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Thread 29 Starmer - Paint your Bandwagon

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DuncinToffee · 21/08/2025 12:21

And do a little rain dance

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TheNewGaard · 23/08/2025 18:28

MyNameIsX · 23/08/2025 17:58

We will not have long to wait, but keen to hear your view.

You do have a view, don’t you?

Yes. My view is that you're talking a load of complete nonsense.

It's not hard...

LlttledrummergirI · 23/08/2025 18:30

I used to work with a colleague who had a big wedding anniversary coming up. She wanted to do something special and came up with the idea of a party in the hotel she got married in.

We had to strongly suggest she went to see it first given it was emergency housing for homeless people and recovering- using that loosely- addicts.

MyNameIsX · 23/08/2025 18:30

TheNewGaard · 23/08/2025 18:28

Yes. My view is that you're talking a load of complete nonsense.

It's not hard...

The real nonsense is you lack a view.

You are not even able to cobble together a defence of this government.

That speaks volumes.

TheNewGaard · 23/08/2025 18:33

MyNameIsX · 23/08/2025 18:30

The real nonsense is you lack a view.

You are not even able to cobble together a defence of this government.

That speaks volumes.

Not really. I'm not a big fan of this government, but your "argument" is one of the biggest loads of complete bollocks I've ever read on these threads.

I don't have a view the the government is going to fail, so I can't really share it with you. Your lack of basic comprehension is failing to pique my interest...

TheNewGaard · 23/08/2025 18:35

Anyway, half time over, back to the football...

PandoraSocks · 23/08/2025 18:37

TheNewGaard · 23/08/2025 18:35

Anyway, half time over, back to the football...

Perhaps the government will have fallen by the time the final whistle blows...😁

DuncinToffee · 23/08/2025 18:38

SerendipityJane · 23/08/2025 18:13

Very likely. I have a feeling the nuance was rammed home with a sledgehammer so almost certainly US.

There is probably an Aesop fable or something it's based on. It's hardly a new phenomenon.

Found the one I was thinking of, 99 Homes

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DuncinToffee · 23/08/2025 18:38

PandoraSocks · 23/08/2025 18:37

Perhaps the government will have fallen by the time the final whistle blows...😁

Starmer's team is winning

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pointythings · 23/08/2025 18:41

MyNameIsX · 23/08/2025 18:30

The real nonsense is you lack a view.

You are not even able to cobble together a defence of this government.

That speaks volumes.

This government has been handed a difficult situation, not helped by having an utter loon in the White House. In economic terms I think they should not have boxed themselves in fiscally prior to the election, but if they had said 'yes, we will have to raise income.e tax', or if they had rolled back the unaffordable NI cut brought in by the last lot, they would have struggled because Brits want Scandi level public services on a tax haven level of taxation, and they don't want to see that's impossible. I think their rapprochement with the EU will help some, but with geopolitics so unstable, there are things they can't do.

On the other hand they have done some excellent stuff that they don't brag about enough on workers' rights, closer ties with the EU, rape courts and the proposed restoration of SureStart in some form. Obviously right wingers don't like any of those things, and the press and media are predominantly hostile.

They've been in power a year after 14 years of destruction. I am inclined to give them a full Parliament before judging, and I think anyone who won't is at best terminally shortsighted.

There. A view.

Spandauer · 23/08/2025 19:10

From ColdWarSteve

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Saucery · 23/08/2025 19:11

I can confirm that Kirby Stephen is riddled with England flags. Tbf, just about every shop front has an existing flagpole but there were several new ones. We drive through fairly regularly and have never seen any flags so there you go, Kirby Stephen are making some sort of Point. I’d rather they sort out the worst toilets in the UK but hey.
Elsewhere on our journey up to the Borders…..one rather random St Andrew flag at least 25 miles from the border and the usual amount of Northumbria flags we see, which I sort of like. There’s no ‘edge’ to the Northumbrian flag, is there <awaits slew of comments about how someone once walked into a pub and everyone immediately switched to speaking Northumbrian >

MyNameIsX · 23/08/2025 19:15

TheNewGaard · 23/08/2025 18:33

Not really. I'm not a big fan of this government, but your "argument" is one of the biggest loads of complete bollocks I've ever read on these threads.

I don't have a view the the government is going to fail, so I can't really share it with you. Your lack of basic comprehension is failing to pique my interest...

Here she is.

’I’m not a big fan of this government’

Why aren’t you? Please clarify.

BIossomtoes · 23/08/2025 19:16

DuncinToffee · 23/08/2025 18:38

Found the one I was thinking of, 99 Homes

Thank you. Added to my Netflix list.

ilovesooty · 23/08/2025 19:19

cardibach · 23/08/2025 17:57

Don’t know, don’t care. Irrelevant.

Agreed. Just more attempts at unpleasant derailing.

TheNewGaard · 23/08/2025 19:29

MyNameIsX · 23/08/2025 19:15

Here she is.

’I’m not a big fan of this government’

Why aren’t you? Please clarify.

I don't owe you an essay on what I think of this government.

Just because your ill thought out and simplistic opinions can be summed up in two sentences, doesn't mean the rest of us are so superficial.

DuncinToffee · 23/08/2025 19:33

Guess they are a bit bored with the other thread or ran out of emojis

Starmer will be enjoying that win.

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PandoraSocks · 23/08/2025 19:33

BIossomtoes · 23/08/2025 19:16

Thank you. Added to my Netflix list.

Mine too. Edited as didn't read Blossom 's post properly!

This tweet cheered me up no end.

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BIossomtoes · 23/08/2025 19:34

PandoraSocks · 23/08/2025 19:33

Mine too. Edited as didn't read Blossom 's post properly!

This tweet cheered me up no end.

Edited

😂

Notonthestairs · 23/08/2025 19:36

'Promising' of what I wonder.

What a way to spend your bank holiday. I hope the police are getting double pay (taxpayers money).

Evenstar · 23/08/2025 19:37

😔

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Saucery · 23/08/2025 19:38

Evenstar · 23/08/2025 19:37

😔

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placemats · 23/08/2025 19:42

Watching Priscilla Queen of the Dessert for the first time. Mowed the meadow today. Have a lovely bank holiday weekend and enjoy the sunshine.

Saucery · 23/08/2025 19:43

placemats · 23/08/2025 19:42

Watching Priscilla Queen of the Dessert for the first time. Mowed the meadow today. Have a lovely bank holiday weekend and enjoy the sunshine.

Ahh, the most gorgeous Terence Stamp ❤️❤️

pointythings · 23/08/2025 19:45

I am in Plymouth with DS, had a lovely day with a local carnival, Vietnamese food for lunch, a sea swim and now dinner and drinks.

Gandersash · 23/08/2025 19:48

MyNameIsX · 23/08/2025 18:30

The real nonsense is you lack a view.

You are not even able to cobble together a defence of this government.

That speaks volumes.

I can see a bailout coming from the IMF. Cost of govt borrowing is high, they have tried cutbacks on welfare but had to u turn. Taxing the wealthy will not raise enough and they promised not to raise taxes on the working people. Unemployment is going to rise and construction looks to be contracting. Its not a good economic outlook.

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