like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

bad news for anyone expecting that the holy anointing oil for king charles III's coronation will contain the intestinal wax of sperm whales or civet secretions

Holy anointing oil for King Charles III's coronation will not contain the intestinal wax of sperm whales or civet secretions https://t.co/Hhsc7wzWBR

— Insider News (@InsiderNews) March 4, 2023

“de balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam.” bracton, l.3, c.3.
— moby-dick ch.90 heads or tails

a rare occasion where the king has chosen not to be drizzled with OK THAT'S ENOUGH

"Changing values" eh? Shee-it I remember when a tabloid photographer got a long shot of his brother beating a poor defenceless labrador on the head with a walking stick. They've all been blooded and live to kill or maim animals ffs!

a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork

it would be a relief to his long suffering egg-boiler if the cunt went full vegan

they'd probably redeploy the poor fucker as a living target or something

KS is very bad at answering questions. A healthy media and political culture would recognise this.

I’ve no idea whether Starmer has something to hide but my God this looks bad. Answer the question man! pic.twitter.com/N7yaFhqcTn

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) March 6, 2023

had a brief chortle at the Trumpian style Tory attacks on the Sue Gray appointment "now we can see her report was clearly a left-wing stitch up all along...etc".

the bare-faced cheek of Tories complaining about "biased" appointments is quite soemthing to see, it was just last year they were trying to get Paul fucking Dacre to chair Ofcom! It's almost impressive in its total lack of self-awareness

also the way the meeja recycles these kind of totally bogus "talking points" as legitiamte news, how this country works etc.

"legitimate" ffs

Boris Johnson is nominating his own father for a knighthood, lol and - i cannot stress this enough - lmao.

You'd have to be an idiot not to see how this would play out. Partygate was the only thing that really stuck to Johnson. Imagine if there had been some kind of official Parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism in the Labour Party - and Johnson turned around and hired its author to be his chief of staff!

xp haha yeah that's what I'm talking about!

I'm not saying it was a great move by Keith, just that the Tory outrage was all manufactured and in bad faith, it's politics by cry-laugh emoji from the lot of them

Unreal what a fucking idiot this guy is

OTM, in the midst of the Matt Hancock lockdown revelations and Boris possibly about to be suspended from Parliament this fucking buffoon has engineered a completely unnecessary situation which he seems to have been too stupid to realize would be used as a diversion by the Tories and the media.

I can't decide if it's stupidity, arrogance or legit corruption but why not all of those?

Yeah, that's probably it.

Kieth and Gray both have murky ties to the deep state

how deep their friendship actually is remains to be seen. I'll be waiting for an update from Shippers on that one

Imagine asking Starmer if he remembered to cancel the milk delivery before heading off on vacation.

"I've always been a big fan of milk, drink it whenever I can."

If the media (at least the broadcast media) wished to ridicule this (KS's inability to talk or answer a question) it could do so to an extent that could demolish his career. But they don't.

Whether someone is a 'good media performer' or 'has made a solid impression on the public through media appearances' (which people like the nonentity Gaby Hinsliff would claim of KS) is an arbitrary factor with little relation to reality and more to certain people's whim and convenience.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/06/uk-firefighters-vote-to-accept-new-pay-offer

If you get impostor syndrome, read this.

This is a real press release from the UK Prime Minister. He tweeted a QR code which:

- Mobile Twitter users can't scan
- Requires @AdobeAero
- Breaks on Android
- Glitches on iOS

And if you jump through the hoops... THIS is the result. https://t.co/JTPczLhqas pic.twitter.com/j9qeMKZUM7

— Antonia Forster 🔜 GDC2023 (@AntoniaRForster) March 6, 2023

oh no

Digital design is his passion!

Video is p great tho

someone got Teach Yourself VRML for Christmas

HE'S BACK BABEY

Why I’m rejoining the Labour Partyhttps://t.co/67d5H3YpuM

— Mike Gapes ⚒🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@MikeGapes) March 7, 2023

lol I occasionally forget that Gapesy is actually a real person

graham brady standing down at the next election. he's posted a supportive statement about sunak, but there's an obvious gap there between words and actions.

also, not surprised at the callousness and arrogance of this, just the unprofessionalism, do they know they can't make it work and are trying to get it struck down by someone else who they can then blame?

📑👀Cover of the Illegal Migration Bill says:

“I am unable to make a statement that, in my view, the provisions of the Illegal Migration Bill are compatible with the Convention rights, but the Government nevertheless wishes the House to proceed with the Bill.” 👇 pic.twitter.com/jCSpj6vxsM

— Sophia Sleigh (@SophiaSleigh) March 7, 2023

"the illegal migration bill" really just perfectly named

no you don't understand 'illegal migration bill' is the name of my dog

Look, you try outflanking Labour to the right on this!

Your choice at the next election. Good job we ended racism in December 2019 I guess pic.twitter.com/8R4YgHESye

— Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever) March 7, 2023

i'm confused, there's a really straightforward fix to illegal channel crossings but i'm not hearing anybody discussing it on the news

Yvette Cooper states that Labour would make the criminalisation of asylum seekers arriving by small boat 'work' and only make 'changes' to the Nationality and Borders Act, not overturn it pic.twitter.com/AMsmcpU7Tu

— j (@jrc1921) March 8, 2023

Whisper it but it's almost as if going on strike works ..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64883158

Firefighters got a deal and I think bus too?

some very smart electoral politicking from Labour, support the racist evil immigration policies of the tories to try + head off what could be a successful wedge issue for them - which it certainly will be anyway. And this is a very generous reading, it's not like Cooper hasn't a long history of being a right-wing Tory ghoul in opposition and in government.

Yesterday's discussion on patriotism in the other thread shows how much of a constituency there is for different brands of a fascist politics. Whether it's coming from a political despair or foolishness or defensiveness it doesn't matter.

It will take a long time and many events to destroy both the state and this stuff. Either them or us.

This is one of the most unintentionally baffling pieces of government comms I have ever seen pic.twitter.com/6nfjyBa952

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) March 7, 2023

Tracer, that is extaordinary.

Lmao @ Milk Gapes being welcomed back to Labour

What’s the benefit to them there like

because
* they enjoy rubbing our faces in the shit
* he's their mate

Now nobbling Sam Tarry suddenly makes sense. Guess who is getting his old seat back? Or Margaret Hodge’s?