Thread 40 Starmer: Prettig Kerstfeest, Nollaig Shona, Hyvää Joulua, Nadolig Llawen ,圣诞快乐, God Jul, Feliz Navidad, Bouan Noué, Nollaig Chridheil.

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Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🎶

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Interest rates down, excellent news.

Erasmus, excellent news.

3.5 billion to eradicate homelessness.

Education on sexual health and the disparity between a healthy sex life and the pernicious intrusion of porn regarding young males.

All excellent.

Well, well. I, for one, am completely shocked 🙄

That's definitely a song for us all to enjoy if we are ever in a care home for Christmas.

And the 10-year gilt yield is down this year

And expected to creep lower in 2026

(can't remember who used to mention it, one of our other friends I think)

Re the files - some are coming out, others being held for redacting. FFS will someone stand up to him?

No, they are all in N Korea mode kissing their orange leader.

My Christmas is made. 🍾Walliams has finally been given the boot by his publisher. Creep.

They still mention it

About bloody time.

I don't say this often, but good on the Telegraph.

Fabulous 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[hhmm]

Omg, shit just got real. Where have they gone?

🎄🎅🤶🧑‍🎄 Not the same.

No they're not.

Have bumped an old thread in site stuff about the Christmas emojis.

They are just the regular emojis you can get anywhere. I expect all MN’s bandwidth has gone on those stupid adverts that take over the entire screen unless you choose your browser wisely.

Probably

AT least the FT is standing up to Trump/Putin's nonsense.

https://www.ft.com/content/dd7925a6-94bb-4c45-8b20-09de4074a878?accessToken=zwAAAZs7HIiSkdPdeSWmlLtMRdOLIAneQHSoeA.MEUCICevs6KoVDdPq_RbsoEhVX9h_ZSAyT8y2f4ekq_bTkP5AiEAmVOEPIZaHT_CW-FlO7gyYwvC78tvyYHjCa7jfU-wYMk&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareType=enterprise&shareId=19d3d36d-ef9f-4629-98a0-3b7b4318cb22

I was spared that. Charlie Stayt is not someone I warm to. I am very much Team Naga when they are on screen together.

Boris Johnson threatening the government

https://bsky.app/profile/tobyontv.bsky.social/post/3mafsgkzjf227

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

Isn't that getting close to being actionable as inflammatory language? Smacks of Trump/Jan 6th rhetoric and we all know how that went.

Is it Tory bantz to talk about machine gunning politicians? I suspect it will be suggested that language is quite normal.

But really we all know that Johnsons just desperate for a bit of attention.

Should get himself on Truss’s YouTube channel.

Or he could keep crapping out Op Eds for Viscount Rothermere.

No, it's hyperbole (although MN really isn't the place to try and discuss this).

And it's hard to think of a person in Britain who would be lower than Boris Johnson on my list of "Who to take advice from" - whether it's the Brexit he made a complete Horlicks of, or parenting.

All he is doing (to the extent that it may be coordinated) is take the pressure off Reform and Farage as Brexit fall guy.

Is it Tory bantz to talk about machine gunning politicians?

It wasn't quite that direct - he didn't say who would be doing the machine gunning.

Interesting that some (possibly one 😀) on "this thread" feel they have to allow a bit of latitude in debate. Compare and contrast with the machine gunning any quote from a Labour politician attracts. Especially if it is easily cut and pasted.

Article is behind paywall so yeah I didn't read beyond the headline