Thread 48 Starmer : Der Teufel ist ein Eichhörnchen

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... and I don't say that with an easy heart. I've never, ever felt the need to vote for the Conservatives.

I don’t think I could. I don’t know what I’d do if presented with that dilemma.

Plenty of holy water. It would probably burn.

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I think I’m going to have to in the next GE. It was UKIP central round here a decade ago - they took every seat on one of the town councils. I’ll just have to hold my nose.

Was going to post this but I am at behind this thread. Good on her.

Genuinely don’t think I could @BIossomtoes
This is better news for the Welsh contingent

And here it is with gains/losses indicated

We've got our house on the market as we want to downsize. Logistically parts of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire work for us but we won't even consider Northamptonshire because it's Reform.

More questions over Farage's Clacton house, well his partner's house.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/05/farage-partner-refuses-confirm-house-constituency-clacton-laure-ferrari

More than one way to pay for a house.
Loan from a crapto billionaire might do it.

Thanks all for the support. It's fantastic being here. Will be visiting the Pantheon tomorrow morning.

Being Irish passport holders we sailed through. The vast majority of passengers were caught up in the EES system. Italy may abandon it. Chaos.

However my sister's luggage was was one of the last out and still only a handful of passengers turned up.

There were several very irate taxi drivers waiting to pick up passengers. By the time my sister got her bag most of the luggage on the carousel had fallen on the floor. Mine was one of the first ones out. Typical. We left via taxi, and the usual scary ride into Rome.

Brexit advantages my arse.

Edited because wine was drunk this evening.

I do t get this. If he's the "most attacked politician" then the money is linked to his work. End of.

No obligation to declare £5m gift, Nigel Farage says - BBC News https://share.google/3T058gWPmFHl8TQ8C

But surely everyone gives their friends £5m whenever they need a helping hand 🤷.

"I've been the most attacked, physically, politician of modern times," Farage said

Jo Cox? David Amess? You weasly little turd

No wonder he isn't appearing on tv

Exactly - and cancelling last minute

Salute @placemats

They are falling apart here (Northamptonshire) in terms of policy. Give it 18 months and they’ll be toast.

Well quite. 1984 tory Conference.

Yes, of course. Stephen Timms as well.

Farage does like to play the victim, doesn't he?

You are all so unreasonable. Surely everyone realises that a milk shake is far more dangerous than a bomb/gun/knife. Especially if it's strawberry.

I always smile to myself when I walk across that spot in Newcastle.

Anyone with a passing interesting in science and/or human behaviour might find this podcast interesting. It quietly gets to the heart of why there's no dealing with stupid. If you can listen at 1.5x, it helps. Modern media is slowly dying as people realise they can make a 4 hour programme for as much as a 1 minute programme. So they do.

(We have a few generations who sadly were never schooled in "just because you can, doesn't mean you should")

pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-rest-is-science/5fd6d830-a697-013e-5600-025671e558a9/the-reasoning-test-psychologists-still-cant-explain/21d6f231-c748-430f-9ce9-0a4de1ca199a

I’ve been meaning to try The Rest Is Science as I’ve given up most of the political podcasts in disgust. Still listening to TRIP and TRIPUS. Very much enjoying The Rest Is History 70s series at the moment.