Thread 37 Starmer: pinko commie slimeball

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Sorry, yes I gave a very poor explanation.

Our Home Secretary is something of political star. She seems genuinely brilliant to me in terms of handling these challenges that people throw at her. I admire her style even more after this debate

I agree with this, she is very good. She has a presence that other frontbenchers lack. It it is just a shame that her current policies are not what, IMHO, the Labour party should be about.

Preparing for 2026

Nice summary 😅

It's cold out today, brrr

This from Ian Dunts sums up my feelings

Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.

I looked up last night;s appearance, completely agree with you.

She has form as my search showed up a similar clash she had last month.

Obviously this would go unnoticed in the threads "about" the BBC-Trump kerfuffle, but posters here are less dim

An interesting suggestion that the BBC could possibly outsmart Trump and regain the initiative (by applying to a UK court for a Declaration of fact.). This would mean that with a case before a UK court, a US court would stay action.

This case will have to go to court because the BBC charter (as pointed out by DAG upthread, if I recall correctly) doesn't allow them to just pay out without oversight.

Today's 'obsessed with Reform'

The stupidity of Farage’s latest ‘plan’ is staggering.
Claiming they’d save British taxpayers money by ripping up international commitments and starting a trade war with Europe is the puerile foot-stamp of a party that uses prejudice as policy. Ruinous nonsense.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/17/reform-would-cut-benefits-and-hike-nhs-surcharge-for-eu-nationals

Looks like those pesky foreigners are going to walk to England now

We'll need a new thread. How about

Starmer - turn around, touch the ground and say three Hail Keirs

Credit to @PickAChew !

It's a turnaround jump shot
It's everybody jump start
Every generation throws a hero up the pop chart ?

(It's good to stand out in a crowd)

Takes a bow 🙏

There was a good title suggestion earlier in the thread as well, hamster tax.

We might have to put it to a vote

I wanted tax the hamster…

I love tax the hamster.

This is welcome

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77z2l3yzl8o

Reselling tickets to live events for a profit is set to be banned by the government.
Ministers are expected to announce the plan in a bid to tackle touts and resale sites which offer tickets at several times' face value.

I am on team Tax the Hamster.

I am humming that to the tune of 'stop the pigeon'

On the subject of the BBC I came across this fab ad from 1985 on Facebook. People should think on x and the BBC does far more now than it did then (had to hunt it down on YouTube because I couldn’t get the Fb link to work here)

I'm not that impressed. Why does the government get to say what you can - and cannot - do with your own property ? You would have thought the reformistas would have been all over this.

If a band or artist really wanted to prevent ticket resale then there are already mechanisms in place. Having seen them twice in very efficient operation at gigs over 8 years ago.

Of course the industries dirty little secret is that for all their supposed "status" artists like Taylor Swift are pawns to their management and that is that.

That being said, I've probably seen all he best music anyway 😎

What attracts people to Reform 🤔

Reform’s £25bn p/a savings plan. A theme emerges:

• ending foreign aid
• increase immigration health surcharge paid by foreigners
• deport foreign criminals
• end UC payments to foreign nationals

They're gonna need a bigger bus ...

Stop picking on us hamsters!

Tiny Tommy is happy with the immigration proposals and tells ‘patriots’ they did a good job getting this.
Says it all 😞

Ah, we are back. X going down whilst the release the Epstein files vote is going on was too good to be true.

Tommeh will jump on any bandwagon, don't give him attention.