Thread 29 Starmer - Paint your Bandwagon

[DuncinToffee]

And do a little rain dance

previous thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5385382-thread-28-starmer-weodmonath?page=40&reply=146569893

Tax for the new thread in the way of Teddy Bear Sunflowers.

Thank you. Little Tennyson hasn't been told he's going on his holidays next week.

No idea (balance of probabilities, brother mine ...)

I was thinking of trying a subtle campaign to have these knuckledraggers attach them to litter bins (I am sure they'd be grateful for less work) which would make it much easier to dispose of them ....

I wouldn't even need to leave the house. Just get an AI bit to mock up an image of a bin looking all "proud 'n' stuff" to nudge some action ...

I am so tempted to post this (possibly under an assumed name 😀) as a genuine press release.

Tourists do a lot of destructive shit, but I’m uneasy about the attention the Mail has given the story. Anyway, it’s been put back now, so no harm done. I look forward to the Mail focusing on litter in the Lake District, human shit pollution in Coniston, disposable bbqs, dogs off leads round livestock and hammering coins into trees rather than donating the money to the area. If the people doing it don’t “seem to be wearing kippahs” then perhaps they won’t bother reporting on it.

It does raise the question what if a group of Christian tourists had rearranged a star of David into a cross ? (Or a fish ....)

Temu are having a happy bonus month. Made in China.

Gorgeous 🥰

This is up near my neck of the woods. I think the issue people have is that it was replacing one religious symbol with another. And they dismantled the old one to make the new one. I don't think anyone would have been bothered if they had just put a Star of David next to the cross.

God another shit stirring primary school fears thread popped up.

This is unsettling

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/21/refugee-charities-install-safe-rooms-and-relocate-amid-rise-in-far-right-threats

PMK

I have one of those upstairs in my office! (Haven’t used it for a gazillion years though)

… and here’s Sylvester (RIP) in said office, ‘helping’ me with my work

Paying tax with lovely roses. Thx for new thread.

Oh wow - they are beautiful

I’m currently on the “who will they blame next” thread.

Pointlessly trying to point out that an asylum
seeker is not an illegal immigrant.

I seriously think the problem with the country stem from its own residents knowledge of it rather than someone who just so happens to have been neon on a different part of planet earths land!

I read that as PINK at first and it wouldn't have been inaccurate 😁

It seems that those who thought the kerb painting was reminiscent of Belfast were correct https://bsky.app/profile/imranicus.bsky.social/post/3lwwpb5qunk2e

Oh yeah, I've heard of him.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/coronavirus-bakery-worker-threatened-fine-chalk-DWycKB_2/

Yes I think the Mad Dog appellation he went by, might remind others who he is, hardly someone you would aspire to imitate 🙄

By the way, it's not just Belfast. Lots of villages do this, all down the Antrim coast for example. You certainly know whether you are welcome or not.

@SerendipityJane that’s crazy, but I have also heard of children being reported for chalking on pavements. How can that be a police matter and painting kerbs and mini roundabouts isn’t?

Late cat tax.
Thanks for the new thread. (Hoping the St George flag feckers are all busy with their BBQs this weekend.)