“I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie” - UK politics June 23 on

Have at it.

rip are boris truly u were the people's cunt i wish u hadn't been murdered by the perfidious johnny eu

‘he's a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no one good quality worthy your lordship's entertainment…’

yeah, but enough about Kieth.

It's been heavily briefed already that The Times will back Labour, and with Boris Johnson resigning from parliament, Tony Gallagher hasn't the slightest reason to change course. https://t.co/0mlq6swyW8

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) June 10, 2023

Some Tory MP and Boris brown-noser I've never heard of has just resigned "with immediate effect", so that's three by-elections to look forward to!

Strange to think that these fuckers could well limp on for another 18 months, they seem like a placeholder government already

I assume Dorries is just going down with her shit, she has several conversations with Boris yesterday (disclaimer: the source for this is almost certainly Dorries)

going down with her shit

Can't tell if this is a typo or not.

circling the drain

every time I see the two main dead-eyed freakazoids of the Labour Party with ghastly voices talking up nothing as something I only feel anger + despair at how wretched they are. I don't feel any relief that the tories are knackered at all.

Remembering how 'knackered' (in other words not really knackered at all) the Tories were just before the 1997 GE and comparing them to how knackered the Tories are now more than anything else shows how absolutely knackered Labour are now.

last year I was chatting with old bloke who is a long time on/off Labour member who was disgusted with the Kinnock purges and first cancelled their membership over clause 4, but keeps going back to them on the rationale that they are the only vehicle for change and is too much of a party history geek to ever totally give up on them. He was a bit lukewarm and critical of Corbyn but not as hostile as yer average melts were at the time and gave me a telling off for dissing Kieth at the start of his leadership. But now he's really really glum about Kieth.

if Starmer gets in it’s up to all of us to push him in the right direction, and i suspect that will have to come from outside the party. i mean he is a chickenshit with no principles so it’s not like he won’t change his mind for expediency. we just need to make the right moves expedient for him

either that or get him on mic calling some old lady a bigot

You're more likely to get some old lady on a mic calling him a bigot.

Police Scotland: A 52-year-old woman has been arrested as a suspect in connection with the investigation into the SNP's funding and finances.

Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party from 2014 to 2023. Wikipedia
Born: 19 July 1970 (age 52 years), Ayrshire Central Hospital, Irvine.

Just sayin' like.

What!

Sorry Scots, looks like you'll be yoked to perfidious Albion for a while yet

I blame that shifty husband of hers.

https://dkanut5j171nq.cloudfront.net/catalogue-images/ti104236.jpg

Getting arrested or indicted is all the rage these days

Given she posted her driving theory test yesterday, polis clearly thought she was a flight risk, hence the lifting

— Michael Scanlan is on MAB (@ScanlanWithAnA) June 11, 2023

NEW: Seven hours after her arrest, Nicola Sturgeon has been released by police without charge. pic.twitter.com/Y541IJImwu

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) June 11, 2023

IT'S ALMOST AS IF

LOCK HER UP

Last year I planned to take my own life. I saved up my antidepressants with a plan to overdose on them. I didn't tell anyone, my girlfriends found out and staged an intervention.
I reached out to my MP (and someone I consider a friend) @KirstySNP ahead of this debate. https://t.co/qS3GsFx9KI

— Heather Herbert (@HeatherHerbert_) June 13, 2023

Not sure where else to post this, but I am feeling a bit shat up about the attacks this morning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65887752

that, and another incredibly bleak and depressing child murder as a result of chronically under-funded and over-stretched social services, thank you Tory Britain

twitter was not a good place to try and find any accurate reports about the carnage in Nottingham this morning. I had to scroll past hundreds of grotesque idiots linking it with asylum seekers and the French attack from last week.

The only time I can find on the news reports is 4am, which strikes me as a very poor choice of time to do terrorism, so I'd be surprised if it did turn out to be a 'terror attack'. I think Neil S is more likely to be correct.

also the judge that gave a 24 month sentence to someone with 3 kids, one of them disabled, in that abortion pill case is a total dick.

I found the Nottingham incidents particularly difficult because:
a) my oldest friend died early this morning, very near to where one of the attacks occurred, and I was scared that the medical people were going to be delayed in reaching her (thankfully they weren’t).
b) someone else I know, who lives in the next street to where one of the attacks occurred, couldn’t sleep and took a night time walk down that very street, an hour before it all happened.
c) one of the streets that was sealed off was the same street where my oldest friend and I lived next door to each other, 40 years ago.

sorry to hear that Mike, that's awful.

yeah, horrible

Oh god, Mike, that's all terrible, I'm so sorry. In my friend group there was a lot of working out exactly where it all happened and who lived there and if everyone was alright yesterday, but that sounds so much more intense.

It's horrible for you both. Horrible when the violence is so near. Sorry to hear it.

My non-music job is as an informatics/analytics lead for a major London trust and I have seen many “AI” automation proposals. All of them have been staggeringly unworkable in almost every way, largely proposed by (albeit well-meaning) folk with no working knowledge of NHS data. https://t.co/qJyZVIomjg

— Phexioenesystems (@phxsys) June 14, 2023

I'd like to see old Boris wriggle his way out of this one!

well at least our next likely PM is not an unprincipled, lying, adulterous piece of human garbage, lol

Ouch, they've really done a number on the lying sack of shit.

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

Boris Johnson
Liberal, nuanced, cautious: is this the real Boris Johnson?

the Graun had his number right from the start of his premiership

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

lol

Jog on Jogson

An ok piece laying out our next crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jun/15/drought-is-on-the-verge-of-becoming-the-next-pandemic

Pollster: 'Boris Johnson is more unpopular than Phillip Schofield or Xi Jinping'

he's history's greatest monster

Unless you're an equally conniving corrupt MP who is now free to act with impunity until the next time the press need a wicker man

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

Corbyn on R4 PM today - first on Glenda Jackson, then on Johnson, then on Labour - was excellent. (Twitter thread)

“The meeting went silent, every body turned to stare at each other, and Glenda gave me the biggest wink you’d ever seen”

Former Labour leader, @jeremycorbyn , shares his fond memories of working with Glenda Jackson, who has passed away at age 87.#bbcpm pic.twitter.com/wqqT2WdrMb

— BBCPM (@BBCPM) June 15, 2023

I listened to a GJ interview a few years ago and she was saying Corbyn shouldn't have been the leader because working class people who the Labour Party are supposed to serve are preternaturally a socially conservative bunch of people. Her politics were basically of that detestably condescending noblesse oblige variety of the Labour Right.

...which makes JC's tribute all the more generous, and suggestive of a broader acceptance of differing views than he's generally given credit for.

How dare Jambone Crumhorn say anything ever

he has consistently been very generous towards other party people like that, and it has rarely been reciprocated unless you could take a knife in the back as a friendly gesture. It's all very well being a nice guy, but they were going to destroy him even if he wasn't.

I was living in Primrose Hill with a bunch of Balearic ravers and club runners from a fairly infamous estate in South London and they did terrace chants of GLENDA IS OUR LEADER, OUR LEADER, OUR LEADER when she was elected, which was the only bit of levity in the 1992 election. They were classic ex-terrace hoolies who’d had epiphanies about violence and racism while on pills in Ibiza, and every single one of them hated Thatcher for destroying any cohesion in their community of origin (and the rest).

BTW Glenda Jackson also told anyone who asked that she did not consider Jeremy Corbyn to be antisemitic and that his advocacy for Palestinians was the cause of the accusations.

turd that won't flush transferred to new bowl

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyvnYv5WcAIMp4a?format=jpg&name=large

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

"-and it'll be required that we only say nice things about him from now on"

xpost obv

apparently johnson's first mail column will be essentially an advert for a new weight loss drug.

not 'apparently' it's already online.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-12203407/BORIS-JOHNSON-Wonder-drug-hoped-stop-raids-cheddar-chorizo-didnt-work-me.html

and yes, this an advert free way of checking/hatereading their site.

He's no Adrian Chiles.

God that was a slog, makes me yearn for the exquisite prose of Adrian Chiles. Wonder who actually wrote it?

lolworthy xpost

I think they'll need endless videos and pics of him jogging for this column to work.

Next column: the responsibilities of fatherhood.

... how to avoid them.

Wes Streeting: ‘If I’m going out, I’m a binge drinker – terrible messaging for the shadow health secretary!’

Surely this is contraindicated by his recent health izsuesy

Lol typo got away from me

I'd be very surprised if Wes really is a binge drinker, it was only a few years ago he had major surgery for stomach cancer. Maybe he just wants the Westminster piss-head crew to think he's one of them.

Kidney cancer (and if he’d had stomach cancer so young, that might be indicative of extra drinking).

ah, I remembered it wrong. If his posting is to be believed a steady diet of ultra processed beef from McDs would also put him at risk. Not that I believe anything this fucker says.

I was probably born with the kidney cancer my doctor found when I was four, so I can’t really speak to that bit of his experience.

Even I as a non-dancer, am a bit embarrassed for them.

EXCLUSIVE: First ever Partygate video revealed as Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rulespic.twitter.com/vIHbuIqWWf

— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) June 17, 2023

the tories are flailing. Strong Colin Hunt vibes from the male "dancer".

wonder how long this video has been available to journalists who've chosen not to share it

i'm not particularly bothered by this party compared to the many government decisions which actually killed people during the pandemic, always interesting to see what's considered newsworthy and worthy of outrage showboating tho

I personally don't care either, but can understand why it's emotive to people who couldn't attend funerals or had family die alone and how UK media cynically publishes this stuff when it suits their agenda. Although saying that I detest funerals and would be happy to die alone, so perhaps I'm not normal!

I'd like to believe that the Mirror sat on this for a period because they knew it would give people no motivation to obey the lockdown rules themselves if they saw this. But I think that's probably far too generous an interpretation. I'm also disgusted to read that apparently the Met knew this video existed but did nothing with it.

that the UK govt flouts their own rules isn't really as shocking as them rolling out policies that causes hundreds of thousands of people to die miserable, squalid deaths. I was reminded by a program last week the the first WCA related suicide happened some time before the 2010 GE results came in. This is why any partisan stuff from The Mirror doesn't really work for me, because the people with blood on their hands will likely be ministers in the next Labour govt.

Another Con MP quits, another byelection.

the complaints about him are malicious says the Tory MP who admitted he was sniffing cocaine and drinking "incredibly potent" Japanese whisky

I like the BBC headline “I’ll expose my children to homelessness - William”. Not a practice that’s unknown to royal types, not sure people will approve nowadays .

The prince also revealed when asked there are "absolutely" plans for social housing on the Duchy of Cornwall - the estate given to the heir of the throne, which provides him with an income.

great, another little Poundbury style model village from one of these parasitic fuckwits. So entitled and up his own arsehole he thinks becoming a landlord is an altruistic act.

Can I defect from the UK to go and talk about this on North Korean podcastshttps://t.co/26JPnOes6k pic.twitter.com/JUp8zVBx8N

— Alice Podcasts (@AliceAvizandum) June 18, 2023

let’s fuckin go babey, mad max by 2035 or gtfo

Another pledge broken pic.twitter.com/iv6DlsgEyr

— j (@jrc1921) June 18, 2023

NEW: Church of England clergy, represented by @unitetheunion, have for the first time in their history submitted a formal pay claim, as members struggle with the cost of living.

Vicars call for a 9.5% pay rise. Unite says the Church of England has billions in the bank & can pay.

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) June 19, 2023

for god and ulster

EXC: Schools trans guidance revealed - with @NatashaC

- No pronoun or uniform change without parental consent

- No hiding changes from parents

- Head can say no to protect other kids

- Competitive sport protected - gender questioning pupils bannedhttps://t.co/HYhcApyhR7

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) June 18, 2023

Tories are in massive trouble and it looks like Sunak has chosen to lash out at trans/non-binary people. Horrible.

Probably because you can't get away with open homophobia nowadays, so they choose the next marginal group down the list. Not helped by all the smug JKR-type transphobes slowly but surely pivoting to the far right!

Absolute depressing filth, what else is there to be said?

i'd say the increasing screeching about Pride covers getting away with open homophobia, albeit this has been enabled by transphobic legitimate concerners all the way

i've worked with trans kids in the past and some of them need protection from their parents, not subjection to their whims

good to see government concerned about the sanctity of competitive sports in schools, because teens have been so well served by existing opportunities

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/mar/07/uk-girls-lose-interest-in-sport-as-teenagers-women-in-sport-survey

Probably teach them to be better at evading authority, if anything. But yeah they’ve been going hard for Gillick for a while now and nobody in the press gives a fuck about it cos pRoNoUnS

there are thousands of young people, not just trans kids but obviously including them, for whom school is a refuge from the fuckery of their home lives. obviously this needs to be stopped

Mis-gendering is widespread irrespective of parental awareness and acceptance and not sure what kids can do about staff or peers not respecting their wish about pretty much anything. On uniform I suppose this is to some extent also about 'protecting' centuries of related bullshit like girls not allowed to wear trousers.

'No hiding changes from parents' is gibberish or maybe implies school staff are expected to snoop and ask parents if they know their kid has 'changed' in some way that might not be obvious to them but sounds (intentionally?) unworkable.

It seems parents are a bit like the market, they know best.

There's an article a few days ago in noted left-wing rag the Daily Mail where the Chief Rabbi points out that "schools must tell parents" is an enormous safeguarding failure.

He's still gonna vote Tory tho

child liberation now

parents are inherently reactionary as a political bloc and anything that empowers them abuses children by design

when I was 17 my stepdad threw me out the house for two nights upon learning of my homosexuality. I was lucky to have friends whose parents welcomed me in with open arms and didn't have any issue with it, and I went home on the condition that it was to be kept secret and not mentioned in case anyone else was embarassed by it. I only ever thought of myself as "lucky" in the few years after that, because my perspective was that it could have been (and I expected it to be) a lot worse, and it's only when I got I realised that actually, it was just shit and not something to ever forgive.

This is worse than Section 28, because Section 28 didn't come with a mandate to out me to my parents. If a teacher had told my stepdad there was a whiff of gayness about me I can only imagine how difficult my life would have become.

Yeah, the idea they could "nip it in the bud" right?

Probably because you can't get away with open homophobia nowadays, so they choose the next marginal group down the list.

This is the dynamic in the U.S., without a doubt.

It will be easy to fuck Starmer over bcz he won't have great answers to these. Johnson is a liar but he proved he could get Brexit over the line. What can Starmer offer?

OTOH we might be in a recession by then.

One frontbencher says a current online video of Starmer’s flip-flops is a taste of things to come.

"The general election campaign is going to be full of videos of Keir, ‘he said this, now he’s says that’.”pic.twitter.com/BK0IO7DkRC

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) April 8, 2023

the election campaigns, when they come, are likely to reflect badly on Sunak and Kieth because they're both terrible politicians (never mind terrible people). i can't see any result hinging on that, so it'll come down to the perceived state of the economy come the time, and the narrative that the media spin on that. anything Labour says between now and then will be focused on trying to keep the press onside

otm

If only more people were like Waterstones Dad. I think my (popular nonfiction) book is a story of what happens when people decide that someone is a social problem for reading too much Steven Pinker. https://t.co/Y6SA4aNvRq

— Daniel Finkelstein (@Dannythefink) June 21, 2023

that 'Waterstones Dad' article doesn't seem like much more than low-effort reheated 2017 centrist dad discourse, but I think it's justifies its existence by prompting this insane tweet (Finkelstein's book is about how members of his family were persecuted in Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia btw)

What’s this post got to do with anything

anything Labour says between now and then will be focused on trying to keep the press onside

― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Saw a post on twitter saying it's widely believed the Times will go for Labour but it's not the win that it might've been in the mid-90s.

I enjoyed the new centrist dad or w/e article a great deal, however this was 95% because it's in the new statesman and describes their own readers.

How is this different from £50 FOPP man?

xp: it was also a copy of a years old joke tweet

What’s this post got to do with anything

― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 13:29 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

why do you talk to everyone here like you're their line manager doing a performance review?

This is communism, John:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/21/britain-mortgage-banks-bailout-profits-homeowners

xp sorry for posting a question on a thread

As a renter this country is far more interested in houses. They are more likely to have families, people in full-time work or the retired who have paid into the system.

The way people talk about the mortgage crisis compared to the rental crisis is so revealing. (Full disclosure: I have a mortgage)

Mortgage crisis: talk of the horrors of costs going up by hundreds of £ a month and the threat of people "losing their homes". Rental crisis: silence

— Rachel Cunliffe (@RMCunliffe) June 22, 2023

I only click on New Statesman articles because I actively enjoy the way it just fades into white after a few lines.

"I read it for the article limits"

🚨BREAKING: Junior doctors in England to escalate strike action.

Five-day strike from Thursday 13th July to Tuesday 18th July.

This will be the longest single period of industrial action in the history of the NHS.

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) June 23, 2023

Also three day rail strike

worth pointing out that this is not going to reduce the pain at all. people notoriously prioritise mortgages over all other bills; someone who is skipping mortgage payments will have cut consumption to the bone https://t.co/HNG3O4XY3P

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) June 23, 2023

Long enough to cover the next election campaign of course

The chief secretary to the treasury when we fell into our biggest financial crash post war, and the asshole who dug us into an even bigger hole by slashing govt spending after that crash want to give us lectures on economics? Like taking medical lectures off Shipman. https://t.co/BVq17bdOcE

— Chris Corney (@ChrisCorney1) June 29, 2023

seriously, these two ghouls should be sent on an enforced mariana trench trip in a carbon fiber submersible for all the damage they've done. A podcast for non-sentient economy thinktank molluscs, not for human beings who have had to live with the damage caused by these cunts.

if a meteor has to crash into a podcast studio then I can't think of a better one.

will be interesting to see which supposedly centre-left "tory-hating" commentators express any kind of objection to this.

they could have called it "FAILING UP" maybe then somebody would listen

I'm just trying to think about what they'd politically disagree on, possibly Trump would be a dividing line and that's probably about it.

Rwanda asylum plan ruled unlawful... again.

... by Court of Appeal this time.

I'm just trying to think about what they'd politically disagree on, possibly Trump would be a dividing line and that's probably about it.

Osborne would want the NHS to be entirely privatized (and his mates get all the money), Balls would want there to be a public-private partnership (in which Osborne's mates get all the money).

the ideological differences of the UK political spectrum laid bare

Balls thinks Osborne's titanium tax doesn't go too far enough

I'm learning about grown up economics from the UK media commentariat today. It's bad for water companies to be nationalised because the taxpayer foots the bill and it requires govts to borrow heavily for infrastructure investment. It's good for water companies to borrow heavily/increase bills/cut infrastructure investment so they can pay £72 billion in shareholder dividends, because at least it doesn't require govt funding. That is until the hollowed out, heavily leveraged shell of the water company has run completely dry.

Usually my TheyWorkForYou e-mails show a clean record of Abbott voting on the losing side of every vote, but today I was surprised that she voted yes on something that went through - apparently a bill allowing the Secretary of State to use funds to build a memorial in rememberance of the holocaust, as well as an associated learning centre. 10 votes against, by the way - 9 tories and one DUP.

for a second there I thought you meant she'd voted against it!

surprisingly despite the shameful anti-semitism that holds hegemony over the labour left they all voted for it

Dead on arrival.

I wrote for the @NewStatesman about the lessons Keir Starmer should learn if he wants to avoid ending up like François Hollandehttps://t.co/N8PTorFm5X

— David Klemperer (@dmk1793) June 29, 2023

Not reading that but in reply to the URL…. so_gonna_happen

lol sorry i mean tweet, not URL but what’s the d’urgence these days

Yeah not reading it either

Does that mean we get our own Macron after Starmer. And our own Let Pen after that.

I don't know a lot about French politics, but my understanding was that hollande was elected with high expectations on a fairly left wing platform and then jettisoned many of his policy commitments and shifted to the right, starmer seems like he's making sure to disappoint everyone before he's actually elected

Britain's most racist professor reckons Sunak not getting what he wants is good for Sunak actually

And are 'the British people' in the room with us now pic.twitter.com/uF1T7EfqLj

— Jeremy Noel-Tod (@jntod) June 29, 2023

every Goodwin treat can be reduced to 14 words

hollande also famously was the actual President of France, triumphantly beating Sarkozy, and then decided not to seek re-election when his personal popularity had somewhat declined to.... 4%

his party now holds 27 of 577 seats in the national assembly

Oh dear Zak has resigned, and obv takes the high ground

He runnin for London mayor again or something

Interesting as to why the Spanish government is set to lose elections next month:

Here are actual “hard choices” being implemented- the Spanish govt standing up to energy companies, landlords & business profiteering for the benefit of the people. When UK politicians invoke “hard choices” they means screwing the people for landlords, business and profiteers. https://t.co/SjpZAfzrh3

— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) June 30, 2023

"Anything to drink, Mr Kawczynski?"
"I'll have a glass of wine and gottle o' geer for the PM".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2023/06/29/TELEMMGLPICT000341003652_16880458823200_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqaEUq9GYqankD6q6yihpLUBfkVGkvNq4T0Te3y8rlrgc.jpeg

xp ya unfortunately that's bad politics as majority of people want to be screwed lol

if you're not permanently worse off and miserable is it even grownup politics?

it's more mature and serious to vote for a govt of corrupt lackeys that run down all public services and is a mere client of the financial markets, lol just the way it is I'm afraid.

Hilariously, it seems like Labour has now expelled Neal Lawson, head of soft-left thinktank Compass, for the heinous crime of describing cross-party co-operation scheme in Oxfordshire as "grown-up politics".

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/30/labour-expelling-mp-activist-neal-lawson

don't talk about any of the Scottish Labour/Conservative council shenanigans that have been going on then. That will definitely get you booted out of the party as well.

xp ya unfortunately that's bad politics as majority of people want to be screwed lol

― the best minds of my generation destroyed by woke (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 30 June 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Lool we probably need a bit more info before coming to that conclusion. Not everywhere is England.

Only really pay attention to foreign politics to extent necessary to confirm my pre-existing prejudices tbrr

Lol

I think of the support I gave Keir Starmer, personally, publicly, to win the leadership, when he absolutely knew I held these views that are apparently now anathema to the Labour Project. I thought I was too old to be disappointed in a politician.

— @zoesqwilli✧✧✧@min✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧ (@zoesqwilliams) June 30, 2023

This is a hell of a story. Besides being presumably completely illegal, they thought it would be a good idea to invite *checks notes* WIll Hutton??

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/secret-email-severn-trent-boss-070627641.html

Hilarious how Liz Truss has kept being blamed. Only 40 days as PM.

that Zoe Williams tweet is so delicious i think i've put on more weight

lol it’s true

Muahaha! Three years into the biggest Labour Right led factional purge of members since the Kinnock years and Zoe isn't playing anymore because they've gone after one of her soft-left drinking buddies.

I don’t say this lightly, but if Starmer, or anyone from his frontbench team who have remained silent as Labour has thrown LGBTQ+ people under the bus, show up at #LondonPride they deserve to be heckled.

They’re taking the votes of queer people for granted. https://t.co/obp9oqirH2

— Alex Feis-Bryce (@Alex_FeisBryce) June 30, 2023

making these people unwelcome wherever they go is praxis

because I never let anything go and I'm a dickhead - I just can't help remembering when OJ and ZW were both urging Corbyn to step down as leader. It seemed quite obvious at the time that any of the other leadership front runners would be at least as terrible as Starmer is. It sounds like OJ might have learned something in the intervening years since but ZW is an incorrigible graun brained melt.

it's warming up nicely

Of course Labour can't possibly eject Neal Lawson of Compass for a 2-year-old tweet of great good sense. Even to threaten risks stirring a mighty rebellion - and not by the usual suspects. The majority of the members voted for proportional representation! Sack the lot?

— Polly Toynbee (@pollytoynbee) June 30, 2023

and this shows pretty clearly that it's not about political differences, it's about cliques and cronies

Labour can’t possibly be dismissive of its own membership’s concerns

"a mighty rebellion" heh! classic Toynbee

i assume she's asked to speak to the manager

Just something to think there would be a rebellion over...Neal from er, Compass.

transport and tax incentives are no substitute for a development plan. (also - you could have put a tram system in every British town over 500k population for the money spent on this white elephant) https://t.co/vDcE3Ml69B

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) July 1, 2023

some say the IRA's own development plan for CW was a wicked act, but think of the long term benefits if they had used a more powerful bomb!

the Jess Phillips vs Katharine Birbalsingh twitter beef is way too grim to pick a side, but Phillips actually comes out of it looking the biggest arsehole as usual. Birbalsingh has wrote a tldr letter of complaint to Kieth about the incident in which she alleges Babs has unconscious bias issues with black people on the conservative end of the pol spectrum. Probably not correct because Abbott is not a conservative and Phillips had issues with her as well for shome mysterious reason

one of those arguments where you hope they both lose

losing is the bare minimum i wish for them

Big day for fearless British journalism as the Guardian publishes an article Will Hutton was paid to write by the CEO’s of private water firms https://t.co/xpXOgeH9ME

— Metal Bizkit Rising (@allforthanookie) July 2, 2023

he could have at least reeled off some examples of the success of privatising water from around the globe, oh I see nobody else does it apart from Chile and it's a Pinochet legacy.

"But in the utilities especially – and I would argue more generally – successful companies must unite their stakeholders around a common purpose."

you've just got the simple task of persuading greedy parasitic speculators and foreign investment firms that some negligible quantity of less shit pumped into the waterways of England and Wales means means you get lower share dividends and this is a good thing.

Today's atrocity:

The BDS bill is having its first debate in parliament today, just hours after Israel launched its biggest Israeli military assault on the West Bank in years.

At 2.30pm, Palestinian children will be dying in Jenin hospitals as Tory MPs tell us that to oppose this is anti-semitic.

— Rivkah Brown (@RivkahBrown) July 3, 2023

Reading this thread from an incredibly brave woman and you see how the trans panic distracts from the issues we face.

There've been thousands of tweets full of hate, cruelty & attempts at ridicule directed at me this week. But it's #Pride weekend, queers are & always will be queers, and you can't erase us. Here's me & my kid having fun watching @AidaHDeeDrag story time at #Pride yesterday. https://t.co/WrQXaWznx0 pic.twitter.com/Nq2iddnyjx

— Mika Minio-Paluello (@mikaminio) July 2, 2023

Katharine Birbalsingh's tweets becoming increasingly dril-like

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0DRkkKXoAEb7ZC?format=jpg&name=900x900

thanks mainly to "withering financial support from Central Government" the respite centre at the NAS run Robert Ogden school is closing at extremely short notice. It's just a small regional story of austerity stripping away essential services, but it will be devastating for lots of young autistic people and their carers. My heart nearly stopped when I got told a muddled version of events and thought they were closing the school, but it is still awfully sad. Anyway, fuck this heartless right-wing tory country and all its garbage political parties.

Will Hutton: love water companies. Social business.

Pollution released by Thames Water turned river black, court hears https://t.co/tz71Kvtyyx

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 3, 2023

doesn't look like we've mentioned farage's latest debacle yet. 'the woke banks are all out to get me'...

it was mentioned on the Novashite Media thread. Just another opportunity for the bbc to interview their favourite blustering racist about a non-story. Or as Bastani would have it - it's a serious civil rights issue.

these fuckers

Society is broken when these people feel confident to say these things on camera with their faces uncovered pic.twitter.com/GyRxILUuPR

— Mic Wright is reporting. (@brokenbottleboy) July 4, 2023

This is another one, it does sound like some lame landlords are getting screwed.

Turns out he’s getting absolutely hammered pic.twitter.com/B9Li5h8F53

— Mike Cosgrove (@mikecosgrove) July 4, 2023

"smashing the class ceiling"

hackneyed soundbite about adding elocution lessons to the national curriculum. I think funding free school meals would be a better idea. It's not like as if loads of kids start talking in an rp voice then structural inequalities will be broken through, more fucking insipid shite from the Labour brains trust.

It's surprising how often I still hear quite intelligent people say things like 'not long till we get the Tories out'.

I seem to be more unusual than I had thought in thinking that the potential replacement government is equally bad.

I think I'd actually prefer Hunt continuing as the scared-to-break-anything post Truss chancellor over Reeves, she seems like a ruthlessly malevolent psychopath and she might actually have some dangerous ideas about dealing with the *economically inactive*. i.e. ppl like me!

(xxp) He surely didn't mention elocution lessons did he? I did hear him droning on this morning about how his dad was a toolfitter or whatever he supposedly was. Like anyone gives a fuck.

"The ability to speak well and express yourself should be something that every child is entitled to and should master,"

"But the curriculum doesn't allow us to provide this. This is short-sighted. An inability to articulate your thoughts fluently is a key barrier to getting on and thriving in life.

ironic given the lawyer-bureaucrat-politician verbal mush he spouts

Yes. He does not talk fluently at all.

I think the policy is about communicating confidently rather than actually elocution, but maybe working class kids would communicate more confidently if anyone listened or cared about what they had to say when they spoke? Idk I’m not a big brain Labour leader though.

A lot of MPs articulating their wants in the HoC.

EXC - In rare move, parliamentary aide goes on record to say she’s “very angry” with harassment & sexual misconduct around HoC. 25yr old Ellie Varley says she was asked to sit on MP’s lap & felt she had no choice but to do so “to get him off my case” 1/ https://t.co/wXTZKtAN5k

— Sima Kotecha (@sima_kotecha) July 5, 2023

Starmer claims Just Stop Oil are 'riddled with arrogance' and says he can't wait for their protests to stop

Some people have too many rights eh Keef

Fantastic!

🚨🚨

one of the youngsters placed behind Starmer for his education speech starts heckling him about watering down the £28bn green promise - before being escorted off the premises pic.twitter.com/TReh2wD9RW

— Jim Pickard 🐋 (@PickardJE) July 6, 2023

when your props aren't supposed to talk back

“Wish I could tase you, bro”

"which side are the labour party on?"

"we are on the side of economic growth"

"thank you very much, thaaaank you very much, thaaank you very much, thaaank you"

polite!

Starmer says, if Labour takes power, it will inherit an economy that is badly damaged. It won’t be like 1997, he says.

I guess when you're *double digits* ahead you can aim this low.

i wonder if any previous Labour governments took over a fucked economy and achieved anything

“We can’t do anything good because of the mess we inherited from the previous lot” is 2010 Tory austerity chat, literally the exact same line. I don’t know how much more evidence anyone needs of the cunt continuity we’re saddled with whatever happens at the GE but some ppl love to get their wallets inspected

Due to rate rises and gilt market stuff there probably is a lot of pressure on what the chancellor/Treasury can do. Even if we had an anti-austerity chancellor it might've been difficult.

Though there are things government can do to alleviate poverty and we could put in rent controls.

tough on poverty, tough on people in poverty

lmao

Found a better video :)

Sir Keir Starmer's major education speech is disrupted by climate protesters who ask him if he'll reinstate Labour's pledge to commit £28bn to tackling climate change pic.twitter.com/2OlSYwIP1c

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) July 6, 2023

God what a cunt. Good on them

Cannot get over the repeated 'thank you v much'. What a fucking piece of cardboard.

Because Luke’s been telling everyone what happened that night in 2019. With you and that girl in a toilet cubicle. That girl who couldn’t even stand up. Remember her?

How about that little girl in Bruton you came across that night? Remember that? Did you know she’d only just turned 16? How old were you then, George, 49?

Bumped his own thread but i had no idea that MF Doom's death was an NHS fuck-up or that he had died in Leeds:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/06/leeds-hospital-trust-apologises-after-rapper-mf-doom-died-in-its-care?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

yeah, I had no idea that he died in Leeds as well

Wow.

actually flashing back here. I think I remember being surprised that he had died in Leeds at the time when it was mentioned in various obits, but had completely forgotten this.

i just remember his death was announced quite a while after he'd passed away

oh yeah, that as well

itv just covered starmer speech without mentioning the protest at all

despite the video upthread being from itv Twitter

not sure if I can share it directly on here, but this tweet has a link to the George Osborne email people are talking about this morning

George Osborne is a political piece of shit, sure, but a part of the email that I've not seen a single comment on yet is the rape accusation on line 56

A girl who "[can't] even stand up" can't consenthttps://t.co/doxnwdpWFx

— Seph Hallow (@SephHallow) July 7, 2023

I've got no idea what's going on here but my mind is somewhat blown by George Osborne being only 52.

it's an anonymous email sent to all the guests at his wedding + apparently everyone in tory politics & the media. so gossip about an utter cunt circulated among a load of other cunts. however does contain some very serious allegations and probably the best shot he has at any consequences for his crimes

The communist revolution in 2035 is another chance.

Osborne is a very bad man but god the style of that email, couldn't finish it

Ditto.

teachers retire early because of Ofsted, a teacher even killed herself because of Ofsted. The inspectors usually don’t have a clue about teaching. Absolutely insane this. What a way to get literally every single teacher out on the picket line https://t.co/rud3gHE1Ss

— tom (@tomrade_) July 7, 2023

Ofsted, like means testing, is at the core of right wing Labour DNA. it's all about the managerialism, bureaucracy, "playing by the rules", respectability. this whole insulting speaking lessons so poor kids can pass as middle class. when Labourites talk about aspiration what they mean is everybody should aspire to join the bourgeoisie, and if you don't then you can be happily ignored and left to your service jobs, serving the aspirational well-spoken real people

and the education system that offers nothing except prepping tools for their appropriate slot in the workforce isn't wrong-headed, it just needs MORE utilitarianism, more league tables, more outcomes, more numbers

once my year 6 son finished his SATs suddenly school was such a happier place, teachers taught what they wanted, kids were suddenly engaged and interested

I had an Ofsted inspector on the phone earlier. My son has been selected as a sample student to observe at the SEND college he attends. When the college have been crap I've been quick to let them know about it, but they are doing a great job now. Still I'd never say anything negative or critical about the college to an inspector, that would be nasty. The poor staff have had them in since yesterday now and all seem on high levels of stressed outness.

I just typed a long post about our last Ofsted inspection but eh, what's the point? The whole process is cunty, for all involved. I could be generous and say some of the outcomes were positive but the way it's delivered is so ugly. Anyone who has been in contact with the process is scarred by it. Why does no one listen to this?

Obviously what we need is four times as many Ofsted inspections.

this is entirely with Starmer’s annoying middle manager character sheet

“senior leadership feel the business will operate better if we have 4 performance reviews per year”

IN KEEPING with

Scottish government wants drug possession to be legalhttps://t.co/XZQxyfOfoN

— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) July 7, 2023

a rational and necessary legal change that will no doubt be met with thoughtful discussion from the other parties and the media

> speaking lessons so poor kids can pass as middle class.

what if they use their new found assertiveness to point out your own hypocrisy at u-turns in eco promises?

You will be thanked for your contribution to the debate ofc

i was gonna say "oratory" instead of "speaking lessons" but i suspect that what's proposed isn't anything as sophisticated as oratory, it will literally be "being appropriate at work"

The speech equivalent of covering up your tattoos (if they're not hands or face)

Feeling despair and hopelessness because of the gross inequities of the UK class system and from a poor background? You need to ingratiate yourself with people who consider you a lower class of lifeform by talking like a total prick - that's all that is preventing you from becoming a useful person.

As has already been posted, you couldn't find a worse example of a person (re: their oratory skills) to announce a garbage policy like this. Nothing about student fees and grants for students from poor backgrounds or free school meals. I wouldn't vote Labour if someone tried to force me to at gunpoint.

For a foresmic King’s Counsel he is an incredibly weak public speaker, flubs like “the family outstairs” quite common in prepared speeches, easily rattled, general mien of a supply teacher

His poor articulation doesn’t seem to have impeded his opportunities much but I’m sure it’s all that’s standing in the way of poor BAME kids and nothing else needs to be addressed ever

yeah I wonder if talking fluently in an establishment approved style will shield BAME kids from racist police officers who abuse their stop and search powers

You forget Starmer comes from a Four Yorkshiremen Sketch background where his entire family spoke in inarticulate grunts and he was the first in his family to master human speech.

that might have been his "humble toolmaker" dad, who Starmer is loath to mention - was actually the fucking senior management of this factory!

the humble toolmaker created one hell of a tool tbh

it just makes me think if we'd had the equivalent of Mao's cultural revolution in the UK, his dad might have got thrown off a bridge or beaten to death by an angry mob before he had a chance to conceive him!

Get him, Rishi!

So after promising a new era of "integrity" and "grown up" politics, Rishi Sunak now plans to resurrect exactly the same disgraceful smears used by Boris Johnson against his opponents. pic.twitter.com/G4eoXcKzNU

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 8, 2023

I love disgraceful smears - but tbf this cunt was DPP and Savile DID NOT get prosecuted under his watch - so fair game.

the Starmer fans will be posting about how close Savile was with Thatcher and the Conservative Party, oooh you've got them there.

Well, Starmer publicly agreed with his party's attack ad that implied that Sunak personally wanted paedos to get lighter sentences, based off the legal guidelines that Sir Keir was involved in drafting.

Live by the sword, get shanked.

Also when you have made lying like a snake your personal brand, you can't complain about any dirty tricks.

Apologies to my snake brethren, you are without any hyperbole morally and spiritually superior to Sir Keir Starmer

Sir Kieth must apologise

As the world records its hottest ever week, Labour sources brief the Sunday Times that Keir Starmer "hates tree huggers" and wants to ditch the party's green agenda pic.twitter.com/8XIrbNZFVT

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 9, 2023

lol we're all very much gonna die

Just the stupidest cunt imaginable

Oh no. I'm going to go all whiny centrist dad. But I can't help it. This is just a horrible thing to do on someone's wedding. Just maybe leave them the fuck alone. https://t.co/vxcmaWeBMk

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) July 9, 2023

Oh the humanity! Someone's attacked George Osborne with confetti!

this is a real 'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face for ever' of an image

https://i.imgur.com/q1MrGcQ.png

New campaign song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLalJpRsrGQ

it's just a pity they weren't throwing confetti at Gideon's funeral

The cause of Labour is the no hope of the world

Dunt is toxic jelly

Bet you Dorian agrees with him. Hi Dorian! If you see this, you’re still a cunt!

I genuinely thought this was a parody when I first saw it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0k396dXgAEmUdi.jpg

The melts are questioning the source but it's easily as likely to be Labour spin as it is those nasty Tories

even with a work of fictional dialogue they always have to portray Ed as the chumpish loser

https://twitter.com/BRYN_BORANGA/status/1678037291502120974?t=c6aG-AWH0KR50rcX9iyqVA&s=19

twitter embeds broken now?

https://i.postimg.cc/gjVXSBrf/20230709-150044.jpg

🚨NEW: Railway workers on Eurostar have secured a significant pay rise following negotiations between @RMTunion and management.

All staff on £45,000 or below will get a minimum uplift of £4,300.

Pay deal is worth between 8-17% depending on grade and role.

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) July 11, 2023

hell fucking yes

that would have been a lot harder if the UK still had a 50% stake…

Meanwhile...

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/labour-does-not-rule-out-rejecting-public-sector-pay-advice-from-review-bodies-b2363603.html

Better vote for them anyway tho #GTTI

because of the economic devastation caused by the Truss mini-budget and Putin's invasion of Ukraine ... blah blah ad infinitum. Regretfully, now a prospective centre-right Labour govt led by someone just as evil and dishonest as any Tory. They will have to commit to the damaging and dangerous austerity/PFI ideas that is in the party's DNA and the watered down to meaningless flagship green policy - all shit stuff that they were going to do anyway, under any circumstances. Oh such difficult decisions for them to make.

as a non-economist I'm curious why these sensible pragmatists can't offer ballpark aspirations for public spending based on forecasts for tax take etc. even within the framework of their own arbitrary rules they seem evasive and dishonest and unable to articulate any kind of positive vision - their rhetoric betrays their nihilism at every turn

sorry, I'm in a stupid place, I know they answer to my own half-baked thoughts. this is a party machine run by people with absolute contempt for voters and they operate on the principle that ideas are bad and confusing.

also of course they are nihilists but

i can't remember where i read this but we're still living in the reagan "regime". politicians believe that in order to be taken seriously they must make sure that the principles of the market are the principles of society. all the hedging of starmer et al, the abdication of any vestige of corbynism, is obeisance to this regime. there are signs of regime change - the appetite for state action is growing, there's a trend there - but rather than get ahead of this wave starmer is determined to stay behind it, where he thinks the water is safe, which, to be fair, politically, it essentially has been since the early 80s

please let this happen

Hahahaha pic.twitter.com/MvmJfU9xAa

— j (@jrc1921) July 12, 2023

Perfect.

lol, amazing.

I'm guessing they feel they need a "name" candidate because they're being told by people on the ground that Corbyn is likely to win. Which reminds me that I was phoned by a polling company about a year ago and asked, among other things, if I'd vote for Corbyn if he ran as an independent.

heard they are also considering Luciana Berger, which would be the same result but less funny

you need a mission specialist like Paul to take on Corbyn, some low value person who the party doesn't give a fuck about and has previous experience of rejection and failure.

LB is the epitome of a spoiled Habs old girl, let her lose there too.

apparently she was appalling to her staffers and she's a dreadful melt

but I think the party will see her as too high value to waste on a lost cause

Would imagine Berger is being lined up for somewhere she can actually win, probably not Liverpool this time lol. But if they did put her up against Corbyn then there would obviously be a certain discourse we would have to go through again.

also relevant to note

As a student activist and new Labour MP, Berger was romantically linked to Tony Blair's son Euan and with Chuka Umunna

Tonty took her under his wing at an early age and she seems to have stayed there

Are there many Welsh speakers in Islington North?

The whole world is represented in Islington North.

being the anti-Corbyn candidate in Islington N requires either great stupidity or hubris - qualities Mason has plenty of in equal measure!

I think LB wants to stand in Golders Green and Finchley? She ran there last time as a Lib Dem but it’s where she’s actually from or where she has lived as an adult.

She totally dated Chuka but always denies her friendship with Euan Blair was a relationship.

So she moved to 2 different opposition parties, stood for the Lib Dems, and is now fine to stand as a Labour MP again.

When you have it laid out in front of you the hypocrisy is comical.

at least she didn't make a single tweet broadly in support of tactical voting a few years ago eh?

Whenever anyone on the right of Labour is described as ‘talented’ by others in that group, I’m always left wondering what they could possibly mean. Talented at opening and shutting briefcases?

The talent is not being seduced by dumb shit like humanity or wanting to reduce inequality

BBC journalists constantly talking about "junior doctors say they've had below-inflation pay-rises for years" - this isn't a question of opinion, it's on the historical record and you can look it up and report it as a fact. obviously somebody prefers to present it as doubtful claim

Millions of public sector workers, including teachers, police and junior doctors to get pay rises between 5-7%, UK government sayshttps://t.co/3U2SzSrR6A

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 13, 2023

The government will help fund public sector pay increases by “significantly” raising fees for migrants’ visa applications and NHS access, Rishi Sunak said.

Setting it up nicely for an incoming Lab govt to continue along the same path

There is no new money there apart from the idea of getting migrants to pay for it, which is so utterly craven - and, I think, delusional - I can absolutely accept that it came from this government.

Hilarious that Rishi kept saying he couldn't agree to the 6% pay recommendations because it would be inflationary, and now he says he can after all - as long as austerity is reimposed. It's not about inflation at all. It's about squeezing the state dry.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/13/strikers-agency-workers-high-court-verdict

those "out-of-touch unelected judges" have made some good rulings recently. lol at Kwarteng's political legacy

Even if it were a good policy, I cannot see how migrants' visa fees can begin to cover public sector pay rises.

it's got to the point where policies don't need to workable or have any practical use at all, as long they sound punitive enough towards anyone who isn't British then it's good to go.

probably a fair amount of immigrants coming here will be people coming to work in the public sector as nurses etc

when i worked in a s/w house, we once got raided by the home office as someone had tipped them off re us having illegals.
meant that the next day we all had to take in our passports to prove we were who we were.
the so called illegals, were developers over from our chicago office who all had valid visas.
however, the process and interviews that the chicago crew had to go through was intense and very intimidating.
and this was over 10 years ago.
i dread to think how things are now.

Teachers Unions leaders are a disgrace for recommending this offer.

I suspect our union will accept it.

A good thing about social media is how it facilitates chat around how shit a lot of union leaders are. Hope teachers reject (and your union Tom) reject this pay cut

would it be so hard for Starmer to say “we’d negotiate to find a fair deal with the great workers of this country”? ffs just last week he accused rishi of having “given up”, the attack line is just sitting there waiting

You can load the bases with no outs and he’ll choose the NOBLETIGER every time

Rachel Reeves was saying last week that a Labour government might also ignore the recommendations of pay review boards - what's she saying now the Tories have accepted then?

god knows i nod off every time she opens her mouth

I can barely hear her over my screaming.

So much for the most popular minister in the cabinet.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/15/ben-wallace-says-he-will-step-down-as-defence-secretary-and-quit-as-mp

Frankly, the left has to start caring a lot more about growth, about creating wealth, attracting inward investment and kickstarting a spirit of enterprise,” he says.

“It is the only show in town for those who dream of a brighter future.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/15/keir-starmer-we-cant-spend-our-way-back-to-power

LOL TIL he entered politics via the scottish parliament

xpost

is the RIP act of 2000 still in force? because that had a prison sentence for failing to disclose passwords and 'I've forgotten it' wasn't a valid response. People were prosecuted under it.

Senior Labour insiders said they agreed that the policy was “horrible” and would not exist “in a perfect world” but said the party was not making any spending commitments it was unable to deliver on. “I can see why colleagues might feel uncomfortable with this but we’ve got to be realistic about the state of the economy,” they said.

One shadow cabinet minister said Starmer had to be able to “slay shibboleths” over public spending but admitted it was a tough position for MPs with constituents in poverty to defend.

“These things are not easy for the MPs because they do genuinely hurt families in their constituencies,” they said. “But we can’t end child poverty unless we have more money to do it – and that’s not going to happen, frankly, in the first term of a Labour government.”

https://i.imgur.com/XjBzkbW.png

this insistence on refusing to commit to actually improving anything in any way reminds me of this joke Jeremy Hardy made in the late 90s about New Labour coming to power and the public feeling like someone who had waited 18 years for an organ transplant only to find out that the donor had the same condition

Can't remember the last time I've had a thought reading this thread that wasn't "these fucking cunts" (nb not the thread contributors).

The funniest thing about lack of commitment is how quickly old that will get when we have droughts/flood/fires and the like.

Sleepwalkers, the lot of them.

enlightening article (for some Americans) about the NHS in the NYT today

A good person.

I’ve decided to resign from @UKLabour and serve as an Independent Mayor.

People are tired of being controlled by Westminster and Party HQs. They want someone to stand up for them. Let the people decide. £25k by end of Aug & I’ll stand as North East Mayor👉https://t.co/WuDEGd3xxJ pic.twitter.com/kscPeMmlX5

— Mayor Jamie Driscoll (@MayorJD) July 17, 2023

All power to Jamie.

Those quotes from the "Senior Labour insiders" (Mandeldroids like Akehurst and McSweeney) won't convince anyone. We've all learnt by now that these people take active pleasure in the suffering of natural Labour voters. It's punishment for the enthusiasm for Corbyn, for wanting fairer policies, for being impudent and not accepting what they're told. The level of hatred these people are going to start to see directed towards them in a Labour gov may well surprise even them.

Jamie has raised 20k in barely 24 hrs.

How many of those are giving bits of spare cash they shouldn't but are doing so anyway just bcz they want someone who cares?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1PkNG3XsAA9uhb?format=jpg&name=medium

the replies to Kim McGuiness announcing her candidacy is mostly ppl saying fk off they are voting for Driscoll, what a charming Labour person she is.

This has every chance of being this decade's Thatcher Milk Snatcher pic.twitter.com/GIuMf1umLW

— Samplo Corvodina QC (@TreborRhurbarb) July 17, 2023

I can't imagine seeing a classic like that on bluesky!

But one shadow cabinet member said: “It’s possible to both be critical of the two-child policy but also say we can’t make spending commitments. We have to be fiscally disciplined.”

make no mistakes, Labour's "fiscal discipline" is going to make them more dangerous than a Tory party that is on the ropes. Despicable people.

Driscoll now on 53k in half a day. Astonishing

Good for him. He was pretty impressive on C4 news tonight.

Unhinged to keep going on about that note after all the covid support people and businesses got.

Lucy Powell holds the line on the two-child limit on Times Radio: "There's no money left, to coin a phrase." Liam Byrne's note not so much a millstone for this Labour leadership as a philosophy for government.

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) July 18, 2023

The Labour Party using a stick the Tories have gleefully used over the years to beat the Labour Party, to beat... the Labour Party? Self-clowning or what?

Have they used the Winter of Discontent and the Enemy Within yet?

Give's department literally* 'gave back' £2Bn last week.

Gove lol. First he Goveth.

not seen any signs of this imminent "Shadow Cabinet revolt" against Kieth that was reported yesterday, if any of them had a shred of integrity they'd have already been booted out.

‘I don’t think the idea of keeping people in poverty is fiscally responsible'

North of Tyne Mayor Jamie Driscoll says Labour is ‘storing up problems for the long term’ with its new policy to keep the two-child cap on benefits if it gets into government
https://t.co/P0zxS1DNGF pic.twitter.com/Zj5EfMhT9e

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) July 17, 2023

The Westminster Think Tank scene

This is both dumb and disgraceful - Policy Exchange is an important part of the Westminster think tank scene and shouldn’t be intimidated in this way https://t.co/cBABHJ5ECa

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) July 20, 2023

bloody Camden scenesters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4uivPpzCGo

JSO protesters getting assaulted in the street meanwhile.

https://t.co/DvPMVDLefs pic.twitter.com/BOfFqTVWP8

— Samplo Corvodina (@TreborRhurbarb) July 20, 2023

lmao

The scene that celebrates its health (fiscal only)

Nice

Tories HOLD Uxbridge & South Ruislip!
No idea whether this is good or bad, probably bad because everything is bad. Bad in that they are already pinning it on ULEZ I suppose.
Bad that I'm still awake at this time.

Gonna need to offer to starve more kids

LET’S GOOOOOOO https://t.co/C562GtQOHJ pic.twitter.com/NyRHbJSwXs

— El Borto 🔥🔥🔥 (@leo_hutz) July 21, 2023

Sadiq Khan will be shitting himself.

Spot the unconvincing puppet with Keir Starmer's hand up his arse.

https://e3.365dm.com/23/07/768x432/skynews-keir-mather-labour_6225140.jpg

Lol @ this nerd

Starmer Boy

My God, he's even called Keir!

Some of this shit will be swept away so fast. A decrease in inflation and interest rates should do it

fucking Rovers fans

can he make up his mind whether being murdered by a 19 year old is embarrassing or a clear act of self defence https://t.co/ykySp50nrV

— tyron (@thetyronwilson) July 21, 2023

I know it’ll have been a fair amount of tactical voting there but Labour losing their deposit whilst the greens double their vote share isn’t a great look for the impending Labour landslide https://t.co/UDaJAf3NSy

— Chris Duffy (@OtherChrises) July 21, 2023

Current headline on the guardian...

Starmer urges Khan to ‘reflect’ on Ulez rules after Uxbridge defeat

Labour leader hails Selby byelection victory but says London mayor must consider expansion of ultra-low emission zone

God I hate this prick. Yeah tory voters don't want environmentally progressive policies, big fucking surprise. How to address that? Be more tory! Fuckhead.

I tend to think this is right. There is no going back now and the ratchet effect will be applied until the the handle snaps off. Everyone talking about "wasted opportunities" to propose left policy with a relatively high poll lead simply does not understand the goals of the labour right. To them this is a golden chance to cement Blairism in even harsher, hegemonically dominant terms so there will be no backsliding into socialism for the British state. Blair's own recent comments are the clue to what they want to do.

The one thing you can say for certain about Starmer’s Labour is however right wing you think it is now, it’s going to become a lot more right wing in the months ahead https://t.co/wo9xfT7jPB

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) July 21, 2023

it was shaaps that expedited the roll out of ulez in London, and that's a lot of what people are pissed about, the speed of it

https://www.onlondon.co.uk/letter-from-grant-shapps-shows-that-government-proposed-enlarging-london-congestion-charge-zone/

People hate breathable air, good that labour addresses these concerns

i'm sure every single person crying about ulez absolutely relies on their car and has no option to use public transport

tfw a prospective Labour govt is actually going to be worse than the Tories. In some ways a detestable glazed ham like Starmer with a dreadful voice is probably a good thing because whoever is in his place - it will be the same party machine policy makers and influences driving the direction and this cunt has hung parliament written all over him.

yeah since we're going to hell anyway i hope they stick with this absolute machine of unintentional comedy

i'm sure every single person crying about ulez absolutely relies on their car and has no option to use public transport

Unfortunately conspiracy theorists have got a hold of it too, I've had a "discussion" with one of them in my work.

https://news.sky.com/story/vomiting-blood-and-shaking-uncontrollably-funding-cuts-leave-addicts-left-to-fight-disease-alone-12928915

Just watching Yvette Cooper looking extremely uncomfortable about having to blame Tory austerity measures for these figures - you could tell even saying the word "austerity" stuck in her craw. Of course, thereafter, not promising to spend any more money on the problem and instead vaguely talking up linking addiction treatment to improvements in crime prevention. Vile.

Also I saw Ed Miliband the other day talking about the climate crisis having obviously been briefed to make sure he namechecked Starmer and Rachel Reeves. Somebody just shoot that guy and put him out of this misery.

lonely guy, thinking baout freedom

Talking about freedom, sat in Margaret Thatcher’s old Rover.

Earlier I spoke to @Telegraph about how important cars are for families to live their lives. It’s something anti-motorist Labour just don’t seem to get.

And it’s why I’m reviewing anti-car schemes across the country. pic.twitter.com/0OiKhFLjc3

— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) July 30, 2023

this photo is making me laugh so much, he looks like a little boy whose parents are letting him sit in the front seat of the family car while it remains stationary in their driveway, pretending to drive

brrum brrum

miming turning the wheel round because he's been sternly told that he's on no account to actually touch any of the controls

is this a metaphor for his Prime Ministership?

I could be wrong but does Sunak seem to only have one mode - grinning like an idiot, an uber-consumercapitalist smiley everything-is-great facial expression all the time? Cameron had his serious face, May had her stern face, Johnson had his vicious scowl. Sunak is the totemic sunny face of late authoritarian capitalism all the time. I find him more botlike than May even

LOL this is so fucking pathetic and transparently desperate it makes the Labour Party seem competent.

Families, families, families
families

families

No-one else needs a fucking car

Starmer next week all like I have always loved cars more than anything, here are some pictures of me in or near cars throughout my life, under labour all motorists will be allowed three no-questions-asked vehicular homicides a day

Kieth drinking a pint of leaded petrol

this "own the tree-huggers" race to the bottom is not really a good idea

treehuggers, lightweights who can't deal with air pollution, fuck the lot of them

I'm sure they're getting all this garbage from focus groups but I just don't believe any of this is actually popular with the general public.

a good chunk of people have an unhealthy emotional attachment to cars

Starmer next week all like I have always loved cars more than anything, here are some pictures of me in or near cars throughout my life, under labour all motorists will be allowed three no-questions-asked vehicular homicides a day

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 30 July 2023 14:57 (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is the time to really start playing on his strong record of knocking down deliveroo drivers in his SUV

in some ways the grim as fuck 2017 Theresa May govt that pissed its majority away was more progressive than the Labour Party in 2023.

if he's so keen on cars, why the fuck does he fly everywhere instead?

He luvs cars he has visited loads of them.

Unfortunately his feet don't reach the pedals yet so he has to rely on other people to drive for him.

"I would like to buy some petrols please..."

he had to borrow a car for that petrol station forecourt photo op recently.

in other news:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/29/mirrors-description-of-matt-hancock-as-failed-health-secretary-not-inaccurate-says-watchdog

hancock complained over the mirror describing him as 'failed health secretary and cheating husband who broke the lockdown rules he wrote' and other things, but ipso has just said that none of it was inaccurate.

Failure is just success that hasn't happened yet.

Love how Lab's incoherent reading of Uxbridge has created the space for this to happen.

500 people in Uxbridge protested about a car charge and now our children and grandchildren all have to die, sorry I don’t make the rules https://t.co/jszqa2dHEn

— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) July 31, 2023

some people will see this as a story about one guy's hypocrisy, but really it's about how actually-existing drugs policy is a charade that nobody seriously believes in https://t.co/SJPHzMRZAk

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) July 31, 2023

Stats for melts going Green

🚨 NEW: Labour confirms that they will uphold all new oil and gas licences granted before the next election.

Labour's Thangam Debbonaire reaffirmed on Newsnight that Labour will keep any licence granted before the party comes to office. https://t.co/KQYtqyL4mD

— Stats for Lefties 🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) August 1, 2023

Not only shameless but stupid on all levels.

pitiful claim that they don't want to create uncertainty for businesses, when unequivocally saying "we will revoke all these new licences" would create certainty

we don't wait to create uncertainty that we might be anything other than craven bootlicking cunts who will allow international business interests to pillage the environment until every last human on earth is drowned, burned or starved

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2YP1F5XwAs_9SQ?format=jpg&name=large

shocking news if true, lol

Jimmy Saville on a Tory Poster next year 😎

i mean it wouldn't be the first time

Once the food supply chain is fucked those oil contracts will be cancelled so fast.

South America is living one of the extreme events the world has ever seen
Unbelievable temperatures up to 38.9C in the Chilean Andine areas in mid winter ! Much more than what Southern Europe just had in mid summer at the same elevation: This event is rewriting all climatic books pic.twitter.com/QiiUKllWWP

— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) August 1, 2023

Ok

Exclusive: Rishi Sunak’s plans for a Great British chess revival

- Gov will financially back England’s chess teams for the first time
- 100 chess boards to be rolled out in parks
- drive for more chess in state schoolshttps://t.co/KgO8oGfOZt

— Ellen Milligan (@EllenAMilligan) August 2, 2023

After seeing off Jack from Guilford too

.@RishiSunak talking in averages to a guy who has a specific problem.
He's telling Jack from Guildford, who is facing a mortgage rise from £1500 to £2800, that he should be aware that actually the average mortgage is going up from £800 to £1000.@LBC @NickFerrariLBC

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) August 2, 2023

his favourite word is "actually"

for a guy who's all about the importance of teaching maths in schools he seems to have a poor grasp of how averages work

https://theartofantiquing.com/products/margaret-british-chess-set

British Chess Set of Political figures including Big Ben and Margaret Thatcher
$270.00 USD

I was taught chess at state school. I was rubbish I suppose but enjoyed it a lot as a kid until we had our first match vs another school and saw a chess clock for the first time which is something our teacher had never used with us or told us about . we were v v confused. and lost.

considering who their major donors are this is a good opp for Kieth to diverge from the tories for once and make the case for online poker.

NEW: NatWest closed bank accounts for Jamaican people living outside the UK earlier this year, I've been told. 100s have been affected it is claimed, including a 92 year old man who has not had his state pension since January 2023.

— Nadine White. (@Nadine_Writes) August 2, 2023

lol at the idea that NF is going to be the saviour of a ton of immigrants who can't get an account / have been debanked

(also, maybe time to move my money out of nat west)

Some former Bank of England ghoul on Sky News lamenting high wage rises and low unemployment rates. It's how they all think but tend to avoid saying out loud.

1 in 50 Londoners is now homeless. On average at least one child in every London classroom is homeless.

This is an absolute scandal & should be front page news. The number of homeless residents in temporary accommodation in London is now just under 170,000. 83,500 are children pic.twitter.com/1EEMSBrIUB

— Aydin Dikerdem (@AydinDikerdem) August 3, 2023

"that can't be true or opposition politicians would be constantly berating the government about it"

This is the time to really start playing on his strong record of knocking down deliveroo drivers in his SUV

― glumdalclitch, Sunday, July 30, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

in some ways the grim as fuck 2017 Theresa May govt that pissed its majority away was more progressive than the Labour Party in 2023.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, July 30, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

if he's so keen on cars, why the fuck does he fly everywhere instead?

― NickB, Sunday, July 30, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

He luvs cars he has visited loads of them.

― Mark G, Monday, July 31, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Unfortunately his feet don't reach the pedals yet so he has to rely on other people to drive for him.

― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Monday, July 31, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

"I would like to buy some petrols please..."

― Mark G, Monday, July 31, 2023

Series of good posts, ILX doing what it does well!

Labour explicitly saying that people need to vote with the Conservative Party or will be suspended.

“Only last week we suspended two Labour councillors in Edinburgh because they weren’t prepared to vote for the Tories over the SNP.”

Was she supposed to say that?

pic.twitter.com/A8IZu80eqZ

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) July 14, 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/03/budget-retailer-wilko-makes-administration-move-risking-12000-jobs There’s a Wilko in pretty much every town in the UK so this is a shock.

i was in one last saturday morning and there were plenty of empty shelves, i did wonder if they were having money troubles.

Yeah someone told me a few months ago they thought it was circling the drain & since then I’ve really noticed how understocked & understaffed the ones I’ve gone into have been

I'd never buy any paint from them again, their bathroom paint is crap. The colour and finish is awful and it's already peeling off in one spot after weeks. And the worst paint stench ever. lol, gl to them though!

I confess I don't even know what Wilko sells, they didn't exist in Scotland when I lived there.

It's probably the non-supermarket shop I use the most, that or b&m. feel like they spread themselves a bit too thinly product-wise, always seems like they don't stock things I expect them to have, and do stock a load of seemingly random stuff that nobody would expect to find there

weirdly* enough i bought a new broom at wilko a month back (nothing looked untoward)

it probably sweeps clean, but i haven't used it yet

*not very weird really, except it's the first time i've ever been in a wilko that i can remember and apparently also the last

good for cheap picture frames, i must have 10 of their postcard-size ones (although the recent one don't match the older ones, annoyingly). i might go and stock up on saturday.

and i bought a junior hacksaw there a couple of weeks ago to cut the old sofa in two so i can get it down the stairs for the bulk waste people.

They've honestly been going downhill ever since they stopped being Wilkinson, not that it was exactly amazing then either

I hate it when brands start officially adopting the colloquial names that the public confer on them, feels presumptuous in the same way as overly informal brand twitter accounts. It was all downhill for Woolworths when they started referring to themselves as 'woolies' in their adverts in the late 90s, maybe brands only start doing this when their medium-term financial viability is not looking too good

haven't seen any "Primarni" adverts yet tbf

It was not good when the Daily Mirror became The Mirror.

Somehow such a change misunderstands usage.

I'm impressed by Koogs chopping a sofa in two.

Possibly also by Mark S *sweeping clean*.

Is the Manchester Guardian worse than it used to be?

I had the old sofa doesn't fit through the door prob. Was going to saw it but was thinking if I sawed it in half the council will probably try and charge me for two bulky waste items, not even joking. So I smashed the legs off and deformed it some more with a lump hammer so it was slightly small enough for me to get it through alone, it was quite easy as well because furniture is so poorly made these days and the wood on the back and armrests of the frame was poor quality. To keep it on topic I was imagining the sofa was Kier Starmer's head so it had no chance!

I've got rid of two sofas, three beds and about half a dozen swivel chairs in the last year. A high turnover of broken furniture!

I also paint houses

Many xps, I also thought there were no branches of Wilkos in Scotland, but it appears there are now a few across the central belt.

Ok.

Rishi Sunak apparently went to a Taylor Swift-themed SoulCycle class in Santa Monica ? pic.twitter.com/J1HsFFaFzG

— J.D. Capelouto (@jdcapelouto) August 4, 2023

TS just donated what must've been hundreds of thousands to a Santa Clara food bank after her two gigs there.

https://i.ibb.co/80n5D73/Screenshot-2023-08-08-11-24-45-61-577d3fb6a74f2f15839a6cd01d5168cd-2.jpg

🤔

https://i.ibb.co/80n5D73/Screenshot-2023-08-08-11-24-45-61-577d3fb6a74f2f15839a6cd01d5168cd-2.jpg

In other news, Stephen Flynn is a person.

Diane tells it like it is, UK Twitter frantically clutches pearls and calls the police

These migrants have indeed fucked off. To the bottom of the sea https://t.co/bdF2oNdAAV

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) August 9, 2023

😯

Posted today on the ‘Civil Service Jobs’ internal website. pic.twitter.com/D3eUlBTp9B

— Robin Moira White (she/her) (@moira_robin) August 10, 2023

LOL at Diane Abbott getting attacked from all quarters for "politicizing" the deaths of migrants... expect it's not really a LOL.

why is SKSQC huffing horse manure the mad jenkem xunt

that's SKRSKCMP to you

more like SKRSHRIMP

As an @Arsenal season ticket holder, there is nothing like the buzz of the first day of a new campaign.

I can feel this is the season for us... #hope #PL https://t.co/vmWbv8t1Bk pic.twitter.com/xm1McTLxHq

— wariotifo (@wariotifo) August 12, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/11/why-even-now-do-we-think-a-womans-work-is-worth-less

Was he indeed. https://t.co/F82r6xUqGO pic.twitter.com/8FEmyO4XC9

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) August 13, 2023

doesn't feel like a *great* sign for the government that a Telegtaph cartoonist is portraying Sunak and Hunt as the heirs to Liam Byrne does it pic.twitter.com/ebkY8BBeEC

— Jonn Elledge (@JonnElledge) August 14, 2023

Actually it's what I expected from, austerity forever.

Which will rub against reality, which is increasing levels of money to keep things afloat.

Meanwhile in Italol

Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has doubled down on a shock decision to introduce a 40% windfall tax on banks, saying she would “do it again”

They will never get a single vote from me under this leadership. Repulsive people.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3er_g0XoAAL3Dy?format=png&name=900x900

I sometimes forget how comfortably I'd given up on them pre Corbyn and it's very easy to give up on them again now. More so even, never again with these shit people, can't imagine a future Labour Party I could vote for

I wonder why Babs would have a problem with a left leaning moderate like Dawn, who wasn't really a vociferous Corbynite. There is a question with an obvious answer.

Yeah the fact that I would never think of Dawn as lol fuck off "hard left" says a lot about this story

Evening Standard's big story tonight is: Labour reshuffle imminent - how can KS get rid of the damaging socialist Corbynite ... Angela Rayner?

The main reflection I take from all this is something like "give an inch and they'll take a mile", or "first they came for x, then they came for me". People who were happy to excuse attacks on JC or RLB as justified have ended up with Neal Lawson and Angela Rayner being potentially excluded as dangerous leftists, because the "window" of what kind of insane attacks are acceptable has been allowed to shift steadily along. You can see Khan and Burnham (following Driscoll) entering the same frame.

some of them could have resigned over the two child benefit cap and pretended they had some integrity, but were cowed into silence by kieth and now they are going to get pumped anyway - ha ha

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/16/captain-tom-charity-faces-scrutiny-after-report-of-payments-to-daughter

Look can we all just admit now that this Captain Tom thing was a grift from start to finish, instigated by his psychotic daughter as a means of financing a luxury lifestyle? She was probably off-camera promising him food if he staggered a couple more lengths of the garden.

Dawn Butler, right?

I hate it when articles stick to "Surname only", but hey

Good luck to @UKAFRugby as the World Military Rugby Championship kicks off in Brittany today.

I know you will make our country proud.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) August 16, 2023

Nigel Farage’s Coutts fiasco highlighted debanking. Yet Muslim communities have complained of bank account closures for years, and barriers to banking mean one in 10 Muslims in Britain don’t have a current account. Read my story here: https://t.co/RBY2jt0roA via @business

— Aisha S Gani (@aishagani) August 16, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/17/bailiffs-pay-car-impounded-poor-britain-poverty

can't see what they can threaten people who are facing 8 life sentences with that'll make it worth their while to attend their hearings. doesn't stop rishi from making policy from it though.

not to mention how impractical it would be. The prisoner could just scream over the sentencing or put their fingers in their ears or any number of things to make it a pointless exercise.

in an unsurprising turn of events Kieth is sternly in favour of this pointless exercise

as a former DPP, he should understand the importance of dispassionate justice. Like for example his night courts.. oh yeah soz I forgot he has always been a total dick

she's got 13 whole life orders and will never be released. Yet some people feel that because of the no-show, she isn't being properly confronted with the severity of her crimes. Next stop bring back the gallows. Kieth will be fully on board .

relevant from the secret barrister

https://thesecretbarrister.com/2023/04/04/how-do-we-force-cowardly-murderers-to-face-up-to-what-they-have-done/

And that is something that a public representative with integrity has a responsibility to recognise and to explain, instead of appropriating bereaved families for their tubthumping tabloid pledges.

I bet they are annoyed that a former barrister is all in on this pathetic game without even a second thought.

Ok.

William Hague pretended to follow Rotherham United reveals Lord Danny Finklestein, who was tasked with feeding back updates to the Tory MP so he wasn’t “caught out”...

Listen on @GlobalPlayerhttps://t.co/SdyBDl7qyY@lewis_goodall | @Dannythefink pic.twitter.com/IgtgJRAT7g

— The News Agents (@TheNewsAgents) August 21, 2023

and yet Hague still made a more convincing Rotherham fan than that Roger Nouveau cunt posting about grass and horse shit