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I'm catching up a bit with the "Starmer spoke to the President of Israel" thing. One possible explanation that's rather been missed is diplomatic courtesy- Israel is an ally, and you might reasonably want to inform them that you were going to table a motion about them. Of course, we don't know what was said- and nor should we. You either trust or you don't.

If it was part of a Herzog master plan, it's not ended very well. The Commons (albeit non binding) passed a fairly strong ceasefire motion, rather than having the SNP motion voted down by the Government. Sure there's been a fair bit of distraction from that, but it's not been Labour doing the distracting.

This came up on another forum it came from an interview when he was at the Munich security conference. He said he'd talked to both Isaac Herzog and the Prime Minister of Qatar about this. Anyway it didn't stop various people from claiming that Herzog had told him what to say.

You know who esle was vegetarian but not vegan?

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:16 pm

Best not tell Simon that Corbyn eats cheese. The trauma will be so great he’ll have to book an emergency appointment with his primal scream therapist

A likely story - fuck these twats, fuck phone-ins and fuck social media.

A circle jerk of activists talking to mostly client journalists.

Perfect is indeed the enemy of possible. Given a practical choice between helping elect a reasonably progressive left wing government that while by no means perfect is better than the alternative; or any other action, including inaction leading to the current shower of cunts getting more time in office, getting even more entrenched, and the electorate getting gaslighted and beaten down thus increasing the odds of them staying in power for fucking ever....this guy will go with option B because Starmer isn't quite good enough for him.

Fuck that guy.

Decades of the electorate showing that time and again they want a government at best centre-left and often veering to the far right yet still that lot think they know best.

You'd think that someone who (presumably) thinks eating meat is a bad thing might welcome the fact we're about to elect our first vegetarian PM...

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:22 am Fuck that guy.

With a pineapple. Raggedy end first.

Aye. A vegan pineapple and all.

Sideways.

The only character we’re getting an insight into here is the one of a man who will take literally any characteristic or action and fit it to a predetermined model.

If Starmer ate meat, he’d be a callous arsehole. If he was vegan, he’d be either lying or accused of being performative only.

I look forward to the attack ads accusing Veggie Kieth of doing stinky guffs.

Oboogie wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:44 am You'd think that someone who (presumably) thinks eating meat is a bad thing might welcome the fact we're about to elect our first vegetarian PM...

We currently have a veggie PM but he’s not going to talk about it. It’ll make him look like a do-gooder or remind Tory voters he’s not Christian but ‘one of that other lot that aren’t Muslims.’

Youngian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:21 pm

Oboogie wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:44 am You'd think that someone who (presumably) thinks eating meat is a bad thing might welcome the fact we're about to elect our first vegetarian PM...

We currently have a veggie PM but he’s not going to talk about it. It’ll make look like a do-gooder or remind Tory voters he’s not Christian but ‘one of that other lot that aren’t Muslims.’

I didn't realise Sunak was a vegetarian - I hear he doesn't talk about it much! I stand corrected.

As a good Hindu.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:41 pm As a good Hindu.

I know he's a Hindu (I'm unqualified to assess how 'good' he might be), but whilst many Hindus are vegetarian, most are not.

Samanfur wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:07 pmSideways.

Durian beats pineapple - every day.

Oboogie wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:03 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:41 pm As a good Hindu.

I know he's a Hindu (I'm unqualified to assess how 'good' he might be), but whilst many Hindus are vegetarian, most are not.

What’s a hindu?

It lays eggs.


I’ll get my coat.

No “we” got to elect him though?

As with all of these they probably voted Labour for 5 years in the last decade.

See it on X, “I’m a lifetime Labour voter but I can’t vote for Starmer”…. It’s bollocks.