Is Keir Starmer autistic? His public persona (or lack of), complete lack of interpersonal skills, awkwardness with the general public, obsessively technocratic mode of governance and general robotic demeanour might lead some to conclude so. Not for nothing did his political arch-antithesis Boris Johnson once dub him a “pointless human bollard” – although some may dispute the egregiously overgenerous use of the word “human” there.
Myself, I think the comparison is unfair on autistic people; unlike the Labour Party’s current presiding Grey Eminence, many persons on the autistic spectrum provide useful services and contributions to society. Also, far from being universally colourless and automaton-like, as per the usual stereotype, many autistic people do in fact have highly entertaining public personas: just look at Elon Musk.
In any case, I’m not personally medically qualified to provide an actual armchair diagnosis for Sir Keir of any kind. What I can perhaps provide, though, is not a medical diagnosis but a moral one: because I do think Rodney (Starmer’s middle name) suffers from a condition I would here like to here christen as being 'moral autism'.
Literally Insane
What do I mean by this? To explain, we should recall that amongst the most commonly cited traits of the autistic are their twin tendencies to take things excessively literally and to obey rules and regulations to the absolute letter, on account of their frequent need to possess absolute order and predictability in their lives.
These traits when combined can commonly lead to autistic
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“As the UK is signed up to the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child, which states that “neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offences committed by persons below 18 years of age”, this would make it currently illegal under do-gooding international law for Rudakubana to be placed behind laws until the natural end of his days”
“International law”, eh? As Wikipedia says, “International law differs from state-based domestic legal systems in that it operates largely through consent, since there is no universally accepted authority to enforce it upon sovereign states.”
In other words, it is not “law” at all. Globalists use the word “law” for it deliberately, to encourage people to believe it has the same force as domestic law.
There is not really international law, only treaties, of which that UN Convention is one. As you say, parliament is sovereign and can impose law on Britain. The UN cannot impose law on anybody.
That government spokesman you quoted as saying, “We’re restricted in our ability to extend whole-life orders to under-18s by UN laws” is being disingenuous. They should instead have said that Britain is bound by a treaty we… Read more »
He is not a very clever man
Laughed like a drain when I read this, however, it really is not funny – the damage this sick man (and he is sick) is inflicting on the country is intolerable.
Sociopath. Once you have tangled with one, as I have (and I do NOT advise it!) you can spot them a mile off
No empathy
Bristles when challenged
Hates being laughed at (viz. TV audience at his “Son of a toolmaker” spiel) – which he has not repeated since
Pathological liar.
No soul. Look into his eyes. Nothing there. The eyes are where we see another.
On being ‘human’, I’ve been watching the rerun of the comedy ‘Just Good Friends’, and in one scene Penny’s mother says ‘I’m only human’ in response to her husband’s command to ‘shut up’ (when criticizing Penny), to which he replies “and don’t boast” 🙂
Excellent article. I would agree with the analysis but it unfortunately casts those on the autistic spectrum in a very harsh light by this association with Starmer. Neurodivergence and autism takes many forms and many individuals are extremely personable with very special talents. Sadly Starmer doesn’t seem to possess those qualities.
Fantastic. Something I’ve mulled over for some time,
On the subject Rachel from accounts exhibits some traits. I didn’t know of mind blindness thankyou Steve
It seems as if people today look for autism everywhere, rather like the people who find racism everywhere because they expect to. That said, the concept of moral autism is an interesting one.
I realised a long time ago that Sir Keir isn’t actually British, in his worldview. He’s definitely one of those citizens of the world we hear so much about. He quite deliberately won’t govern Britain according to the expressed wishes of British people, because international institutions know better than silly voters and those institutions have chosen differently.
I don’t watch a lot of telelvision but yes I would say that he is seriously emotionally stunted and his coping strategy is a blitzkrieg of cruelty in the hope that you will be so shocked that you will keep your mouth shut. I have no idea about the precise nature of his mental illness but he needs to be treated as a psychopath such is his damage. Don’t feel shy about treating him like this. You might not like having to deal with animals but if there is a predator threatening your village then you need to be watchful. Don’t be mesmerised by his tailor’s dummy demeanour that is part of the psy op.
No – he is evil.
How do I know? He’s a Socialist. Socialism is evil and its practitioners are evil.
“a condition I would here like to here christen”
Wash your mouth out with soap for such a discriminatory comment. Think of all the readers you have traumatised.
You have, of course, left out the Chagos Islands, where our dear leader has interpreted guidance as an absolute instruction that must be obeyed. More indication of an inability to think and rationalise for oneself and to only accept instructions.
Exactly – everything is black and white, where we all know the interesting things are in the grey bit in the middle. Trump is a master at this, introducing huge amounts of grey if there isn’t enough already… its quite impressive, and he then uses that to reframe his negotiation position
Keir (I prefer Davos) Starmer finds his own voters a nuisance. He does not work for us, he works for the Globalist One World Government People at the UN/WEF. They want to control all of the world’s wealth, resources and people and use International Treaties and Courts to do that. Our governments are nothing but Local Administrators. They take their orders from their Globalist Bosses, not from us.
That’s about the sum of it.
He’s a sociopath. He’s cunning.
Dick, not Jack, the butcher.
Why can’t we just say he’s thick?
A thick man with thick ideas appealing to a swathe of voting thickos.
I think this article is largely right. I would like to add that it explains his use of Marxism as some kind of moral template in lieu of any kind of independent thought. Also, his use of masking. I think he masks well, on a one to one basis, and finds ways to comply and nod yes to all kinds of malign agencies which is why he became King of Labour Uber Alles. In public speaking the mask is not so proficient; I suspect he finds it easier to mask for shortish time-scales one to one. Audiences have too many eyes and he cannot read if his message is being accepted so he melts down and reverts to robo. Being obsessed with monsters is not an autistic trait although his obsessive trait is. Time after time he will automatically side with the monster. As if he has some kind of veering toward them. No wonder he excelled within our dystopian human rights system. He’s a perfect storm for the destruction of our country.
He is just a mindless tuat.
I agree. There is far too much overthinking of this evil POS.
Oops, how come the spelling police on here haven’t edited your pist! What happened there? 🤔 🙃
Or he could be a brainwashed commie cretin.
Master-Baker…..Very clever.
Notice how the way the elites have constructed “human rights” laws and the way they seek to elevate international agreements to the status of superior law always facilitate left wing authoritarian policies. They always deny the voters what they want.
This is not coincidence. It was a power grab which has the side benefit for lawyers of enormous incomes from tax payers.
Investigating on what and on whom the Legal Aid budget is splurged, should be interesting….most of Camden and Islington have probably been bought on it.
The best lawyers do not touch “human rights” or criminal law, they do commercial work which pays better and has nicer more normal clients. While some of the commercial lawyers do become judges a lot do not as it is more interesting work and better paid not to. So a lot of the judges are ex human rights which probably explains a lot.
I knew a barrister once who had fallen into doing mainly immigration stuff. He hated it, hated most of his clients and said “they’re all guilty” (he specialised in defence work).
And don’t forget many of the Tories are just as enthusiastic to follow international law above our own. They don’t call them the Uniparty for nothing.
Nothing wrong with speculating about someone’s competence based on some kind of medical analysis. However, I wonder if, in his case, is it a consequence, or side effect, of having been a professional lawyer, or barrister? Are barristers the right people for the job in politics?
I guess in politics you want people who are intelligent and honest. I’m not sure politics attracts honest people and as it stands it doesn’t reward them. My solution is to limit their power.
I think more referenda. Take the decision making from them as much as possible. Politicians are too subject to vested interests.
Maybe. The Swiss manage it.
Up to a point. They voted in favour of stopped immigrants from the EU – not unreasonably because Switzerland has lots of space you can’t live in. However, because their leaders made a mistake in not signing up to the EEA for their trading relationship with the EU they had no recourse to Article 112 to suspend a provision of the EEA agreement. By ploughing their own furrow and creating their own agreement with the EU that had no suspension clause, if they stopped admitting people from the EU their whole EU trading agreement was toast along with the Swiss economy. So the government had to ignore the referendum result.
Shame
Trouble is you open yourself up to people led by all they read on the MSM… and not able to think for themselves
It’ll never happen for that exact reason.
I used to
complainwrite to my MP not infrequently about issues I was concerned about. His replies were mostly that yes, he took into account the views of his constituents but he would vote how he deemed was the best option!! I ‘deemed’ from his response that he gave me the two-fingered salute!The Charter of rights 1689 is supposed to do just that. These treasonous traitors are finding loopholes as big as St Paul’s Cathedral.
It’s very vague though. You really need to limit what governments are allowed to raise taxes for and spend money on – enumerate them and say everything else is verboten unless you have a supermajority to expand your role.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; . . .
The mistake they made is “….general Welfare…”
Trouble is people LOVE governments now so they’d vote for more tax and more power for the government.
The bill of rights has been comprehensively trashed over the years.
Most school kids don’t even know it exists.
I mean ffs, even habeas corpus has been ditched.
Bastards. Hangings too good for them.
Politicians don’t like intelligent people either as those who are more knowledgeable than them can show them up for being thick.
Not sure but 2TK is no Rumpole of the Old Bailey.
*If* whether by nature or nurture 2TK suffers from ‘moral autism’ then he allegedly relies on the idea that laws encode a moral choice. So seeking closer ties with the EU or nodding along with the various international ‘laws’ provides closer alignment with moral choices. This, of course, ignores the fact that laws are a legal fiction and may include many pragmatic trade-offs by the people who lobbied for and/or drew the law up.
Yes Apartheid was the law once, and homosexuality illegal. The law can be an ass!
I thought it was acts of homosexuality that used to be criminal, especially with minors.
If my child begins to exhibit excessive literalism, diagnosis and therapy might be appropriate.
If a politician does the same, the cause is only my concern as far as an X on a ballot (or more direct remedy) is concerned.
Great, not just a Tool but a Tool with Autism running the country!
Long-ago colleague’s favourite quote from a bygone Master of the Rolls:
“The spirit of the law is more important than the letter of the law.”
Sir Two-Tier rumbled from the outset of Labour leadership five years ago, bleating “Lockdown harder and faster.”
Human-rights lawyer with no concern whatsoever for the human rights of a populace subject to the insanities of the public-health response to a respiratory virus with an age-fatality profile that paralleled general mortality.
Morally-vacuous hypocrit.
But the WEF/WHO/Whatever told him that the UK had to lock down and he had to support it so he did as he was ordered.
International Human Rights, which is what he subscribes to, only means Rights for Criminals and Terrorists to abuse western taxpayers. It doesn’t mean rights for thee and me.
Agreed. Hooman Rights is a racket.
Embedded link blocked. Bot outflanked by this:
https://www.scribd.com/document/557722835/passion-for-justice
Hear hear
I’ve been saying on various platforms for months that I think he’s on the spectrum.
It would explain his complete inability to connect with “ordinary people;” to get the joke about being the son of a tool-maker; an inability to demonstrate or express empathy with people whose children have been murdered or gang-raped and his robotic repetition of phrases completely inappropriately.
Either that, or he’s an android with substandard programming.
he’s an android with substandard programming
Yes a defective bot. Isn’t he a ‘Sir’ for defending pedophiles as a ‘lawyer’?
Just another establishment stooge and liar.
Most politicians are psychotic. I doubt Starmtard is outside the spectrum of psychopathy.
I agree with you and think he is a high functioning Aspie.
Boris noticed this and at PMQs agreed with the question 2TK had just asked and told him the changes the Tories would make
2TK went on to ask his next question as to why Boris was not going to do what he had just asked.
Boris told him again that he had just agreed to what he had asked but a moment before.
It is why 2TK cannot speak off the cuff or meet with the public in unprepared situations.
Hey, less of the ‘high functioning’. I object to being grouped in with 2TK – we do have our pride, you know!
Is that why he made the repeated mistake of calling Rishi PM after he lost?…
I’m the opposite – too many feelings. We’re not all emotionless robots. In fact I’d say most aren’t. Whether he is or not, is no excuse for the way he is behaving. Of the options you provide, he is the latter.
I remember some teenager came on the radio to answer a question about plants, the first thing he told the radio DJ was……Why was your introduction music so loud, it effected my concentration. I thought to myself, he’s “on the spectrum”.
Most MPs Hate Britain.
Most MPs think we should follow laws made by unelected bureaucrats in foreign countries.
Exactly.
Why was this post edited by someone other than the poster, by the way?
Socialists seem to like telling people what to do, and “human rights law” as it is now interpreted is a great way to get away with doing that.
I once had “fucked up” changed to “effed up”. Thank goodness.
LOL.
Still curious to know what was changed. Lockdown Sceptic’s posts are usually corkers.
Correcting typos, simple as
Thanks for the clarification!
His personal habits should certainly be investigated.
‘I’ve been approached by a number of researchers who are very interested in the use of cannabis to treat autism and if the two are related or causal,” Dr. Troup says. “We found that when you ask a cannabis user to think about other people’s emotions and relate to them, it’s harder for them. That inability to empathize would be a parallel to autistic-like behaviors. Certainly, this is something to think about.’
Additionally, Dr. Troup also asked participants to undergo an implicit emotional task. Both the control group of non-smokers and the cannabis users were hooked up to an electroencephalogram (EEG) while they were shown faces with positive, neutral, and negative facial expressions, but asked to focus on the sex of the face displayed. Later they were asked to recall the emotions they were shown, and the cannabis users faired much worse with this task than non-cannabis users.
From these results, Dr. Troup infers that weed inhibits a person’s ability to intuitively identify emotions when they’re not explicitly focusing on them.’
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149764
I can just imagine 2TK alone in his office rocking backwards and forwards wailing.
Rodney the Rocker!
Rodney, you plonker!! 😃