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

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goes back to check as I only half paid attention when it popped up

Yes you are right and well spotted about the university fees. It's all so obvious.

On Friday Nigel Farage sought to minimise his personal relationship with Trump. “I happen to know him, but that’s by the by,” said the Reform UK leader.

FT article Brexiters turn their backs on Donald Trump after Iran chaos
Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch distance themselves from the US president, having once celebrated his example
https://archive.ph/wAbau

badenoch's comments in that article really made me chuckle.

They are just finding it difficult to stay on top of the detail!

Conservative leader <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/wAbau/www.ft.com/stream/db5168d5-e9f2-4162-82ab-989aae221c00" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kemi Badenoch, who in recent weeks has hit out at Trump’s “childish” repeated criticisms of Sir Keir Starmer.

Is this the same Kemi Badenoch who regularly insults him at PMQ?

"Which is why, next week, I will be travelling to Milwaukee to the Republican Convention. I do so to support my friend, Donald Trump, as we head into the later stages of an era-defining election.”

N Farage, July 2024.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/nigel-farage-donald-trump-clacton-b2581778.html

Mr Farage wrote in the The Telegraph that he would travel to Milwaukee to support his "friend" Mr Trump "as we head into the later stages of an era-defining election.”

Almost time for a new thread!

I was very pleased that this morning's sermon (by a visiting vicar as we are currently in an interregnum) was all about condemning the far right's attempt to claim Christianity as an excuse for racist and sectarian behaviour. He was particularly critical of Yaxley Lennon when I chatted to him after the service. 😁
@PandoraSocks has just beaten me to enquire about the next thread.

Casual observation suggests there really is a deep reluctance to mention Brexit from the Reform crowd. As predicted their schtick os blame lied squarely with the Tories, nothing to do with are Nige who was right all along.

That removes enough oxygen to snuff out continuing to ask about Trump.

I agree Serendipity

"Don't mention the war/Brexit" seems to be Reform's only hope now. As well as the collaborator Tories who have effectively kicked out the Remain politicians. I for one will welcome the squirming u turns.

By the by, I have this week discovered that big planters can be lined with cardboard and fleece lined. All porous. To save on compost you can put tin cans upside down on the base. Handy! 😉

It's almost as if these idiots on the right don't think we keep receipts. Farage in particular seems to forget that it's not like the good old days where ordinary people had to furtle through boxes of old newspapers in the loft to unearth the latest way in which he's contradicted himself.

3 Reform candidates in Gateshead look like a timelapse of the same person...

"Caring for the old and infirm" says Arthur Murray. Has he any idea of Reform UK policies?

eta It's like elder abuse 😔

😂

Badenoch doesn't know what she said last week, though she thinks this is a usp that's good.

That reminds me that one of our meals this week is smoked gammon diced and fried with a carbonara sauce.

She never makes mistakes as I recall.

But the discussion is about Badenoch's recall and not yours.

I’m off out to a Frank Turner gig in Bristol. A couple of hours of loud music and bonkers crush should take my mind off all this <gestures all around>

I need title and language suggestion!

Family of Spurs fans here today. Not a good day.

We are never going to speak about it. And I may need the next few weeks off work to avoid the piss taking I’m currently getting.