Thread 33 Starmer - Gerst Monath

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Someone is going to get killed before the year is out.

I don't think you are wrong.

But, but we're told Tommy isn't anti-Semitic so surely not🤷

That's appalling.

That poor little girl.

A long overdue change in my opinion. Much of historic Scottish law that I am aware of seems better than the law in England and Wales, this was one exception.

The Princess of Wales almost in the colour of Aston Villa.

The poor young girl.

Agree the need to put quotation marks
around things as if it’s just what’s said rather than a bloody obvious reaction is beyond me.

I agree that we are highly risking someone killed before the years out.

Private Eye 😂

Mason is so overrated.

😂😂😂

The last good political editor at the BBC was Andrew Marr.

This could explain Chris Mason

🚨 NEW: Britain’s most powerful people are still 5x more likely to have been privately educated than the general population.

Our brand-new research reveals that jobs in the media, business, charity, creative and public sectors remain dominated by those from private schools ⤵️🧵

https://bsky.app/profile/suttontrust.bsky.social/post/3lz3pyaao222o

As a society, the one thing we were totally unprepared for was annoying leftists being right.

I'm very surprised that the figures for the armed services are so high. I could understand officers maybe but squaddies?

full report
https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/elitist-britain-2025/

Thanks @DuncinToffee I was right - this number is for higher ranks only (found the below in the full report)

This list comprises generals of two-star rank and above from across the Ministry of Defence including the British Army, the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy and Strategic Command.

This is interesting, if only the media would take as much interest in Farage’s financial arrangements as they did in Angela Rayner’s 🙄

Well done the Senedd. Still above the national figure though. But it doesn’t buy privilege, I’m sure…

Completely left of field 😀but I* did find myself imagining a world where all of that dodgy Reform money was actually going towards keeping people smugglers in business ? I wonder how many of the "men in boats" could actually have come on a free pass from Reform ?

*And a collection of "AI" engines and prompts ....

The Northern Ireland Assembly may be 0%, but we need to factor in that most will have gone to faith based schools, so not integrated. Plus the 11+ still exists so there's a lot of Grammar Schools.

This doesn’t surprise me. Chris Mason aside, private schools have pretty explicit rules and leadership models from the outset and give children this as part of their offer. To say it’s an advantage is a massive understatement; it means anyone else is playing catch up as they learn far later what the preferred requirements are for these top jobs.

This won’t change until the education system for the state does.

I can't overstress how the world changes when you start looking at who benefits from they way things are.

Health ? Clearly not the patients.
Law and Order ? Clearly not the citizen.
Housing ? Clearly not the tenant.
Education? Clearly not the pupils.

Every step of the way, these institutions have evolved to ensure they deliver the best possible outcomes for the people who either run them, or own them.

But don't aks them to pay a bit more for the privilege

This is both amusing and rather sad as the Conservatives wake up to the fact that Boris Johnson was in fact the reason they have sunk to the depths of nowhere. Andrew Neill is on the money here, they should never have voted him in. He’s destroyed them and Farage will never let him into Reform.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-andrew-neil-tory-uk-state-visit-b2828961.html