Sir Keir Starmer has admitted he didn’t let his children eat meat until they were 10 years old.
The Labour leader, a pescatarian, said he and his vegetarian wife Victoria didn’t have meat or fish in the house when they were raising their son and daughter.
At the age of about 10 years old, they told their son he could do what he liked, and he immediately started eating KFC and McDonald’s.
However, he told the Table Manners podcast, hosted by pop singer Jessie Ware and her mother Lennie, that the couple’s daughter has still never eaten meat or fish.
Sir Keir Starmer has spoken previously about becoming vegetarian 25 years ago, before reintroducing fish to his diet.
He said he found avoiding seafood ‘too much’, but described his wife as a ‘proper vegetarian’.
He said that he still struggles because he loves meat and that if you give up fish or meat on a matter of principle you still hanker after it.
The couple’s son is now aged 15, while their daughter is 12, and describing their parenting, Sir Keir Starmer said that they don’t have meat or fish in the house, they don’t cook it, and until his children were about 10 years old they were just eating with them.
He added that at the age of 10, they said that they could do what they liked and their boy said great and the moment they go out there’s a Deliveroo for Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonald’s.
So, their son has taken full, sort of, liberty with the licence to do what he likes. However, Sir Keir Starmer said his daughter has never in her life tasted meat or fish, and when Lennie Ware challenged Sir Keir Starmer that many vegetarians cook meat for their children, he replied that they never did.
The Labour leader also insisted the family has no problem if their son wants to order non-vegetarian meals when they dine out.
But of course, this is another day, another bandwagon for Sir Keir Starmer as he attempts to get veggies to vote Labour. There really can’t be many minority and special interest groups left for him to target.
Sir Keir Starmer really does come across as a very weak, indecisive and ineffectual individual, and surely if his son wanted to eat meat, his parents should have provided healthier alternatives other than junk food.
The man’s bonkers and did he really try using his children to make him look more interesting? And isn’t that a form of conditioning to deny your child all food groups for idealistic reasons?
Most of us don’t even care about Sir Keir Starmer’s kids and definitely don’t get up in the morning thinking, ‘I wonder what Starmer’s kids are doing today or what they’re eating’.
What we do care about is the boats, inflation, lowering taxes, creating investment and jobs and all those other tedious things that impact everyday normal people that are the backbone and lifeblood of this country, and if everyone downed their tools and never went into work for a week, this country would come to a standstill and so would our so-called Government.
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