| Evette Cooper 08:03 - Oct 10 with 9613 views | onceablue |
What an idiot
Are Taylor swift tickets really that elusive that you arrange a police escort normally only given to the Royal family
And she is married to Ed Balls - Norwich Scummer
This Labour Party are really doing themselves proud!!!!!!!
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| Evette Cooper on 11:53 - Oct 10 with 1776 views | soupytwist |
| Evette Cooper on 11:26 - Oct 10 by Europablue |
The worst things that Starmer has done is give away the Chagos Islands without even asking the people living there, the winter fuel payments disaster, giving in to huge public sector pay demands, private school tax, and generally chasing off high-earners amongst other things are the worst things that the Labour government have done in a very short time. |
It's amazing that the new government has managed to start and conclude the no doubt long and involved process of international diplomacy required to cede sovereignty of some territory to another state in the (checks calendar) three months since it was elected.
Well done everyone at the Foreign Office. At this rate, they'd be able to solve the crisis in the Middle East in time for Christmas. |  | | |
| Evette Cooper on 12:06 - Oct 10 with 1713 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Evette Cooper on 11:26 - Oct 10 by Europablue |
The worst things that Starmer has done is give away the Chagos Islands without even asking the people living there, the winter fuel payments disaster, giving in to huge public sector pay demands, private school tax, and generally chasing off high-earners amongst other things are the worst things that the Labour government have done in a very short time. |
"The worst things that Starmer has done is give away the Chagos Islands without even asking the people living there..."
From wiki: "Since 1971, only the atoll of Diego Garcia has been inhabited, and only by employees of the US military, including American civilian contracted personnel." |  |
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| Evette Cooper on 12:09 - Oct 10 with 1702 views | J2BLUE |
| Evette Cooper on 12:06 - Oct 10 by The_Flashing_Smile |
"The worst things that Starmer has done is give away the Chagos Islands without even asking the people living there..."
From wiki: "Since 1971, only the atoll of Diego Garcia has been inhabited, and only by employees of the US military, including American civilian contracted personnel." |
Well yea but they are selling off chunks of the moon and haven't asked the people who live there either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 |  |
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| Evette Cooper on 12:12 - Oct 10 with 1672 views | backwaywhen |
| Evette Cooper on 08:17 - Oct 10 by Zx1988 |
Have you ever encountered 'Swifties'?! I can absolutely see why a police escort would be appropriate in the circumstances.
(also, it's 'Yvette'. Might want to double-check how you're spelling people's names before calling them idiots) [Post edited 10 Oct 2024 8:18]
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Obviously a change voter …….tut tut . | | | |
| Evette Cooper on 12:13 - Oct 10 with 1669 views | Ryorry |
| Evette Cooper on 11:53 - Oct 10 by soupytwist |
It's amazing that the new government has managed to start and conclude the no doubt long and involved process of international diplomacy required to cede sovereignty of some territory to another state in the (checks calendar) three months since it was elected.
Well done everyone at the Foreign Office. At this rate, they'd be able to solve the crisis in the Middle East in time for Christmas. |
I assume your post is ironically alluding to the fact that Labour have merely completed the process that (gasp) the Tories started - & continued with till just weeks before the GE ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/david-lammy-defends-chagos-islands
"Conservative MPs heckled Lammy over the deal on Monday despite the previous government having taken part in 11 rounds of negotiations, the last held just weeks before the general election. Negotiations were initiated in November 2022 and the former foreign secretaries James Cleverly and David Cameron took part." |  |
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| Evette Cooper on 12:30 - Oct 10 with 1602 views | DJR |
| Evette Cooper on 12:13 - Oct 10 by Ryorry |
I assume your post is ironically alluding to the fact that Labour have merely completed the process that (gasp) the Tories started - & continued with till just weeks before the GE ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/david-lammy-defends-chagos-islands
"Conservative MPs heckled Lammy over the deal on Monday despite the previous government having taken part in 11 rounds of negotiations, the last held just weeks before the general election. Negotiations were initiated in November 2022 and the former foreign secretaries James Cleverly and David Cameron took part." |
And the key thing, given the US base there, is that the agreement was welcomed with open arms by Biden and Blinken.
Once again, it is just a non-story. [Post edited 10 Oct 2024 12:30]
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| Evette Cooper on 12:32 - Oct 10 with 1586 views | ronnyd |
| Evette Cooper on 10:13 - Oct 10 by SomethingBlue |
It doesn't meet the bar for a news story in any normally functioning society. |
Bit like Rooney v Vardy, what a nothing farce getting way too much air time. | | | |
| Evette Cooper on 12:45 - Oct 10 with 1539 views | itfcjoe |
| Evette Cooper on 12:32 - Oct 10 by ronnyd |
Bit like Rooney v Vardy, what a nothing farce getting way too much air time. |
At least with that it was just rich people spending their cash trying to make the other look bad, it was 'entertainment' and just not in any way serious for those looking in |  |
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| Evette Cooper on 12:53 - Oct 10 with 1493 views | WeWereZombies |
Is this the right thread to say that it is a shame that Yvette was never a vet ? |  |
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| Evette Cooper on 12:57 - Oct 10 with 1478 views | giant_stow |
Having seen your thread, I took myself off to sky - what bollox. A complete desperate nothing story. |  |
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| Evette Cooper on 12:59 - Oct 10 with 1470 views | stonojnr |
| Evette Cooper on 10:03 - Oct 10 by glasso |
It wasn't a police escort for her, it was for Taylor Swift after she received what the police called 'credible death threats'. It's such a nothing story but these people need something to froth at the mouth over.
Visiting teams get a police escort to our bloody stadium, for God's sake. |
There's a difference between a police escort the like of which football teams might get and the police special escort group the like of which was arranged for Swift and is only reserved (normally) for royal protection and senior politicians.
The reality is if it were Tories taking thesr freebies and arranging special security for their chums. The Labour Party, the media and the 10page crew on here would be all over it like a rash. | | | |
| Evette Cooper on 13:03 - Oct 10 with 1458 views | Zx1988 |
| Evette Cooper on 12:59 - Oct 10 by stonojnr |
There's a difference between a police escort the like of which football teams might get and the police special escort group the like of which was arranged for Swift and is only reserved (normally) for royal protection and senior politicians.
The reality is if it were Tories taking thesr freebies and arranging special security for their chums. The Labour Party, the media and the 10page crew on here would be all over it like a rash. |
Even if the alleged facts are true, I would much rather the Tories had spent the last fourteen years bagging free hospitality and giving police escorts in return, rather than systematically dismantling the country and handing it over to their chums... | |
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| Evette Cooper on 13:05 - Oct 10 with 1447 views | WeWereZombies |
| Evette Cooper on 13:03 - Oct 10 by Zx1988 |
Even if the alleged facts are true, I would much rather the Tories had spent the last fourteen years bagging free hospitality and giving police escorts in return, rather than systematically dismantling the country and handing it over to their chums... |
I think you are doing them a favour by assuming they had a system, it always looked (apart from Theresa May who diarised her moves to set traps) that they acted from nothing more than craven greed. | |
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| Evette Cooper on 13:12 - Oct 10 with 1429 views | Keno |
| Evette Cooper on 12:53 - Oct 10 by WeWereZombies |
Is this the right thread to say that it is a shame that Yvette was never a vet ? |
or very a veteran vet in the vietnam army |  |
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| Evette Cooper on 13:26 - Oct 10 with 1405 views | Ryorry |
| Evette Cooper on 12:57 - Oct 10 by giant_stow |
Having seen your thread, I took myself off to sky - what bollox. A complete desperate nothing story. |
If it's sky you want, this would be a vastly better option -
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| Evette Cooper on 13:27 - Oct 10 with 1394 views | Europablue |
| Evette Cooper on 11:29 - Oct 10 by DJR |
Your name suggests you've already fled the country in anticipation of a Labour government. |
I left the country many moons ago. I live in Germany now, it's probably in an equally bad state with neither country looking like it will get much better soon. Although, the Germans do seem to be waking up to the crisis.
The way I see it in the UK was that the Conservatives deserved to lose, but the people didn't deserve to get Labour. | | | |
| Evette Cooper on 13:32 - Oct 10 with 1367 views | Zx1988 |
| Evette Cooper on 13:27 - Oct 10 by Europablue |
I left the country many moons ago. I live in Germany now, it's probably in an equally bad state with neither country looking like it will get much better soon. Although, the Germans do seem to be waking up to the crisis.
The way I see it in the UK was that the Conservatives deserved to lose, but the people didn't deserve to get Labour. |
When you say that the Germans are 'waking up to the crisis', I assume you are referring to the ongoing rise of Alternative für Deutschland, particularly in the former Eastern states? | |
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| Evette Cooper on 13:47 - Oct 10 with 1333 views | jontysnut |
| Evette Cooper on 10:03 - Oct 10 by glasso |
It wasn't a police escort for her, it was for Taylor Swift after she received what the police called 'credible death threats'. It's such a nothing story but these people need something to froth at the mouth over.
Visiting teams get a police escort to our bloody stadium, for God's sake. |
There were credible reports that someone was planning to lob a can of Carlsberg |  | | |
| Evette Cooper on 14:39 - Oct 10 with 1247 views | DJR |
| Evette Cooper on 13:27 - Oct 10 by Europablue |
I left the country many moons ago. I live in Germany now, it's probably in an equally bad state with neither country looking like it will get much better soon. Although, the Germans do seem to be waking up to the crisis.
The way I see it in the UK was that the Conservatives deserved to lose, but the people didn't deserve to get Labour. |
Germany certainly has its issues but according to my sister-in-law there, who has seen the NHS upfront recently when visiting her mother, this does not include its health service, something which appears to be backed up by international comparisons.
I was wondering if you're registered to vote here, and did vote in July? My sister-in-law and a friend in Paris both took advantage this time of the removal of the 15 year limit. | | | |
| Evette Cooper on 15:17 - Oct 10 with 1176 views | Europablue |
| Evette Cooper on 12:06 - Oct 10 by The_Flashing_Smile |
"The worst things that Starmer has done is give away the Chagos Islands without even asking the people living there..."
From wiki: "Since 1971, only the atoll of Diego Garcia has been inhabited, and only by employees of the US military, including American civilian contracted personnel." |
I'm only going off what the far-left BBC says:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy78ejg71exo
China will be really happy with Starmer, and if China is happy, we are doing foreign policy wrong and possibly encouraging a huge war. | | | |
| Evette Cooper on 15:22 - Oct 10 with 1152 views | Europablue |
| Evette Cooper on 13:03 - Oct 10 by Zx1988 |
Even if the alleged facts are true, I would much rather the Tories had spent the last fourteen years bagging free hospitality and giving police escorts in return, rather than systematically dismantling the country and handing it over to their chums... |
You don't think Labour do that too?
It's just a cycle of two different groups damaging the country for their own ends. It breaks up the monotony being screwed over in a slightly different way.
To be fair to the Conservatives, they were only Labour lite and they weren't going far-right on the economy or as far-left on culture as Labour will.
The proof that these two parties are not working for the country is that we have had a managed decline for at least two decades, and the seeds for that decline were sowed a decade earlier. | | | |
| Evette Cooper on 15:25 - Oct 10 with 1141 views | DJR |
China is the line that the right wing media are pressing but it doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/10/03/statemen
I suggest you read Biden's statement in full, but this appears to be the key paragraph.
Diego Garcia is the site of a joint U.S.-UK military facility that plays a vital role in national, regional, and global security. It enables the United States to support operations that demonstrate our shared commitment to regional stability, provide rapid response to crises, and counter some of the most challenging security threats we face. The agreement secures the effective operation of the joint facility on Diego Garcia into the next century. [Post edited 10 Oct 2024 15:26]
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| Evette Cooper on 15:30 - Oct 10 with 1114 views | PhilTWTD |
| Evette Cooper on 11:26 - Oct 10 by Europablue |
The worst things that Starmer has done is give away the Chagos Islands without even asking the people living there, the winter fuel payments disaster, giving in to huge public sector pay demands, private school tax, and generally chasing off high-earners amongst other things are the worst things that the Labour government have done in a very short time. |
We forced the people living there off the islands 50 years ago, illegally, according to international courts. |  | | |
| Evette Cooper on 15:33 - Oct 10 with 1099 views | Europablue |
| Evette Cooper on 13:32 - Oct 10 by Zx1988 |
When you say that the Germans are 'waking up to the crisis', I assume you are referring to the ongoing rise of Alternative für Deutschland, particularly in the former Eastern states? |
The rise of the AFD should be a warning bell for the centre to take notice. It does feel like the centrist parties are understanding the sentiment on immigration. Merkel made a huge mistake that everyone living here is paying for when she said that Germany could handle taking all of those migrants.
I'll give you an example, kindergarten places are very difficult to get and I have to drive about 10 miles away to his creche as the one a stone's throw away is full. We felt very fortunate to get a place, they just don't have the resources, still they were assigned a lot of Ukrainians who often understandably don't really want to be here.
There is a really nice Syrian family living across the street, they all speak German very well and seem kind hearted (they gave us some food a couple of times), still they don't seem to want to live within the culture of Germany because they don't let their daughter go in our house.
In general integration is difficult, I have ties to the area through my wife and her family so that helps a lot. I still have to work at the language, but aside from the language I fit in pretty well. | | | |
| Evette Cooper on 15:37 - Oct 10 with 1086 views | Swansea_Blue |
It's probably better to first establish the facts and then get upset about them, rather than the other way round.
Although having said that, you're right that the UK and Mauritius should be paying more attention to the interests of the Chagossians. It's just more modern day imperialism at the moment.
(Taylor Swift is a non-story; she won't be the last to have some form of police protection and I'd argue it's not entirely unreasonable given the incidents around some of her recent concerts. Although it could well be seen as overkill if they had no intel about a threat. Not that it really matters). [Post edited 10 Oct 2024 15:39]
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