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Hey look, Labour are trying to harm trans people again.

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Catholic church well-divided .... Pope against the JDVancite MAGA 'Christians' --

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Brilliant article --



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No rain, off for a prowl at the beach !
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Black Arts indeed ----

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Waiting to be reminded that Starmer is a former human rights lawyer...
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QT review coming up later. Bit stressed because on top of everything else I'm dealing with this house was served with a prohibition order by the council yesterday meaning everyone has to be out in 28 days. Which is somewhat irksome. Ho hum.
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SKY -- Aaaaaa gh ! xx
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Sky'sGoneOut wrote: Thu May 22, 2025 8:31 pm QT review coming up later. Bit stressed because on top of everything else I'm dealing with this house was served with a prohibition order by the council yesterday meaning everyone has to be out in 28 days. Which is somewhat irksome. Ho hum.
The Tory MP on QT tonight has a slightly wonky collar for the entire show, which is doing my nut (a Twitch stream I've got on in the background is watching it).

That sounds terrible about the house, hope it's not too stressful for you, in the long-run.
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QT came tonight from posh, trendy Dulwich.

For Labour we had Nick Thomas-Symonds. As far as I can tell Dulwich has been Labour for about 5000 years yet tonight poor Nick faced nothing but silence. It was funny because other people got huge rounds of applause for slagging off the Tories, including audience members, yet when it came from Nick the tumbleweed rolled slowly by. I mean sure the man's hardly one of life's great orators, he's a charmless bag of spuds in a suit, but it's happening to all of them. Labour have reached a point where even their own voters are treating them like they've just shat themselves at a party and are pretending it hasn't happened. Everyone can smell it and it's mortifyingly embarrassing. Even the few people in the audience who defended Labour couldn't bring themselves to give him a single clap or engage with him in any way. Back away slowly, don't make eye contact.

For the Tories we had Kieran Mullan. At least Kieran provided some entertainment tonight with his ridiculous hysterics. 'Labour are selling our fisherman out to the EU!' shrieked Kieran before being humiliatingly forced to acknowledge the deal simply continues the same terms as the Tories previously negotiated. 'Murderers and rapists are being released from prison!''' shrieked Keiran before being humiliatingly reminded that it was a result of the parlous state the Tories left our prisons and criminal justice system in. And the audience weren't having it, on both occasions they turned on him for his overwrought antics. Oh yeah and apparently his tie was wonky (I didn't notice possibly because if you could hear his nonsense it diverted your attention from his neckwear).

For I genuinely don't know who or what we had Inaya Folarin Iman. Inaya stood as a Brexit party candidate in my neck of the woods so it was interesting to hear her response to Labours EU deal. She was broadly supportive of it, slapped down Kieran's hysterical betrayal nonsense, and seemed very keen to brush the whole subject under the carpet and move on. Interesting. The rest of what she offered however was shallow right wing shite.

For the Economist we had Zanny Minton Beddoes. Zanny offered a kind of middle of the road voice of reason while spending the rest of the evening looking bemused. She offered an excellent explanation of why Labour's 'deal' with the EU is still very much within the realms of a hard brexit but at least begins to excise the worst of it.

For sane people we had Hashi Mohamed. Hashi was great all night, but my favourite bit was when some smug young twerp brought up Lucy Connolly being 'jailed for a tweet' and Hashi (a trained lawyer) absolutely schooled him. Inciting people to burn down a hotel and murder people in the middle of a riot is not 'free speech' you fucking morons. (He said it slightly differently).
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refitman wrote: Thu May 22, 2025 9:15 pm That sounds terrible about the house, hope it's not too stressful for you, in the long-run.
Cheers. It's completely nuts. All of us in the house got served this prohibition order yesterday giving us 28 days to leave because a place we've all lived in for years without issue is suddenly deemed unsafe for human habitation. The reason they give for our imminent peril (a category 1 hazard) is the lack of a heating system that heats the shared areas (corridors and toilets) while we enjoy the hottest Spring in living memory.

So following the advice on the cover letter off I went this morning to Leeds council 'hub', sat for over an hour waiting for my ticket number to be called before having the dubious pleasure of speaking to some of the most clueless, rude, useless wankers I've ever had the misfortune to encounter. None of them had a clue how to deal with what I'd presented them with or could answer any of my questions. The best I eventually got was a young lad who provided me with a log in for the site you use to bid for council houses which I didn't want and didn't work.

I'm ok, I've got a decent amount of savings stashed away from the council and DWP's prying eyes and it turns out if the council serve you with one of these prohibition orders tenants are entitled to a statutory 'home loss payment' which currently stands at £8100. But to get that you need to go through their system which is the ball I was attempting to get rolling today...

Seriously though I must have spoken to at least 6 members of different council housing departments today and apart from that one young guy (who proved to be incompetent), the rest were patronising, dismissive and fucking useless.
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In hindsight I was also going to the goth thing at Leeds museum and was attired accordingly so maybe Leeds council housing advisors have a collective distaste for those of us who appreciate the darker things in life and dubious 80's music.
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Awake extra early for an already early jab, so that was an entertaining start to the day !
Had it been Winter I'm visualising the denizens being being dumped on a snowy pavement by burly bullying bailiffs...
all because of a lack of heating in the corridors.

Boy came inside for his breakfast. Now warming my feet as I type in bed.
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