Thread 6 Starmer: We're going to need a bigger skip!

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Thread 5 Starmer: keeping on keeping on http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/5136094-thread-5-starmer-keeping-on-keeping-on

So democratic!

I'd expect nothing less zonder

But let's not forget labours corruption - for negotiating 😂

Indeed!

The power of vipers ?

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/reform-uk-overhaul-remove-farage

Quelled surprise!

Farage is a grifter. Habib is just one of his victims. Did he really think his face would fit in the Reform Party's future?🤔

The Evening Standard just doing what it does ...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/keir-starmer-lunch-crisps-nutritionist-b1177880.html

Love this little gem from the ES link

Stewart Lewis is pulling ahead in the race to be the next leader of the Conservative party. Never heard of him? That’s because he doesn’t exist. Nevertheless, eight per cent of the general public think he would do a good job as next Tory leader. “Stewart Lewis” has long been used by pollsters as a red herring, to check how much attention voters are really paying to politics. In a new <a class="break-all" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=45843X1573846&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsos.com%2Fen-uk%2Fjames-cleverly-tops-list-who-would-make-good-tory-leader-3-in-5-say-they-dont-care&sref=www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/keir-starmer-lunch-crisps-nutritionist-b1177880.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ipsos Mori poll, he is neck and neck with real candidate Mel Stride. He also has the second-highest net favourability score after Tom Tugendhat.

Well that's shocking. Keir Starmer eats - perhaps- like an ordinary person and is probably quite common. He's obviously unfit to be PM. Where's the shopping trolley full of booze? Doesn't he know that working life in No 10 should be conducted like an 18-30 holiday? I'm worried about him.

I hope they scrutinised Johnson’s eating habits as closely.

We're led to believe that Johnson had a bit of a problem with cake.

Dd is doing her degree in nutrition, she couldn't comment on this without sounding hypocritical (and she's hoping to be a professional athlete), so meh.

Does he also get out of his car around the corner and pretend he's jogged 20 billion miles?

Hmm. Autocorrect can be a nuisance.

"He had apparently acquired this disaster basket in the Foreign Office canteen."

That is hilarious.
Well done ES.

Honestly drugs all over Parliament (and Chevening from memory), pissed up MPs groping staff but wait! The real disaster is that the PM is having a Tango.

If he’d asked for a bag to put it in away from nosey cameras they’d have run a non-story on “Wasteful Starmer Wants The World To Burn Under Climate Change While Making You Have An Electric Car!!!!!”

I am so adopting ‘disaster basket’ for any lunches that aren’t dust and fresh air.

Just a general observation and I fully understand that August is the silly season for dredging the bottom of the barrel for political news but aren't some of the current talking points are just transparently rubbish - no policy announcements as yet, just some fairly fevered speculation to fill some pages and then amplified by the right wing desperados.

Amplified on MN too. There is thread on pay per mile and on a tax raid on pensions.

A lot of threads popping up starting with 'it's all over the news, twitter etc' without any actual links or policies

It's likely from a few selective sources, I had an account popping up on my twitter feed doing exactly that

I like your style Saucery. I think a Disaster Basket every 6 weeks or so would be a useful addition to weekend indulgences 🍫 🍸 🍟

If you dig a bit (but who can be arsed) it's a virtuous circle jerk. The Express reporting on a GBNews segment that had Ben Habib "blasting". Or GBNews quoting the Express with "senior Tories" as reported by the Telegraph on "X".

It's all a bit Chicken Little, really. Without the plot, characterisations, and elegant descriptions.

Freddie Starr ate my hamster

When I worked in strategy, newspapers were never used as a source unless someone had spilled something at the drinks station. It had to be proper industry reports - not the sales wank either,

Absolute drivel posted on certain threads and then deliberately repeated as if it's the truth.

It doesn't matter when you point out the sheer inadequacies and distortions of the original reporting. Once it's posted and it suits agendas that's it.

I'm going to have to sit on my hands or I'll find myself on the naughty step.

Talking about the naughty step, have we lost absquatulize?

I was wondering that. Cassie seems to be MIA as well. Hopefully they are on holidays or just being sensible and having time out from MN.

Ah, this is the bloke that suddenly popped up on my twitter feed and seems to be the source of quite a few threads

https://x.com/BestForBritain/status/1826942079408222227

Sorry - is that THIS Henry Newman? The same Henry Newman who was reportedly "interviewed" for a gov't job, during an ABBA party, in the middle of lockdown? Surely not. ~AA

They are bordering on the ridiculous now

(As my late mum would say!)

The real disaster is that the PM is having a Tango.

😂😂😂😂