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Thread 4 Starmer: Fighting back with brooms and community.

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DuncinToffee · 03/08/2024 16:56

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5128710-thread-3-starmer-digging-has-started-bigger-shovel-required?page=40&reply=137271564

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DrRiverSong · 06/08/2024 08:01

@BIossomtoes happy birthday! 🎂

PandoraSox · 06/08/2024 08:04

Happy birthday @BIossomtoes

Have a post box topper.

Thread 4 Starmer: Fighting back with brooms and community.
ProgressivePilgrim · 06/08/2024 08:26

PandoraSox · 06/08/2024 08:00

There are some really insidious posters out there.

They post as though they are against the riots, then try to usher people to you tubers and the like who are posting dodgy stuff.

Doubt everyone who isn't a regular poster on political issues!

I know I sound crazy!

I've stayed away from most of the threads, as I find it all so depressing. But I can guess at the kind of phenomenon you mean. The 'I'm not racist but...' people. Those people are anxiety-making definitely.

ProgressivePilgrim · 06/08/2024 08:29

Yes, happy birthday @BIossomtoes ! I'm new to this thread, so, apologies, only just twigged. Have a lovely day 🎂

itsgettingweird · 06/08/2024 08:30

Happy birthday Blossomtoes Flowers

Sometimes I think the countries who ban access to these apps have the right idea. Despite the fact I wouldn't want that to actually happen and don't think it's a good idea either!

bombastix · 06/08/2024 08:34

PandoraSox · 06/08/2024 08:04

Happy birthday @BIossomtoes

Have a post box topper.

Yes happy birthday!

post box toppers are such a odd British thing. Someone does them around me (who?). Our current one is for teenage mental health services…

Notonthestairs · 06/08/2024 08:39

Happy Birthday Blossom 🎂

ilovesooty · 06/08/2024 08:42

Happy birthday @BIossomtoes

God. This place is becoming a cesspit.

BustingBaoBun · 06/08/2024 08:42

Happy birthday @BIossomtoes 🎁💐😃

BIWI · 06/08/2024 08:50

ilovesooty · 05/08/2024 23:18

She used to be my MP - I moved. She's thick and absolutely repellent. I was delighted when she lost her seat and I can't imagine why she's being given airtime.

I had to go to bed as I couldn't bear to listen to her ignorant (and inflammatory) drivel.

BustingBaoBun · 06/08/2024 08:51

I sometimes think the BBC are being deliberately provocative. Why is she being interviewed if she is not an MP anymore?

BIWI · 06/08/2024 08:56

Oh, and happy birthday @Blossomtoes Flowers

Notonthestairs · 06/08/2024 08:57

BustingBaoBun · 06/08/2024 08:51

I sometimes think the BBC are being deliberately provocative. Why is she being interviewed if she is not an MP anymore?

Suspect a lot of the politicians approached would have chosen to give the current news a swerve - or were on holiday and didnt want to be interviewed from a beach etc.

Jenkyns is hoping for a bit of self promotion.

bombastix · 06/08/2024 09:01

Notonthestairs · 06/08/2024 08:57

Suspect a lot of the politicians approached would have chosen to give the current news a swerve - or were on holiday and didnt want to be interviewed from a beach etc.

Jenkyns is hoping for a bit of self promotion.

Yes well perhaps they could be a bit more responsible rather than repeatedly build up people who are conspicuously in it for themselves. See Johnson and Farage who owe the BBC in part for their careers.

Notonthestairs · 06/08/2024 09:05

I havent watched the BBC news coverage in years. Wasnt at all surprised to read Lewis Goodall's comments about being warned that Robbie Gibb was watching him.

DuncinToffee · 06/08/2024 09:07

Happy Birthday Blossomtoes CakeFlowers

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CassieMaddox · 06/08/2024 09:11

Happy birthday blossom hope you have a lovely day x

Evenstar · 06/08/2024 09:12

Happy birthday @BlossomToes

Thread 4 Starmer: Fighting back with brooms and community.
Evenstar · 06/08/2024 09:14

Not sure if people have seen this but childcare.co.uk have had to report a childminder for sending a racist tweet, she’s married to a Conservative councillor as well 😔

Thread 4 Starmer: Fighting back with brooms and community.
DuncinToffee · 06/08/2024 09:14

Good

https://x.com/Haggis_UK/status/1820714641497981355

Ben Thompson: One of the concerns is two-tier policing... what do you understand this issue to be?

Heidi Alexander(Justice Minister): "I don't accept that.. it's a completely baseless assertion & I'm not going to entertain it..."

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Owlbookend · 06/08/2024 09:16

mibbelucieachwell · 05/08/2024 23:01

Andrea Jenkyns on Newsnight now agreeing with NF that there's a two tier policing system.

The crux of her 'defence' of the Tory inflammatory language is that a few other politicians have occasionally used immoderate language.

Absolutely disgraceful Showing her true colours. Makes me want to scream to ve honest (mature response as ever).

cardibach · 06/08/2024 09:19

DuncinToffee · 06/08/2024 09:14

Good

https://x.com/Haggis_UK/status/1820714641497981355

Ben Thompson: One of the concerns is two-tier policing... what do you understand this issue to be?

Heidi Alexander(Justice Minister): "I don't accept that.. it's a completely baseless assertion & I'm not going to entertain it..."

She was excellent. She also said she took issue with the description of these events as protests. Was very clear they were just violent disorder.

DuncinToffee · 06/08/2024 09:25

https://x.com/BestForBritain/status/1820737134115828206

Good point by Devon Police and Crime Commissioner: One of the reasons policing is necessarily different during these far right 'rallies' is that they are organised in a clandestine way and not communicated to or pre-cleared with police, like almost every other protest is

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Owlbookend · 06/08/2024 09:32

Happy birthday 🎂@BIossomtoes

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