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Thread 1 Starmer: A New Hope

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DuncinToffee · 06/07/2024 11:07

Please tread lightly on our dreams.

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NoDishiForRishi · 09/07/2024 18:44

BestIsWest · 09/07/2024 17:56

Ed Miliband was very polite too and thanked the clerk for doing this job. I think Sunak said something too.

I love Ed Miliband, I was fully into the whole Milibae thing back in 2015. He's so nice and has a cracking sense of humour. Him eating a bacon sandwich on the back of a motorbike on the last leg lives in my head rent free. 😂

I'm probably being dim here but if Keir is off to Washington does that mean Angela is in charge while he's gone?

NoDishiForRishi · 09/07/2024 18:46

I mean look at him. Love a man who can laugh at himself! 😂😂

Thread 1 Starmer: A New Hope
Piggywaspushed · 09/07/2024 18:47

NoDishiForRishi · 09/07/2024 18:44

I love Ed Miliband, I was fully into the whole Milibae thing back in 2015. He's so nice and has a cracking sense of humour. Him eating a bacon sandwich on the back of a motorbike on the last leg lives in my head rent free. 😂

I'm probably being dim here but if Keir is off to Washington does that mean Angela is in charge while he's gone?

I met Ed at a cricket thing our kids were doing at Lords not long after he lost out. I shook his hand and we chatted a bit. He looked so sad.

Zonder · 09/07/2024 19:02

Thanks so much for the narrative to the afternoon's events. I was out but enjoyed your summary so much we have just been watching on YouTube.

So glad Diane Abbott got so much recognition, and I loved her speech. She did seem a bit teary eyed when both Sunak and Starmer acknowledged her.

But bloody Fartage can be relied on to bring the tone down. Let's hope he buggers off and doesn't bother attending again.

SerendipityJane · 09/07/2024 19:13

I'm probably being dim here but if Keir is off to Washington does that mean Angela is in charge while he's gone?

I think that's tradition. Deputy PM subs if PM is unavailable.

I have to say I'm really hoping it is. Sweet revenge for the smear campaign these past few months. Would she be allowed to conduct it whilst extending a raised middle finger ?

SerendipityJane · 09/07/2024 19:16

I met Ed at a cricket thing our kids were doing at Lords not long after he lost out. I shook his hand and we chatted a bit. He looked so sad.

That could so easily be a Stewart Lee routine ...

Piggywaspushed · 09/07/2024 19:19
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BIWI · 09/07/2024 19:46

Can someone give me a summary of what Fartage (love that name Grin) said, please?

Igotjelly · 09/07/2024 19:47

BIWI · 09/07/2024 19:46

Can someone give me a summary of what Fartage (love that name Grin) said, please?

Basically just praised Hoyle then bashed John Bercow a bit saying he sullied the role of speaker. No other party felt the need to say anything churlish or rude about anyone else.

BIWI · 09/07/2024 19:51

Thank you

prettybird · 09/07/2024 19:55

I miss Bercow Smile

heldinadream · 09/07/2024 19:58

@BIWI I've cut and pasted the following from the Grauniad, and it tallies with what I saw.
Nigel Farage uses first speech in Commons as MP to attack John Bercow, claiming he tried to 'overturn' Brexit
And Nigel Farage gets called next as leader of Reform UK.
He says he has not sat in the Commons before, so he cannot judge him by experience. But he says he can judge Hoyle by how he is seen by the outside world.
We can judge you from the way the outside world sees you. I don’t just mean United Kingdom, I mean the world because Prime Minister’s Questions time is global box office politics, and it’s pretty clear everybody that you act with great neutrality. You have bought tremendous dignity to the role as speaker so we absolutely endorse you entirely for this job.
Farage goes on to say that Hoyle is better than “the little man that was there before you” – John Bercow. He says he disgraced his office “dreadfully’. He did his best “to overturn the biggest democratic result in the history of the country”.
Some MPs start to protest about Farage going party political. But at this point Farage ends.
UPDATE: Farage said:
We absolutely endorse [Hoyle] entirely for this job. And it is, I must say, in marked contrast to the little man that was there before you and besmirched the office so dreadfully in doing his best to overturn the biggest democratic result in the history of the country. We support you Sir fully.

John Bercow | The Guardian

Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/john-bercow

BIWI · 09/07/2024 20:01
Shock

Thank you very much for doing that @heldinadream - really appreciate it.

As an aside - John Bercow is an accredited tennis coach, and a member at my gym. I walked past him recently and did a double take, to check it was him!

Evenstar · 09/07/2024 20:03

I’ve just seen someone I knew in her capacity as a Chair of a charity being sworn in as new Liberal Democrat MP 😊

heldinadream · 09/07/2024 20:05

Pleasure @BIWI. I'm quite fond of Bercow. Also fond of tennis as it happens - trying to watch tennis today and politics, god it's a hard graft flicking channels! 😂
Farage, not so much. 🙄

DuncinToffee · 09/07/2024 20:12

Jess Phillips is back on the front benches, parliamentary under-secretary of state in the Home Office

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NoDishiForRishi · 09/07/2024 20:16

DuncinToffee · 09/07/2024 20:12

Jess Phillips is back on the front benches, parliamentary under-secretary of state in the Home Office

Excellent news!

DuncinToffee · 09/07/2024 20:19

It's all kicking off

https://x.com/darrenmccaffrey/status/1810718616662282704

NEW: Even the selection of the 1922 committee chair has descended into chaos

MPs are furious that voting was closed when they were hold it was between 5-6pm

Jeremy Hunt was turned away

Mark Francois called the process “bent” Great new start to the new Parliament

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BIossomtoes · 09/07/2024 20:27

DuncinToffee · 09/07/2024 20:12

Jess Phillips is back on the front benches, parliamentary under-secretary of state in the Home Office

That’s really good news.

BIWI · 09/07/2024 20:34

It is. I really like Jess.

heldinadream · 09/07/2024 20:39

Mark Francois = prize arsehole. The process is bent, LOL. 😂
The demise of the Tories is a thing of the most superlative and immense beauty. Enjoy it while it lasts.

placemats · 09/07/2024 20:43

prettybird · 09/07/2024 19:55

I miss Bercow Smile

united kingdom uk GIF

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NoDishiForRishi · 09/07/2024 20:44

DuncinToffee · 09/07/2024 20:19

It's all kicking off

https://x.com/darrenmccaffrey/status/1810718616662282704

NEW: Even the selection of the 1922 committee chair has descended into chaos

MPs are furious that voting was closed when they were hold it was between 5-6pm

Jeremy Hunt was turned away

Mark Francois called the process “bent” Great new start to the new Parliament

They never learn 😂😂

SerendipityJane · 09/07/2024 20:46

Who remembers sweary Bercow ?

placemats · 09/07/2024 20:49

heldinadream · 09/07/2024 20:39

Mark Francois = prize arsehole. The process is bent, LOL. 😂
The demise of the Tories is a thing of the most superlative and immense beauty. Enjoy it while it lasts.

It really is. However.

Caution requires us to remember that nature abhors a vacuum.