Thread 30 Starmer - Magic Roundabouts

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Pull up a chair for some friendly chit chat about politics and beyond

Taxes optional but greatly appreciated.

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So much disinformation about.

A video has been claimed to show an “illegal migrant” losing their temper after an Oxford City Council scheme offering free PS5s to migrants ran out.

But the clip was filmed in the US in 2018, and Oxford City Council says it runs no such scheme.
https://x.com/fullfact/status/1961368250513596713?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Yes, DS got that £50 as well.

True.

I fell quite hard and seriously exacerbated a rotator cuff injury, last year. It's a minor injuries issue. I have a big teaching hospital with A&E less than 10 minutes walk away. I can see it from my house. At the time I checked, the nearest minor injuries clinic was over 10 miles away. The other one was a similar distance but harder for me to get to. That sort if thing needs addressing if the pressure is the taken off both A&E and GPs.

I didn't fancy the journey with such a painful shoulder and just followed the rest of the advice I could find on the Internet (which is all a GP would have told me) and hoped for the best.

This is almost as good as the Paddington one. A truncated Diana.🤣

Does she now live down a manhole? 😂

Is that Diana, she looks a bit like Jane Asher in the Fairy liquid advert from the 80s!

Correction, early 90s.

😂😂😂

Took me a while to figure out that comment until the penny dropped!!!

BBC coverage is now alternative facts?

https://bsky.app/profile/bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social/post/3lxjixgphss2i

Seems the BBC significantly exaggerated the Home Office case here, both in their wording on Twitter and on the broadcast itself. Home Office lawyers did not say this, which would be politically toxic, and play right into the hands of you know who. >

Surely not. We all know the BBC wouldn’t dream of twisting facts. What an outrageous suggestion.

Thank you @Goldenbear - and very sorry about your relative

That's kind of you.

Between reports of the BBC and the NF show they run they really are
not even pretending to be impartial
anymore.

My best guess is that the Court of Appeal will overturn the injunction until the substantive appeal can be heard.

In terms of the issue, Yvette Cooper’s on a lose lose situation. Nigel will be having a presser on Monday on this.

Maybe it’s time for Nandy to knock some heads together.

I just listened to that - interesting but also their analysis is pretty depressing. (Nothing that hasn’t been said here, or by you, though).

Hopefully the new head of comms, and the return of the government after the summer break will something new/better.

<wishes fervently>

I liked the UK better when the silly season was occupied about stories about invasive wasps and plants that would make your house unmortgageable. Summer racism is a poor substitute

https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/PUB_BORE

@PandoraSocks that is truly awful 🤣

Yes, me too. In my first press office job I used to get phone calls from bored journalists on hot August days inquiring if the tar was melting on the roads.

https://bsky.app/profile/samfr.bsky.social/post/3lxk4owlovs2v
Interesting appointment. Would be the most high-profile No 10 economic adviser in a very long time.

I’ll never understand why Tom Scholar wasn’t invited back to the Treasury after Truss was sent on her way. That was an incredible waste of talent.

Epping case

Judge explains what this appeal is not about

Lord Justice Bean begins by listing the issues the case is dealing with
"We should say at the outset what this appeal is not about," he says.
"It is not concerned with the merits of government policy in relation to the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers in hotels or otherwise."

He says since July 2025 there have been largely continuous protests and that "the focus of the protests is that the hotel should no longer house asylum seekers".
"Some of the protests have involved violent and disorderly incident," he adds.

Government have won the right to appeal, ruling on injunction is next.

I think public servants get fed up. Tom Scholar probably decided to go into banking where he could charge accordingly. Why would you put up with it? You can do less and earn far more in the private sector and you don’t have to be nice to politicians which is probably an insufferable task.

Would anyone here work for Liz Truss?