"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

Why would he launch a new party when he's being rehabilitated as Superman Meets Jesus by the Labour Party?

I have a lovely Jezza mug bought from Labour’s website in 2017.

tbf there was a solid effort to get #RIPkeirstarmer memeing yesterday

the new party is new nu-labour

Miou-Miou Labour

Time for a new remix of "Things Can't Ever Get Better"

I wonder how SKSQCMP is enjoying his first taste of the media pushing a non-story nonstop

What's this?👀A new party political broadcast from the far right?

The far right don't want you to vote because they win when political apathy is high.

📢So if you don't fancy sending everyone back to where they came from, VOTE ON 5TH MAY. #LocalElections2022 @eddiemarsan pic.twitter.com/sK9ldpujU3

— HOPE not hate (@hopenothate) May 4, 2022

lol, spectacularly bad *satirical* vid to excite the voters who at this point have completely forgotten about the racist smear job by the Starmer campaign team in Batley and are willing to suspend reality for a day and believe that Labour councils are transformative and progressive.

I can't work out if he's even going down party political lines here, or if it's that Iannucci shtick that voting for any party is inherently good - participation is key! It's so fucking dumb.

Incredible: pic.twitter.com/gy9SW1ZGmM

— William Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV3) May 4, 2022

lol, people endlessly moan about twitter but the great success of the assignment to embed "Kieth" in the national psyche is a minor victory worth enjoying when parliamentary democracy is dead to you.

I was laughing at that so much. “Keith…Keith…Keir!” Didn’t miss the knighthood I notice.

I was laughing at that so much. “Keith…Keith…Keir!” Didn’t miss the knighthood I notice.

Can't forgive Oliver Eagleton for not calling his book 'Keith'

That's the one objectively true criticism of that book.

The one or two predictions I've seen are of losses for the Tories but with caveats of all this being hard to predict.

They've already factored that in with all those 'unofficial' comments on how they're expecting to lose 800 seats, or sumthin'.

I think they'd already lost a shitload of councillors when He Who Cannot Be Named was Labour leader, so it's debatable how much further down they can go.

Collapse in Lambeth? Gotta go for the sky, Tom. Dream big!

They got a very posh Lab lady to knock on my door just now to remind Amy to vote. So that's how that's going.

First time I’ve voted Labour since an equally glorious May morning in 1997. 🌹

— Nick Boles (@NickBoles) May 5, 2022

Collapse in Lambeth? Gotta go for the sky, Tom. Dream big

I was talking about the Tories?

I see. I didn't see the Tories factoring anything in. It just kinda goes on for them.

xps to xyzzzz__

Although it meant the failure of my efforts to secure a soft Brexit and (less importantly) the end of my political career, with hindsight, I think that it was better for the country a) to resolve the Brexit feud and b) to get rid of Corbyn. Even at the high cost of BJ as PM.

— Nick Boles (@NickBoles) June 18, 2021

I thought we'd heard the last of that smug arsehole.

the hackney mayoralty can fall where it pleases w/o my assistance and i hope kieth's dick falls off

What a lovely day (to pressure Labour from the left) (by voting Green)

People might ask why we should believe Eagleton’s version of events. I’m inclined to believe it because it chimes with what I saw McDonnell do, in full public view, with my own two eyes.

— Number9 (@ElwinWay) May 2, 2022

Some of the relevant passages: pic.twitter.com/CC1T6yguM9

— Number9 (@ElwinWay) May 2, 2022

Some of this was in full view, he did sit down with Alistair Campbell after all.

It totally was you’re right, but the pressuring Corbyn stuff was not

The biggest news in these elections could be in NI, if polls are to be believed. Not only are Sinn Fein on course to win but the DUP are struggling to hold off the Alliance Party

Yep, I’m not sure SF are getting any more popular, per se, but the DUP seem to be losing voters to Alliance.

"ambushing him at his allotment at the weekend"

oh, mac! mac! what have you done?
you shooted dead great jamsbly crebubble!
you hid behind an allotment thistle
and shot him with your old hoss-pistol!

Yep, I’m not sure SF are getting any more popular, per se, but the DUP seem to be losing voters to Alliance.

This excellent thread tells you everything you need to know:

The Alliance Party represents the most oppressed classes in N.I. politics: exasperated civil servants who call themselves "small c conservatives" and Belfast NGO executives. As a centrist party, its role is to find new ways to say the persecuters and persecuted are equally bad.

— saoirse gg 🏳️‍⚧️⚢📉 (@saoirsegowan) May 4, 2022

Sinn Féin is a party of terrorists. The party's representatives fundamentally believe in a 32 county terrorist republic, with a national terror service (free at the point of use), a strong terror welfare state, building terror housing, separation of church and terror, etc.

— saoirse gg 🏳️‍⚧️⚢📉 (@saoirsegowan) May 4, 2022

poor Jeremy, ambushed on sacred ground whilst tending to his marrows! McD is not looking like a good person, an egotist and making shit decisions just as a power move. Corbyn makes mistakes but there is never any question about his integrity, innate decency etc, if anything I admire him more now than I did at the time.

None of them were good in lots of ways. That it's all we had says everything.

Wondering what a successful leftist parliamentary party needs. Obviously you need your reign of terror types, the nice fellas who don’t scare the horses, the flesh presser, the ideas crew, who else? And could a hypothetical combo be formed from regular contributors to this thread? Calz and I on Robespierre duty ofc.

Xyzzzz__ fancies himself in that group but he’s more a nice fella.

Imago - (more than token) posho

I think most people (including the left-wing ones) that get into a career in party politics tend to be absolute wankers, but 2015-19 was such a stark difference from the PLP of my entire adult life, that I became a bit invested in some of these people. A lot of delusion and projection is required to like any of these ppl, I guess.

Robespierre was a melt compared to some if his colleagues btw.

"Wondering what a successful leftist parliamentary party needs"

It would require a leader who would never be allowed to become a Labour councillor/MP or even get past the party membership screening process. Someone with absolutely zero "Labour values".

Robespierre was a melt compared to some if his colleagues btw.

The time for parties and parliaments that provide a single set of solutions for all is way gone. Sunak, for example, is completely unconcerned by the current crisis to govern or solve anything. And he only finds himself in the position of chancellor.

bagsy me st juste, then i can execute imago and comrade alph on the same scaffold (as me, the next day)

No violence now, let's play nice

are you mad because you’re not on the reign of terror crew?

me sitting at the summit of The Mountain, so high up that my gold top hat touches the ceiling: "virtue without terror is fatal"

Nobody is mad. I am at peace.