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Post by baldrick on Oct 21, 2024 16:59:52 GMT
Drag bingo and pronoun badges: Taxpayers foot £650k bill for public sector Pride celebrations Authorities spending on ‘extravagant events’ and ‘pointless gimmicks’ rather than prioritising improving services, critics claim North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust spent £950 on modifying pedestrian crossings Connor Stringer Senior reporter 20 October 2024 3:49pm BST Taxpayers have paid hundreds of thousands of pounds for drag bingo, rainbow fudge and pronoun badges as part of public sector Pride Month celebrations. Spending on LGBT-themed events and merchandise totalled £655,700 across NHS trusts, councils and fire services, it can be revealed. They include Humber Health NHS Partnership, which spent £770 on rainbow badges. North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust spent £950 commissioning LGBT rainbow colours to be painted alongside the zebra stripes on two pedestrian crossings. 😂😂😂, could only happen under the commie part stewardship drag bingo 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂, bet the commies on here enjoyed it 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I had a great time, thanks. 👍
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Post by oldie on Oct 21, 2024 17:24:59 GMT
Drag bingo and pronoun badges: Taxpayers foot £650k bill for public sector Pride celebrations Authorities spending on ‘extravagant events’ and ‘pointless gimmicks’ rather than prioritising improving services, critics claim North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust spent £950 on modifying pedestrian crossings Connor Stringer Senior reporter 20 October 2024 3:49pm BST Taxpayers have paid hundreds of thousands of pounds for drag bingo, rainbow fudge and pronoun badges as part of public sector Pride Month celebrations. Spending on LGBT-themed events and merchandise totalled £655,700 across NHS trusts, councils and fire services, it can be revealed. They include Humber Health NHS Partnership, which spent £770 on rainbow badges. North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust spent £950 commissioning LGBT rainbow colours to be painted alongside the zebra stripes on two pedestrian crossings. 😂😂😂, could only happen under the commie part stewardship drag bingo 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂, bet the commies on here enjoyed it 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I had a great time, thanks. 👍 I tried to get but the doorman stopped me
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Post by ltdgas on Oct 21, 2024 17:57:22 GMT
I had a great time, thanks. 👍 I tried to get but the doorman stopped me Yep even drag bingo has standards
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Post by baldrick on Oct 21, 2024 18:10:42 GMT
I had a great time, thanks. 👍 I tried to get but the doorman stopped me Nobby's lederhosen not appropriate this time?
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Post by Nobbygas on Oct 21, 2024 18:55:53 GMT
I had a great time, thanks. 👍 I tried to get but the doorman stopped me "doorman" - are you assuming his/her/their gender? 😂
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Post by oldie on Oct 21, 2024 19:17:10 GMT
I tried to get but the doorman stopped me "doorman" - are you assuming his/her/their gender? 😂 I did. "It" was at least 6'6" and bearded. To be fair he did ask me my gender, I said I wasn't sure He thumped me.🤔
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Post by oldie on Oct 21, 2024 19:17:38 GMT
I tried to get but the doorman stopped me Nobby's lederhosen not appropriate this time? It's never fitted me
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Post by Icegas on Oct 22, 2024 0:50:44 GMT
"doorman" - are you assuming his/her/their gender? 😂 I did. "It" was at least 6'6" and bearded. To be fair he did ask me my gender, I said I wasn't sure He thumped me.🤔 I got in, and got laid.😶 Now I have no idea who I'm supporting on November 5th.😇
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Post by baldrick on Oct 23, 2024 0:32:03 GMT
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Post by bluetornados on Oct 23, 2024 6:19:27 GMT
Labour volunteers helping Kamala Harris 'in spare time' - Keir Starmer..by Chris Mason, Political editori.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/10/23/00/91167475-13989877-image-a-58_1729639052047.jpgPrime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has sought to play down the significance of alleged interference by the Labour Party in the American presidential election. The Trump Campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington seeking an immediate investigation – after the Head of Operations for the Labour Party, Sofia Patel, posted on social media that she had “ten spots available” for anyone willing to travel to North Carolina to campaign for Kamala Harris, adding “we will sort your housing”. She said she had around 100 current and former party staff heading to America before polling day. The post, on LinkedIn, has since been deleted. Foreign nationals are permitted to serve as volunteers on campaigns in the US as long as they are not compensated, according to Federal Election Commission rules. The complaint from the Trump Campaign, external is both pointed and theatrical. “When representatives of the British government previously sought to go door-to-door in America, it did not end well for them,” it read. That is a matter-of-fact reference to US independence around 250 years ago. On matters more contemporary it requests “an immediate investigation” into what it calls “blatant foreign interference”. Speaking to reporters while flying to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in Samoa in the south Pacific, the prime minister said: “The Labour Party has volunteers, [they] have gone over pretty much every election. "They’re doing it in their spare time. They’re doing it as volunteers. They’re staying I think with other volunteers over there.” The Trump Campaign letter to the Federal Election Commission also says: “Morgan McSweeney, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, director of communications, attended the (Democratic) convention in Chicago and met with Ms Harris’ campaign team. “Deborah Mattinson, Sir Keir’s director of strategy, also went to Washington in September to brief Ms Harris’ presidential campaign on Labour’s election-winning approach.” Ms Mattinson no longer works for the Labour Party. Party sources say Mr Doyle and Mr McSweeney went to the Democratic Convention in their own time, and that the Democratic Party didn’t pay their travel and accommodation costs. It isn’t clear who did. Asked if the row risked jeopardising his relationship with Donald Trump, the prime minister said “no” – pointing to the dinner the two men had together at Trump Tower in New York last month. “We established a good relationship. We’re grateful for him for making the time... for that dinner," Sir Keir said. "We had a good, constructive discussion and, of course as prime minister of the United Kingdom I will work with whoever the American people return as their President in their elections, which are very close now.” Sir Keir has never met the Vice-President Harris, Trump’s Democratic rival. But he has met President Biden several times since becoming prime minister in July.
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Post by bluetornados on Oct 23, 2024 6:25:10 GMT
Labour risks sparking a fresh cronyism row as Wes Streeting's partner is handed a plum party job..by David Churchill
i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/10/23/00/91167473-13989865-image-a-42_1729638504738.jpg Joe Dancey, who is the Wes Streeting 's fiancé, has been installed as the party's new executive director of policy and communicationsLabour risked sparking a fresh cronyism row last night as it emerged that the Health Secretary's partner has been handed a senior party role. Joe Dancey, who is the Wes Streeting's fiancé, has been installed as the party's new executive director of policy and communications. The plum role comes with a £104,985 salary and is arguably only second in significance to the party's general secretary. It was created after Sir Keir Starmer's director of communications, Matthew Doyle and policy chief Stuart Ingham entered Government. It means Mr Dancey will have a leading role in Labour's efforts to retain a majority and win the next election comfortably. Mr Dancey, who has been engaged to Mr Streeting since 2022, was Labour's parliamentary candidate for Stockton West in the general election. But he lost to the Tories' Matt Vickers by 2,139 votes. i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/10/23/00/91061151-13989865-The_Health_and_Social_Care_Secretary_defended_the_plan_to_give_o-a-44_1729638586802.jpgThe Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting
He was announced as the successful candidate for the new role in a message to party staff yesterday, The Times reported. Mr Dancey has long had close links to the party, having worked for the former New Labour cabinet ministers Baroness Amos and Lord Mandelson. But he also ran former Olympian and Tory peer Lord Coe's office during the London 2012 Olympics. He also runs his own political and communications consultancy, Endeavour Advisory. In his new role, which was advertised, Mr Dancey will be responsible for 'strategic leadership and oversight' of Labour's media operation and policy work. While his appointment has been broadly welcomed in the party, some have questioned his experience in communications. It is the latest in a series of senior Labour figures with close family links. Chancellor Rachel Reeves's sister, Ellie Reeves, is the party's chair, while Mr Ingham is married to Jess Leigh, a special adviser to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. It also comes after it emerged that dozens of civil servants have been appointed by the government without an open hiring process. The Civil Service Commission watchdog has recorded 67 occasions when Labour requested an exemption to go outside the normal recruitment process for civil servants. There is no suggestion that Mr Dancey's appointment has broken any rules and it was publicly advertised.
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Post by baselswh on Oct 23, 2024 7:05:22 GMT
Hopefully Oldie has volunteered to help Harris.
Should all but guarantee a Trump return to the White House.
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Post by trymer on Oct 23, 2024 7:12:45 GMT
Hopefully Oldie has volunteered to help Harris. Should all but guarantee a Trump return to the White House. Foreign interference in the US election...another own goal by labour, headline news on the BBC this morning.
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Post by baselswh on Oct 23, 2024 7:23:03 GMT
Hopefully Oldie has volunteered to help Harris. Should all but guarantee a Trump return to the White House. Foreign interference in the US election...another own goal by labour, headline news on the BBC this morning. Yeh Trymer. Have these volunteers paid for their flight,hotel bills etc? In the scenario they hav'nt,then they may have broken US electoral law.
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Post by trymer on Oct 23, 2024 7:26:26 GMT
Foreign interference in the US election...another own goal by labour, headline news on the BBC this morning. Yeh Trymer. Have these volunteers paid for their flight,hotel bills etc? In the scenario they hav'nt,then they may have broken US electoral law. Trumps campaign have made an official complaint about foreign interference so hopefully this will all be investigated...imagine if it was found that the British taxpayer was funding these 'volunteers' !
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Post by baldrick on Oct 23, 2024 7:44:33 GMT
Yeh Trymer. Have these volunteers paid for their flight,hotel bills etc? In the scenario they hav'nt,then they may have broken US electoral law. Trumps campaign have made an official complaint about foreign interference so hopefully this will all be investigated...imagine if it was found that the British taxpayer was funding these 'volunteers' ! What if they weren't? How is this different to previous campaigns, Musk's lottery and Nigel Farage spending time there?
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Post by Icegas on Oct 23, 2024 7:53:47 GMT
Trumps campaign have made an official complaint about foreign interference so hopefully this will all be investigated...imagine if it was found that the British taxpayer was funding these 'volunteers' ! What if they weren't? How is this different to previous campaigns, Musk's lottery and Nigel Farage spending time there? It's very different. Personally let them volunteer, they are abysmal anyway.And that's being nice..really nice. Harris and Labour vs Trump.... good lord..✊️✊️✊️
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Post by baselswh on Oct 23, 2024 7:54:25 GMT
Trumps campaign have made an official complaint about foreign interference so hopefully this will all be investigated...imagine if it was found that the British taxpayer was funding these 'volunteers' ! What if they weren't? How is this different to previous campaigns, Musk's lottery and Nigel Farage spending time there? Maybe we'll find out in the next few reports on the matter.
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Post by Icegas on Oct 23, 2024 7:55:38 GMT
Hopefully Oldie has volunteered to help Harris. Should all but guarantee a Trump return to the White House. Foreign interference in the US election...another own goal by labour, headline news on the BBC this morning. It's funny when they have to make fun of their own...😁
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Post by baldrick on Oct 23, 2024 7:57:19 GMT
What if they weren't? How is this different to previous campaigns, Musk's lottery and Nigel Farage spending time there? It's very different. Personally let them volunteer, they are abysmal anyway.And that's being nice..really nice. Harris and Labour vs Trump.... good lord..✊️✊️✊️ If they are volunteering in their own time, it's not an issue. As for being abysmal, Labour did get a large majority. 😉
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