Now even Reform voters have a negative view on Donald Trump – politicalbetting.com

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• eek Posts: 33,008

  4:10PM

  First as Reform won’t be at the general election

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• Stuartinromford Posts: 21,965

  4:11PM

  Striking that it's Conservative supporters who have swung to more anti than those pesky socialists.
  
  A "fool me once/twice/thrice" effect? And not good for Lady Kemi of Badenochshire.

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• TheScreamingEagles Posts: 127,060

  4:13PM

  Stuartinromford said:

  Striking that it's Conservative supporters who have swung to more anti than those pesky socialists.
  
  A "fool me once/twice/thrice" effect? And not good for Lady Kemi of Badenochshire.

  There's one thing you cannot do and that is to insult the British dead and wounded like the Mango Mussolini did.

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• algarkirk Posts: 16,902

  4:17PM

  That there are some Labour supporters with a positive view of Trump - and more than there are Tory ones - feels to require some sort of explanation. It is a puzzle.

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• Pulpstar Posts: 80,709

  4:18PM

  The USA will get another president in time but Netanyahu has salted the earth for Israel's foreign relations for a long old time I'd say.

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• tlg86 Posts: 27,683

  4:18PM

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

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• Wulfrun_Phil Posts: 4,968

  4:19PM

  Up to now, Labour have (nationally at least) held back from campaigning full on to discredit Farage on account of his links with Trump, presumably so as not to further compromise Starmer's relationship with Trump. That's in stark contrast with the way Labour has tried to portray Farage as Putin's lacky, a much less effective line of attack.
  
  It's time for the gloves to come off. Labour can't afford to continue to hold back playing their best card against Reform.

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• FF43 Posts: 19,221

  4:19PM

  Stuartinromford said:

  Striking that it's Conservative supporters who have swung to more anti than those pesky socialists.
  
  A "fool me once/twice/thrice" effect? And not good for Lady Kemi of Badenochshire.

  Badenoch, not Badenochshire. As in Wolf of Badenoch, only significant settlement, the much mispronounced Kingussie. Come to think of it, Badenoch is also mispronounced in the wrong circles.

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• williamglenn Posts: 58,429

  4:21PM

  Pulpstar said:

  The USA will get another president in time but Netanyahu has salted the earth for Israel's foreign relations for a long old time I'd say.

  Isn't he winning the strategic battle against Iran and its proxies?

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• TheScreamingEagles Posts: 127,060

  4:21PM edited 4:22PM

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

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• Mexicanpete Posts: 38,316

  4:23PM edited 4:24PM

  If Reform popularity can be measured in flags they are top bananas in North Worcestershire.
  
  A brace of flags, one Union and one St George on every lamppost in Redditch. Flags galore on Portway roundabout off the M42, and one for @Taz at least 30 flags on lampposts around Beckett's Island. I lived a quarter of a mile away from 1962 to 1977 and I never saw a flag in all those years. Stopping to salute each of the buggers takes some time.

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• tlg86 Posts: 27,683

  4:23PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

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• BartholomewRoberts Posts: 28,300

  4:25PM

  Wulfrun_Phil said:

  Up to now, Labour have (nationally at least) held back from campaigning full on to discredit Farage on account of his links with Trump, presumably so as not to further compromise Starmer's relationship with Trump. That's in stark contrast with the way Labour has tried to portray Farage as Putin's lacky, a much less effective line of attack.
  
  It's time for the gloves to come off. Labour can't afford to continue to hold back playing their best card against Reform.

  As a card I think it is vastly, vastly overrated.
  
  Logic being simply that it will be history by the time of the next election.
  
  The next Presidential election is in 2028 and the next President will be inaugurated in January 2029, and we can finally put the wretched Trump era behind us.
  
  The next UK election is due in August 2029. We might see it earlier, in May, but I don't think we'll see it any earlier than that, given how unpopular Labour currently is.
  
  How many people in a British General Election are going to vote based on a former US President? I doubt its going to be many people, in the real world.
  
  It may seem all consuming today, but by then Trump will be gone and history - and thank f### for that!
  

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• TheScreamingEagles Posts: 127,060

  4:25PM

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

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• MattW Posts: 32,736

  4:26PM edited 4:28PM

  UPDATE: That EAPC (electrically assisted cycle) I mentioned several weeks ago has been returned to its disabled (Fibromyalgia) owner.
  
  After the rejection of the first appeal out of hand, the waffle, the straight bats, the bellyaching and the bullshit, it turned out that the test had been incorrectly performed.
  
  When an "experienced officer" eventually repeated the test, it showed the seized EAPC mobility aid to be perfectly legal.
  
  It took some quite heavy duty intervention, and several weeks, to get this reversed - including multiple national charities, and a very experienced activist (far more so than me) who audit-trailed it all.
  
  They have one hell of a problem if this is the best the police can do. If the victim pursues legal action, this should be open and shut.
  
  This issue will be getting some targeting from campaign groups, I think. One suggestion I have heard is to do a street survey on a busy cycle track to see just how many e-cycles in usage are legal. There will also be some attention to testing procedures, which seem to be unreliable.

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• CatMan Posts: 3,715

  4:26PM

  Mexicanpete said:

  If Reform popularity can be measured in flags they are top bananas in North Worcestershire.
  
  A brace of flags, one Union and one St George on every lamppost in Redditch. Flags galore on Portway roundabout off the M42, and one for @Taz at least 30 flags on lampposts around Beckett's Island. I lived a quarter of a mile away from 1962 to 1977 and I never saw a flag in all those years. Stopping to salute each of the buggers takes some time.

  I saw the other day that the Union flag has come down on the hill by the M4 near Port Talbot but the St David's one is still there. Good news for Plaid Cymru I guess.

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• TheScreamingEagles Posts: 127,060

  4:26PM

  Reform UK has confirmed that that it has suspended Chris Parry as its Hampshire mayoral candidate after he described members of a Jewish neighbourhood watch group as “cosplayers” and likened them to “Islamists on horseback”. (See 1.53pm.)
  
  A Reform UK spokesperson said: “Chris Parry has been suspended by Reform UK pending investigation.” His candidacy has also been suspended by the party.
  
  When contacted by the Guardian earlier after Hampshire Live quoted a Reform UK spokesman as saying he was no longer the party’s candidate, Parry said that he was “mid-Atlantic.”
  
  The Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesperson Max Wilkinson had called on Farage earlier in the day to drop Parry. He later said : “This is a good start, but Farage has some way to go. There are serious questions to answer as to how this candidate got approved in the first place.”
  
  Calvin Bailey, a Labour MP who wrote to Nigel Farage about previous comments attributed to Parry, including calling female MPs “harpies”, said: “It should not take repeated incidents for basic standards of decency to be upheld.”
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/mar/24/rachel-reeves-uk-economy-keir-starmer-iran-war-uk-politics-latest-news-updates

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• williamglenn Posts: 58,429

  4:27PM

  A grim prognosis from Professor Azeem Ibrahim:
  
  https://x.com/AzeemIbrahim/status/2035361179879547244
  
  Britain is now in accelerated decline - gradual for decades, now at risk of sudden collapse.
  
  My stark verdict: unchecked, UK heading for relative poverty - a deindustrialised, sectarian, indebted island with first-rate pretensions & third-rate power.

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• tlg86 Posts: 27,683

  4:27PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

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• TheScreamingEagles Posts: 127,060

  4:27PM edited 4:30PM

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

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• Richard_Tyndall Posts: 34,228

  4:30PM

  williamglenn said:

  Pulpstar said:

  The USA will get another president in time but Netanyahu has salted the earth for Israel's foreign relations for a long old time I'd say.

  Isn't he winning the strategic battle against Iran and its proxies?

  No one has won until.the war is over. And in the Middle East I would contend that no one ever wins.

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• Stereodog Posts: 1,317

  4:30PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  The article says it was his work phone. I had my bag stolen from a coffee shop once. I phoned the police and happened to mention that my government pass was in the bag (I was more vexed about my brand new ipad that I got for my birthday). I had an officer round in about 45 minutes so it's a bit odd about McSweeney. Maybe he was too embarrassed to mention it?

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• Taz Posts: 26,228

  4:31PM

  Mexicanpete said:

  If Reform popularity can be measured in flags they are top bananas in North Worcestershire.
  
  A brace of flags, one Union and one St George on every lamppost in Redditch. Flags galore on Portway roundabout off the M42, and one for @Taz at least 30 flags on lampposts around Beckett's Island. I lived a quarter of a mile away from 1962 to 1977 and I never saw a flag in all those years. Stopping to salute each of the buggers takes some time.

  Drakes Cross ? I used to do a door to door collection round there, long after you left.
  
  Oooh, that’s not far from Mom and the cider from the farm shop on the island is exceptional.
  
  For many years used to meet my fantastic sister for cakes there.
  
  I used to work at Magna in Redditch and drive past it daily.

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• IanB2 Posts: 54,604

  4:32PM edited 4:33PM

  algarkirk said:

  That there are some Labour supporters with a positive view of Trump - and more than there are Tory ones - feels to require some sort of explanation. It is a puzzle.

  Not really. The left generally sees itself as part of the opposition to the establishment whereas Tory voters, at least pre-Johnson, were the carpet slipper vote happy if everything stayed just as it is. However repelled you are by Trump’s ignorance, crudeness and stupidity, there’s no doubt he’s put two fingers up to the DC establishment and that’s going to attract a few cheers from left leaning voters, at least until they realise he’s willing to take the whole global economy down with him.

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• tlg86 Posts: 27,683

  4:33PM edited 4:34PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

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• turbotubbs Posts: 22,365

  4:34PM

  williamglenn said:

  A grim prognosis from Professor Azeem Ibrahim:
  
  https://x.com/AzeemIbrahim/status/2035361179879547244
  
  Britain is now in accelerated decline - gradual for decades, now at risk of sudden collapse.
  
  My stark verdict: unchecked, UK heading for relative poverty - a deindustrialised, sectarian, indebted island with first-rate pretensions & third-rate power.

  It need not be so. In the seventies all the talk was of 'managed decline' for the UK. Thatcher changed the picture. I still believe the right leader could do so again, but it needs to be someone who wants and understands how to create jobs, wealth, economic gains.
  
  Tinkering at the edges won't do it.
  
  Truss, for all that she is/was a loon, at least tried to break the consensus.
  

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• BartholomewRoberts Posts: 28,300

  4:34PM

  Richard_Tyndall said:

  williamglenn said:

  Pulpstar said:

  The USA will get another president in time but Netanyahu has salted the earth for Israel's foreign relations for a long old time I'd say.

  Isn't he winning the strategic battle against Iran and its proxies?

  No one has won until.the war is over. And in the Middle East I would contend that no one ever wins.

  Won and winning are different tenses though.
  
  He's not won, but I would argue over the last couple of years he is winning, relatively speaking.
  
  I remain an opponent of his (support Lapid) and would further say that he had a dreadful few years prior to the Hamas attack which directly contributed to it. Since then, been better though.

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• wooliedyed Posts: 16,857

  4:34PM edited 4:35PM

  Stereodog said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  The article says it was his work phone. I had my bag stolen from a coffee shop once. I phoned the police and happened to mention that my government pass was in the bag (I was more vexed about my brand new ipad that I got for my birthday). I had an officer round in about 45 minutes so it's a bit odd about McSweeney. Maybe he was too embarrassed to mention it?

  He got a new work phone with same number the next day so i'm sure the government and security services followed all due procedures for theft of a sensitive device.
  I mean Starmers CoS not following the correct process?

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• wooliedyed Posts: 16,857

  4:36PM

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

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• Northern_Al Posts: 9,476

  4:37PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Reform UK has confirmed that that it has suspended Chris Parry as its Hampshire mayoral candidate after he described members of a Jewish neighbourhood watch group as “cosplayers” and likened them to “Islamists on horseback”. (See 1.53pm.)
  
  A Reform UK spokesperson said: “Chris Parry has been suspended by Reform UK pending investigation.” His candidacy has also been suspended by the party.
  
  When contacted by the Guardian earlier after Hampshire Live quoted a Reform UK spokesman as saying he was no longer the party’s candidate, Parry said that he was “mid-Atlantic.”
  
  The Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesperson Max Wilkinson had called on Farage earlier in the day to drop Parry. He later said : “This is a good start, but Farage has some way to go. There are serious questions to answer as to how this candidate got approved in the first place.”
  
  Calvin Bailey, a Labour MP who wrote to Nigel Farage about previous comments attributed to Parry, including calling female MPs “harpies”, said: “It should not take repeated incidents for basic standards of decency to be upheld.”
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/mar/24/rachel-reeves-uk-economy-keir-starmer-iran-war-uk-politics-latest-news-updates

  If I recall correctly, Parry also called for London-born David Lammy to "go home" to the Caribbean.
  
  He's just an out-and-out racist, so I'm surprised Reform has suspended him.

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• Foxy Posts: 55,694

  4:37PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Reform UK has confirmed that that it has suspended Chris Parry as its Hampshire mayoral candidate after he described members of a Jewish neighbourhood watch group as “cosplayers” and likened them to “Islamists on horseback”. (See 1.53pm.)
  
  A Reform UK spokesperson said: “Chris Parry has been suspended by Reform UK pending investigation.” His candidacy has also been suspended by the party.
  
  When contacted by the Guardian earlier after Hampshire Live quoted a Reform UK spokesman as saying he was no longer the party’s candidate, Parry said that he was “mid-Atlantic.”
  
  The Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesperson Max Wilkinson had called on Farage earlier in the day to drop Parry. He later said : “This is a good start, but Farage has some way to go. There are serious questions to answer as to how this candidate got approved in the first place.”
  
  Calvin Bailey, a Labour MP who wrote to Nigel Farage about previous comments attributed to Parry, including calling female MPs “harpies”, said: “It should not take repeated incidents for basic standards of decency to be upheld.”
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/mar/24/rachel-reeves-uk-economy-keir-starmer-iran-war-uk-politics-latest-news-updates

  When do they suspend Farage for his anti-semitism?
  
  

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• MattW Posts: 32,736

  4:38PM

  A video worth a listen from Legal Eagle.
  
  23 hours of on camera testimony under oath about how DOGE worked when it was inside agencies was published.
  
  They were identifying "DEI" grants without a clear definition of DEI, using a keywork list and Chat GPT, with an inane prompt.
  
  One of the worst decisions they made was to cut a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to a documentary about the impact of slavery on Jewish Women in the Third Reich; it was against their values because it talked about Jews and Females.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q9BkdQSrOM

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• NickPalmer Posts: 21,993

  4:39PM

  williamglenn said:

  A grim prognosis from Professor Azeem Ibrahim:
  
  https://x.com/AzeemIbrahim/status/2035361179879547244
  
  Britain is now in accelerated decline - gradual for decades, now at risk of sudden collapse.
  
  My stark verdict: unchecked, UK heading for relative poverty - a deindustrialised, sectarian, indebted island with first-rate pretensions & third-rate power.

  A generally serious contribution from an explicitly right-wing source (a contributor to "The American Conservative"), though I've never heard the allegedly common nickname for Starmer: "two-tier Kier". He's a bit vague about his preferred solution, though.

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• Jim_Miller Posts: 3,744

  4:43PM edited 4:44PM

  Off topic, but timely. On Saturday it was sunny here, and so I took the opportunity to walk along Lake Washington and take a few photographs. To my surprise, I encountered a small pro-Shah demonstration at a favorite park. The demonstrators were displaying the traditional Iranian flag, American flags, and -- trigger warning -- an Israeli flag or two.
  
  There were three or four groups of pictures of, I assumed, young people who had been killed by the Mullahs.
  
  Here's one:
  
  
  (My apologies for the quality of the picture. I should have taken more time, but was still surprised by the demonstration.)
  
  The demonstrators looked wealthy and secular.
  
  This Saturday there will be, as I understand it, a "No Kings" demonstration, protesting Trump, in the same park. (I expect I will find myself in the odd position of favoring both demonstrations, wanting the Mullahs overthrown, with as few lives lost as possible, and the Loser driven from power, with the same caveat.)
  
  
  

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• Cookie Posts: 17,108

  4:45PM

  Jim_Miller said:

  Off topic, but timely. On Saturday it was sunny here, and so I took the opportunity to walk along Lake Washington and take a few photographs. To my surprise, I encountered a small pro-Shah demonstration at a favorite park. The demonstrators were displaying the traditional Iranian flag, American flags, and -- trigger warning -- an Israeli flag or two.
  
  There were three or four groups of pictures of, I assumed, young people who had been killed by the Mullahs.
  
  Here's one:
  
  
  (My apologies for the quality of the picture. I should have taken more time, but was still surprised by the demonstration.)
  
  The demonstrators looked wealthy and secular.
  
  This Saturday there will be, as I understand it, a "No Kings" demonstration, protesting Trump, in the same park. (I expect I will find myself in the odd position of favoring both demonstrations, wanting the Mullahs overthrown, with as few lives lost as possible, and the Loser driven from power, with the same caveat.)
  
  
  

  I don't think that's an odd position at all Jim.

  1
• Nigelb Posts: 87,500

  4:45PM

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Given their record on mobile phone theft ?
  Around 98.5%.

  0
• turbotubbs Posts: 22,365

  4:47PM

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  0
• Nigelb Posts: 87,500

  4:47PM

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Now that is pretty damning.

  1
• FrancisUrquhart Posts: 90,548

  4:48PM edited 4:49PM

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  How unfortunate....what were the chances.

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• wooliedyed Posts: 16,857

  4:49PM

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  1
• BlancheLivermore Posts: 7,743

  4:49PM

  Nigelb said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Given their record on mobile phone theft ?
  Around 98.5%.

  What are the chances that his phone was actually stolen?

  0
• TheScreamingEagles Posts: 127,060

  4:51PM

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  How unfortunate....what were the chances.

  During the Wagatha Christie trial it was revealed the phone belonging to Rebekah Vardy’s PA that would have cleared Vardy accidentally fell into the sea during a boat and wasn’t backed up to the cloud?
  
  What were the chances of that?

  0
• FrancisUrquhart Posts: 90,548

  4:53PM edited 4:57PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  I posted a video a couple of weeks ago where they followed a company who track stolen cars. They identified the location of 3 cars that had been stolen. One was in a lockup, £100k car, the police wouldn't come out initially, eventually they did because I presume they were told were are filming this, said here is a crime number, we won't be investigating and pottered off, no scene of crime dusting for prints etc, it was basically here is a crime number you are on your own, up to you in you want to break into the lockup and retrieve the car. The tracking company bod said this is absolutely standard.
  
  Another a £120k car was tracked to a chop shop, the police did actually arrest the two suspects in the process of stripping the car, the CPS didn't proescute not enough evidence, despite car stolen, tracked to that location, in process of stripping car. How much more evidence do you need?
  
  If they aren't giving a shit about £100k+ cars being stolen, no chance they give a stuff about £1k phones.

  1
• TheScreamingEagles Posts: 127,060

  4:53PM

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  0
• eek Posts: 33,008

  4:54PM

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  I posted a video a couple of weeks ago where they followed a company who track stolen cars. They identified the location of 3 cars that had been stolen. One was in a lockup, £100k car, the police wouldn't come out initially, eventually they did, said here is a crime number, we won't be investigating and pottered off, no scene of crime dusting for prints etc, it was basically here is a crime number you are on your own, up to you in you want to break into the lockup and retrieve the car. Another a £120k car was tracked to a chop shop, the police did actually arrest the two suspects in the process of stripping the car, the CPS didn't proescute not enough evidence.

  If the CPS can’t be bothered you can see why very quickly the police decide that they to can’t be bothered

  1
• tlg86 Posts: 27,683

  4:55PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  1
• wooliedyed Posts: 16,857

  4:56PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  A convenient excuse. Im sure he will make use of it

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• TheScreamingEagles Posts: 127,060

  4:56PM

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

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• Pulpstar Posts: 80,709

  4:57PM edited 4:57PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  I used that once to find my phone that had dropped out my pocket at the local garage where I'd left my vehicle to be serviced. Got a lift with a colleague to the garage and was still there just under the driver's door on the tarmac.

  0
• Richard_Tyndall Posts: 34,228

  4:58PM

  FF43 said:

  Stuartinromford said:

  Striking that it's Conservative supporters who have swung to more anti than those pesky socialists.
  
  A "fool me once/twice/thrice" effect? And not good for Lady Kemi of Badenochshire.

  Badenoch, not Badenochshire. As in Wolf of Badenoch, only significant settlement, the much mispronounced Kingussie. Come to think of it, Badenoch is also mispronounced in the wrong circles.

  I was listening to The Rest is History this week and found out that for the last 50 or so years I had been pronouncing Auchinleck incorrectly.

  1
• wooliedyed Posts: 16,857

  4:59PM

  Well i think we know what Weds pre Easter break PMQs will feature then

  0
• TheScreamingEagles Posts: 127,060

  5:00PM

  Richard_Tyndall said:

  FF43 said:

  Stuartinromford said:

  Striking that it's Conservative supporters who have swung to more anti than those pesky socialists.
  
  A "fool me once/twice/thrice" effect? And not good for Lady Kemi of Badenochshire.

  Badenoch, not Badenochshire. As in Wolf of Badenoch, only significant settlement, the much mispronounced Kingussie. Come to think of it, Badenoch is also mispronounced in the wrong circles.

  I was listening to The Rest is History this week and found out that for the last 50 or so years I had been pronouncing Auchinleck incorrectly.

  How should I have been pronouncing it?
  
  I’ve been pronouncing it the way Lord Olivier pronounced it on The World At War.

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• FrancisUrquhart Posts: 90,548

  5:00PM edited 5:01PM

  In order to get your phone nicked in the UK, you don't even need to be a victim of a yutt on an illegal e-bike mugging you. Wander into a busy pub and put it on the table while you go to the bogs or the bar, chances are it will have grown legs and walked away. And if you do that the police definitely won't be investigating.
  
  In Singapore on the other hand, not only will it be there, but you will come back will find nobody is sitting at the table as it is a way you signal that you the table is in use even though nobody is sitting there.

  2
• Andy_JS Posts: 39,622

  5:01PM

  "British troops shoot down a dozen Iranian kamikaze drones"
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/24/iran-war-latest-news-israel-trump-us-strait-of-hormuz/

  1
• ManOfGwent Posts: 291

  5:01PM

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  How unfortunate....what were the chances.

  I worked in Number 10 for a short while. It's absolute bull that the police would be too busy to look into it. And that's with everyone conveniently forgetting that it would be the number 10 security team that would take a lead on this, not the met. They lose their shit if someone mislays their pass, let alone a government device.

  5
• Roger Posts: 22,644

  5:06PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Reform UK has confirmed that that it has suspended Chris Parry as its Hampshire mayoral candidate after he described members of a Jewish neighbourhood watch group as “cosplayers” and likened them to “Islamists on horseback”. (See 1.53pm.)
  
  A Reform UK spokesperson said: “Chris Parry has been suspended by Reform UK pending investigation.” His candidacy has also been suspended by the party.
  
  When contacted by the Guardian earlier after Hampshire Live quoted a Reform UK spokesman as saying he was no longer the party’s candidate, Parry said that he was “mid-Atlantic.”
  
  The Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesperson Max Wilkinson had called on Farage earlier in the day to drop Parry. He later said : “This is a good start, but Farage has some way to go. There are serious questions to answer as to how this candidate got approved in the first place.”
  
  Calvin Bailey, a Labour MP who wrote to Nigel Farage about previous comments attributed to Parry, including calling female MPs “harpies”, said: “It should not take repeated incidents for basic standards of decency to be upheld.”
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/mar/24/rachel-reeves-uk-economy-keir-starmer-iran-war-uk-politics-latest-news-updates

  Excellent piece on the "Naked Week" about Reform
  
  Farages answer to 'Clacton Pride'.....
  
  'The Straits of Hormuz'.....
  
  and a great impersonation of his MP from Nottingham talking to his wife......
  
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002snj6

  0
• Dopermean Posts: 2,568

  5:10PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  0
• TheScreamingEagles Posts: 127,060

  5:11PM

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

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• Brixian59 Posts: 1,659

  5:16PM

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  99.8% of the general public don't give a bat shit about Mandelson
  
  The Tories and wankers like Hodges are effectively talking to themselves.
  
  After all no Tory ever lost a phone, deleted an email or what's app, god forbid they could even lose a Foreign Secretary in Italy for 12 hours and find him drink on a bench in a railway station.
  
  If Badenoch is stupid enough to raise this at Pmq she is even more irrelevant than most voters think.
  
  Not a good day for the Tories, outgoing Mel Stride beasted by Rachel and poor old Claire Coutinho showing all the political skills of an illiterate 5 year old who has asked AI what happens in the North Sea.
  
  Excruciating

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• FrancisUrquhart Posts: 90,548

  5:20PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

  Would anybody surprised if the also showed that Mandy was also sticking his oar into lots of government decisions.

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• Malmesbury Posts: 61,826

  5:20PM

  Brixian59 said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  99.8% of the general public don't give a bat shit about Mandelson
  
  The Tories and wankers like Hodges are effectively talking to themselves.
  
  After all no Tory ever lost a phone, deleted an email or what's app, god forbid they could even lose a Foreign Secretary in Italy for 12 hours and find him drink on a bench in a railway station.
  
  If Badenoch is stupid enough to raise this at Pmq she is even more irrelevant than most voters think.
  
  Not a good day for the Tories, outgoing Mel Stride beasted by Rachel and poor old Claire Coutinho showing all the political skills of an illiterate 5 year old who has asked AI what happens in the North Sea.
  
  Excruciating

  So you are saying that you personally lifted the phone and it’s full of embarrassing stuff for the Government?
  
  Thanks for clearing that up.

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• squareroot2 Posts: 7,760

  5:21PM edited 5:23PM

  99.8% of the British public DO care about corruption. We will see what the law says about Mandelson and whether he is or is not guilty of.. and of what.
  You spin so.much I am surprised you haven't got labrynthitis.

  1
• wooliedyed Posts: 16,857

  5:21PM

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

  Would anybody surprised if the also showed that Mandy was also sticking his oar into lots of government decisions.

  Surely not? Unimaginable.

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• Ratters Posts: 1,894

  5:21PM edited 5:21PM

  Trump net approval hits new low on Nate Silver's poll aggregator: -16.2% and the approval part nearly dropping below 40%.
  
  How low can it go if the war with Iran continues? I think it alienates a significant portion of isolationist Trump supporters in a way his actions so far have not. Not least as prices rise...

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• Malmesbury Posts: 61,826

  5:22PM

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

  Would anybody surprised if the also showed that Mandy was also sticking his oar into lots of government decisions.

  At a random guess, it would show a long, long history, going back to before Starmer became leader.
  
  Mandy loved his reputation as the ghost like figure in the background, pulling strings.

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• FrancisUrquhart Posts: 90,548

  5:23PM edited 5:24PM

  The plod not even willing to investigate phones and cars being nicked is why people think crime is out of control no matter how much Fraser Nelson et al say look at all the stats they are down and far better than 20-30 years ago. Everybody will know somebody who have suffered this crime and will be saying all I got was a f##king crime number.

  2
• DavidL Posts: 58,006

  5:23PM edited 5:24PM

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

  Would anybody surprised if the also showed that Mandy was also sticking his oar into lots of government decisions.

  Was he not DPM for a chunk of the time with a PM who seemed seriously close to a break down? I would be astonished if he wasn’t sticking his oar in. The impression I got at the time was that he was running the show and that he and Darling were basically all that was keeping the government on track.

  1
• Sunil_Prasannan Posts: 58,639

  5:25PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Richard_Tyndall said:

  FF43 said:

  Stuartinromford said:

  Striking that it's Conservative supporters who have swung to more anti than those pesky socialists.
  
  A "fool me once/twice/thrice" effect? And not good for Lady Kemi of Badenochshire.

  Badenoch, not Badenochshire. As in Wolf of Badenoch, only significant settlement, the much mispronounced Kingussie. Come to think of it, Badenoch is also mispronounced in the wrong circles.

  I was listening to The Rest is History this week and found out that for the last 50 or so years I had been pronouncing Auchinleck incorrectly.

  How should I have been pronouncing it?
  
  I’ve been pronouncing it the way Lord Olivier pronounced it on The World At War.

  Do you also say "Sov-yet Union"?

  0
• Taz Posts: 26,228

  5:25PM

  lol
  
  We’re a nation of mugs.
  
  I’m sure this Judge has considered any potential victims. Nonces are known for their honesty.
  
  ‘ Paedophile migrant who failed to disclose child sex offence after coming to UK wins appeal against deportation as judge rules it was 'honest mistake’
  
  https://x.com/dailymail/status/2036053935606124883?s=61

  1
• Malmesbury Posts: 61,826

  5:26PM

  Ratters said:

  Trump net approval hits new low on Nate Silver's poll aggregator: -16.2% and the approval part nearly dropping below 40%.
  
  How low can it go if the war with Iran continues? I think it alienates a significant portion of isolationist Trump supporters in a way his actions so far have not. Not least as prices rise...

  Whale shit at the bottom of the Challenger Deep?

  0
• Malmesbury Posts: 61,826

  5:29PM

  a

  DavidL said:

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

  Would anybody surprised if the also showed that Mandy was also sticking his oar into lots of government decisions.

  Was he not DPM for a chunk of the time with a PM who seemed seriously close to a break down? I would be astonished if he wasn’t sticking his oar in. The impression I got at the time was that he was running the show and that he and Darling were basically all that was keeping the government on track.

  That he was running the government was something he was briefing the press about.
  
  The reality might well have been different.

  0
• DavidL Posts: 58,006

  5:30PM

  Andy_JS said:

  "British troops shoot down a dozen Iranian kamikaze drones"
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/24/iran-war-latest-news-israel-trump-us-strait-of-hormuz/

  Excellent performance the Rapid Sentry system if that is correct.

  1
• FrancisUrquhart Posts: 90,548

  5:30PM

  Taz said:

  lol
  
  We’re a nation of mugs.
  
  I’m sure this Judge has considered any potential victims. Nonces are known for their honesty.
  
  ‘ Paedophile migrant who failed to disclose child sex offence after coming to UK wins appeal against deportation as judge rules it was 'honest mistake’
  
  https://x.com/dailymail/status/2036053935606124883?s=61

  I mean easy done to forget you are a nonce, its on a par with nipping down the shops and forgetting to buy what you actuslly went for...same same.

  4
• Taz Posts: 26,228

  5:30PM

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  The plod not even willing to investigate phones and cars being nicked is why people think crime is out of control no matter how much Fraser Nelson et al say look at all the stats they are down and far better than 20-30 years ago. Everybody will know somebody who have suffered this crime and will be saying all I got was a f##king crime number.

  See it all the time on local FB groups.
  
  

  0
• Sunil_Prasannan Posts: 58,639

  5:31PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

  Cameron described AV as "undemocratic, obscure, unfair and crazy".
  
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-12934509

  0
• FrancisUrquhart Posts: 90,548

  5:31PM

  Malmesbury said:

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

  Would anybody surprised if the also showed that Mandy was also sticking his oar into lots of government decisions.

  At a random guess, it would show a long, long history, going back to before Starmer became leader.
  
  Mandy loved his reputation as the ghost like figure in the background, pulling strings.

  You would think by now all politicans would have found the auto deleting message function in whatsapp.

  0
• DavidL Posts: 58,006

  5:32PM

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  The plod not even willing to investigate phones and cars being nicked is why people think crime is out of control no matter how much Fraser Nelson et al say look at all the stats they are down and far better than 20-30 years ago. Everybody will know somebody who have suffered this crime and will be saying all I got was a f##king crime number.

  Yeah but with respect they do not work in Number 10 and are not Secretaries of State doing government business on their phones. This would have been major.

  1
• CatMan Posts: 3,715

  5:32PM

  Ratters said:

  Trump net approval hits new low on Nate Silver's poll aggregator: -16.2% and the approval part nearly dropping below 40%.
  
  How low can it go if the war with Iran continues? I think it alienates a significant portion of isolationist Trump supporters in a way his actions so far have not. Not least as prices rise...

  https://gasprices.aaa.com/
  
  Average US Petrol (or Gas if you want to piss off LG83) close to $4 (was $2.95 a month ago). Diesel has gone up even more.

  0
• Dopermean Posts: 2,568

  5:35PM

  squareroot2 said:

  99.8% of the British public DO care about corruption. We will see what the law says about Mandelson and whether he is or is not guilty of.. and of what.
  You spin so.much I am surprised you haven't got labrynthitis.

  If 99.8% of the British public cared about corruption there'd have been a baying mob with flaming torches hunting down Boris.
  They don't, some care that others are corrupt, some care that they're missing out on being corrupt and the rest don't care/don't understand
  

  0
• Dopermean Posts: 2,568

  5:38PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

  I think he just wins on personal abasement but it's close

  0
• FrancisUrquhart Posts: 90,548

  5:39PM

  Royal Navy to lead coalition efforts to reopen Strait of Hormuz
  
  https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran/article/iran-war-latest-news-trumps-talks-tehran-gz8wv9598

  0
• Richard_Tyndall Posts: 34,228

  5:42PM

  Brixian59 said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  99.8% of the general public don't give a bat shit about Mandelson
  
  The Tories and wankers like Hodges are effectively talking to themselves.
  
  After all no Tory ever lost a phone, deleted an email or what's app, god forbid they could even lose a Foreign Secretary in Italy for 12 hours and find him drink on a bench in a railway station.
  
  If Badenoch is stupid enough to raise this at Pmq she is even more irrelevant than most voters think.
  
  Not a good day for the Tories, outgoing Mel Stride beasted by Rachel and poor old Claire Coutinho showing all the political skills of an illiterate 5 year old who has asked AI what happens in the North Sea.
  
  Excruciating

  You really are deluded sometimes

  2
• Richard_Tyndall Posts: 34,228

  5:44PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Richard_Tyndall said:

  FF43 said:

  Stuartinromford said:

  Striking that it's Conservative supporters who have swung to more anti than those pesky socialists.
  
  A "fool me once/twice/thrice" effect? And not good for Lady Kemi of Badenochshire.

  Badenoch, not Badenochshire. As in Wolf of Badenoch, only significant settlement, the much mispronounced Kingussie. Come to think of it, Badenoch is also mispronounced in the wrong circles.

  I was listening to The Rest is History this week and found out that for the last 50 or so years I had been pronouncing Auchinleck incorrectly.

  How should I have been pronouncing it?
  
  I’ve been pronouncing it the way Lord Olivier pronounced it on The World At War.

  Apparently it is pronounced Affleck. I did go and check online afterwards and found this was the case. I am assuming of course that TRIH are correct.

  3
• Big_G_NorthWales Posts: 70,843

  5:44PM

  Richard_Tyndall said:

  Brixian59 said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  99.8% of the general public don't give a bat shit about Mandelson
  
  The Tories and wankers like Hodges are effectively talking to themselves.
  
  After all no Tory ever lost a phone, deleted an email or what's app, god forbid they could even lose a Foreign Secretary in Italy for 12 hours and find him drink on a bench in a railway station.
  
  If Badenoch is stupid enough to raise this at Pmq she is even more irrelevant than most voters think.
  
  Not a good day for the Tories, outgoing Mel Stride beasted by Rachel and poor old Claire Coutinho showing all the political skills of an illiterate 5 year old who has asked AI what happens in the North Sea.
  
  Excruciating

  You really are deluded sometimes

  You do not need sometimes !!!!!

  1
• Richard_Tyndall Posts: 34,228

  5:45PM

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  Royal Navy to lead coalition efforts to reopen Strait of Hormuz
  
  https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran/article/iran-war-latest-news-trumps-talks-tehran-gz8wv9598

  If this goes wrong and we lose ships Starmer really is toast.

  2
• algarkirk Posts: 16,902

  5:46PM

  Taz said:

  lol
  
  We’re a nation of mugs.
  
  I’m sure this Judge has considered any potential victims. Nonces are known for their honesty.
  
  ‘ Paedophile migrant who failed to disclose child sex offence after coming to UK wins appeal against deportation as judge rules it was 'honest mistake’
  
  https://x.com/dailymail/status/2036053935606124883?s=61

  I have not seen the judgment but the report indicates, sotto voce, that the decision the judge had to make was whether he could have a hearing, not that he could remain in the UK. SFAICS that remains to be decided. Which means that the case is deciding much less than the story suggests.
  
  Anyone got a link to the judgment?
  
  

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• TheScreamingEagles Posts: 127,060

  5:47PM

  Richard_Tyndall said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Richard_Tyndall said:

  FF43 said:

  Stuartinromford said:

  Striking that it's Conservative supporters who have swung to more anti than those pesky socialists.
  
  A "fool me once/twice/thrice" effect? And not good for Lady Kemi of Badenochshire.

  Badenoch, not Badenochshire. As in Wolf of Badenoch, only significant settlement, the much mispronounced Kingussie. Come to think of it, Badenoch is also mispronounced in the wrong circles.

  I was listening to The Rest is History this week and found out that for the last 50 or so years I had been pronouncing Auchinleck incorrectly.

  How should I have been pronouncing it?
  
  I’ve been pronouncing it the way Lord Olivier pronounced it on The World At War.

  Apparently it is pronounced Affleck. I did go and check online afterwards and found this was the case. I am assuming of course that TRIH are correct.

  Wow.
  
  I wasn’t even close.

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• DavidL Posts: 58,006

  5:48PM

  Richard_Tyndall said:

  Brixian59 said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  99.8% of the general public don't give a bat shit about Mandelson
  
  The Tories and wankers like Hodges are effectively talking to themselves.
  
  After all no Tory ever lost a phone, deleted an email or what's app, god forbid they could even lose a Foreign Secretary in Italy for 12 hours and find him drink on a bench in a railway station.
  
  If Badenoch is stupid enough to raise this at Pmq she is even more irrelevant than most voters think.
  
  Not a good day for the Tories, outgoing Mel Stride beasted by Rachel and poor old Claire Coutinho showing all the political skills of an illiterate 5 year old who has asked AI what happens in the North Sea.
  
  Excruciating

  You really are deluded sometimes

  I agreed with @Brixian59 twice in one day recently. It was …unnerving.

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• Dopermean Posts: 2,568

  5:52PM

  Malmesbury said:

  a

  DavidL said:

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

  Would anybody surprised if the also showed that Mandy was also sticking his oar into lots of government decisions.

  Was he not DPM for a chunk of the time with a PM who seemed seriously close to a break down? I would be astonished if he wasn’t sticking his oar in. The impression I got at the time was that he was running the show and that he and Darling were basically all that was keeping the government on track.

  That he was running the government was something he was briefing the press about.
  
  The reality might well have been different.

  I'd be amazed if Darling had a free hand as CoE, Brown had a reputation as a micro-manager and had been CoE for 11 years.

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• Andy_JS Posts: 39,622

  5:52PM

  I thought Starmer said we weren't getting involved?
  
  "Royal Navy to lead coalition efforts to reopen Strait of Hormuz"
  
  https://www.thetimes.com/

  1
• williamglenn Posts: 58,429

  5:53PM

  VW to shift from cars to missile defence in deal with Israel’s Iron Dome maker
  
  https://www.ft.com/content/1e41e6db-792f-4f60-b567-adb6458fb072?syn-25a6b1a6=1

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• kle4 Posts: 101,909

  5:53PM

  The problem for Reform (and to a lesser extent the Tories), is that even if most of their voters and representatives have a negative view of Trump, the people who do have a very positive view of him will probably be within their ranks, causing friction and being protrayed as the norm to floating centrist dads who, though not as crucial as they think, do have some influence.
  
  The Canadians are still having that problem despite trying to have some distance.

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• algarkirk Posts: 16,902

  5:53PM

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

  The MMcS lost messages will all of course have a sender/recipient who will have carefully preserved each and every one of them. You have to lose two phones to lose a single communication. To lose all relevant communications from multiple phones/parties you have to fill the North Sea with them.
  
  

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• DavidL Posts: 58,006

  5:54PM

  Malmesbury said:

  a

  DavidL said:

  FrancisUrquhart said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

  Would anybody surprised if the also showed that Mandy was also sticking his oar into lots of government decisions.

  Was he not DPM for a chunk of the time with a PM who seemed seriously close to a break down? I would be astonished if he wasn’t sticking his oar in. The impression I got at the time was that he was running the show and that he and Darling were basically all that was keeping the government on track.

  That he was running the government was something he was briefing the press about.
  
  The reality might well have been different.

  Maybe. But a government that had been paralysed by Brown’s indecision started moving again.
  
  Mandelson has the morals of an ally cat and really seems to have not cared if Epstein was abusing children. But he was and is an operator who knows how to get things done. I have admitted before that I, in ignorance of the Epstein stuff, thought his appointment was a good one. I think that there is at least some truth in it.

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• Dopermean Posts: 2,568

  5:56PM

  algarkirk said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  Dopermean said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  wooliedyed said:

  turbotubbs said:

  wooliedyed said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  TheScreamingEagles said:

  tlg86 said:

  What are the chances?
  
  https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/2036460110579450052
  
  @Steven_Swinford
  Exclusive:
  
  Police did not investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone because officers were “too busy”, despite the sensitivity of his messages and contacts
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen as he returned home from a restaurant in central London on October 20 last year

  Pretty high, I’ve mentioned on here friends have had their phones/tablets/watches stolen and they’ve gone to the police saying that FindMyLocation says their device(s) is/are at this property and the Rozzers say, nah, cannot be bothered, here’s your crime reference number and claim on your insurance.

  Yeah, but are they reporting stolen a government phone?

  Was it a government phone or his personal phone?

  Sorry, should have included: "The theft of the work device..."

  Ta, I should be surprised at the police in this instance but I am not.

  Dan Hodges makes another point:
  
  https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2036469140571988163
  
  @DPJHodges
  We were specifically told by Steve Reed on Sunday the theft pre-dated the issues relating to Mandelson. I’m going to say it again. This is a blatant cover-up. And Ministers - from the Prime Minister down - are openly lying about it.
  
  https://x.com/singharj/status/2036466148946976932
  
  @singharj
  McSweeney's phone was stolen around a month after Starmer was forced to sack Mandelson as US ambassador.......

  Lol. Absolute roasting liars

  Should have just had an unfortunate accident with the phone while crossing the channel.

  Wonder why the messages werent retrieved on the new phone with the same number he was given the next day?
  And why he didn't back up any messages as per policy.
  So many mysteries.

  It’s called doing a Boris.
  
  Covid Inquiry: Johnson says WhatsApp 'somehow automatically erased' 5,000 messages
  
  Former prime minister claims lack of detail from messages sent during key early weeks of pandemic is due to program "going down and coming back up again"
  
  https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/johnson-says-5000-messages-lost-due-to-whatsapp-automatically-erasing-things

  Boris you say? That should be that for Starmer.

  I am sure there will be plenty of quotes from Labour/Labour ministers about that which will come back to haunt them.

  Are the McSweeney messages likely to be embarrassing for the Govt and/or McSweeney/Mandelson?
  I suspect it tends towards the latter.

  I suspect very bad for McSweeney.
  
  I was told he reveres Lord Mandelson on a par with the way I revere David Cameron (pbuh).

  The MMcS lost messages will all of course have a sender/recipient who will have carefully preserved each and every one of them. You have to lose two phones to lose a single communication. To lose all relevant communications from multiple phones/parties you have to fill the North Sea with them.
  
  

  The relevant sender/recipient are McSweeney and Mandelson, so only 2 unbacked up mobiles need to be lost.

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• kle4 Posts: 101,909

  5:57PM

  Taz said:

  lol
  
  We’re a nation of mugs.
  
  I’m sure this Judge has considered any potential victims. Nonces are known for their honesty.
  
  ‘ Paedophile migrant who failed to disclose child sex offence after coming to UK wins appeal against deportation as judge rules it was 'honest mistake’
  
  https://x.com/dailymail/status/2036053935606124883?s=61

  I really hope that is a very unfair summary of the case by the Mail.

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• kinabalu Posts: 49,676

  5:57PM

  Andy_JS said:

  I thought Starmer said we weren't getting involved?
  
  "Royal Navy to lead coalition efforts to reopen Strait of Hormuz"
  
  https://www.thetimes.com/

  I think he's said no involvement in anything aggressive and/or illegal.

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• kinabalu Posts: 49,676

  5:58PM

  kle4 said:

  Taz said:

  lol
  
  We’re a nation of mugs.
  
  I’m sure this Judge has considered any potential victims. Nonces are known for their honesty.
  
  ‘ Paedophile migrant who failed to disclose child sex offence after coming to UK wins appeal against deportation as judge rules it was 'honest mistake’
  
  https://x.com/dailymail/status/2036053935606124883?s=61

  I really hope that is a very unfair summary of the case by the Mail.

  It does happen.

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• CatMan Posts: 3,715

  5:58PM

  Good news for all fans of Sheffield.
  
  Revamped Crucible to host World Championship until 2045
  
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/articles/cy71drmdn10o

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• Sunil_Prasannan Posts: 58,639

  5:58PM

  williamglenn said:

  VW to shift from cars to missile defence in deal with Israel’s Iron Dome maker
  
  https://www.ft.com/content/1e41e6db-792f-4f60-b567-adb6458fb072?syn-25a6b1a6=1

  The Beetle-52?

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