Thread 11 Starmer: Will that Phone Call Be To Harris or to Trump? (the decidedly superior looking cats thread)

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New thread.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5195566-thread-10-starmer-first-female-chancellor-delivers-the-budget?page=40&reply=139578573

Lord Carrington resigning over the Falklands is the last I can remember.

The first one I can remember NOT resigning (AKA throwing a senior civil servant under the bus) was Theresa May when she was Home Secretary. The issue was immigration of course.

Trump has appointed RF Kennedy Jr to lead Health and Human Services department.

God help America.

I do hope all the ‘he’ll have experienced people around him to stop him being too mad’ have realised what nonsense they were speaking.

There is a fairly big failure to take what look like silly people seriously. Ime if they are in politics where they want power they are deadly serious. Stephan Marchant has a line about fascism where you actually find that those with power are idiots but truthfully their stupidity is really frightening because they don’t want advice or constraints and actually that kind of challenge is a sign you are a traitor or some such. Look at some top Nazis and you will find really inadequate people with fruitcake ideas

Trump is appointing a group of lunatics precisely because they will not be advised. He knows it. It will be chaotic because it will make any operation of a public service totally beholden to how he feels about it.

Amber Rudd also got thrown under a bus on May’s behalf IIRC.

The scariest one is his National Intelligence Director... Tulsi Gabbard, even Russian TV is saying, i hope jokingly, that she is one of them!!!

Though she could also just be a political charlatan who just says whatever she thinks Trump or anyone else wants her to say.

Atm i feel v sorry for Ukraine and also what Trumps win will mean for Europe and esp NATO.

Yes this is frightening because really that means NATO is finished. She will get all the briefings, make all the US positions which will be extremely hostile. It’s the clearest message that Trump isn’t bothered if Russia does occupy parts of Europe.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyjm6nrr0zo

The Home Office "cut corners" and made "poor decisions", while under pressure to stop housing migrants in hotels, when it paid £15m for an asbestos-contaminated derelict prison, the government's spending watchdog has said.

A report found "corners [were] cut" so the site could be acquired quickly to house asylum seekers despite an assessment deeming it "high risk".

The group included the minister for immigration and the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the report said, positions then held by Robert Jenrick and Oliver Dowden

Interesting rash of zombie threads being resurrected.

I wasn't anywhere near feeling sorry for her. The sainted Kemi is proving every bit as incompetent and loathsome as I always thought she was.

What are they about, Jane?

No theme I could see. But more than one a day is statistically significant in some ways.

I have had a few old threads popping up in my 'I'm on 📌' list

I've had a couple too - completely random, as in - no link between the ones being resurrected.

I have 2, both related to education.

Meanwhile echoes of Brexit continue .... (posted on another trhead)

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-how-change-vote-election-day-1984939

Hi folks. I've been back at work for two days after recovering from surgery and I'm exhausted. Can we have some jolly stories to cheer me up please? My one is I watched my first Christmas movie today. I'm not a Christmas movie fan usually but this one made me laugh.

🤦‍♀️

@Willowkins , glad to have you back. Hope you sleep well and recover quickly ... this is what I send my DDs when they're poorly, sorry it's not a funny story 🤣

I bloody love Christmas movies. Very cheering. I hate winter with a passion you can not begin to imagine and they make a bit of it bearable. It’s the cold, not the light, so usual SAD stuff won’t help.
My cheery thing today was a beautifully sunny walk with the cutest little staffie girl from the dogs’ home. She was properly on squirrel patrol (and bird, and falling leaf…) but was excellent company. Made today bearable.
Happy Staffie pics:

Ooh thanks @cardibach I love dogs (I've been lurking on the Pod-cast thread). I can't have any of my own but went for a walk last week and met a whippet, border collie and a huge American Bulldog all of whom were super friendly.

Thanks @BustingBaoBun it made me smile

I'm planning to drag all my young people to the cinema over the next month on a family trip out to watch red one. Currently they think I'm joking
Dd and I watched Arthur Christmas a few weeks ago and she insists on playing christmas music from the end of September- just to cause a reaction from me.

It’s small and birdy. I am enjoying watching the birds and have seen woodpeckers this week in the garden.

Also, squirrels enjoy eating camellia buds. I think it makes them a little funny in the head as they get very excited shortly afterwards