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

Melt backing melt backing melt

I'd gulag her first

mark my words: it'll be a race to see who gulags who first in the gazzara household in the early 2030s

THE LEFT'S WAY FORWARD IS BACK, writes stoya enthusiast paul mason in a baffling new statesman piece

Mason is such an embittered fucked up old man. He's totally lost the plot - he'll be on the Salmond show telling people to start a new labour party next. What is this Stoya reference about with him? excuse me i'm slow and old!

more and more Clive Lewis looks to me like someone has stuffed a man’s head into a slightly smaller baby’s head

carve this into my headstone

@stoya come to Athens - the revolution is happening

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) January 25, 2015

I am exponentially more left-wing than my parents! My dad is dead but my mum is a Trump voter; both were a hair too old to be hippies and resented the easy time boomers had compared to them.

Yeah, I'm definitely more left than my mum - not sure how my dad would have turned out, but they were Irish people born in the 40s - the prognosis isn't great.

wasn't gyac's point that we often develop political opinions in opposition to our parents

my dad was from Kerry and born in the 40's and was extremely conservative and racist. He probably voted for Thatcher at some point, but I'm just guessing because I doubt the fucker would have even registered to vote - he was too busy swilling in the pub!

my dad is an ex-military, telegraph-reading, brexit-stanning, trump fan - i can't even bear to be in the same room as him when politics comes up in conversation :(

Yeah, I'm definitely more left than my mum - not sure how my dad would have turned out, but they were Irish people born in the 40s - the prognosis isn't great.

my dad is a melt who voted lib dem this time around. really not the worst, as dads go

that's a matter of opinion :p

Alphie breaking his neck to type “like father like son!”

My parents are ok I guess, good on some issues (abortion), horrendous on others. Both products of rural Ireland late 50s/early 60s. But I am definitely more left wing than them, and I am far more left wing than I was ten years ago.

Deputy leadership hustings just breaking up.

Inside the last Labour MP in Scotland @IanMurrayMP described himself as “the cockroach who survived Labour’s nuclear holocaust” as he made his pitch.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) January 8, 2020

Sentences that are crying out for a comma

Latest leadership nominations - Keir has already met MP threshold.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2020/01/who-nominating-who-2020-labour-leadership-race

outside of the last labour mp in scotland, a book is a man's best friend, and inside the last labour mp in scotland it's too dark to read

imagine backing Jess Phillips when you aren't either pissing about or haven't just lost a bet.

Alphie breaking his neck to type “like father like son!”

Was gonna say his dad isn't a Marxist actual shocker but sure, go off.

The young Jack Straw was on the far left, even as an MP, and just gradually drifted rightwards.

I was 45 last week - I would say that I've been very left wing for a while, but it's definitely sharpened over time from a quite hippyish vibe 20-30 years ago.

Peter Mandelson was an ex communist too, adds another layer to his and Milne’s weird friendship.

something quite ruthlessly Stalinist about Mandelson's "they've nowhere else to go"

Greggs to pay workers £7m bonus after vegan sausage roll success https://t.co/hioUF5OerE

— The Guardian (@guardian) January 8, 2020

there would have been a lot more of this if this fucking country didn't decide to get brexit done instead.

glad to have played my part in this redistribution of wealth by personally eating about 7m of those sausage rolls last year

not nuts about the vegan steak bakes though, saltier than a haddock's gusset

My Dad was old Labour and I'm well to the left of where he was at the end

Pretty much the same here, except I'm not that further left tbh. Mum voted Labour all her life, resisting the SNP to the bitter end.

Greggs to pay workers £7m bonus after vegan sausage roll success

they've part-nationalised sausages

(xp) I blame most of my dad's idiocies on the Catholic church tbh.

the vegan sausage rolls get a thumbs up from my son, at least he eats them in the same manner as he does the meat ones; rips them open, eats the "meat" inside them and throws the pastry in the bin!

not nuts about the vegan steak bakes though, saltier than a haddock's gusset

it's steak! in pastry!

that's appealing!

is it though

are they like pies or something

yeah, pretty much like a flat pie

one that you could slip into your breast pocket without spoiling the cut of your suit

might singe a nipple though, so be warned

xp https://youtu.be/hrq-2FFFcrc

Gregg's do a steak and blue cheese roll that's pretty good if you're an omnivore

I don’t really go there much tbf, I really only like the sausage rolls

Amazing, Guido have deleted the tweet and story about @RLong_Bailey . Did anyone see the author before deletion? https://t.co/2PNHLdutaE pic.twitter.com/bjILXv7OvO

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) January 8, 2020

interesting that these fuckers will derride RLB as 'continuity Corbyn', yet Keir (also a key shad cab figure) who is also pitching to keep Corbyn's agenda is not

A) they know Keir's pitch is a lie
B) there's nothing like a bit of misogyny when it comes to bashing leftist women https://t.co/C9L7HE6jux

— Holly 4 RLB (@holski_beat) January 7, 2020

have been informed that the new greggs vegan steak bake is a winner

i am doing veganuary so will doubtless have to give it a try soon

We should hear more from RLB's campaign from now on, as her team comes together. Jon Lansman is director and Matt Zarb-Cousin is heading up the comms team.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) January 8, 2020

Greggs...is cancelled

Just asked my Greggs inside informant if everyone is chuffed about their ~£300 bonus?

"Not really. Most of us are on Universal Credit. We'll get the bonus end of Jan & it will be taken out of our UC payments in March. They've basically just handed £7m back to the govt."

Fuck.

— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) January 8, 2020

just perfect summation of this era there.

omg

lmao pic.twitter.com/CA5yDc6YI1

— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) January 8, 2020