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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 29, 2024 22:06:31 GMT
Sir Keir Starmer has had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher removed from No 10 Downing Street. The Prime Minister found the artwork “unsettling” and asked for it to be taken down. The portrait of Baroness Thatcher was commissioned by Labour prime minister Gordon Brown and unveiled to the Iron Lady at a private reception in 2009. Painted by Richard Stone, one of Britain’s leading portrait artists, it was intended for permanent display in Downing Street. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/29/starmer-removes-portrait-margaret-thatcher-downing-street/This should put to rest anyone's doubts about comrade Starmers political beliefs. Whether you agreed with her is irrelevant, Baroness Thatcher was not only the UK's first female prime minister, she was the longest serving prime minister of the 21st century. And comrade Starmer has removed her portrait from 10 Downing Street because he finds it “unsettling”. I imagine he will have it replaced with a portrait of George Floyd. |
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Post by ratcliff on Aug 29, 2024 22:13:30 GMT
Sir Keir Starmer has had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher removed from No 10 Downing Street. The Prime Minister found the artwork “unsettling” and asked for it to be taken down. The portrait of Baroness Thatcher was commissioned by Labour prime minister Gordon Brown and unveiled to the Iron Lady at a private reception in 2009. Painted by Richard Stone, one of Britain’s leading portrait artists, it was intended for permanent display in Downing Street. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/29/starmer-removes-portrait-margaret-thatcher-downing-street/This should put to rest anyone's doubts about comrade Starmers political beliefs. Whether you agreed with her is irrelevant, Baroness Thatcher was not only the UK's first female prime minister, she was the longest serving prime minister of the 21st century. And comrade Starmer has removed her portrait from 10 Downing Street because he finds it “unsettling”. I imagine he will have it replaced with a portrait of George Floyd. I've just created a thread about this on the Labour section - apologies |
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 29, 2024 22:19:38 GMT
I've just created a thread about this on the Labour section - apologies I would of course delete, if you were first.  |
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Post by Bentley on Aug 29, 2024 22:23:25 GMT
Starmer is a petty minded , vindictive leftie.
Change my mind …
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Post by ratcliff on Aug 29, 2024 22:55:22 GMT
I've just created a thread about this on the Labour section - apologies I would of course delete, if you were first. Have deleted mine |
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 29, 2024 22:57:40 GMT
I would of course delete, if you were first. Have deleted mine You didn't have to, but I appreciate it. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 29, 2024 23:03:33 GMT
This is the portrait that so offended comrade Starmer, with Barrones Thatcher standing next to it, in 2009.  |
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Post by sandypine on Aug 30, 2024 6:40:45 GMT
Sir Keir Starmer has had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher removed from No 10 Downing Street. The Prime Minister found the artwork “unsettling” and asked for it to be taken down. The portrait of Baroness Thatcher was commissioned by Labour prime minister Gordon Brown and unveiled to the Iron Lady at a private reception in 2009. Painted by Richard Stone, one of Britain’s leading portrait artists, it was intended for permanent display in Downing Street. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/29/starmer-removes-portrait-margaret-thatcher-downing-street/This should put to rest anyone's doubts about comrade Starmers political beliefs. Whether you agreed with her is irrelevant, Baroness Thatcher was not only the UK's first female prime minister, she was the longest serving prime minister of the 21st century. And comrade Starmer has removed her portrait from 10 Downing Street because he finds it “unsettling”. I imagine he will have it replaced with a portrait of George Floyd. It highlights many things. His lack of strength of character to ignore that which may unsettle him, his lack of consideration for British history as displayed in his temporary government accommodation, his determination to show his leftish credentials to the 'dance on Thatcher's grave' brigade' his contempt for the British in general many of whom found Thatcher, for all her flaws, a truly British PM. It seems that it is Labour that are widening divisions and unable to come to terms with political differences. |
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Post by andrewbrown on Aug 30, 2024 6:42:34 GMT
So he didn't like a painting and moved it.
It that what really gets you lot riled? 😳
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Post by Pacifico on Aug 30, 2024 6:45:24 GMT
Rampant misogyny - remove the picture of the first woman PM whilst leaving all the mens pictures in place.
Someone should tell Yvette Cooper - this is obviously a hate crime...
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Post by sandypine on Aug 30, 2024 6:47:37 GMT
So he didn't like a painting and moved it. It that what really gets you lot riled? 😳 I think you will find it was the subject of the painting that unsettled him. It was not a Jackson Pollock splash of rubbish or a Warhol soup can. It was not the brushstrokes or the mix of colours. |
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Post by andrewbrown on Aug 30, 2024 7:22:54 GMT
So he didn't like a painting and moved it. It that what really gets you lot riled? 😳 I think you will find it was the subject of the painting that unsettled him. It was not a Jackson Pollock splash of rubbish or a Warhol soup can. It was not the brushstrokes or the mix of colours. Based on his previous comments, I don't agree. |
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Post by sheepy on Aug 30, 2024 7:28:18 GMT
She created probably the greatest division in British politics for generations some will say she was great others will hate her for it, but lets be honest Starmer is doing the same thing is a very small minority government in reality, is this government even capable of reaching the majority of people, I don't think so and neither do the majority of people in this country, in fact he only has a very small bunch of people trying to divide opinion when the vast majority cannot stand him from the start.
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Post by sandypine on Aug 30, 2024 7:43:47 GMT
I think you will find it was the subject of the painting that unsettled him. It was not a Jackson Pollock splash of rubbish or a Warhol soup can. It was not the brushstrokes or the mix of colours. Based on his previous comments, I don't agree. His previous comments were part of the process to attain power, his new stance is part of the process to keep power and it is the subject that is important. |
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Post by Pacifico on Aug 30, 2024 7:49:03 GMT
I think you will find it was the subject of the painting that unsettled him. It was not a Jackson Pollock splash of rubbish or a Warhol soup can. It was not the brushstrokes or the mix of colours. Based on his previous comments, I don't agree. Well we already know that Starmer will say anything to anyone - and that could change 5 minutes later. He is not exactly a man of great principle. |
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