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

Also I think you’d make a good case for more happening in the past five years politically than in an equivalent ten of almost any of the last century!

generally i think mocking somebody's appearance is bad but

pic.twitter.com/zxHlmBYHiD

— Howard Zinn's 10 Million Long-Bailey Relief Plan (@ZinnTruther) January 7, 2020

heh! perhaps "a pickled egg covered in pubes" is just going too far, this online bullying needs to stop at once...🤭

There's probably an argument that if you want to transform the country properly then deep knowledge and understanding of its institutions, and the people in them, is essential because *these are the things that are going to get in your way* and you need to know how to tackle that. We'll see how Dominic Cummings gets on with the civil service, I suppose.

I think I recall reading something recently about a British mistrust of technique...

Fizz it in the mixer, play with passion and pride etc.

xxp idk why he’d run when Rayner has broad cross party support but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

he's even dozier than he looks obv

Can’t believe this is happening again, a Labour woc being immediately trivialised by the glorious press is it?

Rosena Allin-Khan, setting out her deputy Labour leadership pitch, says "I've been to the north last weekend"

— Esther Webber (@estwebber) January 7, 2020

The Tooting MP, who has a Pakistani father and Polish mother, dismissed concerns that Labour must have a leadership team that is drawn from northern constituencies.
“I grew up poor with a single mum working three jobs to support me and my brother. That taught me the reality of day to day life for people across this country,” she said.
“There’s no regional distinction to hunger. Loss of hope lives across the UK. London is used to mean ‘metropolitan elite’ but we also have some of the highest levels of deprivation.

Brendan Cox is like a dog with a bone on "strict immigration rules". Another melt who thinks the only way forwards for Labour is back to 2010 via 2015. What a fucking prick.

with the slimeball lib caveat of "celebrate the contribution of migrants" but just don't let any more of the fuckers in!

but hey we've more in common that what divides us ...bleurrrgh!

Cameron as transformer is overrated really. He did what Tories usually like to do to public services (cut them), especially when the financial crisis gave him a reason. Enough people voted UKIP for the referendum to take place.

Reckon it's far better to have people who wouldn't normally get into parliament, and then don't get used to the constraints to see possibilities. Corbyn is a good example of someone who has been in the place for a long time but on the margins. It probably helped him to stay as leader for as long. Like to think this is a start of a healthy trend.

> What RA-K actually said...

i think the 'oop north' quote came from the radio4 interview she gave this morning. she seemed fine, if a bit fence-sitty (although to be fair the interviewer did seem to be asking her mostly about what other people were thinking).

Sure, but that’s a conscious decision to tweet a context free quote, leading to yr aggressive reply guys jumping in to tell us all how much wiser they are than an A&E doctor.

Labour MPs know one design guy with one colour palette who is absolutely raking it in on leadership campaign work this year. pic.twitter.com/XzIB0Xu18U

— Tom Wilson (@feedthedrummer) January 7, 2020

Your occasional reminder that one of the country's leading political journalists is a thicko. https://t.co/Lkr1b5lkBn

— Phil BC (@philbc3) January 7, 2020

This is a well put together thread that explains what a dangerous time this is:

(1)Discussion of Migration completely misunderstands Tory Migration Policy:they don't want to reduce the 'number' of migrants : They want to reduce the Rights of Migrants.The policy is for 100k's of migrants who are charged extra for NHS and need a not from their Employer to stay

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) January 7, 2020

As I was trying and failing to explain to my mother, people who have a problem with EU immigrants in this future hate that we are treated equally under the law. Which is not excusing the disgraceful treatment of non-EU immigrants in this country, which the same crowd don’t think is harsh enough anyway.

i started my current job in may 2012. there's a woman i know here who started in june 2012. to me she will always, ALWAYS be 'the new hire'. i feel like i have some kind of advantage of seniority over her. ridiculous. but it's deep in my lizard brain. i feel like humans are always going to have this weird tribal, in/out selfish obsession with who has what privileges. how do we mitigate this chimp quality?

in the electrical game it used to be if you aren't an apprentice served and qualified sparky then your a boy, regardless of age or gravitas etc. It used to amuse me when companies would bring in agency labourers in their 30's/40's and some lil' shit in his mid 20's would point and yell "get those fucking boys sweeping up some rubble, don't just let them dawdle about!"

I've been reading this from the middle of last year about the creation of "Essex man", it's not related except it's a picture of how you create a new constituency (you need the wash of money to do so though, and while it's clear that Boris would like to, it's not clear there's as much around)

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jun/27/the-invention-of-essex-how-a-county-became-a-caricature

Rory Stewart wrapping it up! pic.twitter.com/MsULP4fSio

— Eye Spy MP (@eyespymp) January 7, 2020

Eye Spy MP (retired)

I am waiting for the big Johnny Mc endorsement and remembering this proud father tweet from an insanely long time ago

I know Becky Long Bailey’s lovely parents and they will be very proud of their daughter today as she triumphed against the Tories at #PMQs today. https://t.co/D4THCFzskl

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) June 5, 2019

rory stewart's interest in wraps presumably sparked by seeing rolled-up afghan rugs when he walked across afghanistan and did u know he speaks dari

I've zapped a few posts here - there has been a lot of smoke around this particular individual for some time but it's really not a great idea to bring potentially libellous content onto this thread.

did you delete the richard virgin stuff

I've got proof!

xp deleted from our thread but not our memories

virgin on the ridiculous, but not libellous!

aw shucks i missed the fun. was it Labour's oldest living Burgon?

xxxp why post the thread but not the proof then?

I meant about Burgon's virginity!

Ah right, work away.

process of elimination, hmmm. Peston is thick = not libellous, Ian Murray looks like a Pokeball = not libellous, Jess Phillips not actually working class = not libellous. nah i'm stumped.

Allegation that Rory S might have links to the security services judiciously nipped in the bud.

it was a twitter thread involving someone who isn't a politician but who is involved in politics which would probably be best placed on the Weinstein thread, can I say more than that?

NV: look up a thread by twitter user Loki Belmont@Lokinash06 about a seasoned melt hack who is goen nowhere!

oh i see Laura K has finally been outed for REDACTED the fuck out of REDACTED whilst on REDACTED

got it, not so much a melt as a REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED

Dead-behind-the-eyes slug-like hater of left is allegedly a sex pest.

... that covers a lot of people in the media though.

Ted Rogers to the thread!

banned_for_my_aquaphibian_gif, anything can happen in the next half hour EXCEPT FREE SPEECH APPARENTLY

I meant about Burgon's virginity!

I’ve definitely heard stuff about [redacted] and definitely have seen screenshots of him making inappropriate comments toward female writers. My only interaction with him ever was correcting him on a particularly satisfying factual error on a colleague’s thread and he did not like that one bit. I hope his cock falls off.

I’ve definitely heard stuff about *redacted* and definitely have seen screenshots of him making inappropriate comments toward female writers. My only interaction with him ever was correcting him on a particularly satisfying factual error on a colleague’s thread and he did not like that one bit. I hope his cock falls off.

BTW that enlightening Twitter account has reasonable claims that Jess Phillips is corrupt AF.

it's just become the best twitter account going at the moment!

I wish my melty media pals who are IRL pals with redacto-man and who also complain about media abusers would get one backbone between them, but that’s a lot to ask.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENqvRjPXYAUb7Dt?format=jpg&name=900x900

Remember the time she got relentlessly trounced running in Hackney North & Stoke Newington? No reason.