Keir Starmer: if you insist on copying Tory tactics you will get ridicule
This is poetic justice.
After his woeful performance on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, fans of Keir Starmer tried to bolster his dwindling support by tweeting messages in his favour.
Unfortunately (for them), they all seem to have simply copied the same message (from Labour HQ?) and tweeted it.
It copies the classic “Tory bot campaign” tactic of trying to seem authentic by including spelling and grammar mistakes – but nobody was taken in.
Here’s the original (in two versions so you can see that they’re identical):
Now the fun begins:
I judge people as I find them, I've always found @Worzel_gummage to be warm and considerate, with a steely dedication, drive & passion 4 his work. A top professional & top bloke, I'llhear nothing else's on the matter. #WorzelGummage would make a superb #PrimeMinister #LifeStories
— Guy Mitchell (@guymit) June 2, 2021
I judge people as I find them, I’ve always found Harold Shipman to be warm and considerate, with a steely dedication, drive & passion 4 his work.A top professional & top bloke, I'll hear nothing else’s on the matter.Harold Shipman would make a superb #PrimeMinister #77thBrigade
— ian mountain 🔻 ☭ (@IanMountain06) June 2, 2021
I judge people as I find them, I’ve always found @dock_tour_fuq to be warm and considerate, with a steely dedication, drive and passion for his work. A top shitposter and top bloke, I will hear nothing else on the matter. He would make a superb illustrator for The Readers Digest.
— '8-| (@DadontheEdge) June 2, 2021
And of course somebody had to post the ultimate insult:
I judge people as I find them, I’ve always found @JeremyCorbyn
to be warm and considerate, with a steely dedication, drive & passion 4 his work. A top professional & top bloke, I'll hear nothing else’s on the matter. #JeremyCorbyn would make a superb #PrimeMinister #LifeStories pic.twitter.com/9qt0NGcRcI— Richard Ferris (@shizoor) June 2, 2021
Well done to everybody online for giving this daft trick the short shrift it deserves – and to Skwawkbox for bringing it to This Writer’s attention. There’s much more on that site: Lefties take the **** in fine style after Starmer fans found tweeting identical praise from presumed memo – SKWAWKBOX
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