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DustyDiamond · 21/01/2020 15:07

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Welcome to The Westminster Arms!

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A non-partisan politics pub thread for political chit chat....!!

Please stick within MN talk guidelines - any posts which you think may have crossed the line, please report rather than getting into scraps on thread 😠

Political punch-ups are soooo last decade - ain't nobody got time for that 🥊❌

Be nice! Be respectful!

S'ok to slag off politicians, but not other posters 🍻

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EpicIndividual · 21/01/2020 21:43

😂😂😂😂😂😂 well done dusty!

EpicIndividual · 21/01/2020 21:45

Jess’ face is the best bit!

time4chocolate · 21/01/2020 21:46

You’re too quick for me Epic* you were posting whilst I was still at the copying and pasting stage of my ‘compare and contrast’😊

DustyDiamond · 21/01/2020 21:48

Poor Jess..... 😔

Imagine coming onto a forum full of lovely mummies for a fluff piece chat & then realising it's MUMSNET 😱😱😱😱

Where politicians go to DIE 😳😳😳😳

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EpicIndividual · 21/01/2020 21:52

Haha, sorry Time4! 😂😂 more research is of course welcomed on this important subject though! 😉

I know right dusty?

It’s the most brutal place on the internet!

Bless her. 😂 Almost feel sorry for her to be fair.

EpicIndividual · 21/01/2020 21:53

I haven’t even fully read it yet, but I can only imagine what it was like. 😂

Coppersulphate · 21/01/2020 22:03

Just got back,
Settle in by the fire. Large 🍷 please and some nuts or something.
Bad day.
Thanks for the pics. They have cheered me up.
Sorry about your little dog Xing. Arthritis is painful.

I think Lisa Nandy is good. She is the Wigan MP and I get the impression she is local. I was impressed by the fact that she wants action on local buses because many people use them for work. There is no tram system locally. She seems to know what the Wigan people actually do want rather than what the Labour Party tells them they want.
I think she is grounded and I think Boris would not try and take her apart. She's not arrogant like ET.

hospitalityinspector · 21/01/2020 22:27

Article in Sunday Times by Adam Boulton on Lisa Nandy.
'Her Father is Dipak Nandy, a distinguished Marxist and Academic. Her maternal Grandfather, Frank Byers was a liberal MP and life peer.'

That labour race pic Grin. They all look so funny.

EpicIndividual · 21/01/2020 22:43

Oh dear. Does that mean she is a Marxist? 😬

Obvs don’t want to assume her politics are aligned with those of her father, but given the circumstances it’s obviously quite possible. If she is, that’s a big turn off for me (personally speaking) as I imagine it would be for many others... (voters I mean, not members).

hospitalityinspector · 21/01/2020 23:01

LN's Father reportedly regards his daughter as insufficiently left wing according to Adam Boulton in Sunday Times.

EpicIndividual · 21/01/2020 23:05

Phew! That’ll do me. 😂

SingingLily · 22/01/2020 06:48

Morning, all,

As we settle back into a familiar routine, here is this morning's round-up of the day ahead...

The HoL have tacked yet another amendment to the WA bill (so far, rights of EU citizens, child refugees, No to Clause 33, No to courts lower than the Supreme Court overruling EU law). There may be another amendment but I kind of lost count.

Today, the amendments ping back to the HoC (which has already rejected most of these amendments and the rest are expressly against manifesto commitments and the Queen's Speech). Once the HoC has voted, the bill pings back to the HoL for consideration and third reading.

And there's PMQs of course.

In summary: busy day, PMQs, final ping pong. Hope Boris's team keeps him supplied with plenty of tea, coffee and sustenance.

In other news, the HuffPost reports:

"Still, an excellent day for Nandy was capped by a Channel 4 News focus group of ex-Labour voters tonight, showing unanimous support for her as the candidate to best win back their votes (although Emily Thornberry did well too). The comments for Starmer (“corporate”, “boring”) and Long-Bailey (“Corbyn clone” “angry”) were less than flattering. In a striking tumbleweed moment, not a single hand went up for Long-Bailey at the end. But only a couple went up for Starmer too. If he does win this thing, he’s got a lot of work to do with focus groups like that."

Closer to home, I am shocked that LangCleg has been banned. That is a serious loss. Her posts were the epitome of cold clear logic. I sincerely hope she finds her way back.

With the Landlady's kind permission, the complimentary breakfast tray is back - sausage butties. Cumberland or Lincolnshire, of course.

Kettle's on ☕️☕️☕️

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SingingLily · 22/01/2020 06:53

Dipak Nandy was the architect of the Race Relations Act 1976.

His Marxist views don't sit well with me but I take my hat off to him for this. A fine achievement and huge step forward.

DustyDiamond · 22/01/2020 07:12

Thanks Lily 😊
Morning all Brew

I'm full on #TeamNandy now - future photoshop pics will invariably be driven by my bias now...! 😂

Lady Hyacinth-Tottenham-Thornberry is far too interested in stoking division & anger for my liking (one of my pet hates of Jezbollah & Mao ze-Donnell as well), Wrong-Daily is an angry wee puppet & Keir Starmer (no nickname for him as he's soooo grey & boring I lost the will to live just trying to think of one) is just blah 🙄
(May just call him 'white noise' or 'Static' from now on 🤷🏻‍♀️)

Need to get ready for work now - will pop by later 😍

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DustyDiamond · 22/01/2020 07:22

In fact - a quick pic hot off the press of #StaticStarmer

🥱 😴

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MrsSnippyPants · 22/01/2020 09:23

Sausage butties, you legend Singing Pint of Earl Grey to go with please.

Might be a day for Parliament TV today, confined to the sofa as I am with a cough like a walrus’s mating call. Dead poorly me

hospitalityinspector · 22/01/2020 09:24

Dusty's StaticStarmer looks like one of those things you press your hand in to make your hand shape.

Interesting how many on this thread are settling on Lisa Nandy. I slowly picked her out over the last 3 years. She's different, she listens and is tough enough to go against the front bench for her constituents. Brave enough to vote for the WA and still kept her seat. Will this go against her?

Nice to see breakfast is back Lily thank you.

Lily Does that mean another week of ping-ponging for the third reading, so next week before it's finalised?

Coppersulphate · 22/01/2020 09:39

Morning all, and thanks for the breakfast Singing. Just what's needed and a large cup of weak tea please.

The WA bill should have no trouble in the HoL second time because I think tradition has it that they don't go against the HoC twice. But you never know.

Amazing that Sir K and RWD were not liked. Sounds good to me.
Can the Westminster Arms endorse Nandy. Would that count🤔🤔
I don't remember LangCleg? Can anyone remind me or is that also against MN rules

hospitalityinspector · 22/01/2020 09:40

Brexit: SNP makes last-ditch bid to stop Boris Johnson’s EU withdrawal bill becoming law

Yahoo>Independent link:
uk.yahoo.com/news/brexit-snp-makes-last-ditch-071614825.html

XingMing · 22/01/2020 09:44

I must read Adam Boulton's profile for Lisa Nandy. She's shaping up well and rather stealthily.

Great meme Dusty... is that Sir John Major? Which is my impression of Sir Keir.

XingMing · 22/01/2020 09:46

Our endorsement might be misinterpreted.

Coppersulphate · 22/01/2020 09:48

Interesting news from twitter

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Walkingdeadfangirl · 22/01/2020 09:49

Ian Blackford is demanding to the right to speak to the Queen so he can tell her to stop Brexit because its not fair. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Coppersulphate · 22/01/2020 09:53

OMG Xing, do you think the Queen will agree to see him?
She can't/daren't go against the govt with such a big majority.
If she did Dom would be on to it and the RF would be toast
And JRM would not give permission.
Honestly some folk never give up

hospitalityinspector · 22/01/2020 09:55

Very interesting Copper thanks for that.
Here's a meatier Reuters link to the news:

uk.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-banks/a-thousand-eu-financial-firms-plan-to-open-uk-offices-after-brexit-idUKKBN1ZJ00D