Thread 29 Starmer - Paint your Bandwagon

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And do a little rain dance

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Love that door knocker!

@Piggywaspushed Not Ballycastle on the Antrim coast.

Some along the Ards peninsula. And in Tyrone. Strongholds. Huge eye roll. Banbridge has been very vocal on the painting and it's prohibited, but there's always those who will paint a roundabout.

I think roundabouts should be painted in green 💚

The flags on lamp posts they showed on the news were all half mast, guess the ladder didn't reach

Jonny Adair -Go hiontach ar fad! He's a proud racist and bigot

We saw plenty in Antrim to be honest but not in the tourist parts, more like on the way from Larne towards Ballycastle and then around Ballymoney and also loads around Articlave . Yes, not Ballycastle. But someone had recently been crucified in Bushmills.

Ballycastle is beautiful and the place to go to get to Rathlin Island. Such a memorable day with my mum and sister. The dolphin pod family 💕

Larne is the worst on the Antrim coast - dodge city.

Oh someone make it stop 😩

Welcome to Norn Iron cira the 1970s/80s

First attempt at AI turning a photo into a cartoon! Thank you Duncan for creating the thread!

What an absolute pillock.

Image from our recent visit to Buckingham palace. In keeping with the lamppost theme.

Fortunately this craze for hanging flags of lampposts hasn't reached where I live.

Well done

NEW: The National is launching a new series highlighting positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland.

The increasingly hostile political commentary and media coverage is appalling. We have a duty to correct misinformation and stand up for those without a voice

That’s brilliant. We need something very similar in the rest of the UK.

That’s going to make a cracking caption competition.

Bit sick of the performative right wing tests of patriotism though.

I pay my taxes, I don’t break our laws, I vote when I get the opportunity and respect the outcome, I queue where required and cheer on any of the nations teams. As far as I am concerned that’s all I need to do to be patriotic.

I don't stand up when they play God Save the insert appropriate monarch. I don't sing along. I like pageantry for its own decorative state but am a full on Republican .

Unfortunately for the Far Right I was born here so they don't really have an answer for where I should go.

Ah yes the old who do you support in Cricket test, completely ignoring the Indian and Pakistani diaspora living in the UK.

😔

Britain is facing an autumn of discontent with strikes set to disrupt crucial services across the country.

The RMT union announced on Thursday that commuters would endure a week of industrial action on the London Underground at the start of September, just as schools return and passenger numbers are expected to rise.
These strikes look set to be followed by months of walkouts across the public sector.

GPs, junior doctors and nurses may strike during winter, the health service’s busiest time of year, over demands for pay and funding.
Meanwhile, strikes have already hit the residents of Birmingham where bin collectors are poised to continue a five-month walkout until Christmas over pay cuts.

Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, had hoped to keep unions on side by handing out £10bn worth of backdated public sector pay rises after taking office, but these have failed to deter further walkouts, with Britain losing more than 280,000 working days to strikes in the first half of this year alone.

I well remember the misery of the tube strikes in London. A regular occurance.

But, like many of my fellow commuters, I supported the strikes.

Same when the junior doctors went on strike and protested outside Richmond House. They had loads of support from the public (and staff inside RH 🤭).

Daily Telegraph alert

The last two lines are so true.

Best ignored.

Thanks for raising this @MyNameIsX.
Always good to share a good news story.
Days lost to strikes in
2022 2.51 million
2023 2.66 million
2024 733 thousand
2025 only 283k for the first half of the year.

Very pleased to see that FAR fewer days are lost to strikes under Labour than under the previous Tory regime.
Thanks for sharing.

Agree