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Thread 14 Starmer - The Starmeristas Strike Back

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DuncinToffee · 04/01/2025 00:16

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PandoraSox · 10/01/2025 18:29

@SerendipityJane you do make me laugh.

Notonthestairs · 10/01/2025 18:35

If you believe Johnson spends his free time building model buses I have a (garden) bridge to sell you.

For anyone feeling uncomfortable that Owen's CV is being picked over - I understand that. However on the basis neither Owen nor Johnson are daft they will have both known in advance that being propelled to HoL exceptionally early on in a fairly ordinary looking career was highly unusual and likely to provoke questions.

The additional context is of course that Johnson's has never had any qualms about elevating people close to him - he made his own brother a lord and originally had his father on his honours list. In addition Johnson felt free enough with tax payers cash to pay for IT services from Arcuri.

I hope Owen goes on to do some good with her position. Very few people will ever have such an opportunity presented to them and all accounts seem that she takes her position seriously. Good on her.

And heaven knows that having younger voices in the HoL may be beneficial. Lets hope that we have a few more of youger generations involved.

It is Johnson's decision making that is in question and Owen can't be held responsible for his choices.

PickAChew · 10/01/2025 18:44

Aye. I know the model bus was a cynical bit of marketing of Boris. It got DS1's attention at the time, though even if it did nothing to instil, whether misplaced or justified, any trust of politicians in him.

littledrummergirls · 10/01/2025 19:07

That's ridiculous. If that's the bar for a knighthood, half the country deserves one.

RafaistheKingofClay · 10/01/2025 19:19

I don’t get one. My mum went to university so I am firmly ruled out.

DuncinToffee · 10/01/2025 19:23

A dozen Reform UK councillors have given notice of their intention to resign en masse in protest at Nigel Farage’s leadership

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DuncinToffee · 10/01/2025 19:23

Spandauer, we have to stop doing this 😂

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Spandauer · 10/01/2025 19:24

Cross post @DuncinToffee We obviously read/follow the same peeps!

DuncinToffee · 10/01/2025 19:26

My dad went to uni, so I am out of the running. DH can become Lord of the Toffees instead

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SerendipityJane · 10/01/2025 19:31

DuncinToffee · 10/01/2025 19:23

A dozen Reform UK councillors have given notice of their intention to resign en masse in protest at Nigel Farage’s leadership

😅

Are they SYL fabois ?

RafaistheKingofClay · 10/01/2025 19:36

Presumably this will play out better for Farage than the councillors. Plenty of dissatisfied Tories they can parachute in for reform at the next local election who wouldn’t touch SLY with a barge pole.

RafaistheKingofClay · 10/01/2025 19:38

I’ve mixed up his initials there but I like it so I’m leaving it.

Just realised I also had a grandparent who went to university so I am 3rd generation and therefore definitely ineligible.

countrygirl99 · 10/01/2025 19:41

Waiting for the letter about my peerage

Spandauer · 10/01/2025 19:43

SerendipityJane · 10/01/2025 19:31

Are they SYL fabois ?

Nige said they are from an “out-of-control branch” and involved a number of councillors who had failed Reform UK vetting.

... so yes, probably card-carrying SYL groupies.

BestIsWest · 10/01/2025 19:55

My Dad went to uni but fifteen years after I did. Does that go against me?

RafaistheKingofClay · 10/01/2025 20:06

Spandauer · 10/01/2025 19:43

Nige said they are from an “out-of-control branch” and involved a number of councillors who had failed Reform UK vetting.

... so yes, probably card-carrying SYL groupies.

They have vetting?

littledrummergirls · 10/01/2025 20:11

Ds1 was the first in our family to go to university. My mum lived in a slum dwelling that was ripped down when they moved into a council house. Apparently the excitement that you could turn on a tap and get water without leaving the house was something to behold. Dm was asked to leave school when she was 14 and given a job in a shop instead.

My leaving with gcses was considered an achievement, particularly given the broken education due to military postings.

I think he should definitely get a knighthood, and maybe dd, because it's not her fault that he's older.

cardibach · 10/01/2025 20:39

BestIsWest · 10/01/2025 19:55

My Dad went to uni but fifteen years after I did. Does that go against me?

Maybe your dad can get the peerage instead?

RafaistheKingofClay · 10/01/2025 20:58

Not sure about that. It did say 1st generation to go not the oldest generation. Technically @BestIsWest is first.

DuncinToffee · 10/01/2025 21:02

littledrummergirls · 10/01/2025 20:11

Ds1 was the first in our family to go to university. My mum lived in a slum dwelling that was ripped down when they moved into a council house. Apparently the excitement that you could turn on a tap and get water without leaving the house was something to behold. Dm was asked to leave school when she was 14 and given a job in a shop instead.

My leaving with gcses was considered an achievement, particularly given the broken education due to military postings.

I think he should definitely get a knighthood, and maybe dd, because it's not her fault that he's older.

Can they share? Lord Drum on even days, Lady Drum gets the odd days.

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BIWI · 10/01/2025 21:46

I was the first in my family to go to university.

When we went to my GPs, we used to have to use the nettie - the outside toilet.

Surely I deserve an honour for the discomfort of that?

Piggywaspushed · 10/01/2025 22:18

My dad went to Durham and my grandmother was an early female uni attender, long before most women had access. Dammit.

cardibach · 10/01/2025 22:23

BIWI · 10/01/2025 21:46

I was the first in my family to go to university.

When we went to my GPs, we used to have to use the nettie - the outside toilet.

Surely I deserve an honour for the discomfort of that?

My granny had an outside loo at the end of the (steep) garden. Bath in a tin tub in front of the fire. I’ll join you in that peerage.

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 10/01/2025 22:29

cardibach · 10/01/2025 22:23

My granny had an outside loo at the end of the (steep) garden. Bath in a tin tub in front of the fire. I’ll join you in that peerage.

Bloody hell - I grew up in a house that only had an outside loo and a bath in the kitchen.
I must deserve a knighthood 🤣

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