Election Year or Fear!

[Andy_Faber]

As it’s approaching that time of year I have to say, ‘you’re beginning to sound a lot like’...Tricky!!
Perhaps it would be best to pause and ponder on what went before…if not for the whole of the previous fourt*en years then at least for the last six…and that’s four prime ministers who all left either in tears or under a very sizeable ‘cloud’.

We’ve had a decade of your whingeing and moaning, I would guess Tricky is just getting into gear. To quote headmaster Rooney, you’re just going to have to suck it up buttercup

[Geoff Parkstone]

They were subject to criticism 2.5 years ago when they laid the staff off (rightly so) and no doubt suffered backlash, penalties etc. The matter was dealt with. To bring it back up at a sensitive time when looking for major infrastructural investment from the group is utter madness and leaves one wondering how safe a pair of hands UK is in.

Next thing is we will be on the brink of a major trade deal with Germany and she will mention the war....

[MadAmster]

MA I had let it drop, and told Andy so in PM.

Here is what I quoted to him

I didn't reply because it wasn't worth it. I never said he didn't have an uncle in the Falklands, but its really conincidental, that he didn't even know Antelope was bombed and not torpedoed. If he really was that passionate, anyone would be well aware. Personally, its a Starmer anecdote written all over it, like Millands bacon sandwich and Camerons pasty. Trying to look normal.

Fact, his Uncle WAS on the Antelope.

[SithHappens]

At least he was in the right ball park, he could have said his uncle had survived a sausage attack

[swaledale]

They were subject to criticism 2.5 years ago when they laid the staff off (rightly so) and no doubt suffered backlash, penalties etc. The matter was dealt with. To bring it back up at a sensitive time when looking for major infrastructural investment from the group is utter madness and leaves one wondering how safe a pair of hands UK is in.

Next thing is we will be on the brink of a major trade deal with Germany and she will mention the war....

Please do explain how the matter "was dealt with"? It wasn't, there was some noise and then the company carried on as they had, nobody was reinstated, they are still paying lower wages than UK workers. If a politician can't say the truth then hey ho what do you want?

In any case this is just posturing, they have too much money at stake not to invest. If we want anything approaching "responsible capitalism" then these companies need to know there are standards they ahve to work to. But I guess it doesn't affect you so you don't care?

[Trickytreesreds]

At least he was in the right ball park, he could have said his uncle had survived a sausage attack

Well a sausage is a banger as well

[ramAnag]

WeÂ’ve had a decade of your whingeing and moaning, I would guess Tricky is just getting into gear. To quote headmaster Rooney, youÂ’re just going to have to suck it up buttercup

Wow…someone’s sounding bitter and twisted today. Becoming difficult to tell you and TTR apart.
A decade of my ‘whingeing and moaning’? Really?
I only joined the forum eight years ago and yes, I’ve said plenty about Brexit, Johnson, Hancock, Truss, Farage, Rwanda. You might call it ‘whingeing and moaning’ because we invariably disagree. I’d call it ‘contributing to the forum/debate’.
How are they all going btw? I hear one of those four individuals mentioned is now an MP. The other three…along with Brexit and Rwanda…seem largely discredited…no longer MP’s…let alone PM’s.
Far be it from me to say, ‘I told you so…’, but…well let’s just see. It takes a while to turn things around, be it businesses, schools, football clubs or even countries after long periods of mismanagement.

[Trickytreesreds]

Wow…someone’s sounding bitter and twisted today. Becoming difficult to tell you and TTR apart.
A decade of my ‘whingeing and moaning’? Really?
I only joined the forum eight years ago and yes, I’ve said plenty about Brexit, Johnson, Hancock, Truss, Farage, Rwanda. You might call it ‘whingeing and moaning’ because we invariably disagree. I’d call it ‘contributing to the forum/debate’.
How are they all going btw? I hear one of those four individuals mentioned is now an MP. The other three…along with Brexit and Rwanda…seem largely discredited…no longer MP’s…let alone PM’s.
Far be it from me to say, ‘I told you so…’, but…well let’s just see. It takes a while to turn things around, be it businesses, schools, football clubs or even countries after long periods of mismanagement.

You are correct in that last part.
The Tories said the same when taking it off Brown.
I think the point being raised RA, you have had your bitch and that is your right. I am bitching because the lies are unravelling faster than Katie Prices driving license.
Its no coincidence that Starmers rating is the lowest ever.
I said before this election, that this lot will be as bad if not worse than the Tories.
You may not want to hear that, but I am going to keep saying it.
I wish I had been wrong, but the story thus far doesn't suggest that.

[Andy_Faber]

I only joined the forum eight years ago

That’s either a deliberate ‘politician’s answer’ or your memory’s failing you. Mine isn’t, Anagram

[ramAnag]

That’s either a deliberate ‘politician’s answer’ or your memory’s failing you. Mine isn’t, Anagram

Best you can do? Yes you’re quite right…there was a (short I think) time before I had to change my ‘title’ for technical (not behavioural) reasons. Honestly can’t remember how long - I was a newbie then - but in any case there was very little that was political on here prior to the pre and post referendum stuff.
You rarely posted then and there were more fallouts over Rats in those days…so much so that half of us followed GP (then RR) to some Scottish site for a while…before we were ‘evicted’.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Best you can do? Yes you’re quite right…there was a (short I think) time before I had to change my ‘title’ for technical (not behavioural) reasons. Honestly can’t remember how long - I was a newbie then - but in any case there was very little that was political on here prior to the pre and post referendum stuff.
You rarely posted then and there were more fallouts over Rats in those days…so much so that half of us followed GP (then RR) to some Scottish site for a while…before we were ‘evicted’.

East Fife if I remember correctly, but I thought it was Swale who found the little pocket of non Rattiness

[ramAnag]

East Fife if I remember correctly, but I thought it was Swale who found the little pocket of non Rattiness

All too long ago and too inconsequential, GP. As far as I recall it was one Roger Ramjet who suggested I tag along. Whatever happened to him?

[Geoff Parkstone]

He suffered the same fate as Anagram....

[Trickytreesreds]

So much for smashing the gangs then anytime soon.
Starmer just signed up with the Home Office, new contracts to run migrant processing centres in Kent with expiry dates set to 2032.

The contract, worth a whopping £521 million, requires a firm to manage the Manston and Kent migrant processing centres, including staffing, security and healthcare.

This follows on from the new Immigration task force guru, saying Labours plans to stop the boats won't work.
So back to square one we go.

[Trickytreesreds]

Well, well , well. This interesting , if not a little disturbing. Labour actively interferring in US politics.
This has sparked criticism from Conservative figures and Republicans in the US, with many describing the plan as an "outrage."

Labour has yet to officially comment on the matter, but the decision to send party staff to the US has already drawn significant media attention.

David Lammy, Shadow Foreign Secretary, has been a vocal critic of Trump in the past, making statements that could complicate any future diplomacy between the two nations if Labour takes power.

His past comments, calling Trump a "racist KKK and Nazi sympathizer," have already drawn fire from Trump supporters.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/17/labour-sends-staff-help-democrats-us-election-kamala-harris/