Thread 33 Starmer - Gerst Monath

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I am very sorry to hear about your cat, must be such a worry

Oh that’s so difficult. One of mine used to wander and it’s a terrible worry. A friends was returned due to the chip after 6 months, so don’t lose hope.

Sorry to read that. I had a cat who liked to wander for long periods and he was a real worry. Will keep my fingers crossed your cat turns up soon.

So all those Reform voters are voting ex Cons?
Sarah Pochin- Con
Nadine DOrries- Con
Lee ANderson - Lab/ Con
Danny Kruger- Con
Richard Tice- was he a Con donor(?)
Maria Caulfield - Con
Anne Widdicome- Con
Who else? I know there are a few councillors

Last night the Govt rejected all Lord’s amendments which were set to water down the Employment Rights Bill.

Unions have welcomed that Labour "stood firm" as MPs rejected all of the Lords’ opposition amendments, which would have (among other things) kept most zero-hours contracts. Back to the Lords.

https://bsky.app/profile/josiah.writes.news/post/3lywxv544sc2r

Yes, so annoying to be allergic, we have Guinea pigs and I'm allergic to them as well but we only found out post buying then so have had to create an elaborate outdoor area but also build a shed for them. They often run around freely in the garden but sadly one went missing and we never found out what happened to it. She was quite old and slow so DH thinks maybe a bird of prey as we are near a woods with owls.

Jake Berry

I would need to do a search, Sky News mentioned the 13th ex-Tory but didn't provide a list.

So sorry to hear that.😞

Less than 2 weeks ago

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/nadine-dorries-reform-uk-defection-who-defected-b1246131.html

Ooh I forgot about JB.

My lovely boy used to disappear for weeks and then just show up. Terribly worrying 😔 💐

Oh, I am so sorry, that is heartbreaking 💔

He/she could still turn up though.

I am so sorry.
My wobbly one did a disappearance 4 years ago. He came back after 48 hours. It made me get a catio. The worry is awful.

@takingcareofme2023 I'm sorry about your cat. It's awful when something happens to our pets. Just because they don't look like us, it doesn't mean we love them less.

Thank you so much everyone for your love and understanding xxx

Thanks for the new thread!

Andrea Jenkyns 🤮

Me too. I'd be heartbroken if Tolkien or little Tennyson were missing. 😢

The ex Tory MP's

Maria Caulfiel, Danny Kruger, Andrea Jenkyns, Aidan Burley, Alan Amos, Nadine Dorries, David Jones, Sir Jake Berry, Graham Simpson, Adam Holloway ,Anne Marie Morris, Marco Longhi, Ross Thomson, Lee Anderson

And a lot more ex tory councillors

Keir Starmer tells his Cabinet that scenes of police under attack at a march "led by a convicted criminal and egged on by a foreign billionaire calling for violence" sent "a chill through the spines" of British people.

Says UK in "the fight of our times" against "toxic division" and "we must win"

In fairness to Badenoch, none of those are great losses to the Conservative party.

Robert Redford has died - amazing Actor and many of integrity. When my Dad, who is 80, recently visited us, he wanted to watch All The Presidents Men with my late teen DS, a great film but quite telling how DS thought the scandal to be quite tame compared to today's politics!

Man not "many"🙄

I watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid a few weeks ago. So sad to hear that. 😪

All the Presidents Men is great too.

That is sad news.

He liked black cats