bojo is king, brexit is on, stuff is fvcked, tomorrow starts here -- new govt new thread new battle

I just noticed that JP mentions herself 14 times in her op-ed for the Observer t'other day. A new modest sensibility creeping in by her standards.

Outgoing MP for Glasgow north east
https://i.postimg.cc/FRDd8k0F/4-ECB89-DC-F9-A0-41-A6-A965-D81-F40-E144-D2.png

Expecting Question Time audiences to still be going on about that note in 2040.

Things to do list...

Laura Pidcock writes: https://med✧✧✧.c✧✧✧@la✧✧✧.pidc✧✧✧.m✧/letter-to-the-people-i-represented-406aea893243

By 2019, you seemed so much angrier about Jeremy Corbyn. I had a handful of angry people say “I would shoot him” or “take a gun to his head” whilst in the next breath calling him an extremist. But mostly people were not connecting with him for lots of different reasons. I know people on either side of the Brexit division wanted him to come down on the side of Remain or Leave. I don’t want to patronise anyone by saying that this was all the fault of the media. I know people make up their own minds. But I cannot and will not accept that the media had no part. So much of the coverage sought to demolish Jeremy from day one, not because of him as a person, but because of his politics.

And that demonization will happen to other leaders who try and challenge the way things are: the inequality, the poverty and merciless, brutal wars. It will happen to those who push for a different economic system to save the planet. It will happen again when we try and argue for a better, more equal world. For the last three years, on almost every interview on policy, or what we believe as representatives of the Labour Party, questions of his popularity intervened. That had an immense impact.

If you go to Westminster and fit in, it is a relatively easy job. The biggest pressure is the response time of the emails that come in from your constituents, the issues they need help with, holding the Government to account, speaking up for your community or being away from family. However, if you are there to take on the establishment, there is another whole layer of pressure and it can be all consuming. At every turn you have to be precise in your language and behaviour, because if you are not, there are thousands of people ready to point it out.

Telling the truth in Westminster can mean people want to punish you. You must accept that there are newspapers ready to write ridiculous headlines. It is so difficult to get the truth out once the lie has been sown. And so every day is a battle to get a hearing for those you represent and for the ideas you believe in. Without the constant demands of Parliament and representation, I am sure I will get more time with my little boy, partner and family and I can begin to grieve for my father.

Well written piece.

She was a CW apologist though (albeit in a couple of twitter posts iirc) which is either appalling naivety or just plain old anti-Semiticism if you are going to call it what it looks like.

Blair on Newsnight, loathsome lying cunt. LOL he wishes the left in the Labour Party could be more like it used to be: Nye Bevan, Michael Foot, ...er... John Prescott.

I lost count of how many people told me on the doorstep they would not vote Labour because of Corbyn

A lot of them went on to say, ‘but if Keir Starmer was your leader, I would vote for you.’ He was almost the only Labour person mentioned positively by name

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) December 17, 2019

lmao

That's...something else.

more apocryphal tales from the doorsteps.

I lost count of how many people on the doorstep asked me who the fuck I was and why was i campaigning for the Tories?

when that risible melt is slating RLB then I'm pretty much assured she's the candidate for me.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Keir_Starmer

41% “have never heard of”.

It was while I was was at mass during a skiing holiday with my family when I made the decision that Andrew Adonis is an absolute prick

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/inlineimage/2017-09-06/Favourability%20politicians%2006092017-01.png

despite all these treacherous self-defeating cunts voting for him, it did get to the point where boris was scared of showing up in the north for protesters/booing hate mobs, yet there wasn't much reportage of people on the doorsteps saying they don't fucking like him!

Irrelevant

This is how Barry Gardiner looks to YouGov

https://d3hjzzsa8cr26l.cloudfront.net/ecef633b-2d00-11e6-8fa2-87887d182df9.jpg?pw=190

Lots of fail dads talking big on the doorstep is it xp

Rebecca Long-Bailey is described by fans as: Confident, Admirable, Assured, Empathetic and Lovely.

Angela Rayner is described by fans as: Admirable, Confident, Assured, Fabulous and Cute.

Blair coming up with his bullshit is fantastic news for RLB/Rayner. The same processes with Corbyn -- where the membership are energised into defending and voting for them -- is happening again.

Reckon this could be a non-contest.

xp
were these "leadership candidate qualities" polls done on the doorsteps of S Korea?!

omg

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Keir_Starmer(popup:related_entities/correlated/Keir_Starmer)

Let’s not burn ourselves out yet, there’s still months of this bullshit left.

Angela Rayner is described by fans as: Admirable, Confident, Assured, Fabulous and Cute.

as if Rachel Reeves has earned the accolade "60th most famous Labour Politician"!

I saw Angela eagle (popular with Keir starmer fans) at a kd lang concert wearing an incredibly tight suit

Looking fabulous and cute or empathetic and lovely?

Other things liked by Angela Rayner fans:
-Niccoló Machiavelli
-Flogas
-South Staffordshire Water
-Peter Woods

Barry Gardiner is described by fans as: Admirable, Confident, Insightful, Empathetic and Informative.

We haven't yet collected data from enough fans of this Public Figure in order to publish additional data. Check back soon. New data is added to YouGov Ratings every week.

Clive Lewis is described by fans as: Strong, Confident, Socialist, Good speaker and Assured.

Disappointed Barry Gardiner is not considered empathetic and lovely tbh.

-South Staffordshire Water

omg Bazza is Angela Smith in disguise

people not much older than my parents were gunned down in the streets for daring to join a mass demonstration for their civil rights, and this government sees even the most minimal accountability for that as vexatious, toxic, an affront to patriotism https://t.co/VpsTVaENQ4

— Sean (@seanbgoneill) December 18, 2019

Very patriotic.

Now look really carefully and see if you can spot the difference:

"Sarah-Jane Young and the families here today were told that they would never get justice, that they should put the past behind them and move on.

"They, and thousands whose lives were devastated by the IRA, are the forgotten victims.

"Yesterday, many responsible for the most awful acts of terrorism on British soil were living out their days in peaceful retirement, believing they would never been held to account for their crimes, but justice has prevailed."

Mr Jury said the families wanted to tell other IRA victims that "no matter how many years have passed, justice can and will and must be done".

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMFwAc2WkAENVS3?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

new david peace tv drama about a Westminster cabal of cannibalistic freemasons is looking very dark erm .. white.

Fuck’s sake, state of this

Guy Verhofstadt has returned to the idea of Associate Citizenship. Please add your name to our letter to Boris Johnson asking him to bring the country together by offering an olive branch to those who value their EU citizenship. https://t.co/LNQuUGvGzs pic.twitter.com/TF0bS16rWG

— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) December 18, 2019

Guy Verhofstadt, I would call him Belgian Geldof, except Geldof is Belgian.

If there's any way I can hang on to my rights as an EU citizen I'll take it

It underlines the fact that for most FBPE types, it’s about airport queues for them. No surprise that they haven’t won the argument.

new david peace tv drama about a Westminster cabal of cannibalistic freemasons is looking very dark erm .. white.

also more men called Jacob than there are women in this picture (ie 1)

Well it's not about airport queues for me. It's about the right to live and work in 27 other countries. The removal of that right just narrows the possibilities, particularly of younger people. And is certainly going to fuck up my life.

Great, I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about a very specific subset of people.

twitter melts are having a great day today guffawing about a clip of corbyn slamming his car door after being doorsteped by a very disrespectful reporter.

I'm sure if these exciting opportunities to pursue careers throughout the EU were available for all then People's Vote would piss a 2nd ref. As they aren't available to vast swathes of the country, then the disenfranchised will vote with their fists and give proxy Leave votes to right-wing tories who will fuck their lives up even more.

twitter melts are having a great day today guffawing about a clip of corbyn slamming his car door after being doorsteped by a very disrespectful reporter.

quite a few of them I thought were nice, reasonable people just a couple of years ago, difficult not to be disappointed, even now.

They’re not and they never have been! There’s a reason for my “they’ll get us all killed” stance. Feeling ENTIRELY justified in despising about 99% of political commentators in this country rn.

most of these people I'd never even have classed as "political commentator" before, more fool me I suppose