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

With the Tories abdicating their position as opposition, I imagine GBNews are a little rudderless at the moment.

https://bsky.app/profile/adambienkov.bsky.social/post/3lb7vnkx3652j

Keir's Starmer's spokesperson asked if the PM is "concerned" about being at the G20 rather than being in Downing St for the farmers protest tomorrow

Meet for key discussions with world leaders, or hang around to hear Jeremy Clarkson outside your house abusing you through a megaphone.

A real dilemma

HighlIghts just how farcical Rwanda was.

Doesn't it just?!

We can only deal with this by a third party deterrent. Otherwise we are using all your tax payer money to house them in hotels.

And guess what? We were right. It only costs money to house people you aren't processing as a point scoring initiative to blame these pesky "immigrants" - oh sorry - asylum seekers (who are totally legal until processed) - if you actually process them you can stop paying for 1000's of rooms unnecessarily for those not entitled and can get tax off those who are entitled because they can work.

However the raison d'etre of the Tories and right in general is - under the guise of "removing regulation"/"improving efficiency" - to create layer after layer after layer where every single interface is another opportunity to shovel public money to your mates and fleece the taxpayer.

(older) people still joke about needing 27 forms to get a new biro in the civil service. Without any signs of realisation that is exactly what successive (Tory, but Labour aren't blameless here) governments have created in the "private" sector.

I'm now reading that Thames Water IT systems are frozen in time - dating back to the day they were privatised in the 80s.That is pre-windows for fucks sake. In fact it's pretty much pre-PCs. I really should make a bet on where a still working IBM 360 is. In fact (and I really have to work my memory here) they were probably an ICL house. So maybe a museum ready 2900 ?

Oh dear, my dc are eating woke sandwiches (as do I)

Just lose that **ing mayonnaise.

I like mayonnaise on my chips.

My parents used to buy salad cream instead when my sister and I were little, we were not impressed.

I also like mayo on my chips.

Does that make me a bad faith foreign actor, I wonder?

Welcome to the dark side 🇳🇱

My ds eats park baked baguettes freshly air fried in the morning.

Filled with lettuce, cucumber and tuna, sweetcorn and mayonnaise.

Is he woke or old skool?!

I suspect the baguette element makes that woke.

'fancy woke fillings' - it's like a national newspaper is subedited by the spirit of my dearly departed Gran.

I prefer salad cream with fishfingers or mashed into an egg for a sandwich. Mayonnaise was a Christmas thing in my house growing up.

I detest mayonnaise, quite fond of salad cream though 😳

Fishfinger sandwiches require ketchup and mayo (I'm too woke to even type mayonnaise).

Salad cream for egg. Its needs a tarty zing.

Salad cream for egg. Its needs a tarty zing.
Imho so does tuna. Mayonnaise can be too claggy.

Having laughed at the ridiculous article I now realise I feel quite strongly about sandwich fillings.

Egg salad creek is the school trip packed lunch filling round here (for me!) with a packet of prawn shells

I can’t help noticing there is no butter on that top slice of bread. It’s just going to slide off if the Gen Zer is not careful

Mayo and ketchup, the base for prawn cocktail growing up

Mayo, curry gewurz and onions for a chips special

27 forms AND provide your old biro as evidence it had run out of ink.

I used to make cricket teas. If there was no egg there was practically a revolution.

Here in South Wales chips in curry sauce is very popular.

"curry gewurz" - didnt know what this was, looked it up and now have to have it. My local Morrisons is excellent for world foods so I shall be tramping their aisles later this week.

I'm really hungry now!

Er, tartare sauce, surely ? And ideally a slice of ultra processed Dairylea for that "infinitely better than a filet-o-fish" experience at 1/10th the price ?

Who remembers BKs Ocean Catch ?