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

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Political and general chat

Taxes optional but greatly appreciated

Apologies, Comrade.

Form those according to their abilities ....

Solidarity ✊🏼

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only plain red one I could find

”Then raise the scarlet standard high
within its shade we’ll live and die
though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We’ll keep the red flag flying here.🎼

From the article, Sir Keir Starmer about Angela Rayner , she is
"The best social mobility story this country has ever seen" and
"She is hugely talented."
Love this .
We need to keep going and backing this PM.
IMO.

Hadnt seen this before - loved it!

I agree with him re Raynor.

I’ve always liked her and know she’s good as the RW media are terrified of her!

https://liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/4093018/content.html

Police investigating Farage for electoral fraud.

As I said on a different thread, I am sure Dan Hodges will be all over it.... we don't want two tier reporting

Still no HoL member for Reform

Lord Offord has resigned his peerage after defecting from the Conservatives to Reform.

My aching sides. I can't help but feel he wasn't supposed to do that. Although one less Tory peer is no bad thing.

You can picture the call, can't you.

"OK, Nige, I'm ready to run"
"What ?!"
"I've resigned my seat and will stand for election in a seat I am very unlikely to win, I know how much you value sincerity"

I wonder if he’s done it on purpose. It would be absolutely delectable if he has.

It's a bit of a risk tho' isn't it giving up his cushy £300/day HoL expenses without being certain of being elected to a seat - independently wealthy tho' he is

Another associate of Farage involved in dodgy dealings

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/dec/07/brighton-bans-guardian-from-stadium-over-reporting-on-tony-bloom

The Guardian revealed last week that Bloom, the majority shareholder at Brighton, is being sued in a lawsuit that alleges “frontmen” were sometimes used when his gambling syndicate placed bets on sports events. The details were set out in a public document at the high court in London, which named George Cottrell, a close associate of the Reform party leader, Nigel Farage, as one person who acted as a front for the collective, known as the Starlizard Betting Syndicate. The case involves a dispute between Bloom and Ryan Dudfield, a former associate who claims he is owed a share of gambling profits.

So seedy

Farage was whining a while back that it was "undemocratic" that reform had elected MPs but no lords. As if that meant Starmer had to go "How high Nige ?" and ennoble more useless specimens.

That sunk very quickly. I imagine because right now, any discussion of the unelected upper chamber doesn't suit many agendas.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/15/farage-starmer-reform-uk-peers-house-of-lords

Given the tone of that piece, and the fact that all the reporting around the defection was explicitly centred around Reforms first member of the House of Lords, it's hard not to suspect something has gone terribly wrong here.

Of course the fact remains that we have yet to see any serious Labour defections to Reform. Certainly not in the same number as Tory defections.

Lord Glasman could be a candidate

Interesting re leave voters

https://kellnerp.substack.com/p/the-majority-opposed-to-brexit-has

Would he be safe in Reform given that Maurice Glasman is jewish?

He’d certainly be safer there than in Labour.

Not that that’s any decent argument for having anything to do with Farage’s band of political fools and brigands.

What do you imagine would happen to him in Labour? Ed Milliband seems to be OK, for example. I don't think Starmer follows him around the House making hissing noises.

Who knows.

Trevor Phillips has come out to defend Farage' racism in his Times column, never mind he didn't check his facts.

Badenoch says grooming gang inquiry should leave 'no stone unturned'

https://bsky.app/profile/bestforbritain.org/post/3m7hwsfm72k2v

Sky News: You just said you don't want to leave any 'stone unturned'. Those words were used by Sajid Javid in 2018 when he ordered what you are calling for. Are you saying you failed and did leave 'stones unturned' when you were in government?

Badenoch: I'm not here to build a time machine. ~AA

In fairness to Phillips Times Op Eds appear to have zero standards and no fact checking.
All about the feelz.