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

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DuncinToffee · 29/10/2025 22:12

Pull up a chair for some friendly chit chat about politics, cats, dogs and much more

Taxes optional but greatly appreciated.

Previous thread

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

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placemats · 05/11/2025 16:49

BIWI · 05/11/2025 16:31

What’s going on with all the deletions? Are we fighting on our ‘own’ thread now?!

Come on. it’s bad enough going to the other thread to stir things up - which we deride them for doing - without starting here.

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.

Saucery · 05/11/2025 16:53

bombastix · 05/11/2025 16:43

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 🙄

DuncinToffee · 05/11/2025 17:01

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

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PandoraSocks · 05/11/2025 17:06

placemats · 05/11/2025 16:49

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.

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

PandoraSocks · 05/11/2025 17:08

Enough mumsnet for me for now, I think!

DuncinToffee · 05/11/2025 17:08

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!”

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dontcallmelen · 05/11/2025 17:09

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

dontcallmelen · 05/11/2025 17:11

Aren’t they both a delight.

Saucery · 05/11/2025 17:13

Citizen Smith is on TV right now. I feel Seen Grin Grin

Saucery · 05/11/2025 17:14

PandoraSocks · 05/11/2025 17:08

Enough mumsnet for me for now, I think!

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

SerendipityJane · 05/11/2025 17:14

DuncinToffee · 05/11/2025 17:01

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

UK news: oh shit

UK News! Oh Sh*t! They said what? With Nish Kumar and Alice Fraser

The Bugle turns 18 — and we’re not done celebrating yet! In Part 2 of our birthday special, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Alice Fraser and Nish Kumar to take a ...

https://youtu.be/Xw5KRBieECc

ilovesooty · 05/11/2025 17:14

PandoraSocks · 05/11/2025 16:03

I actually fit all those categories (well ex civil servant) plus I am self employed. What a conundrum!

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

Saucery · 05/11/2025 17:17

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.

PandoraSocks · 05/11/2025 17:18

Saucery · 05/11/2025 17:14

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

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!

dontcallmelen · 05/11/2025 17:24

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

Saucery · 05/11/2025 17:27

dontcallmelen · 05/11/2025 17:24

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> Wink

dontcallmelen · 05/11/2025 17:30

Saucery · 05/11/2025 17:27

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

😂

Notonthestairs · 05/11/2025 17:44

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.

Notonthestairs · 05/11/2025 17:50

DuncinToffee · 05/11/2025 17:01

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

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.

Notonthestairs · 05/11/2025 17:53

DuncinToffee · 05/11/2025 14:30

As context to freeing of an Algerian man, here's some info about HMP Wandsworth, where he was:

• Built for 900 prisoners. Holds 1,600.
• Daily roster of prison officers c.70. Up to 15 staff on long-term sick leave.
• 36% of officers have >3yrs service.
• 12% of prison staff leave each year. *

Latter stats are for wider prison service, so likely to be worse in a v challenging prison like Wandsworth.

Basically, the entire prison service is a mess, and has been for years.

https://bsky.app/profile/peterwalker99.bsky.social/post/3m4va2k7nic26

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

Wandsworth prison.jpg

The crisis in prisons | Institute for Government

How to start fixing the problems at the heart of the criminal justice system.

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/crisis-prisons

DuncinToffee · 05/11/2025 17:54

PandoraSocks · 05/11/2025 17:18

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

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

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DuncinToffee · 05/11/2025 17:55

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.

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placemats · 05/11/2025 18:07

Saucery · 05/11/2025 17:17

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.

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.

Notonthestairs · 05/11/2025 18:09

DuncinToffee · 05/11/2025 17:55

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.

“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

David Henig (@davidheniguk.bsky.social)

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://www.polit...

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

BestIsWest · 05/11/2025 18:32

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.

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