Sir Keir Starmer #2

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Mollywobbles said:
I’m retired.
At home all day, except when I am out doing voluntary work at the hospital.
Mortgage paid, some savings. A small work pension so we can cope. Small three bed house, not a mansion.
I have arthritis and an autoimmune condition so feel the cold.
Not just cold, it’s actually painful.
The winter fuel allowance stopped me worrying.
Today I am wearing a thermal vest and woolly jumper. And fingerless mittens.
I have a quilt that I have over my knees.
I am reluctant to put the heating on as it’s only November and I have no idea what it will be like in January and February.
I’m not poor, can’t claim any benefits.
But having paid in all my life I feel let down
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I feel you on this. In visiting my mother in law in Swansea (she has motor neurones disease which is really progressive) and we’re currently living in Savannah. My gosh is it cold here. I have arthritis in my knees and I don’t feel it there but coming back here is like being hit by a sledgehammer everyday at the moment.

We were renting before we moved away and were hoping to buy. We were looking to buy a social housing home (help to buy scheme) as regular houses are too expensive. I don’t know how people afford to buy! We’re not frivolous with our money, we work hard, we don’t buy things we don’t need or splash the cash on silly things. But still rent and give it to selfish landlords who don’t give a tit.

So when my husband got the chance for a job in the US we went. We may be back in a few years when his visa finishes but it was an experience. Not sure what the housing market will be like then, probably worse if Rayner has her way!
 
Theodore said:
this has gone up by a million in the couple of days since I looked last.

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: Call a General Election

I would like there to be another General Election. I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.
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We really are a pathetic people aren’t we?
 
Even the right wing Spectator has taken a dim view of it:

"To state what should be obvious, the UK electorate is more than 46 million strong. The existence of a million idiots somewhere in the world with internet connections doesn’t constitute a mandate for constitutional change in the UK. If you don’t like the way Keir Starmer is running the country – and I’m in qualified sympathy with people who take that view – there’s a long-established remedy for that, which is to vote him out when his government’s term is over"

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/those-signing-the-general-election-petition-should-know-better/
 
Theodore said:
this has gone up by a million in the couple of days since I looked last.

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: Call a General Election

I would like there to be another General Election. I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.
petition.parliament.uk petition.parliament.uk
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I hope those Russian bots are charging overtime. They must be absolutely knackered.
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I’ve signed this with my special crayon.
Any takers?
 
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margaretta said:
I find it terrifying what is happening. It’s like a nightmare you can’t wake up from.
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Give him a chance, I thought, when Labour won.

Nope, to me Labour have actually managed to be worse than the Tories and I didn't think that was possible. Not that the Tories aren't an indefensible shitshow in their own way but I see what's happening every day just now and DAMN.
 
lilyannrose said:
Give him a chance, I thought, when Labour won.

Nope, to me Labour have actually managed to be worse than the Tories and I didn't think that was possible. Not that the Tories aren't an indefensible shitshow in their own way but I see what's happening every day just now and DAMN.
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BIB I was the same - Give him a chance . . . he's a lawyer - he's playing the long game . . . there's a lot wrong to put right etc

But the only game he's playing seems to be the one where he turns our very tolerant, very caring country into some sort of dystopian nightmare.
 
TheMiceInTheShed said:
BIB I was the same - Give him a chance . . . he's a lawyer - he's playing the long game . . . there's a lot wrong to put right etc

But the only game he's playing seems to be the one where he turns our very tolerant, very caring country into some sort of dystopian nightmare.
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If he is playing the long game then 5 months isn’t exactly long, especially when there’s 14 years of shitshow to undo.
 
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