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Labour isn't working - Thread 7

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TheNuthatch · 03/09/2025 17:31

A chat thread for those who don't like this Labour government.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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Arrearing50 · 10/09/2025 07:40

Oh I hope they do go for BP - she’s got no warmth. Streeting is perhaps the only one that has a glint of it, the rest of them are all ‘line up and take your punishment you deserve it’ like 1950s school headmasters.

EasternStandard · 10/09/2025 07:59

Starmer, Reeves, Phillipson what a depressing lot they are.

EmpressoftheMundane · 10/09/2025 08:43

twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 07:24

I hate to bang on about how much I loathe and detest her, just in case it wasn't obvious 🤣BUT she has yet again cone out with a chippy sentence of "I took on vested interest lobby groups and won" 😡
By "vested interests lobby groups" she means parents! Parents of children in independent schools, many with SEND kids. So she means she took on a a portion of the electorate who pay her fucking wages!! How the fuck is she allowed to say that, yet alone boast about it!
She is basically sticking 2 fingers up at the people she's meant to represent.

The woman is a disgrace. Oh and she's hardly WC, her Dad was an MP, she went to an all girls Catholic school ie best in the region and then went to Oxford.

The virtue signalling is horrific.

End of rant 🤪

Edited

So she is effectively cos-playing as working class. I heard her described as growing up in s council street. Whatever that means.

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twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 08:57

EmpressoftheMundane · 10/09/2025 08:43

So she is effectively cos-playing as working class. I heard her described as growing up in s council street. Whatever that means.

Yeh wtf is a "council street"?? 🙄

EmpressoftheMundane · 10/09/2025 08:57

How do you know her dad was an mp? I cannot find a trace of her dad online.

Liker · 10/09/2025 08:59

Poor old Starmer, he's not having a very good week. First Rayner, now Mandelson - so much Labour sleaze and corruption.

After 14 months of Labour chaos and corruption, I am longing to have the grown-ups back in charge. To fix the foundations. To plan for change to change Labour's Plan For Change 😉

twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 09:00

EmpressoftheMundane · 10/09/2025 08:57

How do you know her dad was an mp? I cannot find a trace of her dad online.

And isn't that suspicious in itself???
Yes he was an MP but he left her mum and has seemingly been scrubbed from the Internet

twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 09:01

EmpressoftheMundane · 10/09/2025 08:57

How do you know her dad was an mp? I cannot find a trace of her dad online.

Her dad is Fraser Kemp former MP for Houghton and Washington East the same constituency Bridget is now the MP for

GabrielsOboe · 10/09/2025 09:06

twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 07:24

I hate to bang on about how much I loathe and detest her, just in case it wasn't obvious 🤣BUT she has yet again cone out with a chippy sentence of "I took on vested interest lobby groups and won" 😡
By "vested interests lobby groups" she means parents! Parents of children in independent schools, many with SEND kids. So she means she took on a a portion of the electorate who pay her fucking wages!! How the fuck is she allowed to say that, yet alone boast about it!
She is basically sticking 2 fingers up at the people she's meant to represent.

The woman is a disgrace. Oh and she's hardly WC, her Dad was an MP, she went to an all girls Catholic school ie best in the region and then went to Oxford.

The virtue signalling is horrific.

End of rant 🤪

Edited

Yes, she’s another non-entity stuffed blouse,
who just loves a bandwagon…

Mediocre and instantly forgettable.

GabrielsOboe · 10/09/2025 09:08

EasternStandard · 10/09/2025 07:59

Starmer, Reeves, Phillipson what a depressing lot they are.

Artificial without the intelligence…

Absentmindedsmile · 10/09/2025 09:10

twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 09:01

Her dad is Fraser Kemp former MP for Houghton and Washington East the same constituency Bridget is now the MP for

Ooo I think more background digging is needed on Bridget Phillipson.. come on daily mail , it’s what you do best (well that and making lots of money)

NoWordForFluffy · 10/09/2025 09:10

twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 08:57

Yeh wtf is a "council street"?? 🙄

One with an adopted highway? I.e. most streets! 🤷‍♀️

twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 09:12

NoWordForFluffy · 10/09/2025 09:10

One with an adopted highway? I.e. most streets! 🤷‍♀️

🤣

twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 09:14

Her dad basically left them, had a family with someone else and sent those children to independent schools. Guess where Bigot's resentment and hatred of independent schools comes from.........
Whilst she "suffered" by living a decent life at a decent school etc

NoWordForFluffy · 10/09/2025 09:17

twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 09:14

Her dad basically left them, had a family with someone else and sent those children to independent schools. Guess where Bigot's resentment and hatred of independent schools comes from.........
Whilst she "suffered" by living a decent life at a decent school etc

Jesus. That's a lot to untangle in therapy!

twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 09:17

But it's highly suspicious that in the age of the t'internet that there's so little info about her father or indeed her family.

Barbadossunset · 10/09/2025 09:19

twistyizzy · Today 09:14
Her dad basically left them, had a family with someone else and sent those children to independent schools

That’s interesting and as pp have said, explains a lot.

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 10/09/2025 09:23

Are we quite sure about Fraser Kemp being BP’s father?

I remember him vaguely - not that that’s got anything to do with the fact or otherwise of whether he’s the dad.

But is there an impeccable source for this information? It just seems so odd that the connection has been so effectively erased.

twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 09:27

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 10/09/2025 09:23

Are we quite sure about Fraser Kemp being BP’s father?

I remember him vaguely - not that that’s got anything to do with the fact or otherwise of whether he’s the dad.

But is there an impeccable source for this information? It just seems so odd that the connection has been so effectively erased.

Yes BUT the fathers name has been scrubbed from her birth certificate. If you Google Claire Phillipson + Fraser Kemp then lots of things have been scrubbed. That's what I said before, she has obviously had a lot of family information scrubbed!
Journos have gone as far as looking on Ancestry but there is nothing! That's how they found out about her father being removed from birth certificate.
Get a photo and put them side by side though.
Someone has gone to a lot of effort to remove much of her family info from the Internet.

GabrielsOboe · 10/09/2025 09:30

Meanwhile, if Mandy now admits there is more embarrassing Epstein related material to come out concerning their relationship, it must be bloody bad…

GabrielsOboe · 10/09/2025 09:32

Barbadossunset · 10/09/2025 09:19

twistyizzy · Today 09:14
Her dad basically left them, had a family with someone else and sent those children to independent schools

That’s interesting and as pp have said, explains a lot.

Yes, including the massive chip on her shoulder.

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 10/09/2025 09:33

twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 09:27

Yes BUT the fathers name has been scrubbed from her birth certificate. If you Google Claire Phillipson + Fraser Kemp then lots of things have been scrubbed. That's what I said before, she has obviously had a lot of family information scrubbed!
Journos have gone as far as looking on Ancestry but there is nothing! That's how they found out about her father being removed from birth certificate.
Get a photo and put them side by side though.
Someone has gone to a lot of effort to remove much of her family info from the Internet.

I’m inclined to think the question remains open. I would find it incredible if journalists or interviewers hadn’t put this to her. The remarkable fact of representing the same constituency would on its own make this worth asking about.

Absentmindedsmile · 10/09/2025 09:36

If that’s her dad that is a blatant display of wilful non disclosure!? See photo and her words

Labour isn't working - Thread 7
twistyizzy · 10/09/2025 09:51

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 10/09/2025 09:33

I’m inclined to think the question remains open. I would find it incredible if journalists or interviewers hadn’t put this to her. The remarkable fact of representing the same constituency would on its own make this worth asking about.

That's fair enough but trust me some journos have looked into it. I accept that without concrete evidence it's un provable. She has come under very little scrutiny so far and has flown under the radar.

Lutonsgirl · 10/09/2025 09:52

I don't think a name can be removed from a birth certificate and I think we should be careful,...there seems to be no truth to this claim.

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