[The Weeping Angel]

I'm seeing a lot of claims that Starmer is finished after this week. A prime example here

[Tubby Isaacs]

Theresa May went on for 2 years, then they changed leader and won the election. Had she not been egregiously fucked about by her party, she'd have gone on for longer than 2 years.

[The Weeping Angel]

People think he'll be gone after the May elections.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He might be. In the meantime, here's Andrew Fisher with a strange concern for what we might call "rich people's problems". Anything to stick it to Starmer.

https://bsky.app/profile/gabrielmilland ... nf4q63cc2c

[The Weeping Angel]

He might be. In the meantime, here's Andrew Fisher with a strange concern for what we might call "rich people's problems". Anything to stick it to Starmer.

https://bsky.app/profile/gabrielmilland ... nf4q63cc2c

Gabriel blocked me for some reason. So I can't see the post.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Fisher has gone for Lord Alli moving out some tenants then hiking the rent. Gabriel points out that the rent is £57,000 a year, so it isn't Cathy Come Home.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yep, It's not good, but,,,

[Youngian]

Leadership is forged in crisis, if you can catergorise this pile of wiffle and some self inflicted gaffes as crises.

[The Weeping Angel]

Fisher has gone for Lord Alli moving out some tenants then hiking the rent. Gabriel points out that the rent is £57,000 a year, so it isn't Cathy Come Home.

I saw that. It's a non-story.

[Youngian]

This Lord Alli isn't a Labour MP but if you are and fortunate enough to have some spare dosh stick it in deposit and ISA accounts at the Co-op bank. You won't take a huge financial hit compared to property rental investment and certainly worth it for a quiet life. Or buy expensive arts and antiques created by noted lefties.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Boiler]

I see the press (especially the Mail) are having a field day that the first "one in, one out" migrant flight has been thwarted. I can imagine an outbreak of "The Gush"* has occurred in Derry Street, judging by their front page.

* A reference to a sketch in the comedy show Jam, m'Lud.

[kreuzberger]

I thought that Starmer did well today, massaging metaphorical goose fat in to the folds of Trump's hideous carcass. It was so performative that Starmer was sending every possible signal that he was merely pulling his chain, safe in the knowledge that Faulty-Seven has no one in his inner circle who will break the news.

A couple of days' oleaginous simpering and $300 bn (hopefully) in the bank. Job done.

[Youngian]

Does Trump know when he’s being indulged by people who really hate him? He supposed to be able to read people but hardly a reflective character.

[Abernathy]

Does Trump know when he’s being indulged by people who really hate him? He supposed to be able to read people but hardly a reflective character.

No, I honestly don’t think he does. He is possibly the stupidest US president there has ever been.

[kreuzberger]

We are all being given access to look behind the curtain and to see quite what a cabbage we are all being invited to deal with, yet the Establishment stays stumm.

Exhibit A (and a bit). The BBC endlessly plays out Trump's references to "King" William. The guy is obviously congenitally limited.

[Boiler]

Trump's being a seer into the future...

But seriously... if Biden had said that...?