BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

I mean, what possible interest would three spies, just convicted of spying for Russia, have had in Brexit? Maybe they were sightseeing, and just popped in to see the committee room.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj4kze7kvdo

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

So Canada and Australia saw the mess caused by the loonies in the US and said fück that. But the UK, and Starmer in particular, refuses to learn the lessons.

I am getting more and more convinced that Starmer is being led by policy decisions being made by McSweeney. They just seem obsessed with chasing reform voters. The apparent latest policy to bring down migration through reducing oversees uni students is just lunacy. Firstly, people have no issue with foreign student numbers and secondly their inflated uni fees now effectively bankroll most Universities. They seem to be enacting policy to appeal to 0.1% of the population.

 

[briantrumpet]

I am getting more and more convinced that Starmer is being led by policy decisions being made by McSweeney. They just seem obsessed with chasing reform voters. The apparent latest policy to bring down migration through reducing oversees uni students is just lunacy. Firstly, people have no issue with foreign student numbers and secondly their inflated uni fees now effectively bankroll most Universities. They seem to be enacting policy to appeal to 0.1% of the population.

It's a bit like a forum being fixated with one loon, and allowing every discussion to get hijacked by his talking points.

As it stands, Starmer is just recuiting for Reform on the right, and the Lib Dems and Greens anywhere to the left of Farage. I think he's getting extremely bad advice - I would hope that the actual voting patterns persuade him to change tack - how timid he is about the EU reset will be an indicator how scared he is of saying anything to upset the Faily Mail readers.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

It's a bit like a forum being fixated with one loon, and allowing every discussion to get hijacked by his talking points.

As it stands, Starmer is just recuiting for Reform on the right, and the Lib Dems and Greens anywhere to the left of Farage. I think he's getting extremely bad advice - I would hope that the actual voting patterns persuade him to change tack - how timid he is about the EU reset will be an indicator how scared he is of saying anything to upset the Faily Mail readers.

I have to admit to being wrong up to this point, I felt Starmer was quite principled and single minded in his decision making, but I agree he seems to be getting and taking a lot of bad advice. He (and by implication his govt.) just seems to be floating aimlessly at present, changing tack on a whim on occasion in the hope they will find their course. Starmer needs to show a bit of stubborness, define his own policy and set an agenda to govern around this.

 

[First Aspect]

Politicians are supposed to follow the will of the people you know. And like it or lot, there is a prevailing anti immigration sentiment across much of the west.

A positive spin on the announcement is that it is needed to accommodate the increase in students coming from the EU as of right if we rejoin the Erasmus scheme.

 

[Pross]

I mean, what possible interest would three spies, just convicted of spying for Russia, have had in Brexit? Maybe they were sightseeing, and just popped in to see the committee room.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj4kze7kvdo

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Shame they left their Novichok at home.

 

[briantrumpet]

As it doesn't really fit in anywhere else... kinda surprised people who post professionally don't delete posts with mistakes in them that have been pointed out, especially when their profession is writing stuff down. I was actually trying to be helpful...

 

[Ian H]

Who is Britain, anyway?

 

[orraloon]

Who is Britain

Nae sae guid the noo, ken.

 

[briantrumpet]

Maybe bring part of a large trading bloc has some benefits.

 

[C R]

Maybe bring part of a large trading bloc has some benefits.

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But we'll get a much better deal than that beastly EU, pinky promise.*

*As soon as we agree to eat chlorinated chicken and hormonated beef and allow the US "health" industry to gut the NHS.

 

[briantrumpet]

But we'll get a much better deal than that beastly EU, pinky promise.*

*As soon as we agree to eat chlorinated chicken and hormonated beef and allow the US "health" industry to gut the NHS.

*not forgetting that Trump is gutting most of the regulatory agencies that monitor public health standards. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Ian H]

But we'll get a much better deal than that beastly EU, pinky promise.*

*As soon as we agree to eat chlorinated chicken and hormonated beef and allow the US "health" industry to gut the NHS.

Well, when you put it like that, it's a no-brainer.

 

[matticus]

As it doesn't really fit in anywhere else... kinda surprised people who post professionally don't delete posts with mistakes in them that have been pointed out, especially when their profession is writing stuff down. I was actually trying to be helpful...

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I don't think this "Brian Moore" does hate to be pedantic. Call it a hunch ...

 

[Ian H]

I don't think this "Brian Moore" does hate to be pedantic. Call it a hunch ...

You think it's pedantic to expect a political party's campaign literature to be literate?

Okay, perhaps not in the case of Reform.