Labour Isn't Working - Thread 30

[WaffleBomb]

A chat thread for those who don't like this Labour government. 💙

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5506586-labour-isnt-working-thread-29?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

Thanks.

Can anyone archive this please? Its not working for me.

Sorry, not working for me either. Podcast covers much of the same ground and has no paywall.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/coffee-house-shots/id1101754136?i=1000763244578

I don't look or follow threads like that. I haven't in the past. If I pick up on a poster elbowing in anywhere with this mindset I ignore.

Doesn't wind me up. Maybe living in Wales where there's a mindset of families having voted labour proudly for over a century has innured me. 🤷‍♀️

Think you'll have to copy and paste waffle.

I think archive is down, not working on my laptop either.
Thanks for the pod.

I think he thinks it shows him to be decisive and ahem, masterful.

A house nearby has had a huge wooden VOTE LABOUR board in their front garden for a couple of weeks. They always have Labour paraphernalia outside when there's an election. Not unusual where I live as it's been Labour forever.

The board was there this morning when I went to work. Drove by tonight on my way home, and its been removed! 😁

<a class="break-all" href="https://removepaywalls.com/spectator.com/article/its-worse-than-during-the-worst-of-boris-how-the-civil-service-turned-against-starmer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://removepaywalls.com/spectator.com/article/its-worse-than-during-the-worst-of-boris-how-the-civil-service-turned-against-starmer/

Damn, it doesn't work in the same way as archive.ph. Removepaywalls.com is the one I'm using today after the archive site went down - again.

Archive.ph back up:

https://archive.ph/VoBTG

Great, thank you!

@Pacificsunshine

Crikey, that Tim Shipman piece is something else!

I wonder which former cabinet minister is quoted here?

A former Labour cabinet minister says: ‘The public are allergic to Starmer and the party cannot stand him. He has no friend in politics apart from [the attorney general Richard] Hermer. He trusts no one. He has not a single real supporter in the cabinet. The civil service loathes him and the military are contemptuous. The media have seen right through him. Starmer is now thoroughly paranoid. He is terrified of the Rayner-Burnham threat to him. But Labour MPs cannot yet gather round an alternative.’

Also like this quote:

Another Westminster veteran says: ‘I hope this will finally kill the absurd “Keir Starmer is a decent man” narrative. He’s a shitweasel whose sole political talent is blaming others for his own failings.’

Loving 'shitweasel' as an insult. 🤣

Interesting insights in that article!

Haha that’s brilliant and so true.

I think it's my new favourite word 😂

I think it's cuntpuffin's twin! 🤔🤣

🤣🤣
Thats a new one for me.

I just read it again it’s bloody brilliant. The pacing and terminology.

The story in the DT about Lord Hermer being actively involved in trying to prosecute innocent British troops is really shocking. He shouldn't be anywhere near government after what he's done.

What was Starmer thinking making Hermer a Lord so he could be his attorney general ffs.

Forgot the link

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/77a92f6f7d2116c0

The telegraph has broken some excellent stories in the last 18 months - the Hermer stuff is appalling.

i see Cat Little isn’t having any of it on OR’s sacking. Good for her.

Hermer is indefensible. I feel those veterans are owed serious recompense and apology.

Brilliant, thanks 👍

Very. I'm not surprised that the civil service are steaming. I'd be nervous if I was a labour MP.