Thread 6 Burnham: Resitting and Resetting

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Why are they being cagey about the other candidate I wonder?

From Will Hayward

I understand that there was a vote for either Helen Jenner or Jason O'Connell among Reform Senedd Members.

In the end Ms Jenner won with 17 votes to Mr O'Connell's 15.

Fab - yes please 🙏

Hello all. I am still reading and trying to keep up.
I am so done with the hate though. Not here obviously. The RNLI stuff has really made me sad. The fecking RNLI, those pesky feckers that put their own lives in danger to save others at any time of the day or night and don’t care what the weather is doing!!
Then we have the cut benefits narrative that absolutely nobody who screams it has any idea where / who exactly they are cutting it from in a “ not genuine cases” get out clause. We seem to have lost any sense of empathy. It is like one fecking big fight to hoard all the toilet rolls like Covid.
I am skint, we are both in low paying jobs. Do I hate everyone who gets a benefit/ disability benefit- no!
I feel we have crossed some kind of invisible line, this last month especially and it isn’t a good look. ☹️

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/21/nigel-farage-unveils-new-welsh-leader-he-still-seems-fond-of-dan-thomas

As succinct as is expected.

There seems to be more of a pushback agaunst the hate today on MN. Not just from us "usual suspects".

I am sorry for my negative post. That was rude of me. I hope you are all well.
I am reading ( well listening) to the John Sweeney book on Farage and it is making me more grumpy than usual.

There is. It’s very heartening.

I am an infrequent poster and avid lurker who is appreciative of the discourse and information provided by you erudite lot. I hope you have a fab meet up and hope someone will publish the minutes of the meeting😂😂😂

It wasn't rude at all! And you are definitely not the only one feeling ground down by all the hate.

Donations to the RNLI have surged

Good news.

My goodness that was a tight margin between Southampton and Queens University Belfast. University Challenge. 5 points in it. But heaven above Queen's how did you not get Petula Clarke?

Belfast got a bit lucky with the US questions.

I got the Dutch cities and painters right, go me

I cannot get my head around how someone as Welsh as Jenner is can't see how bad Reform is for Wales.

It wasn't rude at all and there is no need to apologise. This thread is great for support and it's good to be able to have somewhere to turn to in these horrible times.

I'm hoping for monutes, too. I'm miles away from most of them and, even if I wasn't, would likely have a plus one who would want to talk about nothing but jam, pokemon, buses and who has tattoos and then leave, the microsecond he got bored!

Just been watching Call my Bluff. What a glorious trip down memory lane. Such fun. Talcky. It is what it says on the tin, if the lid accidentally falls off and the contents land on you.

And we've just watched another 5 minutes of Ludwig. DH now gone to bed. We might get to the end before the end of the month.

on a positive note Mark Carney and Andy Burnham together at Everton last week. We just need a few more global leaders supporting the toffees and Hill Dick will be the next G7 venue 😀

Can you imagine the boos going round the stands when 🍊arrives

Burnham is meeting Trump today.

I wonder how much he and his wife will be scrutinised on arrival, remember the Starmers holding hands was terrible

As long as Trump doesn’t try to subject him to the Zelensky treatment he should be OK.

For the haters

https://bsky.app/profile/electionmaps.uk/post/3mw3uk4g4lc2y
🌹 | Labour lead with ALL pollsters for the first time since October 2024.

I think it's more a case they can see how good it is for Jenner.