Thread 36 Starmer - Triggered by ads and Da iawn, Caerffili.

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Previous thread

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5427394-thread-35-starmer-old-and-smelling-of-roses?page=40&reply=148165782

I happened to go on the now old other thread regarding some issues about posters posting here last night.

I made a sarcastic post but it was interpreted wrongly and have since apologised, which has been accepted and all is fine. Then got caught up in Xmas recipe suggestions, which got liked.

Apparently someone who posts on this thread took it upon themselves to warn me and then reported. Not the op.

Anyway no hard feelings.

The Reform-voting son of another resident said any move would “kill” his mother, and vowed to quit the party if the closures went ahead.
Voter for Leopards Eating Faces Party shocked when…….etc etc 🙄

The vetting process is still going strong as well

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/nigel-farages-chosen-reform-mayoral-candidate-suggested-black-britons-cant-be-english/

Nigel Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English

The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ and attacked ‘third world cultures’ in now-deleted posts

If you mean me, I didn't report anything, Placemats.

Enough mumsnet for me for now, I think!

And a lovely Tory councillor as well

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/conservative-councillor-accused-of-old-fashioned-racism-after-saying-young-black-males-are-flooding-the-uk/

In her Facebook post endorsing his petition, she wrote: “If you want mass deportation of illegals in dinghies sign this petition! We cannot sustain the volume of young black males flooding our country. It jeopardises the security of our country and is slowly bankrupting us!”

I thought the chap in the background of the Lancashire photo was Les Dennis.

Aren’t they both a delight.

Citizen Smith is on TV right now. I feel Seen

Oh don’t go @PandoraSocks ! That’s just what our lovely Monitors want, arguing amongst ourselves

UK news: oh shit

I'm self employed and I'm a member of two unions.

I’m in an education Union. I’d be a fool not to be tbh. Never stood round a brazier in my life though, more’s the pity.

Just having a break. But very pissed off to be falsely blamed for reporting a comrade 😁. I am sure who ever did report will be pleased!

I’m in receipt of the much hated on MN PiP, was always a fully paid up member of a union whilst working wasn’t a CS employed with LA/Homeless Charity did quite a few secondments in womens prisons also did a stint in a children's home. So probably makes me a raging pinko commie slime-ball

Yeah, get you, devoting your working life to helping people. <tut>

😂

Jesus wept, stop engaging with goady twattery. The more sincere you are, the more they want to provoke you.
Call it what it is - a fucking weird obsession for some posters.

Exactly the same crap posted by many MNers over the weekend.
If you can't trace your lineage back to 1600 you wont be loyal to the Crown or some such batshittery. A slap in the face for anyone not white and serving in the armed forces or emergency services.

A reminder of the state of the prisons last year -
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/crisis-prisons

I didn't read it as being you or any of the regulars on this thread,

It's not all about you Pandora, tut tut 😂

US blackmailing the UK

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-pharma-to-abandon-uk-unless-nhs-pays-more-says-us-ambassador-warren-stephens-eli-lilly/

US pharma to abandon UK unless NHS pays more, says Trump’s ambassador

Britain has offered to increase the threshold at which the NHS pays firms for medicines. Pharma firms want the government to go further.

I have given a thumbs up to the firefighters on strike standing around a brazier and a horn beep. Was on a roundabout at that time and the beeps were in unison.

United we stand, divided we fall.

“In normal circumstances the attempt by the US to extort an allied country directly and via large companies would be a major political scandal. It isn't because the US is using such mob tactics on all other countries. We all lose out.”

https://bsky.app/profile/davidheniguk.bsky.social/post/3m4vmg5qb5c2r

Retired Civil servant (the first and last 5 years of my working life anyway) and trade union branch secretary here. It was a bloody good place to work and worthwhile.