Starmer: An Myghtern yw marow. Re vewo an Myghtern a'n North!

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Link to previous thread.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5541352-thread-51-starmer-pedo-mellon-a-minno?page=10&reply=153095543

Money won't buy you love but it will buy you vanity projects.

One of my friends shared this on Facebook yesterday. I had a google and the reviews were good. Has anyone read it?

I might have strong views on this, as I appear to have a stalker who has followed me across threads to spring out of the forest to air their grudges.

Media ownership and editorial aren't vanity projects.

It's a deliberate co-ordinated means to influence public opinion for the funders financial benefit.

Ed to add - very little difference between a billionaire throwing £5 million at politician and a billionaire buying some media and some conference speakers.

Although media owners get more control over what comes next and can swop in different talking heads when 1 fails to make headway.

Solar providing 27% of the UKs metered demand at the moment (and wind at 9%). Add nuclear at 9% and that leaves 26% coming from gas.

Coal today is 0%

And total demand is 37.5GW

Astute readers will spot the use of "metered". This is because not all solar/wind power is metered. Some of it just gets fed into the grid before metering which works to just reduce that total load figure.

If Andy Burham is looking for an immediate big "thing" to make the 100 day truce work, he could do a lot worse than sort out the balcony solar regs and make the UK a leader.

Personally I have no faith whatsoever, as the UK is renowned for taking decades to regulate as a trusty stranglehold on innovation and progress/

The title alone is enough to scare me. I'm not an SNP fan but my main gripe is the lack of quality in politicians today. I wait to see what Andy and his chancellor will bring to the table.

Oh but it is vanity. Self obsessed with agendas that ultimately end up falling off the ultra right wing cliff. Same happens on the ultra left wing cliff. Politics is a plateau.

If Andy Burham is looking for an immediate big "thing" to make the 100 day truce work, he could do a lot worse than sort out the balcony solar regs and make the UK a leader.

Agree 💯

I think calling them vanity projects implies they only harm the funder.

The harm reaches well beyond their bank balances - it impacts discourse and deliberately inflames tensions.

Vanity projects are explicitly designed to create divisions and harm. It's gambling on a huge global scale. The consequences are terrifying and those engaged in it, know that. That's the whole point of them.

They aren’t gambling.
There’s little to no risk to them.

It’s a thought out exercise in dominating the political landscape for their financial benefit.

They are gambling. Gambling lives, eco systems, democracy: it's a sick board game and if someone loses the dirt is out.

Oh dear. Badenoch must have found the jokey Burnham thread and taken it seriously. Graceless as usual.

Badenoch says Starmer has made many mistakes. But he has been let down by his chancellor and his energy secretary and his MPs too. They have abandoned him for “a pair of eyelashes and a black t-shirt”.

Rightly told off by the speaker:

Badenoch says Labour MPs are cheering, even though there are “400 knives” in Starmer’s back.

She says Labour MPs blocked welfare reform. “They are not Labour MPs, they are welfare MPs.”

Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, intervenes. Referring to the knives remark, he says MPs should think about the language they use.

Going by her PMQs perfrmance, Badenoch is just bad.

She started out that PMQs being almost humorous. I had hopes. Then she proceeded to attack female cabinet ministers (with no real reason). She’s a nasty piece of work.

Too little too late.

RIP Jo Cox.

I’ve read it and highly recommend it. I also recommend If We Tolerate This.

www.amazon.co.uk/If-Tolerate-This-establishment-respectable-ebook/dp/B0GHNDBHNB/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

Indeed 😊

In football terms for Badenoch: You're shit and you know you are!

Awful. Badenoch doesn't have an off button.

Thanks for the What Andy Wears thread. I’m enjoying it very much.

Did anyone listen to the Newsagents last night? Karl Turner wasn’t holding back.

Bridget Phillipson deserves all she gets as far as I’m concerned. Her nasty policy caused so much harm to parents and children for no gain. In a poll of teachers zero thought she was doing well.

What poll was that? Can you link to it?

Also @derxa

Do you agree with Badenoch that Phillipson is a "spiteful class warrior"?

What harm has she caused @derxa ?