Thread 6 Burnham: Resitting and Resetting

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5572981-thread-5-brunham-be-more-dolly?page=39

Wordsworth will always be for me Upon Westminster Bridge, my favourite city and spring, with lonely clouds and hosts of golden daffodils. O'level stuff indeed. Often reminded about his devoted sister Dorothy too. The post!

Sounds like a night oot on the Toon.

The World is Too Much with Us is an anti industrial age poem, and against consumerism over nature.

Watched Immaculate the film last night and if a biopic film/series of Wordsworth ever happened, Sydney Sweeney would be my choice for Dorothy. I can well imagine her baring her bosom to the sea.

Eta On a full moon night, obviously.

This is going to upset Farage and his 'boat people' claims

Five men arrested over suspended bomb plot are UK nationals from London, say counter terror police

No alarms and no surprises from me regarding this. Which is why I stayed away from the thread.

Me too

And me. They’re welcome to their echo chamber.

2 women and a child died trying to cross the Channel.

Tragic but I thought they were all “fighting age” men?

Same

I posted on it a bit but can't be bothered any further. Certain posters clearly disappointed those arrested aren't asylum seekers.

The drownings are tragic.

Eta: not sure now if I am allowed to use the phrase "certain posters". We shall see.

We can all read the thread, not comment and have our own personal opinions about certain posters.

There will not doubt be embellishment in some places of how they died, in the company of those fighting age men.

Also many others injured in the crush to board the dinghy

Have marked this as a sensitive image, but it’s worth reminding the “ let them drown crowd” as to what that actually means, it’s from a distance

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/27/shabana-mahmood-uk-refugee-resettlement-scheme-afghan-women-girls-palestinians

Shabana Mahmood will announce a new legal route for refugees that prioritises Afghan women and girls and Palestinians, unfreezing a scheme that will put the most vulnerable refugees on a faster path to permanent status

I think the Reform/Restore POV is you can't be too careful.

I mean it's inhuman and vile. But so are you if you support them.

TWITMWI is touted as heralding the Romantic agenda. At least at O Level Eng. lit.

The basis was which was a reaction against industrialisation and the growing cities and a call for a return to a more pastoral simpler times. Romantics were great believers in stripping away the pomp and grandeur that had become poetry and arts and called for an appeal to the common man.

Of course when I pointed out that "the common man" wouldn't have the first clue what Triton and his "wreath'd horn" represented, suggesting that Romanticism was basically a posh boys circle jerk, I got a D and a suggestion from my English teacher not to overthink things if I wanted to pass.

It was one part of my experience with indoctrination as education that my DM had hated when she were a lass. And looking at how long this reply is, I may not have gotten over it.

I think you underestimate how fucking stupid and vile some people are.

This is simply a chance for them to say "but next time ....." and carry on cashing the cheques.

Worse. They are disputing what makes someone a British national and asking about how recently they became one and what ethnicity they are.

Those who claimed they welcome women and children refugees, it's the "fighting age" men they object to have gone very silent on these proposals.

That is such a powerful and tragic image.

Exactly as you'd expect.

Made a mistake and looked at the Fairford thread. Jesus H Christ MNHQ , wake up. There is a range of opinions on there . There is also unchecked overt racial hatred.

Burnham is chairing a Cobra meeting on it after today.