Thread 49 Starmer - Cóż to jest 5 milionów funtów między przyjaciółmi

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Did she? How disrespectful.

That whole thing is very odd. Doesn't Justine know about the many perves that hang about on the site?

Adolf to the right then?

I see Musk is calling Farage a liar

Right on right

Badenoch fact checked on her speech

https://bsky.app/profile/fullfact.org/post/3mltdpj32bt2g

The Conservatives’ Alternative King’s Speech claimed the welfare bill is higher than income tax receipts “for the first time ever”.

We’ve heard this a few times recently, but it’s not true. Welfare spending (including pensions) has been higher for years.

LOL, I expect so. And no, there still won’t be a general election, there’s just going to be another by-election. Meanwhile, there’s a new Health Secretary and Starmer is still PM.

You only need to look at MN Reddit trolls to see how many non racists have deleted their MN accounts or have been banned by MN because fighting back gets them told off.

ETA it isn't just Labour. Polanski smears and anti semitism are fine. Calling him by a now dead name in order to erase his Jewish heritage. Also fine.

Yes! Very true about Polanski's name.

Afraid I must disagree with you.

MNHQ do an excellent job, in sometimes challenging circumstances - they should be commended, not criticised.

Coffee was delicious, btw.

Good. I can't drink coffee much these days and I do miss it.

Decent coffee is one of life’s great pleasures. Sorry you can’t indulge @TemperanceWest.

So much of it gives me heartburn so I'm glad I can enjoy this one, for now.

I'm a tea drinker and I have a lovely selection that DS1s partner brought me back from Hong Kong. Her uncle is a tea merchant so she got expert advice.

@Piggywaspushed , do you need to sign up for Reddit or can you just lurk?

What do you mean warning? You haven't been warning us, you've been agitating for it, actively pushing for it, since day one, when you all had a biggest tantrum ever over Labour getting in 😂

You can lurk.

Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgpyn30dp3o

There is a new thread on the rise of fascism and in the first post someone says 'what about Polanski'. This is Very Boring now.

Saw that thread and thought the same.

'but Polanski' is becoming the new 'but Corbyn'

"The far left make Tommy Robinson look like an angel" is my favourite quote from that thread.

I am a total coffee snob. No instant in this household, and I have separate single estate organic coffee for weekends.

Anyone got a subscription to FE week and can share an article? I’d quite like to read this -

https://feweek.co.uk/we-cant-tackle-neet-numbers-without-fixing-16-19-funding/

Me too. Coffee machine tax enclosed. I'm clearly a champagne AND latte Socialist 🤣

Im enjoying Housing Secretary Steve Reed doing the media rounds and basically telling restive Labour MPs/ Starmer HATAZ to stfu with their fretting. I realise Burnham is a well liked mayor but this building him up as the king over the water to Come And Save Layba is at best sweetly desperate and at worst just tragic.

I mean, if you want a Labour politician with a large electoral mandate and a proven history of someway competent administration, then there's Sir Sadiq Khan who's notched up a decade running ThatLondon. Maybe give him a go?

I actually don’t like coffee, though I curiously really like the smell and I used to eat coffee flavoured desserts. (I can’t eat them now, because I react badly to dairy, gluten and artificial sugar, because of my hiatus hernia and acid reflux I think).

I’m a very big tea drinker, though. 😀

Oh goodness, imagine MN if Khan put his name into the ring. Act of domination etc.

But at least he’d back explicit moves to rejoin.