Westminstenders: Blue Passports

[RedToothBrush]

Yay for the blue passports.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all

May next year bring us £350 million for the NHS, cake, unicorns, financial passporting, access to the single market, Irish love and of course control to the people.

(Apologies been up to my eyeballs. Normal service will resume after Christmas).

Some wit posted something along the lines of "No Donald, your button only looks bigger because of your tiny hands"!

Thanks for link to Toby Young petition.

Ha! I meant opposing Toby's appointment, not Boris, though it's astounding he's still in post too

Congratulations to RedToothBrush on your Services to Mumsnet award. You will have to start putting an acronym after your name

Thanks
Signed and shared

Hey Red, you got a mug! Congratulations, very much deserved!

Meanwhile Sunny Hundal is asking for an MP to read out some of Toby Young's tweets in Parliament and get the government to justify them.
I read him (TY) say he shouldn't be judged on these but on his actions but I'm not sure these tweets don't qualify as actions to be judged on. Nasty cuntery.

In more abhorrent news:

Windsor council calls for removal of homeless people before royal wedding

www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/03/windsor-council-calls-removal-homeless-people-before-royal-wedding?CMP=twt_gu

I would completely support that if it meant removal by giving them all a home and any support they needed to live in it. Suspect that's not what it means though.

Be interested to know what Harrys views were on the homeless pogrom. I can guarantee he wasn't consulted.

It says something (not sure what) when the Royal family get the same treatment as the rest of us untermensch.

As a republican, I''m not a massive Royal fan. But Harrys heart seems to be in the right place ...

Has anyone heard anymore about the suggestion that Barack Obama should not be invited, in case it upset diddy Donald ?

Well done Red... though I hope this won't lead to another flurry of mansplaining.

Oh congratulations RTB on services to MN! Where is this news, has somebody got a link?

Interesting case about FOI requests today ...

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a4b689a40f0b64cbc261756/GI_0428_2017-00.pdf

IANAL but it seems that the court was very unimpressed that the ICO took the governments word over the need for secrecy without making their own assessment.

Especially as they have a statutory power to do so.

Worth bearing in mind, when we're told how secrecy is part and parcel of Brexit.

It's in 'site stuff' elements, about threads of the year.
Thank you again for your threads from me RTB, always lurking and v grateful.

A little light relief

www.thepoke.co.uk/2018/01/02/people-are-saluting-unexpected-twist-end-obituary/

Runaway winner of Services to Mumsnet in Threads of the Year is … < drum-roll >
our own red with Westministenders !

Congratulations, red, so well deserved

For elements and anyone else, Mumsnet announcement is here:

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/3113632-To-celebrate-the-unique-space-that-is-Mumsnet-Talk-MNHQ-would-love-you-to-share-your-Threads-of-the-Year#74510244

Thanks Fawful and BigChoc - it's so nice that others on MN appreciate these discussions.

Have we had this?

Toby Young Has Deleted Tens Of Thousands Of Old Tweets After A Backlash To His New Universities Role
www.buzzfeed.com/matthewchampion/toby-young-has-deleted-tens-of-thousands-of-old-tweets?utm_term=.rt9bb0eXav#.uk866ovMzk

That must have stuck in MNHQ's craw. They seemed to be on the side of the Brexit bots...

Yay!!

Well done red

When fascists fall out … Boo bloody hoo

Trump Tower meeting with Russians 'treasonous', Bannon says in explosive book

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff

Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described
the Trump Tower meeting between the president’s son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as

“treasonous” and “unpatriotic”,
according to an explosive new book seen by the Guardian.

Bannon, speaking to author Michael Wolff, warned that the investigation into alleged collusion with the Kremlin will focus on money laundering and predicted:

“They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.”

< I wonder if Bannon bothered to write anything about Farage ? >

Well done red. Instead of assuming everyone just wants the click-bait threads, good to see lots of posters push back saying we want to actually learn stuff as well.

cardinal I think MNHQ are very fair about allowing debate on Brexit - and on trans issues too, which is much braver

MN is one of the few areas left for civilised debate on controversial subjects
Especially for women
No death threats etc allowed here

We may well be at risk of an influx of Mansplaining or BexitBots as a result of the recognition from MNHQ but we know what to do

BigChoc, I just found that during the referendum they were very complicit in allowing the Brexit Bots to get people deleted for nothing at all, amongst other things.

I agree BigChoc kudos to MN; where else is there a space for women to discuss this? And as you say, the feminism threads are massively important in british feminism right now. Essential.
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