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

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Sorry to disappoint @Rummly - but I have not been a Labour voter for over 27 years and doubt I'll ever vote Labour again. But I will also never ever vote for the Conservatives and unlikely the LibDems And definitely not ever Reform (or similar).

I do however vote for a progressive left of centre party.

Yet we manage to communicate courteously on these threads.

Not me.

I fucked up voting in Johnson. I'm still in the lived and learned stage 😂

Just reading about Badenoch accepting £10k from Net Xero Watch (Tufton Street "think" tank, big fans of North Sea oil and gas, anti wind & solar) - money is for her leadership campaign.

I do feel the need to stress that she won't be the only one. They are all at it.

We do need a sensible conversation about who/what can fund politicians and parties. Personally I think it should come from a central pot. Party elections should come from their own funds.
It's all very well noting it on registers but most sensible people aren't taking a note of where the money is coming from.

Or we just do as Robin Williams suggested and make them wear their sponsors logo on their jackets like sports people do.

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We must have managed one a week with Truss surely? It was a short term but she packed in quite a bit!

Pointy Thankyou for advice re independent mobility centres.

Ds and I found one local to us near his work and popped in when I picked him up.

They've showed us some wheelchairs and one is exactly the type ds was looking at wanting (similar to other swimmers) and I said about wheelchair services referral and asked about voucher scheme.

She's suggested I ring them and check referral has gone through and waiting times as she said some people are being told 18 months! Oh and they often give the most basic so we could wait 18 months to be prescribed an off the shelf one like he currently has which is not suitable for need!

I will definitely be using them if wheelchair services aren't going to be obviously delivering the goods in a timely manner.

I'm Spartacus!

"I'm Spartacus!"

No, I'm Spartacus 😉

I think you'll find that I'm Spartacus, actually!

Betty reassures you all that I definitely didn't vote Reform.

I’m Spartacus and so’s my dog.

My in laws voted reform. They are both second generation immigrants ffs

My dad is an immigrant (albeit a white one from Ireland), with a huge capacity for cognitive dissonance.

Speaking of Reform ... sharp eyed readers will have noticed the blue tick. So this is either genuine, or XTwitter is fucked (again)

https://www.thepoke.com/2024/08/19/lee-andersons-weird-diary-entry-best-takedowns

Greetings. My tax is a screen shot of my tv. Currently watching one of most perfect films, from my sickbed. RIP Alan Rickman xx

@itsgettingweird you're so very welcome, glad I was able to be useful!

I'm forrin - EU immigrant, 27 years in the UK, so no vote for me. Does that mean I have an alibi?
I've just looked it up - we were on Big Dog threads in late summer 2022 so not using Johnson's actual name. Then we had exactly one thread on Truss and another Big Dog thread after that. Likely to have been Sunak threads since, until the election.

I guess the Big Dog threads were something of a continuation of the Partygate threads.

Actually - it may be me 👀

I lived and worked in an EU country.
Ds was born in it. Although both me and his dad are British nationality we both had residency (I got mine just after he was born but that was a timescale thing 😂). His dad live there from 2 years old and his step dad was a national.

So ds was born in an EU country but is British national too.

So basically we were immigrants.

But the point ..... I have many friends who I met and worked with over there. Of many nationalities. Some of us are back in the uk and some living in EU or non EU countries.

I've started to delete some on SM. I just cannot abide people who have been immigrants - or worse are still and not even living in the UK - posting the far right propaganda (mostly reform crap) about immigrants in the UK and getting all the jobs and money etc.
I don't mind people talking about immigration - but it's the nastiness and untruths and they don't seem to cotton on to the irony.

I'm definitely getting less patient as I age 😂

Not me as I'm currently living abroad and system for overseas voters is nuts and I failed to navigate it in time.

You tell the electoral register person in your last constituency that you are overseas and want to vote. They send the paperwork to register to you at your overseas address. You fill it in and send it back. They then send the confirmation that you are now registered as an overseas voter to you at your overseas address. Then you sit and wait for your voting papers which never arrive. Because what they don't tell you is that despite having you recorded as living at your overseas address, you last UK address is still the one officially used as your voting address. Even though they know you haven't lived there for nigh on 20 years. So voting card is sent there unless you do a seperate application for a postal vote from a different address to your official one.

Thanks for the new thread.

Spartacat attached. (Don't know who he voted for though)

Spitting image of Russell Crowe. It's uncanny!

I've said before that I'm an immigrant from Africa who arrived on a boat: my dad bringing in not one but two young children and he didn't even have a job when he arrived ! He was escaping an abhorrent political and already had a Secret Police file on him.

I'm White Commonwealth though and he arrived here (with his dependents ) as a student and became a doctor.

That wouldn't be possible nowadays with the hostile environment towards "immigrants".

Why does it read like a yr 1 ‘what I did at the weekend’ recount?

A lovely recount, Lee! You have used full stops and capital letters correctly. Next time try and vary your sentence starters.

Take a house point.

Placemarking with squatters in the B&Q timber yard.