1966_and_all_that
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I saw it and agree with you. However, John Crace in the Guardian says it better than I could:I'm not a strong Starmer supporter but his was the outstanding speech by far.
"Keir Starmer was pitch perfect. Emotionally and verbally literate. When he spoke of love, you felt it. He understands grief. That when we are grieving for the Queen we are allowing ourselves to grieve for ourselves. For the mothers and grandmothers we have lost. Or never even had. For the hopes and dreams that will never be fulfilled. For the family that remains out of reach.
"The Labour leader gets the Freudian subtext. Death’s psychological meaning. That no matter how we may try to fill the gap of someone’s death, part of us will remain inconsolable. Which is how it should be. As that is how we perpetuate the love we do not want to let go of.
"At times Starmer sounded spiritual – almost religious – as he talked of the capacity for the Queen to dwell with us in our pain. Almost as if he was inviting us to make the comparison between the empathy of a monarch and the coldness of an uncaring government. He was so powerful, so convincing, that even the Tory frontbench nodded along when he told us she was the person to whom we turned for comfort during the pandemic. She was a leader we could trust."