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Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 7:34 pm
by kreuzberger
Oboogie wrote: Sat Sep 13, 2025 7:15 pm ...back to the discos then. Thanks.
My plaice or yours?

Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 7:52 pm
by Oboogie
Fish* Discos

* I'm as aware as you pedants that a prawn is not a fish but, no matter how much you grizzle, I'm claiming comedic licence. It's a fucking sea creature and that's close enough. :D

Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 9:28 pm
by The Weeping Angel
I'm seeing this sentiment quite a lot on Bluesky.



Their anger isn't so much at the yobs but at Ministers who say what they want to say.

Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:03 pm
by kreuzberger
Suggesting the condemnation of violent racists and the incitement of billionaire Nazis is hardly sitting on the fence.

I might be wrong, but I would suggest that a lot of people voted for Starmer not merely because he wasn't a tory, but because they liked the cut of his jib - a decent man who best articulated everyone else's frustrations/disgust/anger when he was on the front foot.

Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:24 pm
by Youngian
The Weeping Angel wrote: Sat Sep 13, 2025 9:28 pm I'm seeing this sentiment quite a lot on Bluesky.



Their anger isn't so much at the yobs but at Ministers who say what they want to say.
When has a government ever commented on a Saturday afternoon demo? Apart from the ludicrous Braverman whose shit stirring resulted in a punch up with the police at the Cenotaph and cost her job.

Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:27 pm
by The Weeping Angel
Youngian wrote: Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:24 pm
The Weeping Angel wrote: Sat Sep 13, 2025 9:28 pm I'm seeing this sentiment quite a lot on Bluesky.



Their anger isn't so much at the yobs but at Ministers who say what they want to say.
When has a government ever commented on a Saturday afternoon demo? Apart from the ludicrous Braverman whose shit stirring resulted in a punch up with the police at the Cenotaph and cost her job.
Here's what Shabana Mahmood had to say.


Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:36 pm
by Youngian
Why is Mahmood stating the bleedin obvious?

Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 11:11 pm
by The Weeping Angel
It's not that different from what Ed Davey had to say.


Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 11:12 pm
by The Weeping Angel
It's not different from what Ed Davey had to say.