Keir Starmer struggles a bit with definitions, doesn't he?
He seems to have no clue what a woman is, even though he's married to one. After the awful Southport riots, he allowed a perception to take hold that anyone concerned about mass immigration was somehow far right. Another interesting definition of those words.
And now the Prime Minister, who has proved that a spell in Countdown's dictionary corner would be his worst nightmare, has struggled to say what working people are, with no concerns that anyone who doesn't fall into Starmer's imagined category of sweaty labourers are now likely to be clobbered with unprecedented tax hikes.
Well, in interviews from the Commonwealth Summit this week, he has sought to clarify. He said: "I would define a working person as somebody goes out and earns their living, usually paid in a sort of monthly check, but I think that's obviously very broad.
"So let me be clear on what I mean, or if you like, who I have in my mind's eye when I make decisions as prime minister, are the sorts of working people who go out, work hard, um, and maybe save a bit of money, but don't have the wherewithal to write a check to get out of difficulties if they're in their family, get into difficulties."
Mark Dolan tears apart Keir Starmer's definition of 'working people'
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First of all, who writes cheques? It's not 1987. What else is he going to go after? Traveler's checks, luncheon vouchers, Green Shield stamps, one for the teenagers there. Maybe he's going to go after people that use fax machines, have a pager, or send messages via telex and Starmer waffles on with reference to his mind's eye.
Well, I'm amazed to hear that this career technocrat has a mind at all. I've long fostered the theory that he is Britain's first AI Prime Minister, the human manifestation of ChatGPT software gone wrong.
Now, the suggestion from his most recent interview is that working people are people who don't have shares or assets. Marvellous. So it's war on anyone who has worked hard and accumulated anything in their lives.
Let's see how that plays out as wealth creators run for the hills. of course, Starmer has previous on struggling with the definition of working people, or the working class in particular.
So who are the working people in our society? Well, here is a handy Friday Night Live with Mark Dolan top ten list of working people, according to Labour.
In at number ten, Lord Waheed Alli, who has to work 24/7 in order to keep Sir Keir Starmer in expensive suits and spectacles.
In at number nine, Angela Rayner is a working person, of course she is, having reportedly lived at all those different addresses ten years ago. She must have been working overtime.
At number eight, another working person is Taylor Swift, so beloved of Labour MPs. She's a workaholic who seems to be on a permanent world tour. Now, given that Number Ten got the police to bend the rules and give her a police escort, you would hope that Rachel Reeves will offer her a little help with her tax bill, too.In at number seven, Prince Andrew, who's about to be chucked out of the Royal Lodge by his brother King Charles, he'll definitely have to become a working person just to keep a roof over his head. Maybe he should work in a gym, or perhaps manage the sauna or steam room at some kind of spa, given that he doesn't sweat.
At number six, Donald Trump surely qualifies as a working person. A left wing flurry of court cases and multi-million dollar payouts means that he actually needs to work more than ever. The poor guy even had to do a shift at McDonald's last week just to keep the bills paid.
In at number five, Paul McCartney's wife, Nancy. She's had to listen to some of his more recent albums, and that is what I would call work.
At number four, Phillip Schofield, clearly a working person, feeling sorry for yourself takes at least 10 or 12 hours of his day.
At number three, Katie Price is a working person. Of course she is the model, Jordan. Carrying all of that extra body furniture is a full time job.
In at number two, Fred West was definitely a working person, let me tell you. Patio work absolutely exhausting.
And last but not least, in a number one, Gary Lineker is definitely a working person. Being paid £1.3million a year to introduce football highlights is backbreaking. Coal miners and construction workers, eat your heart out.
Now. The great irony is that it's actually the people that do any real work in this country who are going to get clobbered in the Budget. This Labour government is proving to be hard work.
