Gove and Cummings have got Mark Sedwill to quit.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 06:19 (three years ago) link
Not clicking on Unherd but the graphs in this PolProf thread point to why Cummings et al are so keen on ‘culture war’.
Here's another... pic.twitter.com/nVI2XKZrwZ— Tim Bale (@ProfTimBale) June 29, 2020
Tory voters are consistently to the left of the MPs on economics but to the right of them on social conservatism, if the polls are to be believed.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 07:16 (three years ago) link
christ that’s grim
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 June 2020 07:24 (three years ago) link
Discovered a covid tracking app that I never downloaded on my phone this morning, haven't seen anything about this happening in the news?
― plax (ico), Monday, 29 June 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
Oh okay apparently it's an API, not really clear from the jargon attached
― plax (ico), Monday, 29 June 2020 07:58 (three years ago) link
Making me feel very 5g truther
are you sure it's not just the new U2 album?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:07 (three years ago) link
one of them is to *prevent* sickness
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:16 (three years ago) link
What does this thread think of Lloyd Russell-Moyle?
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:22 (three years ago) link
Genuine quotation:
Johnson says UK needs to address obesityJohnson said the UK is significantly fatter than other European countries and admits it is issue. “It’s something we need to address.”
Johnson said the UK is significantly fatter than other European countries and admits it is issue. “It’s something we need to address.”
― the pinefox, Monday, 29 June 2020 08:23 (three years ago) link
Need to speed up coastal erosion in suffolk a bit then
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:25 (three years ago) link
imo he wasn't *incorrect* on some dark unconscious level but it was a terrible unnecessary way to attack JKR given how many other non-gross ways of calling her an idiot are available
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:26 (three years ago) link
Johnson subtly laying down his approach to the coming famine, you have to admire that level of weaving the threads together
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:27 (three years ago) link
in this difficult times, we must all tighten our belts
(because we are starving)
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:29 (three years ago) link
the famine is good not bad we were all too fat anyway, can't wait to get down to my appropriate fighting (for scraps of dogmeat) weight
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:31 (three years ago) link
We must all be as the butcher's dog.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 June 2020 08:37 (three years ago) link
if we're going to wrestle him for dogfood definitely
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:37 (three years ago) link
"butcher's dog" just makes me think about gammon, also "the shapely ankle and the well-filled trouser"
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:39 (three years ago) link
I live a few doors down from a butcher and he has such an excellent dog that I feel almost personally offended by the comparison with Boris Johnson.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/28/just-6-of-uk-public-want-a-return-to-pre-pandemic-economy?CMP
Going back to SV's post upthread this would explain why the government are so keen to marry all this culture war bollocks with a much more interventionist approach to the economy then we've seen from previous Tory governments.
One of the reasons we're unlikely to see a straight up return to Osbourne type austerity is that Labour and the Tories are going to spend the rest of the year trying to outflank one another on the rhetoric of job creation.
― Matt DC, Monday, 29 June 2020 08:41 (three years ago) link
THREAD: Why Boris Johnson is taking a *huge* risk over Covid.On Saturday, pubs and restaurants re-open and people will only have to keep a 1m distance from others rather than 2m. Yet polls continue to show the public thinks the government is moving too fast to end lockdown. pic.twitter.com/5PzPxhIj0R— Christabel Cooper (@ChristabelCoops) June 29, 2020
― nashwan, Monday, 29 June 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
― scampos mentis (gyac), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:45 (three years ago) link
On gender recognition, Starmer concludes: “I’m convinced there’s a way forward here if everyone is prepared to stop chucking bricks at each other” #R4Today— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) June 29, 2020
― scampos mentis (gyac), Monday, 29 June 2020 09:26 (three years ago) link
both-sidesing trans rights, you love to see it from the leader of the labour party in the year two thousand and twenty
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 June 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link
I was asleep with the radio on when Robinson was interviewing Starmer this morning and it bled into my slipping between sleep and semi-consciousness state and I was dreaming he was on a building site, Gideon style in a high-viz vest and hardhat and I wanted tell him he looked ridiculous and he's a complete cunt, but I was unable to speak over him!
― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
Going full legit concerns is so stupid and cowardly. Fuck him
― covid coronenberg (wins), Monday, 29 June 2020 09:45 (three years ago) link
https://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/homesection_image/public/blogs_2020/06/gettyimages-1222018755.jpg?itok=j2sH_DFI
Keir Starmer Googling for a way forward on trans rights yesterday.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:02 (three years ago) link
can tell he is just being frivolous there, he hasn't got his forensic pen in his hand for starters
― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 10:07 (three years ago) link
Look I don’t want this to be the 24/7 Starmer hate thread myself but he makes it so easy ffs
Call Boris Johnson a clown, don’t boast you cando “50 press ups”, my god: pic.twitter.com/GqqL1YUnLg— Dawn “Join A Union” Foster (@DawnHFoster) June 29, 2020
― scampos mentis (gyac), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
.@eduardosalas300 nonstop 81 pushups just did it 😐🏃— More Pushups Than U (@ididmorepushups) February 22, 2015
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:14 (three years ago) link
good "wtf have i just seen?" face from Susanna their
i also don't want to go full "let's rag on Starmzy" because it's too easy for one thing but for all his forensic leaderliness sometimes this really weak Owen Smith stuff happens and lol lol lol
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
didn’t we have enough of this dickwaving from joe biden ffs
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
starmer / johnson soggy biscuit challenge when
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:22 (three years ago) link
Starmer with his milquetoast won't say boo to a tory opposition, but the minute the opportunity for an old man dick measuring competition .. erm .. arises, he's fucking in there like a shot! truly a pathetic man.
― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 10:27 (three years ago) link
'You know, it's funny you ask that, John, because just this weekend the down-to-earth working-class blokes building my kitchen extension asked me to give them a hand shifting a pallet of bricks from one side of the garden to the other, so I just lifted the entire thing solely with my rock-hard penis and set it down a few yards away easy as you please. Didn't even spill the cups of tea they'd set on top. You should have seen their faces, bless them.'
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:27 (three years ago) link
somebody start the "Starmzy's rock-hard penis" thread please
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:29 (three years ago) link
actually nobody start that thread please
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
This year's going to end with leadership contests being settled by who can successfully wrestle Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
Politics's Hardest Men
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
i really feel that leaving the phrase "rock-hard penis" out of the title was a failure of nerve and for that i make no apologies, come on you bastards, outside, i'll have yez all
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
There's going to be a lot of this Real Men's Man stuff over the next four years so get used to it. If anything it'll be ramped up given how much lower the Labour vote was among older men in particular, Boris has just had a baby with a woman 25 years his junior so has a clear lead in the midlife crisis vote right now.
― Matt DC, Monday, 29 June 2020 10:42 (three years ago) link
best league in the world
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:44 (three years ago) link
By the end of this year he'll be turning up at Westminster in a new Jag with The Blueprint blasting out.
― Matt DC, Monday, 29 June 2020 10:45 (three years ago) link
Starmzy’s gonna try and contract the rona
― Keir’d flex (wins), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:47 (three years ago) link
More than anything I'm looking forward to his first Prime Ministerial meeting with Putin.
― Matt DC, Monday, 29 June 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer tells #BBCBreakfast it’s "a shame" the sentiment behind the Black Lives Matter movement is getting “tangled up with these organisational issues" and it’s "nonsense" to call to ‘Defund the Police’. pic.twitter.com/7ydITWGZWN— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) June 29, 2020
Again, obviously he's not going to say anything bad about the police but the framing is O_o.
BLM is a 'moment' in which we should all focus on what happened in the US a few weeks ago and it's a "shame it is getting tangled up with these organisational issues, with the organisation Black Lives Matter, but i wouldn't have any truck with what the organisation is saying about defunding the police or anything else, that's just nonsense".
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 12:08 (three years ago) link
look i think we can all agree with the sentiment that black lives matter but doing anything to address the cultural and structural problems that devalue black lives is going too far
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 June 2020 12:13 (three years ago) link
Clearly too many black people voted Labour last time.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Monday, 29 June 2020 12:15 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/QPz1OKQ.jpg
― Keir’d flex (wins), Monday, 29 June 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
How is he this bad
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 12:31 (three years ago) link
Aiming for broad church left-centre-gammon umbrella with centre-gammon making the difference in marginals.
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Monday, 29 June 2020 12:45 (three years ago) link