To say I am fucking elated that this bunch of charlatans are on there way out

[Doyouhonestlyexpectmetobelieve]

My God I hated Thatcjer and all she stood for .. but at least I think she was honourable in her beliefs even if they were not mine .. but THIS LOT .. from BOJO onwards what a bunch of grifters ..

And before anyone says 'they are all the same ' .. I really don't think so ... At least in the 'lining their own pockets ' agenda .. AIBU to think this ?

Too much detail

Oh god. Please let them call a GE soon. Not sure I can be arsed with months of feeding the 🐿

James Cleverly - Lord Cameron's predecessor as Foreign Secretary - was revealed to have spent £422,747 on hiring the same type of plane for a week-long tour of the Caribbean and Latin America!!!!

Liz Truss has form as well

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/09/liz-truss-foreign-secretary-overseas-trips-cost

StarlingsForever
Yawn! His mother was a nurse, his father a toolmaker. They were both strong labour supporters and Starmer was named after Keir Hardie. You don't get much more solid Labour roots than that.

In fact, nurses were listed under 'middle class' in the list I was looking at. Starmer's father only listened to classical music on the radio - solid Labour roots.

30miles for a holiday means that you are working class.
Gastro pub suggest upper lower middle class.
Driving depends on the type of vehicle. If it was a donkey and cart, then that confirms the working class diagnosis, whereas if it were something with an infernal combustion engine when combined with the gastro pub (cont on p94).

DuncinToffee
Liz Truss has form as well

Pointless comparison - Keir Starmer and David Lammy are not in government. I take it that Labour are planning a manifesto pledge not to use private jets or helicopters?

I have a friend who was a former Tory minister. He said he voted Labour for the first time ever in the local
elections and will be voting Labour in the General Election too. He’s disgusted with the state of the Tory party and what they have become.

He is not alone, the Prime Minister couldn't bring himself to vote for his party's candidate for Mayor of London.

Classical music can reach the radios of the hoi polloi.

😂Have you any idea how ridiculous you sound? Are Labour supporters not allowed to listen to classical music, little serfs that they are?! Starmer's background was staunchly Labour, fact.

JessS1990
30miles for a holiday means that you are working class

It was a day trip.

Gastro pub suggest upper lower middle class

Are scallops and sea bass lower middle class?

Driving depends on the type of vehicle

A German model - hybrid.

Remember the stick Angela Rayner got for attending an opera at Glyndebourne?

A German hybrid, I am pleasantly surprised.

Depends how you pronounce "scallops". For that matter, "hyperbole" which you seem to be very into, but can you pronounce it properly? Surely not a Beamer, that's a bit too brash for my sensibilities? Or if it's a VW, do you realise that literally means "car of the people"?! A bit lefty, no.

Agree, I hated Thatcher, ( being a Steelworker's daughter), and hate the Tories and everything they stand for.

StarlingsForever
Starmer's background was staunchly Labour, fact

I hear Starmer's parents gritted their teeth filling out the bursary application forms for his private sixth form. When he attended the Guildhall School of Music on Saturday mornings his parents pretended he was working in the stock room of a local supermarket...

Anyway I'm bored now - dh has made tea.

When you are in a hole, start shoveling

Yes, his background was staunchly labour. If you can't understand how people can be educated, musical and support Labour then I am very sorry but that is your own narrow-minded problem.

Why should his parents have to take him out of a school he joined as a state school pre A-levels? Big deal if they had to fill in a means tested bursary form. Given his obvious academic and musical credentials, guessing he would have been a strong candidate for a bursary at a much bigger name school than Reigate Grammar but they kept him in the school he signed up for at eleven. Nothing to see here.

Not nearly as bored as we are. Is dh making tea a euphemism for "I've dug myself a hole and I think I will disappear"?

@Letmehaveabloodyusernameplease Thank you for that heartfelt and genuine post in a sea of absolute nonsense about class and hospitality expenses.

You don't have to be working class to want a better life for others, especially those less fortunate than yourself.

I'm trying to work this out, is it all classical music that the working classes are not to listen to or only particular composers?

@Clavinova Is that tea (a cup of) or tea (your evening meal)?

These things are important in politics and also classical music, apparently.

Brass band music - compulsory.

Anything else - out of our hearing range.