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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Sep 13, 2024
  • #43,436
shmmeee said:
I doubt it’ll be in Moss Side or Blackpool either.

I quite like Birmingham as a political capital.
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Well when I said I'd use it as a regeneration tool for areas I was hardly talking Worsley or Bowden was I.
 

duffer

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  • Sep 14, 2024
  • #43,437
Sky Blue Pete said:
My boards report published today

HMP Rye Hill’s long term commitment to meaningful outcomes paying off - Independent Monitoring Boards

In its 2023-24 annual report, published today (13 September 2024), the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for HMP Rye Hill has
imb.org.uk

hard work on top of job but at least feels like some of what we do makes a difference
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Critical stuff, mate. We can't lock them all up forever, and performative cruelty is just going to make them worse than when they went in.

If you can just get some of them on the right path, it'll save everyone a bit of pain and money in the long run. That's a tough sell to the Daily Mail, obviously!
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Sep 14, 2024
  • #43,438
duffer said:
Critical stuff, mate. We can't lock them all up forever, and performative cruelty is just going to make them worse than when they went in.

If you can just get some of them on the right path, it'll save everyone a bit of pain and money in the long run. That's a tough sell to the Daily Mail, obviously!
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Agreed

Funny I saw I’d been quoted in the sun express and mail
 
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Skybluekyle

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  • Sep 14, 2024
  • #43,439
wingy said:
That from the last paragraph about the ombudsman would be quite lengthy process no?
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The process is simple, but takes a lot of time, yeah.

Having worked for the FOS, I have to say, they are run by very good people who know it could and should be more efficient.
 

chiefdave

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  • Sep 14, 2024
  • #43,440
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 14, 2024
  • #43,441
chiefdave said:
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Sack off Starmer and Reeves, sneak Andy Burnham in there ASAP
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,442
You just love to see it - Charities demand to meet UK ministers as 1.6m disabled OAPs set to lose winter fuel payments
 

Como

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,443
But their should be money for Starmers wife's clothes???????

 
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chiefdave

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,444
Pretty sure if you added up everything I've spent on clothes in my 50 years it wouldn't add up to 75K
 
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Como

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,445
1500 a year, I suppose there are people who spend more than that on clothes. Not me. But 75k?

The foreign secretary, David Lammy, has suggested it is routine for political donors to pay for outfits for prime ministers and their spouses, in a row over the late declaration of funds for a personal shopper and clothes for Keir Starmer’s wife, Victoria.

The donations by the Labour donor Waheed Alli, which paid for clothing for Victoria Starmer, were not initially declared in the register of MPs’ interests, the Sunday Times reported. The gift was registered late, after Starmer approached the parliamentary authorities on Tuesday following advice.

In an interview for the BBC, Lammy said donations were accepted so the Labour leader and his wife could “look their best”.
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David Lammy: PMs and partners rely on donors to help them ‘look their best’

Labour leader’s use of donations to pay for wife’s wardrobe is not unusual, suggests foreign secretary
www.theguardian.com

Now I did not know this, wonder who paid for Maggie's handbags?
 
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Como

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,446
Ohh he mentioned the US, and Dr Jill does not get a clothing allowance.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,447
He’s even worse at politics than his predecessor.
 
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Ian1779

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,448
Como said:
But their should be money for Starmers wife's clothes???????

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Grifters - the lot of them.
And the client journalists/commentators only job is to manufacture consent.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,449
Sick Boy said:
You just love to see it - Charities demand to meet UK ministers as 1.6m disabled OAPs set to lose winter fuel payments
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Get on the phone and tell them it's only while they're in campaign mode
 
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GIMOC

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,450



not a good weekend for Labour. public opinion changing and queen labour carol vorderman putting her account to private
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,451
I have to say it's funny really, Labour spent their entire campaign telling the left to get fucked and courting the undecided / Tory vote
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,452
fernandopartridge said:
I have to say it's funny really, Labour spent their entire campaign telling the left to get fucked and courting the undecided / Tory vote
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How to lose friends and alienate people for £1.4 billion: The Rachel Reeves Story
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,453
I'm not sure what they expected when so much of the shite they promised, they have gone back on?
 

shmmeee

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,454
Como said:
1500 a year, I suppose there are people who spend more than that on clothes. Not me. But 75k?



David Lammy: PMs and partners rely on donors to help them ‘look their best’

Labour leader’s use of donations to pay for wife’s wardrobe is not unusual, suggests foreign secretary
www.theguardian.com

Now I did not know this, wonder who paid for Maggie's handbags?
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GIMOC said:



not a good weekend for Labour. public opinion changing and queen labour carol vorderman putting her account to private
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Why is Carol Vorderman of all people your queen?
 

shmmeee

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,455
fernandopartridge said:
I have to say it's funny really, Labour spent their entire campaign telling the left to get fucked and courting the undecided / Tory vote
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I hate to break this to you but every Labour government ever will do this as it’s basic general election strategy. If you want your tummy tickled by parties of government you’ve picked the wrong politics. Same as the fringe right are about to find out.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,456
shmmeee said:
I hate to break this to you but every Labour government ever will do this as it’s basic general election strategy. If you want your tummy tickled by parties of government you’ve picked the wrong politics. Same as the fringe right are about to find out.
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Who are they courting now?
 

shmmeee

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  • Sep 15, 2024
  • #43,457
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Who are they courting now?
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Rachel Reeves’ Economics lecturers.
 

MalcSB

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  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,458
This Emperor - and his wife - does have new clothes, Just a scandal that as millionaires they didn’t pay for them themselves.
 
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wingy

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  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,459
Yes, fair criticism really!!
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,460
Como said:
But their should be money for Starmers wife's clothes???????

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In all seriousness, that buffoon has far too much power. If it kicks of with Russia, he is the one dictating our foreign policy. We're run by idiots.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,461
MalcSB said:
This Emperor - and his wife - does have new clothes, Just a scandal that as millionaires they didn’t pay for them themselves.
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You know that’s not the scandal right?

The scandal is he registered it late. Not that it was bought in the first place.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,462
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
In all seriousness, that buffoon has far too much power. If it kicks of with Russia, he is the one dictating our foreign policy. We're run by idiots.
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Says the man who buys Russian propaganda wholesale.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,463
shmmeee said:
You know that’s not the scandal right?

The scandal is he registered it late. Not that it was bought in the first place.
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The horrors!!

 

GIMOC

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  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,464
shmmeee said:
Why is Carol Vorderman of all people your queen?
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she was the Labour sweetheart during the election

now her, Neville and alike getting found they now either don’t post or go private

really strange behaviour
 
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wingy

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  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,465
GIMOC said:
she was the Labour sweetheart during the election

now her, Neville and alike getting found they now either don’t post or go private

really strange behaviour
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Oh god!
 

GIMOC

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,466
shmmeee said:
You know that’s not the scandal right?

The scandal is he registered it late. Not that it was bought in the first place.
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imagine another fella buying your wife underwear and clothes. I’d be ashamed and he’s our leader. sums up the state of this country
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,467
shmmeee said:
Says the man who buys Russian propaganda wholesale.
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What?
 

MalcSB

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  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,468
shmmeee said:
You know that’s not the scandal right?

The scandal is he registered it late. Not that it was bought in the first place.
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I know that it’s the late registration that is the scandal.

However, it is also scandalous that in the first place the millionaire Starmer thought receiving new clothes and glasses to the value of several years state pension followed by issuing a Downing Street pass to the donor would be seen as being acceptable.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,469
MalcSB said:
I know that it’s the late registration that is the scandal.

However, it is also scandalous that in the first place the millionaire Starmer thought receiving new clothes and glasses to the value of several years state pension followed by issuing a Downing Street pass to the donor would be seen as being acceptable.
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I want him and Reeves to resign their positions and two people with their heads screwed on to replace them. We can’t afford for this to be a one term government followed by another monster Tory majority.
 
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MalcSB

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  • Sep 16, 2024
  • #43,470
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I want him and Reeves to resign their positions and two people with their heads screwed on to replace them. We can’t afford for this to be a one term government followed by another monster Tory majority.
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Where are you going to find even one person with their head screwed on?
 
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