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pb21

pb21

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Quite obviously Starmer can read without a coach present.

Also quite obviously being coached in person is preferable to being coached remotely over teams.

Your job didn't have to be a 'key worker' to be allowed to travel. I'm not a key worker and was travelling all over the country to do work.

The speech was in response to Brexit finally happening, quite obviously a significant occasion. I think it's fair to say the extra gravitas the coach provided Starmer was memorable.

Quite obviously this is simply pathetic clutching at pearls.
 




Rdodge30

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I find it implausible that this was ‘work’ on Christmas Eve in the first place let alone when you consider the travelling during lockdown.
 


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abc

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I think Thatcher had voice coaching to remove her “northern and working class” (ie not BBC) accent. It was necessary then to be taken seriously (especially for a woman) but thankfully society has moved on.
 


pb21

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Rdodge30 said:
I find it implausible that this was ‘work’ on Christmas Eve in the first place let alone when you consider the travelling during lockdown.
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Have you read the reason why Starmer, the coach and others were working on Christmas Eve?
 


Rdodge30

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pb21 said:
Have you read the reason why Starmer, the coach and others were working on Christmas Eve?
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he was working to prepare for interviews in the run up to the UK leaving the EU.


Although I got that from the right wing press so it’s actually inadmissible on NSC

To be clear… I didn’t believe Dominic Cummings or Boris Johnson with their explanations of breaches either. (Also didn’t believe Raynor over sale of council house)
 








A1X

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I wish I knew that working on Christmas Eve didn’t really exist before I worked Christmas Eve
 




Rdodge30

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A1X said:
I wish I knew that working on Christmas Eve didn’t really exist before I worked Christmas Eve
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Oh it exists for the rest of us all right ! It’s just a real stretch of the imagination for me to picture the great and the good slaving away on December 24th
 


pb21

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Rdodge30 said:
he was working to prepare for interviews in the run up to the UK leaving the EU.

Although I got that from the right wing press so it’s actually inadmissible on NSC

To be clear… I didn’t believe Dominic Cummings or Boris Johnson with their explanations of breaches either. (Also didn’t believe Raynor over sale of council house)
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Yes and no, it was in direct response to this:



Yes, even Johnson was workign on xmas eve.



Just listen to his oratory skills.
 


Titanic

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crookie said:
Agreed, fantasy money, where do they think these trillions should come from. The NHS, education? Ridiculous
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No serious political party is going to sell this to the British public, especially one that found an economic black hole which meant pensioners lost a fuel allowance.

Unless of course they are absolute loons.
 


Curious Orange

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On NSC for over two decades...


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dsr-burnley

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Kinky Gerbil said:
www.telegraph.co.uk

Foreign Office to open talks on slavery reparations

Officials from David Lammy’s department will meet Caribbean delegation demanding trillions of pounds
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk

Should be a quick 5 minute chat saying thanks but no thanks.
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By my reckoning, the PM of Barbados reckons that Barbadians should get an average of over £100m per head.

If I'd known that slavery was as profitable as that, I'd have gone in for it myself. ;)
 




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dsr-burnley said:
By my reckoning, the PM of Barbados reckons that Barbadians should get an average of over £100m per head.

If I'd known that slavery was as profitable as that, I'd have gone in for it myself. ;)
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The unhelpful facts for the descendants of slaves living in the Caribbean is that they are the least deserving of reparations.

If reparations are due it should be to the Arawak and Taino peoples that lived in those islands, and wider areas like Florida before the transatlantic slave trade commenced.

They of course are now dead, having been unable to sustain hard graft in the plantations when they were first being established and have been lost to history.

The descendants of the slaves that lived to see the end of slavery in the Caribbean are now living in prime global real estate.


Politicians there should recognise the golden egg that fell into their laps, and it’s not reparations that are required for descendants of slaves from the Caribbean it’s restorative justice.

That means they can go back to sub Saharan Africa, like Cassius Clay did, or stay in the Caribbean.
 




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