OldishBird

Kemi Badenoch continues to rely on personal attacks on Labour ministers and rarely lands even the lightest blow on Starmer. I do wonder how long Tory voters will tolerate this poor leadership.

England's bathing water amongst the worst in Europe Figures just released by the Department for the Environment reveal that just 64% of England's bathing water sites are reaching "excellent" status. Bathing water sites are areas of rivers and seas whic...

🚨 NEW 🚨 Data just out would put England in the bottom 4 nations in Europe for bathing water cleanliness.

Only 64% of sites meet the "the highest, cleanest classification."

Based on 2023 data, JUST Albania, Poland, and Hungary performed worse. weownit.org.uk/england-amon...

North Yorkshire recently did this. It will be a good pilot study. When it was two tier there was a lot of duplication and some tension between the two tiers who were sometimes politically very different.

People on X (including Musk) getting tremendously excited about a petition to have an election which has a couple of hundred thousand signatures. They seem oblivious to the fact that it’s the PM not Parliament that calls the election and we’ve just had one resulting in a large majority for Labour.

Me too!

Sigh - classic fact free nonsense. ‘news’ story here totally fails to mention that Tory plans were for fines of £5k (later reduced to £3k) for each missed heat pump sale. What @Ed_Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”

I’m fans of neither and wouldn’t be taking my moral steer on anything from either one.

That’s becoming my habit too. I’m popping over to Musktown only to see what’s happening at the zoo and to throw the odd grenade.

I hope he’s not armed.

Can’t blame them for trying. What’s the betting they all post record profits in due course?

Surely a bag of Ringos would do it?

Isn’t it amazing how much noise the privileged can make in defence of their own privileged status? If they had ever made a tenth of that noise in defence of the underprivileged I might be more inclined to listen.

Won’t someone think of the overpriced designer tat producers.

I was an economist at the BoE at the same time as she worked there. She was an economist. I walked past her desk a few times a day. I read notes she wrote. Attended the same meetings. The last time I wrote this on Twitter someone replied 'you supported masks and lockdown'.

Sadly I think that’s what’s left of his friendship group and family all share his awful views. He’s beyond help.

He used to be a half decent actor. Now he’s not even remotely a half decent human being.

I am amused by the latest attack line against Starmer regarding him going overseas. We’ve had a government which has damaged relations with our near neighbours, we have an insecure world and the need to encourage trade. Is he supposed to address all that from Downing Street?

Had to be done!

Voters expect him to be a statesman on the international stage on our behalf. These stories are just opposition attack lines taken up by those who should know better.

Am I the only one to think that Cummings is the Emperor’s New Clothes? A man who thinks himself to be incredibly bright but is wrong about almost everything?

Not ‘purely’ terrible but the near constant abuse from those who disagree with you, personal attacks in response even to purely factual posts and failure to engage with the issue rationally has become really corrosive. I want to hear arguments not sexist, demeaning slurs.

It’s pulsing with something rank and disgusting. Like the worst episode ever of Dr Pimple Popper.

Finally got fed up of the ignorant asshats in the other place!

So here I am, somewhere over the rainbow and about to get started. Hoping for a better, kinder, more informed but equally lively debate!