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Thread 5 Starmer: keeping on keeping on

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DuncinToffee · 06/08/2024 16:27

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5133972-thread-4-starmer-fighting-back-with-brooms-and-community?page=40&reply=137349246

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Notonthestairs · 15/08/2024 08:57

"People just don't seem to realise something happening daily locally isn't as big a news story as 1000's nationally at once who were all on the news during the crime! "
Exactly 😁

DuncinToffee · 15/08/2024 09:06

Posted on wrong thread Blush

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Notonthestairs · 15/08/2024 09:10

DuncinToffee · 15/08/2024 09:06

Posted on wrong thread Blush

Edited

The rail offer? That looks like good news to me.

Notonthestairs · 15/08/2024 09:10

oh whoops, sorry, just saw you edited your post. I need more coffee.

DuncinToffee · 15/08/2024 09:16

Haha, I don't think womens football has influenced the rail talks

But I agree, having talks, an offer and an end to strikes is a good deal Brew

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itsgettingweird · 15/08/2024 09:46

apple.news/Adj1Ognv5TKOk7iccDlndlw

Seems there's some truth with evidence that the misinformation about the Southport murder initiated from abroad.

Notonthestairs · 15/08/2024 09:51

Interesting. Wonder who is funding it.

dontcallmelen · 15/08/2024 09:56

Thank you for the secretbarrister blog really informative & the Liz Lettuce puns had me properly laughing inspired.

itsgettingweird · 15/08/2024 10:07

Notonthestairs · 15/08/2024 09:51

Interesting. Wonder who is funding it.

I wondered that too.

Especially as America also seem to have the same problem with the alternative "fox sites" that appear related.

Trump was speaking S9 me truth with his "fake news" mantra.

Just it isn't in the way he is promoting it!

He just thinks fake news is anyone who disagree with him - like The lettuce 😂

itsgettingweird · 15/08/2024 10:08

Not sure why my iPad corrected "some" with S9!

Well I have some idea - that's my DS para classification 😂

PandoraSox · 15/08/2024 10:26

That is very interesting @itsgettingweird.

SerendipityJane · 15/08/2024 10:48

Superman had Krytonite.

Superliz has Lettuce.

Does anyone remember that running gag in "The Thick of It" where Nicola Murray was stalked by a pork chop ?

Several commentators continue to be baffled as to who on earth is putting her up as some sort of right wing election whisperer, given her track record and total lack of popularity with any base in Britain.

The way Team Trump are working at the moment, I can really see someone priming the Man with a Tan from a Can to hold her up as proof of his destiny as POTUS.

"Ya kno, there's this great l'il lady in the yukay. She's done great great things. Bigly things with their economy, And she says I'm best for me - I mean America. An' that's Lez Truss. Y'all know what they call her the Lettuce ? Coz she's fresh and just what you need ...."

The problem is the RNC don't know who she is. Which if I were her, I'd take as a win.

SerendipityJane · 15/08/2024 11:17

Now is probably a good time to start selling Tesla shares

SerendipityJane · 15/08/2024 11:25

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Thread 5 Starmer: keeping on keeping on
itsgettingweird · 15/08/2024 11:26

If Elon Musk is the best advert for free speech we have I think I'd be happy for it to stop!

Notonthestairs · 15/08/2024 11:31

She's wildly unspecific isn't she.
What precisely is she trying to defend?

(Presumably not social media posts suggesting we should burn down mosques with people inside)

SerendipityJane · 15/08/2024 11:43

If poor ickle Lizzie feels she is being suppressed, she can always ask one of her 600K followers on Twitter to get a message to the real world.

itsgettingweird · 15/08/2024 11:48

I'm not sure even she knows what she's trying to protect or even promote.

The similarity between her and the orange one is that they both just spew a loads of words you can find in a dictionary (and some you couldn't 😂) together and hope it makes a sentence.

There's no substance or even meaning. It's just waffle from their comedies minds being said aloud.

itsgettingweird · 15/08/2024 11:48

Confused not comedies.

Although at times it's funny

HannibalHeyes · 15/08/2024 12:03

Special Set of Commemorative Stamps issued to mark the passing of the Tory Years...

Thread 5 Starmer: keeping on keeping on
BustingBaoBun · 15/08/2024 12:20

The trouble with Liz is... She is rich fodder for all this sort of ridicule. All food related.

Who can forget PORK MARKETS (said in a shouty voice to a bemused audience). And THAT'S DISGUSTING about cheese imports.

What next I wonder? Lettuce guess...

SerendipityJane · 15/08/2024 12:34

It was really a cruel trick of the Tories to make someone as dim and unsuited as Truss PM. In all seriousness I'd think she'd have a fair claim for abusive treatment in the workplace. It's akin to a bunch of teachers making a year 12 pupil headmaster for a day as a prank.

Maybe they thought she'd get the joke and play along. Imagine their horror when it dawned on them she really thought they were serious. Maybe she was inspired by Zelensky ?

It will be sobering in the long run to see if Trussonomics cost the UK more than Brexit. I have a feeling they might have.

L1ttledrummergirl · 15/08/2024 13:59

SerendipityJane · 15/08/2024 11:25

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She didn't like lbd freedom of speech though.Grin

DuncinToffee · 15/08/2024 15:33

A-level top grades are up - but there are stark contrasts between north and south England, in NI & Wales, and between private and state schools.

Remember, the Conservatives invested only 1/3 of what the catch-up tzar recommended for education after Covid.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/aug/15/top-a-level-grades-are-up-but-worrying-regional-disparities-remain

Top A-level grades are up – but worrying regional disparities remain

There are stark contrasts between north and south England, in Northern Ireland and Wales, and between private and state schools

https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/aug/15/top-a-level-grades-are-up-but-worrying-regional-disparities-remain

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RafaistheKingofClay · 15/08/2024 15:55

DuncinToffee · 15/08/2024 15:33

A-level top grades are up - but there are stark contrasts between north and south England, in NI & Wales, and between private and state schools.

Remember, the Conservatives invested only 1/3 of what the catch-up tzar recommended for education after Covid.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/aug/15/top-a-level-grades-are-up-but-worrying-regional-disparities-remain

Levelling up.