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

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That too!

I will bring up Brexit at the next meeting. It's key for a lot of voters in the area.

ECHR is probably also on the radar.

Expect to hear little about small boat crossing at the moment.

28-day averages are falling again and are the lowest since early June this year also lower than any other year in the last 5 years other than 2023.

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https://bsky.app/profile/warrenoates1.bsky.social/post/3m4ja6mstc22p

Where's Nigel when you need him?

Meanwhile the BBC totally ignore the Government's latest so called 'scandal' regarding Reeves and concentrate on:

Hurricane Melissa, which hit Jamaica three days ago and the devastating effects. No mention of global warming as a significant difference to the category 5 storm.

A disgraceful 6 months prison sentence for an ex sergeant major who committed sexual assault on a young female army officer who later took her own life. Jaysley Beck RIP.

Oh and a paedophile sexual abuser who was formally known as a Prince on where he's going to live.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly2w8e7gngt

Where's Nigel when you need him?

Nigel uber alles ?

Hoping stories like this go away

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/01/reform-a-russian-spy-and-the-bribes-the-inside-story-of-nathan-gill

I'm not so sure.

As time goes on, Reform are simply becoming Yet Another Political Party. And that isn't their schtick is it ? Because - whisper it - political parties ultimately need votes.

It can't be stressed enough that for a party that whines like a teenager denied a McFlurry about voting reform, the lack of Reforms top tier (or indeed any tier) members in the All Party Parliamentary Group that will be driving electoral reform is telling.

The very last thing they want is PR. Which is one of the best reasons we should now have it.

If we are to be ruled by an elite then at least make them work for it by having to capture a spread of parties to get their way. It's become too easy to snap up a single party that then goes on to rule. And as the Tories show, selling your soul never works out well in the long run.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/reform-losing-councillors-at-unusual-rate

Reform UK has lost more than 5 per cent of the councillors it had elected six months ago, an analysis by PoliticsHome has found.

Talking of Reform Councillors 😂

He looks like someone in a borrowed suit about to make a court appearance.

Someone commented that it looked like his mum had bought him a suit at ASDA to look smart for his work experience 🤣

Reform - the enemy within.

Can I respectfully urge any literate MNetters to refrain from any puerile attempt at mixing up this young gentlemans name with anagrams or quasi spoonerisms. Like a reform supporters IQ, it's beneath us.

Is this the chappie who wrote a whiny letter to the government asking them to change the rules because otherwise they were unable to deliver a unicorn per white person in the town.

I may have lost interest part way through.

God love him, he is a bit clueless. He is crowing on his FB page about the Thanet result. Look at that turnout. 21%!

Eta: image didn't attach, but he posted the returning officer's statement which showed the turnout.

Jane, no that was the 18 year old council leader.

He did pose as a “passer by” on GB News

www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/10/15/gb-news-interviews-reform-councillor/

I am looking forward to seeing the candidates Reform dish up for us here in Wales.

Another concerned citizen filming brown people and the DM fanning the flames

FFS Daily Mail No - the school classrooms were NOT used to teach “adult migrants”
Your own article explains this TWICE - and yet your headline…?🙄

I covered this yesterday in a thread when it was just RW accounts lying on Twitter Now the DM are on it, let’s go again!
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:uxg2d3knt2sk5f52binuyuow/post/3m4ktlqh6cc2r

This really grinds my gears. They say they would be fine with migrants who assimilate and 'learn the language'. They don't mean it.

I was behind two flag shaggers conversing loudly in Sainsbury's just now. One said he'd tell his neighbours to fuck off if they complained about his flags for 'Poppy Day'. He wasn't wearing a poppy. He said 'and anyway, of course, the other week was the 220th anniversary of Trafalgar and we should be celebrating these things' . I mean-seriously - who even knows that??!

I thought everyone did - it’s the 210th anniversary of. Waterloo this year. 😂

Andrea Jenkyns is considering scrapping English lessons for foreign nationals as is Kent council

I know the year but not the week!!

I take it he knows the complement of the Victory ? It wasn't quite the monoculture the Refromistyas wank themselves silly over.

You couldn’t make it up. Why are they so intent on demonstrating what a bunch of fuckwits they are?