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

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

“a town on the border of Surrey and Kent” - so basically London then

This clip is hilariously awkward but really confirms what all the centrist projecting on him is - he’s much more awkward and capable of stuff like this than the image they’ve built in their heads.

It's always hard explaining where you grew up unless it's an actual city but was he talking about himself in the third person or did I misunderstood?

He was. And not quoting either.

This is a good stance imo

basically said he couldn’t envision a circumstance where he’d use it and doesn’t think it works as a deterrent anyway

— Chained Reaction (@chnd_rctn) January 8, 2020

(xp) I long ago gave up trying and just say Glasgow tbh.

Even he finds himself hard to pin down

i think he is talking about himself in the third person, yes. I *suppose* he might have been asked “Who is Keir Starmer? Where is he from?” but it’s still fucking weird.

the town he’s from, notwithstanding the thread the other day, is pure stockbroker/commuter belt tory homelands. that’s the reason for its existence. not to say that there’s not the usual service and public service industry, light industrial and rural working communities there, but it’s a bit of a stretch to make out it’s radically distinct from from London or in some way has more in common with idk Wrexham than it does London.

He will get much more of the benefit of the doubt as the running boy of the establishment. If RLB was that gauche she'd be pilloried for months for talking like that

I know I'm a bit Starmer biased - but what a fucking prize turkey!

i think he is talking about himself in the third person, yes. I *suppose* he might have been asked “Who is Keir Starmer? Where is he from?” but it’s still fucking weird.

the town he’s from, notwithstanding the thread the other day, is pure stockbroker/commuter belt tory homelands. that’s the reason for its existence. not to say that there’s not the usual service and public service industry, light industrial and rural working communities there, but it’s a bit of a stretch to make out it’s radically distinct from from London or in some way has more in common with idk Wrexham than it does London.

but rochester or hastings it ain’t.

do towns have relevant stuff in common with other towns anyway? besides costa and tk maxx, and so as helpfully to discover the magic beans to ensure their general redevelopment without simply making their housing less affordable lol. on the whole they are going to need different strategies, and most of these will likely rile the older inhabitants and deepen the gulf

i grew up in just outside shrewsbury but i doubt i could connect to any of the fallen red wall as a result, or even oswestry tbh

it were all teashops when i were lad but since they built the park-and-ride and made it pedestrian-only it's mostly empty shop fronts bcz everyone drives to telford instead

probably not, no, or when they do there are strange affinities. the town where keir starmer grew up, which also happens to be the town where I grew up, is split into two - the older part, which I lived in, about a mile from the main part, which grew up round the newly built station for london commuters.

there were no pubs in the main part to ensure the navvies didn't get drunk. there were and indeed still are four pubs in the much smaller old village, within about 100 metres of each other.

pevsner described the older part as 'strangely grim, like a northern industrial village'.

Starmer would’ve been at school with Norman Cook and Ray Mears

tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty you're listening to the boy from a town on the border between surrey and kent

All this positing himself as something he - the Kier Starmer project clearly isn't - is just symptomatic of everything that is wrong with his ilk. Corbyn didn't hide that he was terminally middle class and dull and nobody cared a jot.

Starmer would’ve been at school with Norman Cook and Ray Mears

ray meanwhile just hangs out in the woods setting fire to hedgehogs and eating bark

Yrah but RLB was there when MES was paving the way for Northside!

ray meanwhile just hangs out in the woods setting fire to hedgehogs and eating bark

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I'm imagining this is Ray Mears' referring to himself in the third person in response to a question about his Labour leadership working class bona fides.

Haha!

all the candidates -- and everyone they went to school with -- post to ilx this is canon

if you ever you get a Housemartin caught in your garden netting - always best to batter it to death with a baseball bat - even if it isn't the worst one - aka the one that Kier Starmer went to school with.

"not to be confused with stan collymore"

ok this was a rollercoaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Collymore#Personal_life

if you ever you get a Housemartin caught in your garden netting - always best to batter it to death with a baseball bat - even if it isn't the worst one - aka the one that Kier Starmer went to school with.

Worse than the homicial axe-wielding maniac/arsonist?

Honours

Individual

Premier League Player of the Month: January 1996[46]

... and that's it? No wonder he's depressed.

xp
almost I reckon! I once told my younger brother, back in the 90's, that he was a clueless dickhead for saying Norman Cook was "best hip-hop producer in the UK"

bloody hell, he played for Bradford City - surely that counts as an honour!

Starmer’s membership of the Housemartins ended in acrimony after they refused to title their debut album ‘A Town On The Kent And Surrey Border 0, Hull 4’

lol!

I just had a dream that Len McCluskey is backing big Bazza Gardiner for Labour leadership, need to stop sniffing that paint thinner.

I'm actually disappointed that he didn't refer to himself as Sir Keir Starmer.

This "grew up in a town" thing is going to get more and more pronounced as every single politician and media figure outdoes themselves to see who can out-John Harris the man himself. They'll be designing WW2 board games with Liam Gallagher as Churchill before the year's out.

Where did he grow up? Reigate?

also shrewsbury iirc the only town

the town of Lewisham for me guvnor

Pity he didn't grow up about 3 miles north west in Mogador.

centreforhamlets.org

Wonder if Norman Cook ever talks about his time spent with axe-wielding maniac/arsonist, Ray Mears