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

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?

Who could have thought in 2019 that Labour would be changing into CHUK? Although I suspect Chuka Umunna is quite happy whitewashing arseholes at Edelman.

I'm expecting him to announce his return to the fold any day now.

Cooper also went out of her way to distance herself from the far leftism of Gary Lineker.

Cooper teams up with Nick Ferrari to denounce Gary Lineker's correct statement about the government's far-right rhetoric being comparable to that of the 1930s pic.twitter.com/Ne8efdEWyN

— j (@jrc1921) March 8, 2023

lineker now too far left for these clowns, amazing

Literally with every new development I’m like this, we truly live in hell
https://media.tenor.com/X1S5OFcU8SUAAAAi/withered-wojack.gif

i wonder how many people live in constituencies where there will be zero candidates offering a chance to vote against this stuff come the next general election

looking forward to some news reports about how the electorate is apathetic

They’re going to have that voter id requirement as well, which might soften Labour’s cough as it’s more likely to dissuade at least some of their target voters even if the manifesto was solid.

Everyone who doesn’t have ID can do a postal vote, which if Tories lose will be dogwhistled to Hell and back because of ‘community leaders collecting the votes’ or similar.

Mic Wright with the receipts as ever

And falling in line behind the Daily Mail, there’s the Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper who told LBC that “we shouldn’t make comparisons with the 1930s”. So there’s the official policy of the Labour front bench: Never forget (unless it’s convenient to forget for political expediency).

In 2017, when Trevor Kavanagh wrote a Sun column that said Britain must deal with “the Muslim problem”, someone called Yvette Cooper, then chair of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, tweeted: When reports of islamophobia and antisemitism are rising, how can The Sun think it is okay to print a column on ‘The Muslim Problem’ with echoes of the 30s?

they're trying to cancel gary lineker

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/cancel-culture-cultural-cancellation-social-260nw-1754881073.jpg

i think they were trying to restore balance with this morning's Thought For The Day which seemed to be some woman saying it was ok for her to stop her local council's housing of refugees because she is religious (like that smp woman)

it's in the gospel of luke, innit? that timeless parable called the wicked and evil samaritan

just after the bit where Jesus walks on the water to tell this small boat to fuck off

there would be no need for people boarding unsafe sea vessels and so much risk of death at sea if Jesus could for example turn the Iranian and Afghani refugees into Ukrainian ones, makes u think eh!

Chapeau to whoever at BBC managed this angle of Braverman 😂

via @thewinesinger pic.twitter.com/0xjlvRKTR4

— Kate Masterofwhine (@Masterofwhine) March 10, 2023

It was used as the picture for the latest episode of the always brilliant @OhGodWhatNowPod (which I recommend to anyone not yet familiar with it). pic.twitter.com/FKDQuGV4f6

— Amyn Merchant (@merchant_amyn) March 10, 2023

not heard of them but they feature Dunty, so that's a no from me.

It’s literally remainiacs rebranded lol, for some strange reason they abandoned their stated mania in 2020

they're probably putting together something about how this Jammy Crumble's fault

oh god what now? is the perfect title

the anguished battle cry of supercilious liberal fuckwits who feel ever so slightly inconvenienced by recent events in UK politics

Telling my kids this is a picture of the Opposition front bench pic.twitter.com/SKS3t3Yv0L

— Khadija (@khadljasays) March 10, 2023