Thread 34 Starmer - Conference Swanwiches and a Deputy Leader contest

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I don't wear any either. Might just get noise cancelling earphones instead.

Poison was awful. I did like Opium back in my gothy days.

Well this I good news. And here’s me being told left right and centre that Labour policies are destroying the economy…
UK will be second-fastest-growing G7 economy, IMF predicts https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn092p27xn0o

Is that before or after the IMF bailout

Oh I’m sure there’s a metric somewhere that can be used to show it’s all terrible.

Well, it's second not first.....

The main talking point from the Covid Inquiry today seems to be chaos

Anyone surprised?

But the economy’s tanked. 🥴

That’s what I thought I’d heard. It’s all terribly confusing.

I expect we’re too old (and smelly) to understand.

Inflation is still very high, that will be the lines of attack.

IMF did mention Brexit uncertainty

We will be needing a new thread title soon, suggestions welcome!

There's a thread title in all this somewhere. Starmer: Old and smelling of roses

I love that. It gets my vote. 🌹

Has everyone seen the new support reaction, the flowers?

MN is not planning to bring back the laughing reaction.

Yes. I think it could be misused by idiots, but we'll see!

I would have thought much less likely to be misused. But I’d imagine that MNHQ will be monitoring it, after all the hooha with the laughter one.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/his-numbers-dont-add-up-jeremy-clarkson-launches-furious-attack-on-nigel-farage_uk_68eca7cbe4b04c87b806dc55

Bloody Clarkson - always thought he was a woke lefty bastard.🤣

New thread suggestion: Starmer: New smelly fragrance. Autumnal leaves.

Was that before you learned that it was now scanning faces in your uploaded photos to "help" you organise them ?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/microsoft_face_grouping_ondrive/

I may upload a picture of my mum.

I think Clarkson is much closer to Sierra Man than any Reform types. In the same vein, I really think Basil Fawlty - despite initial impressions - would have little truck with extremists.

John Cleese has given full support for Carole Cadwalladr on xitter regarding the investigation into Forages relationship with Nathan Gill and the Russian connection bribes.

I see Edward Leigh subtly gave Badenoch/the Tories a telling off.

Edward Leigh, the Conservative father of the house, says he would like to hear the Commons united in saying they are “completely committed to creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank”. He says that is the “God-given right” of Palestinians.
Leigh is making a point about his own party, which opposed the government’s decision to recognise the state of Palestine and which only seems to show limited interest in the two-state solution.

I have met Leigh a few times. Obviously he is not my cup of tea politically, but he was always decent and polite and concerned about the mental health impact of rosacea, especially in younger people, which he has. People who don't know him make the assumption that he is a massive drinker. I always feel the need to defend him on that!