love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

Ellipses make it difficult to parse, but if that interpretation is wrong, there’s still tons of shit that’s appalling.

Notable how many of these people, including Blenkinsop, went directly into union roles.

Nobody says “x is saying I did y” meaning “I did y”, there is enough bad shit in there that nobody should be putting obviously wacky interpretations out as “the most damning quote”

2019 intake again

Ashamed as the former Deputy Chair of @unisontheunion National Black Members that so many of these staff demonstrating racist attitudes now working at high levels for my union. We members cannot allow this to continue @DavePrentis.

— Kim Johnson MP (@KimJohnsonMP) April 13, 2020

Ooh snr Whatsapp @UKLabour staff are on twitter! Say hi to
Patrick Heneghan @pjheneghan Greg Cook @gregcook10
Neil Fleming @theneilfleming Fiona Stanton @fionastanton Tracey Allen @SofaaSogood Julie Lawrence @julieklawrence Anna Wright @annawrightwho
John Stolliday @jstolliday pic.twitter.com/bdcSUzOBWR

— Two Flames (@msjenniferjames) April 12, 2020

SV - Yes, saw this last night.

The fact that so many of them are now in Labour-affiliated unions, does not surprise me at all. Labour unions are full to the brim with Jess Phillips types who dgaf about organised labour & are either there via posts in the LP, or because they want a future career in the LP.

— notes on sudan (@notesonsudan) April 12, 2020

Jon Trickett and Ian Lavery, who were high up in the 2017 campaign, say this in their tribune article:

It quickly became clear that Labour needed to move on from a defensive strategy of just protecting our own seats and go on the attack to target increasing numbers of Tory seats. But when we asked where the data was, the party managers met us with blank faces.

Instead, we were presented with a paper which suggested that we pour resources into seats with large Labour majorities which were never under threat. We were astonished to see the candidates’ names who it was suggested should be the beneficiaries of those resources. They almost exclusively belonged to one wing of the party.

The leaked document makes clear that this was a deliberate strategy. It appears to reveal the existence of an ‘Ergon House Project,’ where party resources to the tune of six-figure sums were secretly reassigned during the election for factional purposes.

This revelation poses enormous questions. Who was involved? How much money was spent without sign-off by elected representatives? Who signed the cheques? Where was the money spent and on what priorities? Was the expenditure ultra vires?

hey guys who needs to throw up?

https://medium.com/@Layo_91/politicians-are-our-key-workers-as-well-363d5f910ff6

The left’s relationship with Burnham this morning vs tonight pic.twitter.com/mcSpdAftxu

— eli 🤝 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@Eli_Edwards) April 12, 2020

tbf i've never felt more like liquidating people than in the last 24 hours

Amid all this there's evidence of a staggering level of contempt towards even moderate MPs by unelected apparatchiks.

the next left-wing Labour leader needs to be a bit more like Soso if they want to last longer than 5 years and not suffer internal wreckers stabbing them in the back every day.

This is a reply to Diane Abbot's tweet above

Memo to you all: you are supposed to be fighting the Tories, not each other.

— artemis #FBPE #WeToldYouSo (@artemis0801) April 13, 2020

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

You want a list?

Nah, just want to slap them

tbf i've never felt more like liquidating people than in the last 24 hours

― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 April 2020 bookmarkflaglink

At the understanding Pol Pot stage in life.

Abbott being my local MP at least makes it impossible for me to go Never Voting Labour Again In My Life.

after seeing some of her constant melt retweets recently I don't feel so bad my local MP was beaten by a tory shit!

Making a note of everyone both-sidesing this or explaining how the real enemies are the Tories, should provide a handy xls of the next batch of wrecking cunts

the Tory faction in the PLP are bigger enemies than the Tories in the Tory Party and always will be. These "real enemies are tories" arseholes are so full of it.

Abbott being my local MP at least makes it impossible for me to go Never Voting Labour Again In My Life.

I'm never voting Jeremy Corbyn again in my life.

Imagine this being your response to a Labour policy announcement on free school meals. pic.twitter.com/cKTIAq4ziH

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) April 13, 2020

enemies of the people

I don't even really understand what they're on about tbh

he believes in free school meals because it is a public school tradition?? lol fuck knows!

wouldn't give free school meals to these scum if it wasn't a public school tradition for school kids to eat together? idk he's obv got a warped Tory mindset

Is Iain McN actually saying ‘poor people need to be taught how to use a knife and fork’?!

— PPE 4 Social Care, Nursing Homes and ALL Carers. (@ThatJoelfella) April 13, 2020

That was my interpretation

Same here. He is a Baron though.

Ideal fit for a guillotine

the left needs to find the biggest cunt possible to be their next labour leader

— LEXIT_LOVER69 (@coso9001) April 13, 2020

Xps
This type of unguarded chat tells more about what these people are really like.. just scum of the earth.

OMG I love him

Oy. A fine shidduch has been arranged for my son the lawyer already! https://t.co/TVEjsrWCjG

— Jon Lansman (@jonlansman) April 13, 2020

JUst when you need an actual opposition.
BUt seems to be going on for a while. Does this date back much further, is it a constant in a broad coalition party like that?
Was hoping that the Bojo story of the last few days might lead to a better gorvernment. Now I'm hearing he was possibly faking, hope he found exactly the wrong place to do that in.
& this shite.

It seems incredibly unlikely that Johnson was faking. But even less likely that a few days in hospital will make him less of a Tory. The Labour Party has always been at war with itself but I feel like this particular snide cadre of antidemocratic middle managers is a Blairite development.

Maybe not faking it but at least milking it with mild symptoms imo. Yours, Boris truther to the death!

He had Man COVID-19.

It's just a distraction to me calz, why worry about an imagined conspiracy when his real villainy is in plain sight all the time?

If he was faking it they wouldn't have spent 24hrs when he was in hospital going 'everything is fine!'

if I believed he's actually going to actually get hung out to dry for his villainy I might just patiently wait for that moment without getting sucked into daft conspiracies. But I think he'll get away with it scot-free anyway.

Xp Yes that, the very real sense that he was out of it/incommunicado possibly for 3 days or more, before we get to the number of people who'd have to be in on it with no reason to keep quiet. I think this QAnon shit is best left to Ayn Rand bros tbh.

less of the fucking Ayn Rand bros pal!

Lol I said best left to them

My dad was prone to fits of moon landing denial, this a stuff just grinds my gears.

to me it seems vmic for him to exaggerate how ill he was and if he was putting on a bit of a performance it would hardly need a conspiracy to make it work. He's the PM and staff at the hospitals are bit too busy rn and probably might be a bit wary about saying oh that fucker is taking the piss!

Didn't think he was going to improve his performance. Thought anybody else might though.

Nobody is saying Boris was faking it, just that he maybe didn't require hospitalization and that the news was heavily managed to elicit sympathy and support.

like under normal circumstances he would absolutely require hospitalization, but not right now

Christ. I heard fucking Nicholas Soames saying earlier that being so close to death will have profoundly changed Boris. Oh stfu you silly old cunt!

for some certain behaviour seems to be malingering, others think faking it, others merely milking it.
THink there are a lot of people suffering heavily because of his negligence and lack of being the right person at the right time for everybody else in the country.
Just think that on both sides of the Atlantic there is a figurehead who would by default show that the system was a bit broken . Innit.

Well yeah, no argument there.