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

I'm sure Mr night courts won't be happy with the deportations but after five years of focus grouping popular racist policies the concerns will be legit again.

If there are no planes of deportees heading off to Australia, Canada, or New Zealand, we must assume that people from those countries never commit crimes or offences. Unless there’s another reason...???

— Michael Rosen (@MichaelRosenYes) February 11, 2020

Waiting for the EHRC investigation into the Tories...any day now. Oh yeah, they already did a cursory report on the Windrush crisis that was four fucking pages long.

Today I'm launching #ComeKipWithMe - asking Londoners to invite me into their homes and show me the city through their eyes. I want to know your concerns and your ideas. And I promise to bring a sleeping bag and a box of chocolates!

Sign up: https://t.co/jtrLIw7i2G pic.twitter.com/TC7Vfg5tNk

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) February 11, 2020

This is how the Westminster Bubble sees politics - as a game between factions of the rich, rather than as a process which can destroy the lives of ordinary people. (see also, Iraq, austerity, welfare.) https://t.co/wukZx8bdsY

— Chris Dillow (@CJFDillow) February 11, 2020

rory please sit by my bedside and whisper tales of walking across afghanistan in your lilting dari dialect while i fall into a deep and dreamless sleep

I've barely watched peston or qt since the election, but it seems like they are plumbing new depths that even fucking capt nemo wouldn't have conceived of.

xp

why does the privileged cunt think he deserves free air b'n'b? That would be socialism!

man who walked across afghanistan draws the line at hull

Hull is a little far away for this

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) February 11, 2020

(paging nv obv)

or DannyFo75443465 as he is known on twitter!

Waiting for the EHRC investigation into the Tories...any day now. Oh yeah, they already did a cursory report on the Windrush crisis that was four fucking pages long.

the government shrugged off a report by the un human rights rapporteur that said living conditions for millions of people in the uk were intolerable, they're building up a remarkable indifference to any kind of censure

these deportations are of course fucking disgusting and, along with the shamima begum citizenship issue, paint a genuinely frightening picture of where we're headed

These deportations are business as usual afaict - i'm regrettably old enough to remember Blair's 'foreign prisoner scandal' of 2006/2007. Unless they deported people specifically covered by the court order, they haven't done anything particularly out of keeping with the last twenty years. The big risk is that they'll mangle the judicial review process to stop people getting access to justice in the first place. Every government fulminates about it - Johnson has enough of a majority to push something through, should he wish to.

even better, a genuinely frightening picture of where we've been for the last 20 years

i'm sure boris and priti will use their majority to dream up new ways to make life hell for people tho

Good thread:

<<Thread>>

Another charter flight left for Jamaica this morning. It is in the air now, somewhere over the Atlantic. The Home Office justified the flight by stating that everyone was a ‘serious criminal’, before listing offences and calculating their cumulative prison sentences

— Luke de Noronha (@LukeEdeNoronha) February 11, 2020

HS2 green lit.

File with 'Heathrow third runway green lit'?

bloody excellent thread is that.

i just checked, i don't think i know Danny Fox, altho i would also welcome a night in with Rory as long as he brought booze

and yes that Luke de Noronha thread is a must-read

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fucking moocher better bring some quality booze as well, especially if you are being bedroom taxed by his party!

Sian Berry and Drillminister are the only 2 London Mayor candidates to tweet about the Jamaica deportations.

— Neal (@nealvinay) February 11, 2020

Khan was attacking a tory proposal to tax US tech giants last week, this week he is seemingly completely silent on the deportations. What a sorry excuse for a Labour Mayor he is (like almost all the rest of them tbf).

https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/18227146.sadiq-khan-condemns-jamaica-deportation-flight/

I always said he was a class act worthless melt!

"Also the only 2 to tweet against the Met using facial recognition software."

We never did Mike https://t.co/hqFiWL2PTV

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) February 11, 2020

It has clearly been a testing time for Mr Gapes watching Ilford South remain a Labour seat under new MP Sam Tarry – but he is in no mood to criticise his replacement, despite concerns others have raised over his links to the fringe, pro-Corbyn Jewish Voice For Labour group.

lol Gapes and JC "concerns".

some people are saying Khan's condemnation of the deportations is a bit low key and low energy in comparison to his national tv appearances for remain/the trump visit etc

Coronavirus: two UK prisoners being tested as vaccine could be ready in 18 months – latest news https://t.co/SjAVTBhmoI

— The Guardian (@guardian) February 11, 2020

eh?

prisoners? waht

Yeah this is just bizarre. Also eerily close to 'home'.

I don't know if that is a clumsy headline or indeed prisoners are being used as human guinea pigs, nothing would surprise me at this point!

Post-privatisation the UK prison service has been buying food directly from Chinese wild animal markets IIRC.

They could at least cook the meat before feeding it to the prisoners, but these group 4 stalags take austerity to the next level!

It's like a bloody holiday camp

When you watch the deportation flights really ramp up to full efficiency, it’ll also be worth remembering it was nice liberals, and not the usual cavalcade of terrible Conservative Party freaks, who told the nation there was no difference between left and right.

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) February 11, 2020

depressingly plausible

Isn't the argument that the nice liberals aren't really as liberal as they've pretended to be? No one thought New Labour were especially liberal when they were in office and certainly it wasn't true of Cameron's government. The right wing press is stuffed to the rafters with self-hating liberals pumping this stuff out to order.

Ultimately the Tories can now do whatever they want with impunity and everyone is to blame.

Which won't be any comfort to the next lot of poor fuckers on the plane.

xp it is yeah, hence voting for Cameron in 2015 who had Lynton fucking Crosby running the campaign and half the papers baiting Miliband with antisemitism to benefit the Tories

The Labour Party Irish Society nominates:

• Keir Starmer to be leader of the Labour Party
• Ian Murray to be deputy leader of the Labour Party

— CLP Nominations (@CLPNominations) February 11, 2020

Ffs! Can I get a Welsh passport!

Critical support for Dominic Cummings for fucking with the press. pic.twitter.com/DrxlBfckkg

— Sonia (@yet_so_far) February 11, 2020

I think the BBC are starting to realise Cummings perhaps isn't the enigmatic master of dark arts they built him into via Cumberbatch.

obv it's all part of the brand, if N Timothy pulled a stunt like that they'd be in shock - but they still don't know how to deal with it.

pj masks is shit, this guy doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about

go jetters on the other hand, now you’re talking

N Timothy started a blood feud with the libertarian elements of the Tories, you’d love to see it if the country wasn’t deporting black people illegally and doubling down on fascism with every waking moment.

Good morning!

Presumably this 'PJ Masks' stuff is a ruse to game the SEO for 'Masks' like when they made Boris talk about 'making buses'.

James Connolly didn’t die for this! Worst possible combination ffs.
― hyds (gyac), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Ffs! Can I get a Welsh passport!

― calzino, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Read a whole thread on how the right rigged this one.

bigoted smear campaigns against the left candidate, illegally hacking members data, rigging CLP nominations and then calling for unity on a regular basis. The Starmer campaign in a nutshell.

obv Starmer doesn't have control over every dirty trick that goes on, but when the campaign team you have chosen is led by scumbags from the private healthcare lobby/right-wing pressure groups + 1 token ex team Corbyner, then it is all on him imo.

xxp not like you to not share one?

Think the Labour Irish right also gamed Islington North for decades, church involvement and all. Corbyn’s selection was relatively controversial?

The press are part of the metropolitan elite so Cummings presumably feels he can fuck with them with electoral impunity.