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

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Did she investigate any other relevant appointments made since 2019?

Or is this a brand new interest?

Obviously it's not a bad thing to ensure appointments are made appropriately - about bloody time! - but I'm intrigued to know whether similar rigour was applied to previous appointments.

Strange xtweet that. Mr Usherwood mentions Johnson, Leave etc, but completely avoids saying that Gisela Stuart was a long-standing Labour MP.

Still, I very much doubt it’ll come to anything. Governments get their way on backscratching with appointments. Tory or Labour.

He mentions that in the tweets below.

Still interested to know whether previous appointments were reviewed.

Jeez I checked out of MN for a bit and missed about 3 of these threads!

Are you suggesting that Gisela Stuart turned a blind eye until Starmer and Sue Gray came in? That she’s corrupt?

That would seem a reckless and risky implication to make. I haven’t seen anything to even raise the question.

I think I can ask whether previous appointments were investigated. That seems like a reasonable question to me.

I'm delighted this has been highlighted. I can't be doing with slum landlords at the best of times nevermind allowing them in the government.

I hope his tenants get sorted.

I've taken a week off mumsnet and I had to check whether @Rummly 's posts were from today or a week ago. It's like they never moved on.

I think I'm rubbish at my own advice here but the best thing is to ignore them and carry on with our usual discussions. Then even if they keep going we won't even notice. I try not to even read a post if I recognise certain names.

I do the same @Zonder - just scroll past certain posters names once they've demonstrated that they don't post in good faith. They add nothing to constructive discussion.

It saves a lot of time and mental energy

I think I need to be reminded of this and pull out of another thread I'm on. Sometimes you can end up just arguing pointlessly round in circles.

I am reading the Kamala Harris fundraising thread and that one has really made me wonder how that poster found those threads on MN and importantly why?
He has an agenda.

An apology is meaningless unless that happens.

You sometimes just need to sit on your hands

One person on another thread who I deliberately ignore even tries tagging me to provoke me. I stilll don't read his posts

I've started doing that (mostly).

Noticed it on other threads too.

Pop on - post - pop off.

😂

Ignoring has worked pretty well on these threads in the past. I’ve changed my policy on personal attacks now, I used to just ignore them but these days I report every time

Thanks so much. I love this thread and it’s silly to allow myself to be driven off. Ignore is my new motto!

Is anyone else surprised that KS hasn't booted the slum landlord Labour mp out? Or did he genuinely not realise that his property agents were terrible? It's a very bad look for the Labour Party imo.

I’m really hoping he is booted out of the parliamentary party. It’s a terrible look and a huge and unnecessary distraction.

Not really. None of us were expecting that much of a change, surely ?

However it does suggest that whatever process Labour use for candidate selection - interviews, background checks (and background cheques) astrology or just plain throwing darts at a list - it surely needs an overhaul.

All of which needs to be said against a background of a viciously upset right wing media who - in case we have forgotten - pursued Angela Rayner to distraction over the non-story of the millennium.

Many years ago, my DM noted that Labour always seemed to get involved in financial scandals and Conservatives in sex scandals. This was when a certain Mr. Stonehouse was "doing a Perrin" ....

Oh good. Found you all. Little Tennyson says hello too.

Oh I don’t know @ilovesooty he looks like he’s saying “bugger off!” to me 😂

He was cross. I'd removed him from the Eton Mess I was eating. He's exceedingly partial to Eton Mess 🤣

If this was today, I’d sleep with one eye open tonight, if I was you!

I speed read that and thought you initially said "Elon Musk" 😀😀😀