Awkward: Conor Duignan regretted taking part in this Starmer selfie, so he took to Twitter to explain why.
Top marks to Skwawkbox for finding and publicising this.
It seems Keir Starmer visited St Columb’s college in Derry to hammer home his point that “my Labour Party” will “always support a deal to bring peace to Northern Ireland”.
While he was there, he posed for selfies with some of the students – and in (at least) one case, got the students to pose again so he could get a publicity photo.
But this backfired.
It seems one of the students had a rude epiphany, and realised that Starmer was using him cynically.
Here’s Starmer’s tweet:
Hearing from students in St Columb's College in Derry today, it's clear how important the peace and reconciliation embodied by John and Pat Hume is to this community.
My Labour Party will always support a deal to bring peace to Northern Ireland. pic.twitter.com/A0ZOuQxBBc
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) March 3, 2023
And here are some of the responses from the student, Conor Duignan:
@jeremycorbyn I’d like to apologise for putting my hand around this donkey so he could take advantage of the photo opportunity
— Conor Duignan (@ConorD26) March 3, 2023
I’m the one pictured getting a selfie and Jesus I regret it, your a pretentious dick who laughed in my face when I asked you about jeremy corbyn. You asked us to retake the selfie so ur buddy could take another photo which shows again ur using John humes name as a photo op
— Conor Duignan (@ConorD26) March 3, 2023
For (a lot) more on this, visit the Skwawkbox story (link below).
But here’s the big takeaway question:
If a high school student can see through Keir Starmer, why can’t so many of the voters? Are we all too used to being spoonfed dodgy information?
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