Thread 13 Starmer - facts are for lefties

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Stop with the anti immigration rhetoric

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British neonazi group Patriotic Alternative are celebrating because Keir Starmer's rhetoric on immigration and asylum has gotten so hawkish they believe it validates their conspiracy theory about White Replacement.

I saw a post on a humorous site saying "Today we are glued to Big Jet TV"

i love big jet TV and flight radar showing all the go arounds!

I’m just glad not to be on a plane- though DS is off to Morocco later today.

also Isabel Oakeshits latest - claiming not to be ‘elite’ then sneering at Marina Purkiss for having a degree from Portsmouth Uni.

The Met Office and weather presenters often exaggerate with their language, not in this case though, they seem to have forecasted very accurately. Notable how Elizabeth Rizzini was very matter of fact and not the usual smiley approach that her presenting is.

Love a bit of Big Jet - but wouldn't like to be on any of those planes

I don’t have a Safety and Emergency section. I do have ‘Emergency alerts’ under notifications, and it’s on.

I don’t. I checked. Sad times.

Despite lack of alarm, I’m still alive and unscathed. Was wild though and my heavy garden chairs have wandered around the garden a bit. Lots of trees down and damage to cars in Cardiff.

We’re ok too though my DM has lost her garden fence.

So pleased everyone’s OK. Did anyone else sleep right through the 1987 great storm? I woke up the next morning in complete bewilderment at the havoc I saw.

I woke up in London around 3am to complete deadness - no light anywhere so it was really dark. Howling wind, power was out as was phone. My little battery radio was only picking up static.

For a moment I honestly thought they'd dropped the bomb.

The number of times people have laughed at me for that. Which is OK - it means they clearly weren't there.

After a few minutes of spinning the radio dial, I got Radio Essex. A few minutes of that and I rather wished they had dropped the bomb. Imagine Smashy and Nicey keeping your spirits up as the catalogue of destruction was read out.

Uni had a massive 10m x 3m glass front to the refectory. That was blown out and thank god it was the dead of night.

Saw rust on the tube lines for the first time ever ....

I was vaguely aware that it was windy. Got up to go to work, outside there were fallen trees all over the place.

Posted this on another thread. That is a big tree. Porsche owner will be kicking themselves over their parking choice.

I remember the January storm in 1990 and trying to get home by public transport. I managed to catch the last train (via a detour) and then the last bus before it all got cancelled. The walk from the bus stop involved crossing a few bridges, I remember holding on to the railings.

'87 i woke up when a patio chair hit my velux window. We lost most of an orchard. My uncle, who was a dab hand with a chainsaw and a digger, became extremely popular.

Pleased to hear people are ok.
I hope power can be restored to those without it - it's miserable to be without heating and hot water.

I was still in the Netherlands in 1987 and I was stupid enough to cycle across town to fencing training. It was wild. On the way home I nearly got cut in half by a flying corrugated iron bike shed roof, my reflexes saved me.

Had class in Amsterdam the next day, trains were chaos but on the way back things were pretty much running to time again.

It's pretty normal here in Suffolk but we're expecting it to get bad into evening and overnight.

In 87, I was on a school trip to the Brecon Beacons. We were pot holing and found our planned exit blocked, so had to crawl through a stupidly small tunnel with an exit point on the riverbank. The instructors were concerned and the river was very close to the path we came out on.

It was either the day before or after, we were walking across the top. We had a tree come down where we stopped for lunch after moving quickly when we pointed out the ground was moving- we were aprox 50 ft away. I was so small, that the wind kept blowing me over and an instructor had to keep hold of me to keep me on my feet.

I feel a fraud: dh and I drove from Glasgow to Cheadle Hume this morning (left at 8, arrived at 12) and it wasn't even windy , nor even that wet, except for a few miles as we were leaving Glasgow and except for when we were walking in to Tebay

We reckoned we were following the "eye" of the storm as we travelled

I was twelve and we were camping in Blackpool - my mum and dad were experienced campers.

The tent collapsed in on itself with us all an inside, the warden running the campsite helped others to get us out.

The warden told all the campers that if they wanted to continue their holiday he would move all their kit to a barn to dry off - his sister ran a b&b in Blackpool and we could go there for a few days.

My sister and I were very excited about the B&B as we had never been to a hotel before.

The insurance company did not pay out for the damage to the tent as a hurricane was an act of god

😮 I find the idea of pot holing terrifying - that's before adding torrential rain & blocked tunnels.

I used to go pot holing regularly before we had the kids and loved it, but you do need to really keep an eye on the weather. Have had to turn round and get the hell out once or twice because of rising waters.

That is surely a picture postcard if not an advertisement for insurance ?

😂

I was visiting my parents in the West Country during the Great Storm so missed the whole thing but came home to my conservatory smashed and my garage cracked in two.
All's well here in Kent.
Here's a picture of a beautiful, vocal cat we met on holiday earlier this year.

Our town in the Netherlands wasn't affected by the '87 storm.

There has been an explosion in The Hague in the neighbourhood where my grandma used to live