Thread 34 Starmer - Conference Swanwiches and a Deputy Leader contest

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https://www.london.gov.uk/london-meets-legal-limits-toxic-no2-pollution-first-time-almost-200-years-earlier-predicted

Excellent news. Cleaner air and 200 years ahead of the target. I have to say that it's very noticeable when visiting London.

In shocking: "most people want to eat competitively priced, good quality fresh food and don't care where it comes from or what Nigel Farage thinks" news.

https://bsky.app/profile/dphinnemore.bsky.social/post/3m2bhaxzshk2s

link to article
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-want-nigel-farage-step-away-from-brexit-shredder-agri-food-deal/

Sarah Mullally announced as new Archbishop of Canterbury

The Bishop of London will replace Justin Welby and be the first woman to take the role in its 1,400-year history

Is that likely to cause problems abroad ? (I don't really follow Anglicanism ....)

No idea, but she is good at 'firsts'

In 1999 she became the youngest ever chief nursing officer for England.

She must have had 2/3 majority of the total number of voting members of the CNC - doesn’t mean there won’t be push back from some quarters though.

I was the first girl to serve in my local church back in the early 1980s. There were a handful of complaints. My grandmother & friends flocked to attend that Friday!

I don't care if it causes problems. The Anglican community in parts of Africa enthusiastically support the persecution of LGBT people, so they can just schism and fuck off. Good for the C of E taking this step.

A fond goodbye to Patricia Routledge and all her wonderful performances over the years. A very brilliant woman.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Q20sAXiMs

@bombastix a truly remarkable actress, I will never forget her Alan Bennett monologue Lady of Letters. She appeared on the VE 80 Commemoration and was still very “with it” despite being such an amazing age.

Perfection

Great actress and enjoyed watching everything she was in. Dame Patricia leaves a fantastic legacy. RIP.

Agree her performance was sheer perfection, RIP Patricia.

Isn’t it wonderful that all her performances survive? A life well lived.

Baroness Mone hits out at Kemi Badenoch over PPE VIP lanes:

‘I acted no differently than Matt Hancock who referred 4 companies…
And let’s not forget Michael Gove & his referral of 4 contracts to his friend David Meller’

https://bsky.app/profile/vicderbyshire.bsky.social/post/3m2c6lbl4pc2m

So the fact that everyone else was giving their mates dodgy contracts makes it OK then?

I really think that politicians of all parties should be held to higher ethical standards.

Cry me a river.

Mone’s comms over the last week have been inadvertently hilarious IMO.
Very revealing.

She's clearly hoping to take others down with her. Shows the measure of the woman.

I hope she is only the beginning.

Let's hope she does. The just because they were MPs it doesn't excuse their corruption.

I love this.

It’s like when you tell a kid off for talking in the classroom. The first response is often ‘I wasn’t the only one. He was talking too but you haven’t told him off. It’s not fair’. No consideration that they’ve done something they shouldn’t have. With children it’s a learning curve. Mone clearly never did the learning.

My mum was the first female lifetime member of the lifeguards club!!!