His attack on 'Sir Keir Schnorrer' is just a lame, lazy, hypocritical gag. Ignore it
This was little more than a lame joke and lazy journalism from a man whose attention to detail we know to be suspect hasn’t got previous. The former prime minister of the United Kingdom has something of a penchant for peppering his trademark colloquial turn of phrase with slang words that many people might find offensive.
There’s more, of course, but let’s fast forward to this past weekend, and Mr Johnson’s contribution to the election campaign with his weekly column in theWithout any explanation of the etymology or definition, he refers to the leader of the Labour Party as “Sir Keir Schnorrer”, as in: “Sir Keir Schnorrer hopes to benefit from popular frustration with government and acquire the biggest and least deserved majority in parliamentary history”.
It is a Yiddish word that denotes a beggar, a scrounger, or, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “one who wheedles others into supplying his or her wants”. As you can see, it’s not a nice thing to say of anyone, and I fail to see how, in anything Keir Starmer has done in his career so far, it is applicable to him.Whatever else one might say about Sir Keir, there is nothing in his record that suggests this pernicious moniker.
But am I offended? I will save my outrage for more deserving causes. Don’t let yourself be whipped up by the frenzy on social media, or be swayed by the disapproval shown by respected commentators like Robert Peston and Danny Finkelstein, who both found Johnson’s comment unacceptable. No, this was little more than a lame joke and lazy journalism from a man whose attention to detail we know to be suspect.
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