Thread 1 Starmer: A New Hope

[DuncinToffee]

Please tread lightly on our dreams.

Previous thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5112428-thread-55-sunak-gives-up

I am at that stage too, just read them with 🍿

I should probably follow your examples @DuncinToffee and @placemats

🍿 is indeed good for those threads

Grammar schools aren't an issue in Scotland as we have had any for c50 years

I think in addition to grammar schools, education strategy in England also needs to look at Academy schools (also don't exist in Scotland ) as they seem to be creating a grammar school system by the backdoor

But that's just one of a long list of things that the new government needs to address, so probably not at the top of the list.

I'm mostly entertaining myself with thinking (and sometimes saying) "you lost, get over it"
It's far less stressful now I know the grown ups are in charge and unlikely to listen to the nonsense

Bizarrely there's a thread in Politics about what did Conservatives get wrong and it has hardly got any responses.

I'm not surprised. Anti-Labour posters seem a lot more prone to getting aerated than anti-Tories. Weird. But see previous comment about adults 😂

Funny that. We don’t really care now they’ve gone, do we?

It’s been a whole week and I’m still overjoyed.

Except @BIossomtoes I was listening to Radio 4 at 5pm and the interview with Wes Streeting today. Available to listen to on Sounds and Evan Davies started off by saying now that the first week is over you can't now blame everything on the previous Government. Excuse my French but WTAF? 14 years of incompetence cannot be wiped out after a week.

Of course!

Anyone watching Newsnight? Joe Biden has just called Zelenskyy, President Putin 😮 and apparently it was scripted too.

Starmer currently speaking in Washington and sounding exceptional. Exactly as I’d hope we would be portrayed to our allies ❤️

The sharks will be circling.

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Thanks for your Jim Shannon replies @cardibach and @RafaistheKingofClay

It's like articles I keep seeing posted on my Apple News feed. Such a bunch of whiny babies babbling bollocks

When I looked at that it was op 1 post and run thread 🙄

That old interview of Starmer he sounds very different. Much less nasal.

Can you tell I'm catching up on the thread? 😝

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5117727-thread-2-starmer-return-of-the-labour-government?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

To be continued...

Bunch of whiny babies babbling bollocks - keeping this phrase in my head will help me keep perspective!

Must say I'm frustrated by the journalists trying to draw Starmer into providing commentary re:Biden. It's cheap.

No PM should comment on the health or otherwise of a leader, particularly of an ally country. It would be inept.

So why ask the dumb questions?

That’s so funny. Particularly when the Tories were still blaming the last Labour government the week before last!

Those threads are funny (not what is said, but the desperation). They are wounded people trying to prop their disappointment up by being nasty. It's so pathetic it is hilarious.