Thread 16 Starmer - Mad World

[DuncinToffee]

Previous thread

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5251589-thread-15-starmer-nolite-te-bastardes-carborundorum?page=40&reply=141533067

Thanks Duncin.

Cat tax and thanks for the new thread!

Thanks for the new thread, it's going to be a loooooong four years. One can but hope that Trump will fail to deliver economic Nirvana and will become a lame duck at the midterms. Cat tax attached.

Thanks for the new thread. This blissfull cat obviously doesn't know - or doesn't care - what is going on in the world.

Thanks for the new thread @DuncinToffee.
The cats signed an executive order last night stating that I no longer have a right to any legroom in bed.

Morning. Don’t know if I’m coming or going. It’s crazy out there.

Thanks once again for the new thread

Thank you. I shall pay with some cheerful stripey socks to be.

And I would like to amend @piggywaspushed 's statement from the previous thread:

Trump is withdrawing from the WHO. Madness.

As ever - Thanks for the new thread.
What a mess it is out there.
More (not my) Cat Tax.

MN was barking (no offence to thread canines) in the early hours.

I couldn't sleep so was reading a thread which turned extremely strange. A poster started a thread about combatting Islamophobia, but them proceeded to stir the pot by saying she was reporting people to the police/Ask Mama. She also talked about her husband with a "temper"who was trying to make her convert to Islam.

Thanks for the new thread. There's a whole load of madness in the last few posts of the old one (not the posts themselves - their content) so a very appropriate title.
Tax of a mad eyed rescue staffie as I'm in bed still (late night) and can't get a cat pic. The staffie has been rehomed so something is working in my world at least...

Thought Starmer gave a good press conference,

I look forward to the changes being made happening asap.

Also - we were told trickle down works. We are continually told we can't possibly tax the rich or they'll just stop employing people here/paying tax here. And yet this happens. How can it be?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/20/wealth-of-worlds-billionaires-grew-by-2tn-in-2024-report-finds?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2IlN6B67W5rTfzanewrbG7Of31rcae0rWteKpRV0zzD2xc6jss5WYvGUUaem9K2yQMBOWWgIar8aMbdU2g

Is he swallowing that bonio whole?🤣

Eek. That link has gone weird (because I'm on the app?). It's a genuine Guardian one, honest guv.

It works for me @cardibach.

From Starmer's speech

Starmer says that if the law needs to change to encompass this threat as terrorism "then we will change it."

He says David Anderson KC will review this as the new independent reviewer of Prevent.

He says on social media people can watch "video after horrific video" and that "cannot be right."

Thank you for the new thread Duncin & all contributors the daffodils now in full bloom, hopefully they will lighten up the gloom, it’s been a very depressing few days.

Forgot to add tax

Thanks for the guardian article cardibach it’s fucking obscene.

Thanks for the article

The link is fine - if a little cumbersome - to keep it neat refresh the page before copying

Found in the Papua New Guinea Courier, 21st January 2025

https://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/like-flies-drawn-to-manure-the-inauguration?

Pushmepullyou cat tax. Also not sure which way to look, which way the world is going to go. Definitely a mad world

Thanks for the new thread @DuncinToffee

Thanks Duncin. My tax - I don’t feel very cute and cuddly this morning.