Labour isn't Working - Thread 36

[Nuthatch26]

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.

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It is. I wonder if Reeves is actually more fun as a person than we knew. Terrible Chancellor, but possibly a good dinner guest.

@DenizenOfAisleOfShame i can’t imagine her mantelpiece is awash with stiffies can you ?
@Nuthatch26 a lovely crush 🤣
@MellowZebra i haven’t watched it I don’t think I have the stomach 😭

@Parsley4321...stiffies? Do you mean fancy thick card invitations? Cause a stiffie is something else entirely round these parts! 😳🤣

@DenizenOfAisleOfShame, maybe she's finding her fun side as she's able to relax knowing she's being released from the chancellor job soon!

Agree I would be so pissed off wasting money on this just as I thought the Burnham election was a bad move also.
However once the jokes have subsided I think people need to be careful ( in hoc) ridiculing him further!

Good morning 😁. Hope you're all enjoying some warm weather.

A lovely word salad, could easily have been written by Starmer. No mention of how to pay for any of it of course. Same old.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/d7949521-2b62-4397-b584-34a9e448264a?shareToken=aa2e0526d22b2fb5a4fa754edad9f2af

I got Parsley’s meaning, though I did smile at the other possibility.

I doubt Reeves is relaxed. That will come after she’s been shuffled out and has hung up her pink trouser suits (which I rather like).

Cause a stiffie is something else entirely round these parts!

😂

That is a brilliant example of meaningless dross. If he’s signalling anything I think it must be that he will improve defence through cyber resilience, which is course cheaper than tanks, missiles and ships, and cheaper than recruiting servicemen and -women to operate them.

We’re in for a lot of this guff. One thing about Burnham that has been little remarked on is his infinite capacity to bullshit.

Interesting that he mentions AI though, after his aide (I think) said he wasn't interested in it. Maybe he's fully briefed now!

We’re in for a lot of this guff. One thing about Burnham that has been little remarked on is his infinite capacity to bullshit.

So true. That sums him up perfectly.

The comments on the article are good. Almost all saying the same.

Nah, he just says what you want to hear. Someone probably told him to mention AI.

He's very good at talking about buses though, all is well 🙄

The next 3 years are going to be long! 🙄

Starmer doing the usual and putting a high amount in HoL, after all that stuff about abolishing it. We now have the largest second chamber in the world. Stig annoyed at his hypocrisy.

Yes I just heard the same. Laughable isn't it.

Here too but the context suits lol

This is damning from the foreign affairs committee. They also found no evidence that any mitigations were put in place despite knowing what Mandelson had been up to. How dare Bollard sack Olly Robbins.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/2dd99cfb-9f30-4a96-84f8-854e5fef0ceb?shareToken=dda2685265ce70b1dac76cf7e0c547a0

This ^^ is what I mean about the sheer hypocrisy Would labour and reeves have been better to say after her joke ...,the UK public need better than most of us and they need serious politicians free from all this gubbyness !

Thanks for this. They are so bent.

And bollard sacking Olly Robbins as a way to get out and whipping MPs against further scrutiny.

The foreign affairs committee found Mandelson’s appointment had been “nothing short of disastrous” and found Downing Street had created a “generally dismissive attitude” towards the vetting process.

And still threads filled up with the usual defending bollard.

I'm going to be dipping in and out for the next 10 days. We're having a break and had planned to see DH's family in France, but my MIL said it's stupidly hot and we'd be better going north. So we have - and Yorkshire's as hot as Hampshire.🙄😅. We're planning this morning in Helmsley and a drive to Robin Hood's Bay this afternoon before heading to Scotland tomorrow.

It's the Clacton by-election I'm focusing on right now. I can't decide if Farage is playing a blinder or is throwing his toys out of the pram as a distraction.

Just heard Thornberry STILL shelter bollard saying he took responsibility. Er no he sacked a decent civil servant to pass the buck.

I’m so glad bollard is losing his job.

Have a great trip, Dancing.

I cannot see a blinder being played. He should have toughed it out with the standards probe. Calling a by-election and all the criticism and ridicule that go with that will end up haunting him forever.

Have fun @DancingFerret

I’m not sure on the crazy saga, it could backfire or not, will see what happens.

Urgh. How has Starmer taken responsibility? He sacked innocent people, and whipped his MPs to avoid scrutiny. His name was conveniently absent from the Mandelson files too. Fucking slimy toad.

God I despise Labour with every fibre.

Hope you have a lovely time on your travels @DancingFerret. 😎