Thread 50 Starmer : Το ταξίδι είναι η ανταμοιβή

[DuncinToffee]

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N'oublie jamais, ne pardonne jamais.

Booze and fags won't necessarily kill you.

Nor will plane crashes.

But seriously, ignominy and obscurity are what I wish for him.

Utter disgrace and humiliation is what I wish for. And a long life to endure it.

I’m with both of you.

On a lighter note, DH was just telling me about his votes re wildlife on notes. Apparently he didn't vote for the frog because it looked too much like Farage.

Voted as follows

Hare and Hedgehog
Puffin and Curlew
Butterfly and Bee

And the Bee represents to me as a symbol of diversity and cooperation. And in that energy all life is precious.

Going to call it out @derxa

You're very uncomfortable with the direction the other thread (LiW) is going. That's why you're posting here.

My votes were hare and hedgehog, barn owl and curlew, bee and dragonfly.
DH was fox and hare, kingfisher and puffin, bee and dragonfly

I just voted with DS2. Hedgehog and fox, barn owl and woodpecker, bee and fritillary butterfly.

I went hare and fox, kingfisher and puffin, salmon and bumblebee.

Hedgehog, hare, puffin, owl, bee, butterfly.

Bee looks like a clear favourite

Hedgehog, hare, puffin, curlew, bee, dragonfly here.

Hare, fox, barn owl, kingfisher, bee & dragonfly.

Hare , hedgehog, puffin, eagle, basking shark, butterfly

I grew up where there were basking sharks so have a fondness.

Hare, pine marten, kingfisher, woodpecker, basking shark, dragon fly

Morten Morland for today’s Times.

Count Binface's manifesto for Makersfield.

Sorry, image failed to attach.

John Crace

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/03/politics-sketch-nigel-farage-kemi-badenoch-reform-pmqs-henry-nowak
As Badenoch saw sense, it was just Farage playing politics over a young man’s death

Number 5 is excellent. He'd have my vote on that alone.

Farage looked very tanned at PMQs. The leather handbag look. He didn't get that from working in his office in Clacton.

I like this from Crace and hope it might be true:

It was as if we were watching the end of something. For 18 months, it has felt as if Reform is on an unstoppable roll. One triumph after another, as Labour and the Tories competed to be more useless than each other. But over the past six weeks, the shine has come off. They are the emperor with no clothes. Just another bunch of loudmouths with no answers. Just grievance.

Nige sniggered awkwardly. Trying and failing to laugh it off. Only Dicky Tice laughed with him.

^https://share.google/FeqRw9gvJc91lrHRa^

Eta: cross post, Duncin!

😳

I guess that is a no? @placemats is right though. Some true colours have been shown on that thread in recent days.

I’m baffled. I don’t know what you’re implying