Election Year or Fear!

[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...kamala-harris/

[Andy_Faber]

if Labour takes power.

I think they've got enough on freezing British pensioners without taking on American ones TTR. Did you mean 'Republicans'?

[Trickytreesreds]

I think they've got enough on freezing British pensioners without taking on American ones TTR. Did you mean 'Republicans'?

No, LAMMY SAID THAT BEFORE LABOUR WERE IN POWER.
It makes this even more sensitive and provocative, in the here and now.

[swaledale]

I think they've got enough on freezing British pensioners without taking on American ones TTR. Did you mean 'Republicans'?

Getting peeved your going to miss out on your "wine" allowance?

[Andy_Faber]

Getting peeved your going to miss out on your "wine" allowance?

Not eligible Swale, if you paid attention you’d know I’m not retirement age and I don’t drink wine. Double fail.

[SithHappens]

Interesting that opinion polls still seem to have Harris ahead, but on X there are regularly posts claiming trump has moved significantly ahead.

Wonder why X seems to have a trump bias