Thread 7 Starmer : Cats and Conferences

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Sorry

No. I was originally responding to you saying it was obvious there wasn't a super injunction.

Clearly there are some restrictions on reporting about her because information is so limited about her background, why she got a peerage and such important political contacts.

I have no idea if the restrictions are related directly to her or to her family. But it is very fishy.

It's very interesting the topics that cause you to pop out of lurking though Clav. I really wouldn't have though a discussion about peerages and twitter rumours would be any more interesting than all the other debates we have.

That’s good. If you’re anything like me you’re really missing them.

Car owners will recognise everything in this

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/9ni8krBaWQ16boew/?mibextid=WC7FNe

I really am. I'm having a lovely time in Malta and turning a delightful shade of mahogany, but I really miss them.

Oh good, you’ve obviously got fabulous weather. Please tell it to stay that way next month!

I will. It's been brilliant apart from a few spots of rain yesterday afternoon. It's forecast to rain on Monday, the day before I go home.

CassieMaddox
It's very interesting the topics that cause you to pop out of lurking though Clav. I really wouldn't have though a discussion about peerages and twitter rumours would be any more interesting than all the other debates we have.

That's probably because I don't read all of the discussions you have (I'm not sure I would call them debates).

Since the election I'm assuming you must be bored, which might be why you've ended up here. Never mind. You'll soon have a leadership election to focus on.

30 fucking grand of our money

FFS!

Oh but it's absolutely none of our business eh?

I'm unsure what her employment is adding. Personally think its quite shady she's VP of a company set up by an MP, where the MP who made her a lord also works. It's all a bit "jobs for the boys".

Plus, I hadn't realised it was advocating nuclear power murkier and murkier

With the development of SNRs ( small nuclear reactors ) there are a few new companies popping up in that space , NewClo for one attracting a lot of investment.

Boris and his mates possibly wanting to cash in on that.

The tories seem to be obsessed with small nuclear reactors but don't seem to understand that investment is into research, not into producing them. His professional opinion is that it'll be 30 - 40 years before they reach the production stage, and it's not a given that they ever will. He said the Americans gave up their development programme as they felt it couldn't continue due to safety. The Chinese, who can build entire cities by teatime, have been trying to build one for 15 years and think/hope they'll have success within the next decade.

That's really interesting @MrTiddlesTheCat so another great project of Johnson's!

Tugenhat was on the news ages ago wittering on about how Rolls Royce had one ready to go. They just needed money to be released from the treasury to buy them. That's when DH said they were talking nonsense. Rolls Royce have a theoretical plan but were seeking investment to research their plan. Nothing had been built and if they got the investment it'd be many years before they even got to prototype stage.

(For those that don't know DH is a professor of nuclear chemistry.)

Just goes to show how much they pull the wool over people's eyes and prefer not to have experts getting in the way.

It's a natural law that nature abhors a vacuum.

Meanwhile, prompted with a series of suggestions, ChatGPT came up with "Bleak House" as some light weekend reading.

Thick as mince, obviously, but with a view of so much data to relate. (Gets Kindle out).

Biden to host British PM Keir Starmer at White House on September 13

https://x.com/dannyctkemp/status/1832141778205429863

Refreshing. Quite a contrast to this

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/15/readout-of-president-bidens-pull-aside-with-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-of-the-united-kingdom/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx28d72948vo

I'm really not sure about LK at all.

Well...

I'd like to know who they should blame for what's happened under the previous government before they took over?

I mean he could blame his Gran, or his old NDN? Or even the family pet.

Perhaps he could blame his children?

The same way the Tories (rightly) held the previous Labour government to account for mistakes they made.

Holding people to account for their mistakes Ypsilanti be encouraged - not made to seem like something wrong.

Exactly. How long have they been droning on about the note at the Treasury? There was still whinging about it in the run up to the election. But apparently it’s Labour that has double standards. And the hypocrisy about cronyism …