General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

Reform Cornwall won 28 of the required 44 seats to form a council administration They are complaining that the other parties have formed a perfectly legal and proper administration as a coalition to deny Reform the ability to do what the people elected them to do!!
They won't stand idly by and let this collusion keep Reform from power.

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Andy_Ross said:
Reform Cornwall won 28 of the required 44 seats to form a council administration They are complaining that the other parties have formed a perfectly legal and proper administration as a coalition to deny Reform the ability to do what the people elected them to do!!
They won't stand idly by and let this collusion keep Reform from power.

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Did reform try to form a coalition?
 
Mojo said:
Did reform try to form a coalition?
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Nobody will sit with them. They behaved like arseholes in the campaign.

Plus, thy won't sit with anyone else, they think they are all the enemy who need to be swept away.

They say it will make them more popular at the next election

Election results for Cornwall

Reform UK 28 +28
Liberal Democrat 26 +13
Independent 16 0
Conservative 7 -40
Labour 4 -1
Green 3 +2
Mebyon Kernow 3 -2

Change compared with 2021
 
Well done Rupert

Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10
PA is reporting that 'the Government has temporarily been banned from concluding its negotiations on the Chagos Islands deal by an injunction granted in the early hours of today by a High Court judge'

The sun isn't setting on the British Empire just yet.
We must keep fighting!
Followed by the sun setting

Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10
Starmer has signed away the Chagos Islands.

Defeat. Surrender. Humiliation.

Resign, @Keir_Starmer.
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Tories are taking the credit for the migration figures but are attacking Starmer over Chagos.

Who would have thought it.
 
Call for Reform councillor to 'educate himself' after 'depression isn’t real’ tweet linked to him
The councillor has branded the allegation 'fake news' and a 'political smear'

The tweet on the Lord Joseph Boam II account reads: “Depression isn’t real. You feel sad, you continue with life because there’s no alternative. You will always be depressed if your life is depressing. Fix it.”

In addition to representing Whitwick on Leicestershire County Council, Coun Boam is also the new lead member for adult social care and deputy leader of the authority. Among its responsibilities, the adult social care team seeks to support and safeguard vulnerable adults, including those with physical and mental health concerns.

Reform Party UK Exposed said the message was posted in December 2022 under the account name 'Lord Joseph Boam II'. In response, the 22-year-old councillor has branded the allegation “fake news” and a "political smear", and said he was focused on "delivering for the people [he] was elected to serve".
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www.leicestermercury.co.uk

Call for Reform councillor to 'educate himself' over depression tweet

The councillor has branded the allegation 'fake news' and a 'political smear'
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Andy_Ross said:
Call for Reform councillor to 'educate himself' after 'depression isn’t real’ tweet linked to him
The councillor has branded the allegation 'fake news' and a 'political smear'



www.leicestermercury.co.uk

Call for Reform councillor to 'educate himself' over depression tweet

The councillor has branded the allegation 'fake news' and a 'political smear'
www.leicestermercury.co.uk www.leicestermercury.co.uk
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I will be very happy to educate this twunt, most likely using my size 9 psychology boots, but mostly with my very sharp tongue and best "back under your stone, worm!" look (it is a good one, which I inherited from my mum and her mum and members of my maternal grandfather's family, lost in generations of Deerness Valley squabbling history).

Ignorant pillock!

ETA, mind, it must be said that Leicester Mercury could have a look at themselves over some reporting of MH issues, going back to when I worked in Leicestershire and Rutland CAMHS.
 
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Reform Cornwall won 28 of the required 44 seats to form a council administration They are complaining that the other parties have formed a perfectly legal and proper administration as a coalition to deny Reform the ability to do what the people elected them to do!!
They won't stand idly by and let this collusion keep Reform from power.

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Just a reminder to the Reform bods that they serve ALL of the Cornwall residents, not just those who voted for them.
 
Alas, poor Keir Starmer has a name that lends itself to the haters. Notice many negative words begin with an 's' and this can lend to a fierce hissing sound when applied with relish and disdain. So when the Reform Brexiteer brigade sneer (= there's another of those words), 'Get Starmer out', one can hear the cathartic value, as in 'Ah, that's better' and the curl of the lip. Somehow, Johnson and Sunak or even Truss don't quite have the same snarky, sneaky, stinky, snotty tones as the S-word. But 'Rishi' said with an emphasis on the '-ishi', and Sunak shortened to 'sunk' did it nicely to convey contempt for the man. 'Farage' is another that can be proclaimed with a satisfying air of disgust on the last syllable. But none that lends itself so readily as 'Star-mer' and alack, even 'Keir' is unfortunate, in rhyming with so many similar short words, as in 'Two-Tier Keir'.


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Andy_Ross said:
Reform Cornwall won 28 of the required 44 seats to form a council administration They are complaining that the other parties have formed a perfectly legal and proper administration as a coalition to deny Reform the ability to do what the people elected them to do!!
They won't stand idly by and let this collusion keep Reform from power.

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It seems to have come as a shock to them to discover that in a democracy a party needs a majority to rule.
 
Vixen said:
Alas, poor Keir Starmer has a name that lends itself to the haters. Notice many negative words begin with an 's' and this can lend to a fierce hissing sound when applied with relish and disdain. So when the Reform Brexiteer brigade sneer (= there's another of those words), 'Get Starmer out', one can hear the cathartic value, as in 'Ah, that's better' and the curl of the lip. Somehow, Johnson and Sunak or even Truss don't quite have the same snarky, sneaky, stinky, snotty tones as the S-word. But 'Rishi' said with an emphasis on the '-ishi', and Sunak shortened to 'sunk' did it nicely to convey contempt for the man. 'Farage' is another that can be proclaimed with a satisfying air of disgust on the last syllable. But none that lends itself so readily as 'Star-mer' and alack, even 'Keir' is unfortunate, in rhyming with so many similar short words, as in 'Two-Tier Keir'.


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Er what about: super, superb, scintillating, selfless, sincere, sage, satisfying, sensational, scrumptious, secure, safe, sagacious, saintly, savvy, sensible, serene, sincere, smart, shining, skillful, scrupulous, stunning etc?
 
Ethan Thane Athen said:
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Er what about: super, superb, scintillating, selfless, sincere, sage, satisfying, sensational, scrumptious, secure, safe, sagacious, saintly, savvy, sensible, serene, sincere, smart, shining, skillful, scrupulous, stunning etc?
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French-derived words have that effect; cf. serpent (Latin-derived) vs 'snake' (Germanic) - as most of the early peasants spoke blunt and thus, 'crude', Anglo Saxon. That's the theory, anyway.


Etymology​

Starmer : English:: 1: habitational name from Starmore in Westrill (Leicestershire) from an Old English personal name Storm (genitive Stormes) + Old English worth ‘enclosure’.2: habitational name from the lost placename Stermore near Stowe by Chartley (Staffordshire) from an uncertain first element + Old English mōr ‘moor marshland’. https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/STARMER


BTW before people start getting up in arms, it was meant to be humour.



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