Thread 39 Starmer: chwech/saith - dechreuodd y plant ei

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Political and general chat

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@DuncinToffee I would have thought what that GB News presenter said was a police matter.

A variant on the right wing theme that Sunak can’t be English.

Very interested in his rejection of lobbying by foreign powers.

Presumably that includes a) Russia and b) the pleading for Trump to get involved in the UK.

🤣

as is this

And it’s too cold to stand outside asylum seekers’ accommodation.

And the flags have been replaced by Christmas lights. They can't even whine that it's banned.

🤣

Unfortunately flags still around my area, but they are along roads and at roundabout posts so weren’t replaced by anything for Remembrance or now for Christmas. it has been heartening talk to people usually older (just the demographic that used buses and say hello.)

Most don’t support the flags or the sentiment at all Others listen and take in that it feels intimidating to me (British but parents immigrants). They may still not support or object to immigration, but think the flags, marches and protests are wrong they way they have happened.

Shameful and discraceful.

That is brilliant 😄.

Harbourne lives in Thailand.
His financial interests are interesting.
https://www.ft.com/content/db73535f-7d9d-4586-b53a-a690d3b0e36d

Another patriotic brexiteer? Won a MoD contract after donating to Johnson

Politics for sale

This is good

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyx321ded1o
Parents will be able to buy infant formula in supermarkets using loyalty points and vouchers under a government plan to make baby milk more affordable.

Really good. I don’t understand why that wasn’t always the case.

"Charities were concerned that lower income families were watering down formula"

It is bloody shameful that people in the UK in 2025 felt they had to do this. Very glad to see this change.

They really need to clamp down on political donations from non-residents.

And the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

https://bsky.app/profile/adambienkov.bsky.social/post/3m75nx47xl22f

Another patriot abroad

"No-one has stood up against antisemitism more than Nigel and I," says Richard Tice, in the same breath as he calls a Jewish victim of Farage's antisemitism a liar

https://bsky.app/profile/adambienkov.bsky.social/post/3m75mwidp2c23

Just coming to post exactly that from Tice

Apologies for the Reform overload

https://bsky.app/profile/drhannahgraham.bsky.social/post/3m73quc4xxs2d
Feeling proud of the intelligent multi-lingual children in our city!

This tweet and the Farage video in it about "the cultural smashing of Glasgow" is getting rightly roasted by the good people of Glasgow on the other place...

Harbourne has a Thai passport. Amazing he's so financially interested in British politics really.

Because it would be seen as promoting bottle feeding instead of breastfeeding.

Which is madness, and I say that as a dyed in the wool breastfeeder.

I think that the changes walk a careful line in not promoting bottle feeding but reducing cost - in particular not unnecessarily increasing the guilt of bottle feeding parents who will buy the most expensive baby milk to assuage their feelings of guilt - in future all baby milk will be sold in plain packaging to obviate parents choosing the 'best = most expensive' brand

Shocked to see that some SMA is £17 a tin

@pointythings , I don't think it is. The baby formula isn't sold to nourish babies and little children. Like everything else, it is sold to make a profit.
There are various marketing ploys to make one brand appeal more to parents. It's big business.