Thread 17: Starmer: Treading softly.

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Lettuce pray

Keep it civil

Cat, dog, flowers tax much appreciated

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5257111-thread-16-starmer-mad-world?page=40

Which makes Mandelson's role greasing the wheels all the more important and which was why he was stressing his non wokey cokey pro business pragmatic credentials.

It's why Mandelson is a great choice. He is uniquely placed to do it. I thought all the bilge in the press about him was bollocks. He is highly effective and will do a good job.

The UK has post Brexit elected and advanced people who are not capable. Johnson, Truss, Badenoch. These are people you would not trust to feed your cat on a long weekend. It is time that we got back to presenting to the world what is still there, a competent and thoughtful UK.

I am such a Starmer fan.
I think he is an extraordinary man and he can become an extraordinary politician.
His leadership is what convinced me to vote Labour for the first time in a General election.
There are so many capable politicians in the Labour party too.

As have the Rachel Reeves crashed the economy threads

I was expecting an upsurge of those yesterday after the interest rate reduction but nada.

Site is closed to new registrations atm following the issue with CSA images - is that a co-incidence?

I'm not sure it is - I've been reporting a lot of spam today and yesterday. (Although I suppose those spammers could have registered several accounts in the past)

@BIossomtoesGood point.

I seem to have tagged Blossom inadvertently and am unable to untag.

I have wondered myself but for different reasons - have seen 2 threads yesterday/today starting 'i'm a newbie - be nice to me'

Maybe re-opened registrations? MNHQ seem to have stopped communicating about the CSA images

I mentioned a while back that with the upcoming Online Safety Bill, old accounts could become valuable. Especially as one of the ways Ofcom suggested verifying users age was an "established email account" (I have one that is 31 years old).

Habitual name changers is my guess

We can post images again

Oh good. Here is this week's caption competition

Ah it doesn't work in the app! Well never mind

It works after it has been reviewed, same happened to me on the Trump thread

Siri: "Show me a duck wit"

proactive moderation or a not very fast "AI" engine.

Testing out a new sorting hat.

The rat in the hat

I remembered my twitter password, yesterday, so rescued some pics to use as tax before deregging. Hopefully second had goods will be acceptable 😅

Bananas in Pyjamas !

Yay cats!

Oh good. Tolkien said even if the sun was shining the other day, that outside was too cold.

Not my cat taking advantage of our garden facilities...

Talking of cats, Palmerston has come out of retirement for a new posting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgl0vl25j7o.amp

(the name of the reporter did tickle me.)