Keir Starmer
(Picture: Getty)A Brexiteer attempted to criticise Keir Starmer for watching the Euros in a pub but it spectacularly backfired.
Posting on Twitter, former Brexit Party MEP Martin Daubney claimed the leader of the Labour Party was a “plastic patriot” for watching England’s quarter-final match against Ukraine without “beer” and suggested he was taking space away from people who would have bought more drinks.
Plastic patriot Starmer also doesn’t drink beer while watching football - same goes cor his Labour lackeys
— Martin Daubney (@MartinDaubney) July 4, 2021
Why take pub tables and not support a hospitality industry you helped destroy by voting for lockdowns? https://t.co/esJbGKjPuX
But Daubney was soon left red-faced when people pointed out that Starmer did drink during the match, and that even if he didnt, it really wasn’t important. Others also pointed out that Starmer is a big football fan, so was not just posing for the press.
Here’s a taste of the reaction:
Delete this mate https://t.co/Oyrk2EHR9h pic.twitter.com/e4ov1sqfst
— ozzy🏴 (@_oswfc) July 4, 2021
State of this https://t.co/Vc5tqH022b
— Joey D'Urso (@josephmdurso) July 4, 2021
🤷♂️ https://t.co/88BHpfuPZQ pic.twitter.com/eIZfamjBRS
— Tim Galsworthy (@TimGalsworthy) July 4, 2021
Starmer has been a football fan all his life 🙄🙄 wtf do you know about the working classes
— Brad 💙 (@JuanKerr27) July 4, 2021
Starmer is a keen footballer, having played for Homerton Academicals, a north London amateur team, and supports Premier League side Arsenal, so is likely to have an interest in the England result. Have you ever kicked a football?
— wilks55#FBPE#ProEU#woke (@Malcolmjwilliam) July 4, 2021
Here comes Martin, freshly prepared for his audition at the clown factory. pic.twitter.com/Dj6lGfKV6J
— Alex Brownlee-Stokes (@Fatpantswatch) July 4, 2021
He plays football every week. You?
— Labour Patriot 🇬🇧🌹 (@LabourPatriot) July 4, 2021
— Liam Thorp 💙 (@LiamThorpECHO) July 4, 2021
It’s been a bad day for politicians trying to jump on the football bandwagon. Earlier today, Priti Patel was called out for celebrating the match result as she had previously spoken against taking the knee before games as a gesture of support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Meanwhile, Daubney didn’t criticise Boris Johnson for posing next to a whopping great duvet of an England flag yesterday, before the match, to show his support for the team. Arguably, this was much likely to be a press stunt but who are we to judge?
Daubney continued his completely incorrect rant against Starmer and suggested the landlord of the pub should have kicked him out.
Landlord should have said: “Buy some drinks or sod off and give your table to people who will”
— Martin Daubney (@MartinDaubney) July 4, 2021
Oh, Daubney. It’s not too late to delete this, bestie.
