Keir Starmer

[Shetland Don]

You are patently someone who believes free market economics is the optimum model.
My sort don't.
Therefore there's little scope for engagement.
Our experiences of the human condition obviously differs substantially.
"Socialist tripe universally taught in our schools " is Daily Mail level rhetoric not worthy of a response.
And for the avoidance of doubt I didn't claim to have a superior moral compass, just a different one.

What do you make of our recent signings?

It’s “Differ”!

[DonUnder]

Growing old is fu cking great.
Saw my best buddy (four days my senior) buried at 43, saw a mainstay of the Inverness Reds, with whom I'd stood alongside following the Dandies for the best part of quarter of a century, buried at 49, seen far too many taken far to young.
Growing old beats the alternative.
Mebbes I'm getting philosophical in my old age (and I cannot argue with Craig Finn's line in "Cheyanne sunrise" that "....some things they seem much harder, some other things stay soft") but I'm delighted to be galloping into that demographic.

Fair point I have also seen close friends drop off the perch and I am certainly grateful to still be in the fight. Suspect my knees and lower back had influence in my reply. Careful with the philosophising though you're likely to turn the Dail Mail into kindling.

[Shetland Don]

Are you denying that criticism of public sector pensions and salaries is a bell-cow oft rang by the right wing media?

Just informing you of who pays them, not criticising. Please stop saying “bell cow” in every second post and making assumptions as to who you think might read the Daily Mail FFS - it’s ubiquitous amongst “your types” to try to berate anyone whose politics are even marginally to the right of Marx, and quite rude too. Bell end, more like!

[Mason89]

Just informing you of who pays them, not criticising. Please stop saying “bell cow” in every second post and making assumptions as to who you think might read the Daily Mail FFS - it’s ubiquitous amongst “your types” to try to berate anyone whose politics are even marginally to the right of Marx, and quite rude too. Bell end, more like!

You repeatedly use attack lines on the Scottish government which are from the Daily Mail. You say you don’t read it & I certainly won’t doubt you but if it looks like a duck & quacks like a duck…

[InversneckieDob]

Just informing you of who pays them, not criticising. Please stop saying “bell cow” in every second post and making assumptions as to who you think might read the Daily Mail FFS - it’s ubiquitous amongst “your types” to try to berate anyone whose politics are even marginally to the right of Marx, and quite rude too. Bell end, more like!

So................is that "no"? 🤔

Is "lead influencer" a more acceptable term?

I'm always interested in the thinking of political moderates.

[Shetland Don]

So................is that "no"? ��

Is "lead influencer" a more acceptable term?

I'm always interested in the thinking of political moderates.

… away and continue swinging your lead more like, we’ll see you OK - no option, regrettably. Of course, you meant political mainstream. Over and out, got to work, not just turn up.

[donsdaft]

He works for the government, getting on a bit, so feels he has to keep up with what he thinks is modern jargon.

So bell cows are looking for hills to die on etc.

I hadn't heard either of them before but then I don't have to try to keep up with the youngsters in the office.


Not really a criticism of you sneckie min, the private sector is just as bad.
I watched the same thing happening to my brother in law during his final years at Shell.

Away to definitely not do any work, fancy a snooze.

[InversneckieDob]

… away and continue swinging your lead more like, we’ll see you OK - no option, regrettably. Of course, you meant political mainstream. Over and out, got to work, not just turn up.

Swinging the lead?
🤣
Far too many assumptions, cheeky monkey.

Or maybe you are an ignorant cu nt who makes assumptions about other people's work ethics?

[InversneckieDob]

He works for the government, getting on a bit, so feels he has to keep up with what he thinks is modern jargon.

So bell cows are looking for hills to die on etc.

I hadn't heard either of them before but then I don't have to try to keep up with the youngsters in the office.


Not really a criticism of you sneckie min, the private sector is just as bad.
I watched the same thing happening to my brother in law during his final years at Shell.

Away to definitely not do any work, fancy a snooze.

DD the phrases "small hill to die on" and "Bell cow " have both been in common parlance since the Pope was an alter boy.
Nae my fault if you and yer pal arnae upon "oldie speak".

[Shetland Don]

Swinging the lead?
🤣
Far too many assumptions, cheeky monkey.

Or maybe you are an ignorant cu nt who makes assumptions about other people's work ethics?

Clock watcher, clearly. Don’t normally do that but you’ve been taking far too many liberties on that front.

[donsdaft]

DD the phrases "small hill to die on" and "Bell cow " have both been in common parlance since the Pope was an alter boy.
Nae my fault if you and yer pal arnae upon "oldie speak".

Maybe too "oldie" for an as cool as fück punter like me.

I have spent some time in the alps and the sound of cows with bells is lovely, can't say it helps understand the saying though.
Cows don't follow the one with the bell, so it can't be that.

[57vintage]

“Bell cow” is new to me also.

But I can write a 400-word dummy press release liberally strewn with 1990s business speak à la Grampian Enterprise of that time, or of Scottish Government ministers and their SPADs to this day.

About ten minutes of my time should do it.

Going forward, of course.

[Shetland Don]

I’m starting to get this geriatric parlance, I think … me, the bell cow, I’m told, out in front, reading the Daily Mail as I lead, with the bell end, who calls folk cu nuts, following, reading the Guardian and munching on salad leaves as he stares at my dirty muck-crusted rear. I must check this for factual accuracy with Jorge Mario Bergoglio though.

[Mason89]

“Bell cow” is new to me also.

But I can write a 400-word dummy press release liberally strewn with 1990s business speak à la Grampian Enterprise of that time, or of Scottish Government ministers and their SPADs to this day.

About ten minutes of my time should do it.

Going forward, of course.

That’s the kind of blue sky thinking that’s missing round here. I’d definitely have to liaise with my colleagues in a buzz meeting before even attempting it

(I worked in a bank in the 90s)

[57vintage]

That’s the kind of blue sky thinking that’s missing round here. I’d definitely have to liaise with my colleagues in a buzz meeting before even attempting it

(I worked in a bank in the 90s)

Yes, let’s facilitate a thought shower on the critical success factors, and run the preferred stakeholder outcomes up the mast to see who salutes.