Thread 33 Starmer - Gerst Monath

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For someone who claims to be bankrupt he certainly has a lot of cash to splash on international trips doesnt he.

It says a lot when even Colombia won't allow him entry 🤣

Man who wants strong borders to keep out undesirables outraged to learn other countries have strong borders to keep out undesirables...

Just had to share this!

https://bsky.app/profile/marcofoster.bsky.social/post/3lz6zi22zfk2c

@MaybeNotBob 🤣 my son sent me this one earlier with Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOyWlX-jQN7/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

Back from my demo. Apparently we have fair weather fascists around here as hardly any turned out, plus they were vastly outnumbered at another one yesterday apparently. Poor dabs are all demoralised. Heavy police presence though. Encouragingly several cars beeped support as they passed and only one shouted about Tommy Ten Names.

Good news, Cardibach. Well done for going.

That's encouraging for next Saturday. What did you write on the poster?

A very good suggestion on the News Quiz that from now on the St. Georges flag and Union Jack flag should be the flag of choice for Pride marches up and down the country.

I can get behind that.

I like that idea.

That’s brilliant!!!

well done cardi and let’s hope all racists are fair weather and will go quiet for a while!

I didn’t have one, but I got one from the NEU which said ‘Educators against the Far Right’. I was taken with another woman’s yhough. She had a pic of her dad in uniform and it said ‘Me and my dad, fighting fascists since 1939’

Woody Guthrie had "This machine kills fascists" on his gee-tar

and ... it would be pants wettingly funny if it turned out property values in falggy places were adversely affected by the trend ...

They couldn't get much lower than they already are in parts of East Durham.

Yes, I did find myself wondering how many flags are going up in Kensington ...

Funny that, where the flags are, and aren’t.

It would be an interesting exercise to overlay such a map onto the Royalist and Parliamentary divisions of the 17th century.

I suspect - as with Brexit - there will be an interesting intersection,

Oh ffs.
Cardiff has its first Reform councillor
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/reform-uk-first-cardiff-councillor-32508911?utm_term=Autofeed&utmmedium=Social&utmsource=Threads%23Echobox%3D1758335921#

We have one in Swansea too after a Tory defected to Reform. I wasn’t surprised.

Starmer is expected to announce that the UK is recognising the state of Palestine tomorrow afternoon

Better late than never I suppose.

Farron drapes himself in flag as Lib Dems seek to reclaim patriotism - BBC News https://share.google/L7jzF4tVhDYlOR5jY

I am so frustrated by HQ's failure to act on so many blatant racist and Islamophobic threads on this site. The things posters write about Sadiq Khan, the lies about London,the frequent use of words like 'indigenous', the urging of others to watch banned content. It feels like someone has to totally jump the shark before HQ reacts.

Sorry, just ranting.
HQ have got fed up of me reporting , I think.

I avoided most racist threads yesterday. Just posted on one this morning and my reply has been hidden?
It wasn’t directed at anyone and wasn’t offensive, imo of course, just a post on similarities of SYL and Frog.
Never had this before so I wondered?