood to have received birthday wishes from other members of staff including on his visit with the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson.
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No worries! The team should just order the arrest of 100 native Brits for no reason at all. That would make Starmer happy again.
What is he? A toddler? He has to have a birthday party?🙄🙄
This is supposed to be news? The Guardian is such an awful paper.
No they didn’t. When you surround yourself with like minded assholes this is what you get.
Some employers do not present themselves as the sentimental type. Such employees don’t expect such a Boss to ever ‘celebrate’ the employee birthdays. Just another day, workin for pay!
Big Deal! My birthday is around Mother’s Day. It always comes in second, if at all. I think I’ve worked on all but a few birthdays, too. At 70, it’s just another day.
They probably all hate his guts. Why would you wish someone a happy birthday if you can’t stand the person?
Oh, unless you’re a kiss-ass. Which all his minions probably ARE.
Herr Stormer had a birthday?
WTF are “single-word Ofsted ratings?”
School ratings.
If Nancy Pelosi sent you a Birthday Card, (with or w/o photo) what would your first thoughts be?
Were his staffers apprehended at the airport as they were fleeing to Argentina?
So true.
On his birthday and always I wish him the worst.
At my age I forget my own birthdays...actually don’t give a damn.
Is it one ply or two?
“The four gradings currently awarded by Ofsted inspectors – "outstanding", "good", "requires improvement" and "inadequate" – will be replaced by "report cards". These will be "aimed at improving standards and helping parents to better understand schools' strengths and weaknesses", said The Guardian.
Apparently a headteacher at a primary school committed suicide last yr after the school she had led for 10 yrs was downgraded from outstanding to inadequate. That meant the school was going to be reclassified as an academy and she’d be out of a job. It was determined that her suicide was partially due to the “macho culture” of these 1 word ratings, so her family began a petition to scrap the rating system.
Seems like a lot of trouble to go to over one woman’s mental health issues. England has changed radically in the last few decades, and not for the better.
Great point. Sounds like the basis for a Monty Python skit.
First thoughts: “Ewwwww! Yuck!”
Second thought:
“I’ll store it outside so it doesn’t contaminate my home. And save it for the next time I need something for target practice.”
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