Thread 30 Starmer - Magic Roundabouts

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

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Anyone know of any organisations that would collect toys for the children of asylum seekers? I’d ask my local council but they are Reform so they wouldn’t know.

A cafe fairly local to me was broken into earlier in the week, main window smashed. They’ve obviously boarded it over until repair and then stuck an England flag on the boards. So they aren’t getting my money in future.
Flags haven’t reached my end of the road at home. The other end looks pathetic, a load of soggy nylon tat halfway up the lamp posts. If they are proud of that, well, they are to be pitied.

Ahhhhh - my trusted neighbours 🤦🏼‍♀️

LBC's Natasha Devon just ran a really good show with Zoe Gardner fact checking all the lies that,er, LBC has helped to spread.

A bit of time was spent debunking what Rylan said. Then they went to calls. First caller asked in what way was Rylan lying? Yes, the caller said they had listened to the Rylan debunking part.

That is a good idea.

What’s the betting it ones of those English people they are so proud of who smashed their window in the first place.

God we are stooping low as a country 🥲

For sure @itsgettingweird ! Rumour has it exactly who is responsible and Spoiler Alert! it’s a home grown thieving little scumbag with prior convictions. But still, let’s put an England flag on anything ruined by locals, it’s what Tommy Ten-Names would want, innit.

What if they put a flag up to stop being targeted ? Like Jews putting up a cross ?

The outrage means all to them. Messing with your mind. I personally ignore. Though I don't, I do react, which is exactly what they want. It's called coercive control.

I really don’t think it’s that deep tbh. Although I suppose anything’s possible.

They tried that in Ballymena. Didn't work.

I have noted that a rash of posters are suddenly very deeply concerned about education funding.

They weren't so bothered when Noble Giraffe used to start threads , or when teachers went on strike.

In Ballymena we saw people putting flags up in their homes because they thought it would be targeted by violence. For some it didn't work. Others were spared. All have gone now.

Chicken pieces are getting more expensive in England as a result.

Remember I said about ex colleague who has remained living in Spain spouting immigration crap?

Now posted clip of Rylan with “love he had the guts to speak out”

Just defriended as I can’t bear to see it anymore.

@Saucery I know the cafe you mean, I was a bit surprised to see they had stuck that flag on the boarded up window. There is pub in the same town with huge Union Jacks hung over the pavement which I think could hit passers by if they were tall.

I'm sorry @itsgettingweird it is not nice to see people you were friendly with spouting this crap. I recently blocked my hairdresser who is now my ex-hairdresser 😅

Luckily I have found a really lovely new hairdresser.

Sadly that's the story of civil war.

I recently heard a bit about how Yugoslavia descended into hell, and it was lifelong neighbours turning on each other.

Angela Rayner has been accused of plotting a “chicken run” to a safer seat on the south coast after polls showed she was likely to lose to Nigel Farage’s party.

Richard Tice, Reform UK’s deputy leader, said the Housing Secretary was giving herself the “option” to flee the North by buying a home in ultra-safe Hove.

The Tories also suggested Ms Rayner might be laying the groundwork to abandon the North for the south coast ahead of the next election.

A series of recent polls have suggested that, if the next election were held now, the working-class seat which she has held since 2015 would fall to Reform.

Hove and Portslade, where she has bought her new flat, is, by contrast, a liberal enclave and one of the safest Labour constituencies in the country.

I've had to ditch my regular cat sitter because she's a hardcore out and proud Reform supporter.

Have been watching Miss Marple on BBC 4.50 From Paddington and came across this. Obviously a spoiler when the boys get into the garage to find the archery set. The woman in the picture is Lucy Eyelesbarrow, professional freelance housekeeper.

I think it's relevant for what may well happen if certain bedfellows, and they are mostly men, get together and bring about a hung parliament. Which is the plan of course.

I am very sure we won't end up like that.

Will you/did you vet your new cat sitter, in order to ensure compliance with your political leanings?

More Farage scumbags

Racist couple demand to know if British NHS nurse 'came here on a rubber boat' in furious attack as they walk dog in park

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15049341/Racist-couple-British-NHS-nurse-boat.html

My new cat sitter is someone I know very well - we got our cats from the same place. She's definitely not a Reform voting flag shagger, so all is well.

I can put my money wherever I want to...

My ex-hairdresser was a Tory, which ws fine. But she went down the anti-vax rabbit hole during the pandemic and is now a fervent Reform supporter and seems to have swallowed the great replacement stuff etc. whole.

I used to really like her.☹️