I’m seeing a lot of international messages getting this wrong, so this is how you refer to the Prime Minister of the UK.

First, we normally refer to the PM just by name, like anyone else. So, “Keir Starmer” or “Mr Starmer”.

“Prime Minister” is not used as a title like “President” is. He’s not “Prime Minister Starmer”. He’s just “the Prime Minister” or “the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer”.

Unusually, this new PM is also a knight. Of course, this has its own rules.

If you want to use this title, it’s not quite as simple as replacing “Mr” with "Sir’. The first name is more important than the surname here. He’s not “Sir Starmer”. He’s “Sir Keir Starmer” or “Sir Keir”.

Hope it helps!

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we also like to refer to our PM as tosser or wanker

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That’s Sir tosser to you!

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this guy politcs

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I figured this was going to be somebody wanting to talk about his politics or something like that but no it’s just a pedantic Englishman pissed that people are using the wrong title

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to be fair, pedantry is one of our key exports

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Capital T.

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Sincerest apologies m’kind fellow!

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PedanTry?

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Your T is already capital!

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And we love you for it! My current favorite YouTuber is doing a “Star Trek Reviewed by a pedant” https://youtube.com/@unlimited_lives?si=h3DEcI8wWpVj-MgK

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haaa this is brill

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Why bother getting to know their politics? The UK has been going through Prime Ministers faster than McDonalds fry cooks.

/s

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Not to mention cabbages.

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That always ends up happening. Whenever a government has being in power for too long they start to break into 90 different factions and spend their entire time fighting each other, and not getting anything else done.

Also a certain group of the Conservatives have started to play by the Republican Party playbook, while the rest of them are politely asking if maybe they could not be fascists? Of course appeasement never works so apparently the next best option is to have giant arguments about it and replace the PM every 10 minutes.

Fortunately Labour are another party, and regardless of what you think about them as a party, they are at least different and are less fractional currently, so perhaps now we can get something done.

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The Right Honourable Member of Parliament Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, King’s Council to His Royal Majesty Charles the Third, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territories, King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, Lord of Mann, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Anything less is offensive and requires a licence.

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Or you can just abbreviate that to “Cunt”

We all do it over here in blighty

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The right honourable, Sir Cunt?

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He’s not honorable, and fuck his landed title. Just ‘right cunt’ is better

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Here in the UK, you’ll need a licence rather than a license :)

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Oi mate, do you have a Loicense for that license?

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He’s “Sir Keir Starmer” or “Sir Keir”.

Oh, so when you say it it’s alright, but when we say it “it’s called football”. Double standards much?

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Incredible username

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Mother fucker! I nearly broke my tongue just trying to pronounce that in my head

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OI MATE YEW GOT A LOISENSE TO TAWK ABOUT SIR KEIR?

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