Keir Starmer

[Donanddusted]

A tip if you're on your phone:
If your post is not to your liking, copy the body of the text then go to make an amendment. When it disappears, paste your old text on a new post and make the corrections before posting as a new one.
I do it all the time..

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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".

[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 Ã* 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.