Thread 32 Starmer - Corn Moon

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

Taxes optional but greatly appreciated.

Previous thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5402603-thread-31-starmer-september-rain?page=40&reply=146949615

It may take 1,000 years to "restore" the climate. (And that's before we ask "to where" ?)

Much better to look what you can do in 10. Better flood defences. Better water management. Managing and preventing soil erosion.

(All of which would be much easier if we hadn't generated 8 billion people all expecting more and more every Christmas.)

Don't worry I'll be dead soon. Someone else can pick it up.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/11/labour-mp-sharon-hodgson-office-suspected-arson-attack

Shocking images and a young man in his 20s.

I do see where you're coming from.

Oh, this update from the Guardian says:

Graffiti on the side of the building reads “328 days blood on your hands”, although it is believed to have been there for as long as a year.

So not 328 days ago from today and nothing to do with the arsonist.

Yes, but the clue is in Wikipedia

'Hodgson is a vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel.'

She is really pretty left wing so I can't see any other issue in the timeframe that would be highlighted by graffiti and arson.

Which explains why I am less of a fan of all the "investment" that has gone into peoples pockets, with very little to show for it right now. Everything is "on the horizon" in the same way it's been "around the corner" since I was (checks notes) watching Tomorrow World with Raymond Baxter.

All those people that were openly scoffing at ecology in the 60s and 70s very quietly bought into it in the 80s to be able to harvest the open wallets that well meaning greenies were trampling each other underfoot to proffer in penance.

Bit weird to have left that graffiti, you'd think they would have removed it.

This was in reply to Pandora's comment that it had been there for a year, forgot to quote

Labour Friends of Israel support a a 2 state solution that includes Palestine. It's either a red herring or whoever has been harassing her is an idiot.

Carbon capture can get in the bin as far as I'm concerned. It doesn't work.

Once again we seem to be meeting somewhere ....

Had the front of our house grafitti'd a few years ago and a few other minor 'attacks' - told by the police to leave it as removing it would just encourage more scribbles. No more appeared so maybe they were correct

Yes I know. I really hope the arson was nothing to do with it.

Graffiti near crime scenes ?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulston_Street_graffito

An idiot who will thankfully be going away for a long time, whatever the motive for the attack.

Possibly.

However, if you read into this group further , questions have been raised. It is certainly possible that this graffiti relates to her membership.

Do definitely not want to start debating Labour and Israel/ Palestine here , though. Aside from this this it's all conjecture, anyway, obviously.

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Have a nice news story as a present

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