Thread 29 Starmer - Paint your Bandwagon

[DuncinToffee]

And do a little rain dance

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Oh dear.

UK 30-year guilts are now higher than during the 2008 financial crisis.

Bad luck for Ms Reeves and chums.

You need to clear your cache and reload your parameters. You've started repeating eggcorns

Gilts.

I doubt it will give Reeves an attack of the ‘guilts’.

Although, we are clearly paying the ‘moron premium’.

I love it when a skein of geese fly over

And I love it when chickens come home to roost…

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/breaking_llms_for_fun/

We have an extra large clattering of jackdaws flying over each evening, compared with last year. The way they work as a collective when heading to their night roosts is quite something.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/26/robert-jenrick-patriot-tory-leadership

"Reaching the office, I discover another big shipment of flags has arrived from Temu. I ignored last week’s message from the Department for Business that I am personally increasing the trade deficit with China: patriotism is bigger than all that stuff."

I love it when the swans fly overhead.

On a recent walk through a deserted park, I noticed that as I approached a copse in the centre, a whole murder of crows really kicked off. It was hard not to imagine it was in response to my presence. As I passed they calmed down.

And when I turned back and started going towards them, they really kicked off again.

Not having the faintest clue about corvid chickcare, I wasn't sure if they were pranking me (having had magpies get one over on me) or alarmed for their chicks

All part of lifes great tapestry.

Is it just me, or is good ol' Bob wearing eyeliner there ?

Badenoch's response to Farage/Reform is that they have copied our homework. More to come and all workings will be explained during the exciting upcoming Conservative conference.

I may well plan a Sicilian long weekend break.

He did meet with JD recently

JD obviously lent him his eye liner pencil during an exciting afternoon tea party get together a deux.

I didn't think the Tories were planning to subsidise the Taliban? Otherwise, yes it was more or less a copy of Sunak's speech from 2023.

Not really surprising with so many ex Tories in the party.

If you think the UK has a long and complicated history ...

Big Nelson fans, the Sicilians.

I do wonder if it's the new fascist secret symbol ? You know like blood and soil, or the 311 thing ? A wake for the antiwokebros to spot one another at a distance ?

😂

flashing their lashes

Speaking of aesthetics, do we know what Ms Rayners tattoo is?

Sadly we tend to get F16s and C130s...

Chinooks for us

Working in Hounslow in the 80s and 90s, I saw (but heard first 😀) Concorde going over just before 6pm. The fact this awe inspiring sight (even more incredible when you know some of the engineering involved) is a quarter of a century in the past cannot but help feed my sense of backsliding in the world.

You could cross the Great West Road in the evening and see a line of 5 Jumbo Jets along the A4 into London when the wind was right.

We expect the media and Tory class to tell Angela Rayner to stay in her lane…

But if you’re working class and joining in to do their bidding for them

I have some words for you…

https://bsky.app/profile/marina-purkiss.bsky.social/post/3lxcp7ovomc2t

Used to get the occasional one flying into the QE hospital in Brum. Quite a few military uniforms there.

I think Ange remaining in her lane, as you put it, is of greater concern to our old mucker, Rachel…