Does Prime Minister Keir Starmer understand the difference between fact and fiction? Mr S isn’t so sure – after the Labour leader referred to the new Netflix series Adolescence as a documentary for the, er, second time. Either Sir Keir is ignorant about what exactly the show is – which, given he has referred to it multiple times before, would be rather baffling – or the PM has missed the point that the series is not actually real. It’s hardly a good look…
Speaking about toxic behaviour in young men, the Prime Minister spoke primly to a roundtable on Monday about the lessons that can be learned from Adolescence. ‘What can we do as a society to stop and prevent young boys being dragged into this whirlpool of hatred and misogyny?’ he questioned, before going on:
And it is young boys predominantly, and in this particular instance. But also how can we protect young girls at risk, because obviously that is a very strong feature of the documentary, the drama.
He got there in the end, eh? Starmer’s latest slip-up comes after he referred to the show in parliament as ‘a very, very good documentary’ – and the PM’s office has reiterated Sir Keir’s support for Netflix’s proposals to stream the drama free in secondary schools across the UK. Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch is less than impressed, hitting out at Starmer on Tuesday over the PM’s obsession with the Netflix ‘gimmick’ and fuming: ‘He thinks that he’s going to touch the people of this country or they’re all watching Netflix. No, he needs to talk about what’s happening in their lives right now.’ Ouch.
And perhaps if the Labour leader was less focused on fantasy, his party wouldn’t be polling quite so badly…
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