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

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I never realised there was a time when Hodge was so warm and friendly towards Corbyn.. bloody hell.

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— Erroneous Monk (@consol8ion) December 27, 2019

slanderous abuse of John Shuttleworth

i’ve always thought turtlenecks put the wearer at the risk of looking like a circumcised penis and i’ve never felt more vindicated

kill me

https://i.redd.it/pj04fn4q17741.jpg

two public school kids, they'll get on great

Starmer definitely made a decision about priorities there didn't he. In theory, benefit fraud is wrong and bad! - but when you know the extent of tax evasion by rich wankers, it becomes kind of impossible to care about benefit fraud ime. I don't.

in civilised countries they write off low level benefit fraud because it saves money in the long run. Like the PIP reforms it is being vindictive at a cost - which is the style of the tories in this era, but apparently he's not a tory.

How much is the court costs etc in pursuing sub £20k benefit fraud cases?

And time spent too, getting a load of people in who could be doing something more worthwhile

it's the timing as well that is abysmal - he did this just as the first major tranches of Universal Credit were going to be rolled out.

fucking hell, I missed that IDS got a knighthood, and now I have thrown several large household appliances through an internal wall

or, to tie it into the Starmer convo (everyone otm, having some Swinson Effect symptoms re Starmer i.e. the more you learn about them...)

Iain Duncan Smith is knighted for implementing DWP policies described as systematic human rights violations by the United Nations https://t.co/ACp0POjpcs

— jacob richardson (@jjarichardson) December 27, 2019

Starmer is probably still the second best of the viable candidates at this stage, which highlights how little depth there is in the PLP.

And they know it too - that’s why he was asked to stand in 2015, weeks after he was first elected!

Lisa Nandos going out talking to deranged old gammon and pulling concerned faces and pretending it's 2010 again and Clive Lewis with some sensible ideas but not a sensible track record are not really serious options.

I’m reading that Tom Watson interview (link here if you hate yourself too), and like:

You sense Watson could talk for hours, possibly days.

Condemnation from powerful trade union general secretaries on broadcast media.

this will happen every time the sales of his tedious diet book start lagging, or whatever his next unappetising project is.

oh his book is out in a couple of days - there you go

he's such a fucking dickhead he makes me want to put on weight + get fatter, can you get PIP for type 2 diabetes ? :p

Help! My eyes have rolled to the back of my head and they won’t come back down again. https://t.co/UXA6X9SruM pic.twitter.com/yyVfINOXtf

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) December 28, 2019

bush otm

Has anybody commented on Leo Varadker entertaining the idea of the bridge between NI and Scotland being further researched or cost assesses or something to that effect. I thought the idea was pie in the sky type fantasy cos of weather conditions and exposure etc.

xp re watson

if there were any real journalists about, they'd be laughing him out of the room at this point.

xp that bridge could only be built by the command capitalism of Chairman Xi. UK's only good for filling potholes these days!

They're going to fund it via kickupstairsstarter

Re: the bridge, I assumed Varadker was trolling, or happy to see a study done to show it up as the likely folly it is.

Exactly Mr Dale. These disrespectful thugs should be now made to say "*Sir* Iain Duncan Smith should be in jail for forcing people into extreme poverty, illness and death." https://t.co/jNwa5oyKNH

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) December 28, 2019

Oh and you know IDS will INSIST that people use the title, but if we integrate the title to make his acronym SIDS that’s Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

ok, thread about blue labour (this will get quite long so feel free to mute) pic.twitter.com/e3305yXjwu

— w0ke_space_jesuit.exe (@piagnone) December 27, 2019

i'll be honest i'm way too holiday mode to give this the full in-depth read it deserves right now but this is a really good thread with more to chew on than most politics journos have managed all year

that’s SIR irritable duncan syndrome to you, peon

🐦[Exactly Mr Dale. These disrespectful thugs should be now made to say "*Sir* Iain Duncan Smith should be in jail for forcing people into extreme poverty, illness and death." https://t.co/jNwa5oyKNH🕸
— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) December 28, 2019🕸]🐦

Reading that Watson interview it seems pretty obvious that Hattenstone thinks that Watson is an impulsive idiot and a serial shit stirrer even if he's taking a pretty light touch approach to saying so. I don't especially rate him as an interviewer but he can usually be relied upon to push his subject's buttons a bit harder than he does here.

He ate bacon and eggs for breakfast, full-fat cheese and walnuts for dessert, and glugged back glasses of double cream if he still wasn’t sated. And the weight just fell away. Even more astonishingly, his diabetes went into remission.

oh god Atkins bores are the worst

Can you strip somebody of a knighthood if Justice ever prevailed like. Genocide of your fellow countrymen should have some consequences not just rewards innit.

xp
apparently this regime is called The Pioppi Diet. I'm on it as well and have just eaten half a giant toblerone.

Awards are for lickspittle monarchists so I don't care who they give them to tbh

the ploppi diet morelike amirite

my asmr is watching old by-elections from the days when mr blobby used to gain more votes than the literal uk independence party https://t.co/wFu7SwWeG9

— a a dril (@demarionunn) December 27, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/28/government-exposes-addresses-of-new-year-honours-recipients?CMP

I'm sure this will all be fine and that, say, Nadiya Hussein doesn't have any dementedly abusive haters who shouldn't have aceess to this information.

at least I know where to go when I feel like doing the old flaming bag of dogshit trick on IDS

Can't believe that those four dimwitted galoots who twatted Thomas Becket over the head in Canterbury Cathedral on Dec 29th 1170 had received knighthoods. pic.twitter.com/apz4gHoRN0

— Davey Jones (@DHBJones) December 28, 2019

watching the hignfy funniest moments of the year for reasons of sadomasochism, and have to say this bit where a squeaky lad says corbyn is to blame for the tory party inflicting policies which will harm the most vulnerable, while a tory peer nods and laughs... a real rib tickler! pic.twitter.com/68XkpkNHKk

— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) December 28, 2019

even by HIGNFY standards this fucking comedy cretin is something. Remind me why it is the LOTOs fault that tories are evil vindictive cunts again please young man?

Quel surp another showbiz melt with a paternalist world view

they're 'aving a laugh!

Most seasoned melts would probably have phrased that more carefully, he's just copying what they say and playing it by ear - you can see in his eyes he's not even that confident about he's saying. If the crowd cheer the he's obv doing it right. Never mind that if a duplicitous and unprincipled Tory peer is nodding along to this nonsense then alarm bells should be ringing very loudly mate!

and obv "Can I criticise Corbyn now" is beyond self-parody

i think that's just how the unfunny twat normally looks tbh

I've done quite a good job of avoiding these cunts in recent times - so don't know who he is tbh.

Jon Joel Richardson is an English comedian. He is known for his appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and his work as co-host with Russell Howard on BBC 6 Music.

what a fucking pedigree chump!