Thread 29 Starmer - Paint your Bandwagon

[DuncinToffee]

And do a little rain dance

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Anti racist campaigners far outnumbering protesters in Perth

I'm prepared to engage with anyone who wants to engage in considered discussion, even if their opinions are different from mine. We don't always agree with each other on this thread, but manage to be respectful. I'm not prepared to engage with people who seem to visit different threads, including this one, with the intention of disrupting and promoting unpleasant views. Such people aren't worth my time and I prefer not to encourage them by acknowledging their "contributions". Since the site doesn't have a block facility it's the way I prefer to deal with people I don't want to engage with.

🧐 very observant

It's the purple 💜 one for me.

The right wing will for ever do all they can to derail Labour/the country, whilst declaring their undying patriotism.

Migrants are just another "Look over there!" moment....

People like MyName cannot accept the Cons had 14 years, almost 3 full terms but left the country in a far worse state than in 2010, yet just 1 year in and Labour are a failure....

I agree. And I’m usually very good at not biting 🫣

I like this thread because I enjoy political chat and this is the one with the least one sided agenda with people who support a variety of parties from all over the U.K.

We just chat the politics of the hour day!

How about we tray to avoid the word "protesters". I hate quoting myself (after all it's not like I am T.S. Eliot) but if fascists want to play around with words and generally they are thick as pigshit - then why shouldn't the angels ?

They are not protesters. They are merely people who are gathering.

I'm always happy to listen and perhaps learn from others on this thread. Shrugs shoulders and walks away.

Fair enough, I shall attempt to reciprocate.

Some are gathering for a fight though @SerendipityJane , even with each other.

And having been informed on a different forum that my home town, which is 3/4 white British, has loads of flags out, that's one reason not to visit again. Of course the poster who provided this information is defending it because
It sticks two fingers up to Starmer

Loads of refugees come from Albania (they don't). There was a peak in 2022 and we now have a UK / Albania agreement. In the year to June 25 only 2 %of asylum seekers were from Albania.

Loads of them are chucking their passports in the sea.

And he refuses to accept the definition of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.

To cap it all he does a lot for charity and is very welcoming to the Hong Kong community.

It's evidently a case of some immigrants are OK, but not those ones. It is sickening.

Is there a Dalek in the thread?

We need to remember that for all his shite, Farage wants more immigrants. Lots more. He's twigged that stupid, racists and most importantly poor people aren't ever going to be able to fund his lifestyle.

And having pulled of the first part of his plan (I have my doubts it's all his) without ever holding office, he can now start the Operation Babarossa phase, and shaft his supporters. Again.

I met a few people on the doorstep when standing for local elections who I termed 'held captive' and all of them proudly watched GBeebies.

Lucy Connolly, who was sent to jail after pleading guilty to urging people to set fire to refugee hostels (see first post of the day) and now calls herself a “political prisoner”, is meeting Trump representatives tomorrow to talk about the “UK free speech crackdown”.

😡

She should shut the fuck up.

Having lost my shit with my lost down the MAGA/ far right racist cess pit today, I'm fucked of with the whole thing.

They are trying to protect me from bad things, when asked what those bad things are there, I got back that they didn't want to tell me, I would find out for myself.
When I pushed them on it, they said an army of men invading.

Where is this army? Where have they dug in? What part of the country have they annexed?

Ffs aargh.

Please stop calling the racists football fans. The football fans by and large are at football now, not stood outside hotels making people inside them feel afraid.

I choose the Orc. It isn't pretending to be anything it's not.

It's that 70s vibe (again). They are hooligans plain and simple. It took a generation for the FA to purge the media of sticking the word "football" into the headlines.

I wasn't allowed those as they were deemed too trashy.

That's uncanny and wouldn't be out of place on the Private Eye letters pages. Talking of which, Royal mail finally delivered our copy, today. We've had parcel post but this is the first letter post we've had all week.

I've just been reading a book about 1950s London and much of the stuff people said out loud, thought and done re the immigrant population was sounding familiar.

New thread on LC being a hero popped up. Zapped very fast.

Good.