Thread 7 Starmer : Cats and Conferences

[DuncinToffee]

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5145757-thread-6-starmer-were-going-to-need-a-bigger-skip?page=40&reply=138030825

It's horrific. I have had to step back from following VAWG for a bit - seems to be an uptick in these kinds of attacks (in this country too) and yet we seem to be going backwards on trying to deal with the root cause and instead increasingly celebrating male aggression and violence. Whilst distracting with squirrels about Islam and toilets. I'm finding it deeply upsetting. Part of the reason I had a break.

Ha, just posted that on the Brexit thread

I'm not on there- might join that one too! I'm enjoying our governments more positive approach to the EU

Can you link it please @DuncinToffee ?

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/eu_referendum_2016_/5129352-brexit-megathread-part-14?page=12&reply=138062803

watch out for the AI

We are gratified to see them follow our lead

Is that a Siberian cat?

Gorgeous

She is indeed. Although she goes incognito on the street- random admirers are told she’s just a long-haired moggy.

Interesting.

I wonder how all the other offspring of Johnson feel about missing out on a place in the HoL.

That’s awful. What’s happening to the world/men?

Mr Johnson allegedly also wanted his father to be honoured. This may have been a ruse to distract from the other nominations and get them through, of course.

Mr Johnson if it is true wanted to honour someone who assaulted his own mother such that hospital treatment was required.

Think this sort of thing has a lot to do with it

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gdqzxypdzo.amp

Yup. I’m a suddenly retired teacher (long story involving incompetent supply agencies and an unwillingness to deal with admin crap for what would have been my last year anyway) and have seen this becoming an issue with teenage boys. The last time I was in a school for any length of time I was fighting Andrew Tate fires most days.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/broke-tories-slashing-jobs-hq-3262303

Tories finances woes.. "The Conservative Party is running out of money. In the wake of its worst-ever election defeat, the party’s top officials are scrambling to get its finances in order before they can begin the work of rebuilding the party.
Multiple insiders have told i that at least half of the staff in party headquarters are likely to go – through redundancies. There are concerns that an already acute situation is being made worse by the long leadership contest. Donations that might have helped hold off the Tory party’s financial crisis are instead going to rival leadership campaigns."

I have the world's smallest violin, and it's playing just for them.

My heart bleeds for them...

https://x.com/lizziedearden/status/1831705001447620754

Labour is dropping the Tories plan to house asylum seekers at the RAF Scampton former military base in Lincolnshire
The Home Office says £60m has already been spent - way above the figure previously disclosed - and "the site no longer represents value for money"

A Home Office press release says: "Work to close the site will begin immediately with the sale happening in line with the process for disposing of Crown land" It says
Opening the site from this autumn as planned would have cost a total of £122m by the end of its use in 2027

Multiple insiders have told i that at least half of the staff in party headquarters are likely to go – through redundancies

Hmmm... 'party headquarters'.. yes they were the ones partying during lockdown, right name for it...

I listened to her on R4 on my way to work. I agree she seems on top of her brief. Doesn't get caught out by questions but also answers them.

This morning she was asked numerous times for a timescale on cladding. She was very clear what needs to be found out, what needs to happen and she can't offer a timescale until she knows exactly what she's facing.

Personally o prefer the honesty over false promises.

But it should have been sorted decades ago.

I know where you're coming from

Didn’t they have that donor with the useless eater comments? They should tap him up for some more millions

OMG that's horrific

About time. The site was contaminated and likely to cost way above original cost estimates and house far fewer people.
It was another performative exercise.

Heaven knows why the Conservatives finances are so poor. They had £15 million off Frank Hester alone.

I listened to Rayner being interviewed by JOB on LBC this morning. She was asked about the number of Labour MPs who left the chamber rather than listen to the PM's statement on Grenfell.

She started off well, saying she couldn't answer for why they might have left but she herself had stayed because it was a serious issue. She should have left it there; it was an acceptable and sufficient answer.

But she then went on to come up with hypothetical, spurious and weak excuses as to why they might have left. For example: "they maybe wanted to go and read the report" nothing stopping them doing that after the PM's statement , there was a big influx of new MPs and not being used to going through large reports, yada, yada, yada

It seems they manage their own finances no better than the countries. Playing hard and fast with other people's money.