No one shouted louder than Sir Keir about Boris breaking...

THE question is, did Sir Keir get his money back?. Just over four years ago the PM employed a voice coach called Leonie Mellinger. He was tired of sounding like an adenoidal insurance salesman from Caterham. Well, Leonie worked her magic — and what a change. Starmer now sounds like an adenoidal insurance salesman from Caterham but louder. Yay!. But do you remember the UK four or five years ago? It was almost entirely silent. Covid had struck and we were all in lockdown.

Image Credit: The Sun [Sir Keir Starmer leaving 10 Downing Street.]

We were not allowed within three yards of each other. People were prevented from seeing their loved ones. Everybody stayed in, all the time. Except for once a fortnight, when we went to clear the supermarkets out of toilet rolls and pasta. Thing is, this is when Starmer was having his voice-training sessions. He paid for Leonie to come to London on the train from Brighton on Christmas Eve 2020. We were in lockdown at the time. Brighton had Tier 3 lockdown measures, London Tier 4.

Image Credit: The Sun [Boris Johnson resigning outside 10 Downing Street.]

People in Tier 3 were forbidden from visiting people in Tier 4. So it looks very much as though Starmer flouted lockdown restrictions by bringing Ms Mellinger to London to stop him talking like a robot on Mogadon. Now, you may say that this is a minor infraction. What do such trivialities really matter? The bloke is now trying to run the country, FFS, and here you are dredging up a minor incident from years back.

Image Credit: The Sun [Leonie Mellinger at the Women of the Year Awards.]

And I would largely agree with you. Except for one thing. Back then, no voice was shouting louder about how we needed more restrictions, regulations and lockdowns. Yup, Sir Keir. Not only that, though. When it was discovered that then Prime Minister Boris Johnson had munched a piece of cake at a small party in Downing Street, Sir Keir went bananas. Sleaze, he bellowed. Hypocrisy, he screamed. How dare Johnson flout the laws that he had made?.

Image Credit: The Sun [Joanna Lumley at Shakespeare's Birthday lunch.]

Sir Keir gets very snippy when asked about it. Boris had expected ordinary people to stay in their homes and obey while he was out living it up (with a piece of cake). Resign, Sir Keir yelled. Johnson should resign. A little later, Boris did indeed resign. And now, all this time later, we find out that Starmer himself was possibly involved in breaking those very same rules. So, now, shouldn’t he resign?.

Image Credit: The Sun [Greggs sausage roll on a Greggs bag.]

The Labour Party says this is just mud-slinging. And Sir Keir gets very snippy when asked about it. Conservative MP Gagan Mohindra asked of Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday: “Were all rules followed while the country was in lockdown in December 2020 — not just by him but his team as well, also his voice coach Leonie Mellinger?”. Starmer evaded answering this, of course. But all of this fits together very neatly, doesn’t it.

Image Credit: The Sun [President Trump speaking at a press conference.]

Starmer is the man who promised an end to the sleaze years of the Conservatives. And yet within a month or so he was doling out important jobs to his rich mates. And accepting freebies from anyone who fancied bunging him some tickets or a suit. So it wouldn’t now be such a huge surprise if he was found to have broken Covid restrictions while ordering Boris Johnson to quit. Nothing surprises me any more with Starmer.

Image Credit: The Sun [Angela Rayner, Labour Party deputy leader, at a campaign event.]

But how ironic that all this has now come back to bite him. And if he is shown to be guilty, isn’t that a resigning issue?. WELL, who’d have thought it? Joanna Lumley has just said that while most people think she’s a Tory, she’s actually a . . . communist. Yikes! It never occurred to me that Britain’s best-loved actress could be a supporter of a political system which murdered millions of people and bankrupted one of the greatest countries on Earth.

Image Credit: The Sun [Jeffrey Archer in his London penthouse.]

I think Joanna is just being a bit of a luvvie. They all pretend they’re commies because they think it’s fashionable. WHAT is the world coming to? I’ve just read here that Greggs is doing WRAPS. Its new, vamped-up menu is to compete with the like of McDonald’s. When I read this it felt like my entire belief system was about to come crashing down. Wraps are woke. And thin. And flavourless. And foreign.

You wouldn’t have seen Nelson eating a wrap. Still less, Churchill. You know who would eat a wrap? Jeremy Corbyn. Probably with falafel in it. Whoever convinced the millennials that wraps were superior to buns or sandwiches was almost certainly a foreign agent of some kind. Let’s stick to traditional British food, like hot-dog pasties with baked beans in them, and hamburgers. OPENING soon, the Gaza Vista Five Star All Inclusive Mediterranean Holiday Resort with beach burger bar, pizza cafe and nine-hole golf course designed by Hamas (look out for unexploded shells).

You’ve got to hand it to Donald Trump. He has a certain imagination. He’s offering to take charge of the Gaza Strip. And turn it into another Costa del Sol. The liberals in the West have gone apes**t and so have the Palestinians. My guess is that The Donald will be dissuaded by the Saudi government. But it’s a nice thought that the wretched place might be removed from our TV news bulletins – only to then resurface in A Place In The Sun.