Thread 35 Starmer: Old and smelling of roses

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What an absolute idiot. Does he really think Westminster is going to change the rules at his request, to the detriment of children?

He needs to do some brisk walking back to school himself.

Same with my son. He's especially bad with animals and smells.

Transport is fine so long as it's reliable and straightforward. I'm always on standby when he travels.

Does he want to introduce the Ministry of Silly Walks? Bet that was on his mind.

Backatcha

Most of the kids I know attending SN schools - I know a lot - are travelling 45-60 minutes to get there. Very few have the cognitive ability to travel distances safely.

So how many are within any kind of safe walking distance FFS?

I swear some councils don’t want parents of disabled kids in work and paying tax.

Stupid boy.

Zarah Sultana is calling for the UK to withdraw from NATO

Reform UK would let ministers ignore international law, Kruger says

Party’s Doge chief says he would cut civil service and close six government offices – most of which are already closing

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/28/reform-uk-let-ministers-ignore-international-law-danny-kruger

We’re just going to have to pray for that “incredibly incoherent coalition” I guess.

John Crace is on it

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/28/reform-wheels-out-danny-kruger-brains-nigel-farage-operation

Posters on MN were claiming it too

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr16vjk8zlo
Brigitte Macron's daughter has told a court in Paris that sexist cyber-bullying negatively affected her mother's health and living conditions.

They were.

It is all a bit toxic on here today. Maybe the clocks going back fucked up the security gates at the bigot farm or something.

It always is when it comes to asylum seekerrs, posters are getting bolder with their racism though.

Not just me then. The whole tone has been really tetchy the last couple of days.

It has. We've got Farage stirring the pot with his daily bloody press conferences. The media is dripping daily fear about the budget. I think it all contributes to winding people up.

Yep.

She can get right into room 101 with Master Finch.

😆

Sultana is going off the rails...

https://bsky.app/profile/iandunt.bsky.social/post/3m4b7is23c225

She has totally lost the plot.

And now, the monkey apocalypse...

Tyler King
‪@tyleraking.com‬
A truckload of rhesus monkeys from Tulane university escaped after a crash. The university warned they’re highly aggressive toward humans and infected with hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID.

Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi.

Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.

https://buff.ly/16gTRJa

Is this how Planet of the Apes begins for real?

Tom Reagan’s Hat‬ ‪@rufustsuperfly.bsky.social‬
In 2025, a monkey commando unit was sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit. These monkeys promptly escaped from a truck to the Mississippi underground. Now, they survive as monkeys of fortune. If you’ve a problem, if no one else can help & if you can find them, maybe you can hire The M-Team.

28 days later.