A toolmaker (in reality a factory owner)
November 8, 2026 at 8:45 PM
A toolmaker (in reality a factory owner)
"Sir Kier we have another gig for you, but these ones also have a request..."
"Look, my father WAS a toolmaker."
"Yes, they know, that's the problem really."
"Look, my father WAS a toolmaker."
"Yes, they know, that's the problem really."
November 7, 2026 at 9:37 AM
"Sir Kier we have another gig for you, but these ones also have a request..."
"Look, my father WAS a toolmaker."
"Yes, they know, that's the problem really."
"Look, my father WAS a toolmaker."
"Yes, they know, that's the problem really."
Yes, but was his father a toolmaker?
November 6, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Yes, but was his father a toolmaker?
I think this might be my favorite thing of yours I've see. And a toolmaker, too
November 7, 2026 at 3:53 AM
I think this might be my favorite thing of yours I've see. And a toolmaker, too
I think it’s slightly complicated by “middle class” having a different meaning in America. I suspect a toolmaker and a nurse like Starmer’s parents would be called “middle class”.
November 5, 2026 at 10:30 AM
I think it’s slightly complicated by “middle class” having a different meaning in America. I suspect a toolmaker and a nurse like Starmer’s parents would be called “middle class”.
Bela Lugosi’s dad was a toolmaker…
November 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Bela Lugosi’s dad was a toolmaker…
I am not sure how far back I was aware that He/she/they was an option. I do remember having "Man the toolmaker" on my University reading list. I also remember at the same time people offering me courses on herstory as opposed to history in the early 1980s.
November 7, 2026 at 10:54 PM
I am not sure how far back I was aware that He/she/they was an option. I do remember having "Man the toolmaker" on my University reading list. I also remember at the same time people offering me courses on herstory as opposed to history in the early 1980s.
But his Dad was a toolmaker!
November 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
But his Dad was a toolmaker!
[Toolmaker, lifting wooden butt plug from the lathe] where we're going, son, we don't need oral
November 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
[Toolmaker, lifting wooden butt plug from the lathe] where we're going, son, we don't need oral
But don’t forget he’s got some fantastic anecdotes: “my dad was a toolmaker”, “we sat round the kitchen table watching my parents worrying about paying the bills”, “I was brought up in a suburban pebble-dashed semi-detached house”.
He’ll knock ‘em down dead!!
He’ll knock ‘em down dead!!
November 7, 2026 at 4:44 PM
But don’t forget he’s got some fantastic anecdotes: “my dad was a toolmaker”, “we sat round the kitchen table watching my parents worrying about paying the bills”, “I was brought up in a suburban pebble-dashed semi-detached house”.
He’ll knock ‘em down dead!!
He’ll knock ‘em down dead!!
I can’t even imagine him saying anything interesting. Although if he mentions his dad was a toolmaker, it might get a laugh
November 7, 2026 at 10:40 AM
I can’t even imagine him saying anything interesting. Although if he mentions his dad was a toolmaker, it might get a laugh
[a voice like boiled ham]: my dad was a toolmaker, not a toolshaker
November 3, 2026 at 12:54 PM
[a voice like boiled ham]: my dad was a toolmaker, not a toolshaker
apprentice toolmaker
November 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
apprentice toolmaker
Used algebra, trig, and geometry every working day for 30 years as a machinist and toolmaker.
November 2, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Used algebra, trig, and geometry every working day for 30 years as a machinist and toolmaker.
She's definitely a toolmaker
October 31, 2026 at 1:29 PM
She's definitely a toolmaker
After years of austerity and tax cuts for the rich, we were promised CHANGE by the son of a toolmaker, and now HOPE by the former mayor of mancunia.
Todays brand of politics is homogenized, packaged and controlled by big money, just like in the states.
You know what you must do
Todays brand of politics is homogenized, packaged and controlled by big money, just like in the states.
You know what you must do
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November 2, 2026 at 8:58 AM
After years of austerity and tax cuts for the rich, we were promised CHANGE by the son of a toolmaker, and now HOPE by the former mayor of mancunia.
Todays brand of politics is homogenized, packaged and controlled by big money, just like in the states.
You know what you must do
Todays brand of politics is homogenized, packaged and controlled by big money, just like in the states.
You know what you must do
Did millions vote for the party led by Andy Burnham?
Or did those millions vote for a party led by Sir Kier 'Son of a toolmaker' Starmer, only for a few hundred unelected party officials to decide it was time for a change?
Or did those millions vote for a party led by Sir Kier 'Son of a toolmaker' Starmer, only for a few hundred unelected party officials to decide it was time for a change?
November 3, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Did millions vote for the party led by Andy Burnham?
Or did those millions vote for a party led by Sir Kier 'Son of a toolmaker' Starmer, only for a few hundred unelected party officials to decide it was time for a change?
Or did those millions vote for a party led by Sir Kier 'Son of a toolmaker' Starmer, only for a few hundred unelected party officials to decide it was time for a change?
Your grandfather was a toolmaker?!
A) Why has this information been suppressed?
B) How did he feel about donkeys? and
C) Did he know any colleagues named Starmer?
A) Why has this information been suppressed?
B) How did he feel about donkeys? and
C) Did he know any colleagues named Starmer?
November 1, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Your grandfather was a toolmaker?!
A) Why has this information been suppressed?
B) How did he feel about donkeys? and
C) Did he know any colleagues named Starmer?
A) Why has this information been suppressed?
B) How did he feel about donkeys? and
C) Did he know any colleagues named Starmer?
Son of a toolmaker, though. He knew what he was talking about.
October 29, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Son of a toolmaker, though. He knew what he was talking about.
Starmer tried to lean into his humble origins but however tired the Westminster commentariat got of hearing "son of a toolmaker" it made almost no impression on the wider electorate. In retrospect trying to present himself as working class was a mistake - Starmer just came across as inauthentic.
October 28, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Starmer tried to lean into his humble origins but however tired the Westminster commentariat got of hearing "son of a toolmaker" it made almost no impression on the wider electorate. In retrospect trying to present himself as working class was a mistake - Starmer just came across as inauthentic.
His father isn’t even a toolmaker! His mother nay a nurse!
October 26, 2026 at 10:08 AM
His father isn’t even a toolmaker! His mother nay a nurse!
That’s why they got rid of Starmer. He couldn’t bring himself to tax vices as the son of a hardworking toolmaker.
October 28, 2026 at 7:36 AM
That’s why they got rid of Starmer. He couldn’t bring himself to tax vices as the son of a hardworking toolmaker.
Well it makes a change from blaming assylum seekers, migrants, RNLI, the EU, the wrong Brexit deal,the tories, may, boris, starmer, starmer's spectacles, starmer's toolmaker dad, Lammy, Rayner, Burnham, teachers, teaching assistants, inefficient councils, BBC, bad apples, minimum wage, and HMO's
October 27, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Well it makes a change from blaming assylum seekers, migrants, RNLI, the EU, the wrong Brexit deal,the tories, may, boris, starmer, starmer's spectacles, starmer's toolmaker dad, Lammy, Rayner, Burnham, teachers, teaching assistants, inefficient councils, BBC, bad apples, minimum wage, and HMO's