Thread 46 Starmer: Meloj kaj kastoroj sur monbiletoj, arbaro de kolero

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Yes but this is the other way round. This is a poster (very disingenuously) copying a Reform politician's Facebook post without saying that is what they are doing. Completely new name with no history. So clearly not a genuine poster which is one of the reasons for reporting. At least the second thread links to an article and is honest about the source.

Green gained the Cliftonville (Kent) by-election from Reform

More info on the post is very handy and thanks for that.

I can’t believe there is another thread on the same thing! Surely it is a good thing these discounts are offered to allow kids access to new experiences.

Nah, poor children/families should know their place. Remember all the threads on FSM, And now the 2 child benefit cap.

MN has a 'ask Rachel Reeves' coming up

The questions and personal nastiness are very predictable.

Oh and, so predictably, they've moved onto pensioners and free bus passes now <eyeroll>

Voters cast their ballots on Thursday to select Taylor's replacement, giving the Green's Rob Yates nearly 39% of the vote.
Yates, 39, is an offshore wind farmer and is currently a Thanet District Council member.

The discounts are fuck all to do with the government and everything to do with private companies maximising their income. Something I imagine (a) hasn't been pointed out to the protagonists and (b) if it has been, is ignored.

It's b. Probably too inconvenient a truth about the reality of market forces.

B. It has been pointed out but has been ignored.

B

I just saw your question on the Reeves thread Pandora, great minds

So someone is copying Robert Jenrick’s Facebook posts and posting them on MN?

And the poster has a new name and therefore zero track record?
How very enterprising.

Jenrick of course is the right person to raise issues of ethics.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/robert-jenrick-richard-desmond-housing-tory-donor-westferry-a9631876.html#

MN fucked the site by allowing name changes IMO.

He should move to a country founded on tax dodging. The US is looking for the brightest and the best right now. I'd chip in for his airfare.

Trip to Italy may be cancelled because of Nappy 🍊 and his war in Iran.

President of chaos for those of us wishing to travel within Europe. I consider myself European.

Is that due to lack of fuel, @placemats ? How disappointing and infuriating.

he'd fit right in with Miller - or more to the point he'd change to fit right in.

Thats bad news, placemat. Have you heard something from your airline?

Paper candidate or real

Reform UK's (sole) candidate for Brixton Windrush ward in Lambeth is named as Oliver Cromwell Khan.

https://bsky.app/profile/davehillonlondon.bsky.social/post/3mj5bf4urik2h

He's battling against Labour's Scarlett O'Hara!

Suspiciously there is no reform candidate for my ward. We have 2xConservative, 2xLabour and 1 green candidate. That's it.

Now the official Birmingham Council website statement as of 1 minute ago is attached. I wonder if there is any statutory implications for amending this list now ?

Yes. Still unsure about it but it seems likely.

I checked, we have 2. Also 2 Lib Dems, Green, Residents, Cons, 1 Labour and 1 Trade Unionist and Socialist Col.

We have one. I had to hunt him down via Facebook - two of my friends are friends with him on FB. I wonder whether they know what he is standing for?

I can only find info on one of them, he is local but doesn't live in our ward, he lives in the affluent side of town.