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

yep like mayor no we Kahn't of London another fucking waste of space.

I might even have had a modicum of respect if he just said I prefer the senile centrist or the billionaire myself

i forgot to add "gropey" to senile centrist

emphatic Bernie yes! from RLB, the usual slippery lawyering prevarication from slimeball Starmer and the standard hot drivel from Nandy!

I've never heard Starmer speak before. Thats his real voice? Surely not

Wow you should check out his stand up routine

Wait no....I heard that but I thought it was dubbed. the 'cant say you're english' thing?

Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer comedian pic.twitter.com/6PAQYecWFz

— TheIainDuncanSmiths (@TheIDSmiths) February 16, 2020

this performance by him is real, the humour account does it out of sync as a JOKE!

I'm really confused now, I've no idea whats going on but I do know that this is a more than unpleasant end to the weekend

It's a more than unpleasant end to my 4 year association with the labour party as well unfortunately. I'm thinking of starting a new communist party in Nandos next month!

well launching it in nandos and then doing a runner without paying the bill

To each according to his Nands

Starmer's sort of tacit backing for any more respectable billionaire than Trump, just not that Sanders fellow is totally at odds with the bullshit he's been projecting to the membership in his videos and comedy sets.

At last some common sense from the primaries. pic.twitter.com/Wbwfbmfds0

— Luke Akehurst (@lukeakehurst) March 1, 2020

his Labour First pal Luke Akehurst knows the score

I would like to ironically say in a totally non actionable sense that I hope Luke Akehurst gets beaten to death with a morning star very soon

a Labour party just slightly to the left of Miliband 2015 but with a weak as piss melt leader who is more predisposed to pressure to make compromised "difficult decisions" on policy and duty-bound to the right wing pressure groups and dodgy Blairite donors that have financed his expensive campaign. Coming from *this* from Corbynism just makes me want to top myself tbh.

he is probably just a temporary usefule idiot for the right wing of the party, but the membership and CLP's who have all fallen for this sham by voting for him en masse all deserve to die imo

goddamn this is some brazil shit right here.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/01/subpostmaster-pete-murray-says-post-office-demands-to-repay-stolen-65000-led-to-stroke

The battle for Starmer's "soul" might be interesting. The right won't be able to put the squeeze on him too obviously because the membership will rally round him and it might strengthen his resolve to stay left-ish. On the other hand there's plenty of time and room for weaseling on policy and entrenching the existing party bureaucracy. I really don't think the shift right will be immediate, drastic or obvious.

Fiver says the standard media attack line will be "look at this boring fucking nerd" within a week of his election. None of the scum have to make nice with him, the Tories are so entrenched.

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once when I was a skint junkie and trying to cash in some penny bags from my coin bottle in the early 90's this miserable subpostmaster knocked me back and said "fuck off, we keep getting our fingers burned on these penny bags that are short". I put a curse on him at that moment, it just took a few decades!

Thought them scales were accurate to the penny

He was trying to say there were foreign or old coins being used as ballast, and fuck you junkie scratter!

I only had something like 17 bags ffs!

I wonder how well “boring nerd” might play to a post-Brexit electorate sick to death of new bridges and babies and policy wheezes like “let them die of Coronavirus”

Starmer needs to ditch his wife and get some blonde up the duff.

"the membership will rally round him and it might strengthen his resolve to stay left-ish"

I just see this slow game happening here where he largely bovine the membership melt even more and lots of left members sulk off. It won't be the same dynamic as when Corbyn was leader.

*the bovine nominally left membership* i meant to say

the "Corbynites" who previously got served an ice-cream by Owen Smith, laughed at his dick-jokes and turned up at his bbq are basically the majority of the membership right now imo.

Corbyn is a "boring nerd" tbf, but a quite vibrant public speaker who could attract good crowds on the campaign trail. I'd be very surprised if Starmer could follow that act tbh. He's already alienated the scousers by saying he wouldn't speak to the Sun and then said otherwise to the Fabians the next fucking day!

I wonder how well “boring nerd” might play to a post-Brexit electorate sick to death of new bridges and babies and policy wheezes like “let them die of Coronavirus”

Feel like we always end up falling into the trap of thinking like this and it never actually happens. 'Reliable, reassuring and quietly good at his job' is probably the best thing he can realistically go for.

And he'll need to do so quietly because that voice thing is not going to go away.

At the moment the government are making the (probably correct) calculation that the British public are sick to death of politics and actually quite pleased not to have to see the PM on TV every five minutes. Coronavirus will change that though.

Everyone seems to have mentioned the voice now, so it isn't just me being incredibly harsh on every facet of Starmer. I could just imagine those Tory FB ads clowning him, it would be cruel but probably very effective.

36 cases in the UK now, you can see why it's public health crisis number 1

yeah sorry i meant Starmer not CB-4

time to get the old double cartridge respirator out, Luke Akehurst is at my front door!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/02/social-landlords-face-10bn-bill-to-fix-fire-safety-problems

housing associations fucked, anyone in need of a new house fucked, lots of ppl who own flats absolutely fucked. morning!

I was listening to some of these tenants in shared ownwership mortgages breaking down on You and Yours. The catch 22 is some of them would need to re-mortgage to find the £30 -40 grand they need. They can't re-mortgage because the cladding means the property is worth zero.

Never mind all that misery guts, Carrie's having baby.

I'm so happy for them I would love to donate a playhouse made out of high flammability wooden cladding and an early learning centre set of My First Firesticks.

Had to google. Thought she'd dumped him.

it sounds like she's going to be having a dump

seeing as one of the key central tenets of UK conservatism is supposed to be home ownership. It seems a hell of a lot of new homeowners have been very shoddily served by this government's policies and even their maligned by the left help to buy scheme has fucked loads of ppl over. This is mainly going by being a regular hate listener to You and Yours which is sort of part radio mumsnet, part eye into the dark heart of middle england.

Yeah you'd think leaseholders in particular would be exactly the people the Tories need to keep happy but if they weren't arsed before the election then they absolutely won't be now that there is zero electoral pressure on them.

If anything I think people who have bought in badly-cladded private developments are in a worse position than those in former council properties - council freeholders or housing associations can at least in theory be shamed into trying to do something even if they don't have the money, developers absolutely won't be.

Some of these people in newly unsellable deathtrap apartments will be going through relationship or marital breakdowns either caused or exacerbated by the stress of all this, with nowhere to go due to the gigantic bills hanging over their heads.

There was a rumour circulating prior to the pregnancy announcement that Johnson’s extended holiday from the public view was down to Carrie socking him in the face for cheating while she was pregnant.

It is tough to argue that a lot of public money should be spent on bailing out people who have bought propery unwisely but idk what else can happen unless they’re willing to run the risk of a massive housing market collapse and negative equity.

Saying it's down to a lack of wisdom seems harsh. What feedback would they have gotten back even from a thorough survey? The fault lies primarily with developers imo

Yeah this should really be laid at the door of the developers but short of a successful class action lawsuit I don't know what can be done.

LOL at the idea that the Tories actually care about the ghastly little plebs who've crawled on to the property ladder once their votes are in the bag.

I was going to say, “unwisely” is a bit harsh, it’s not the fault of buyers that property is overpriced, people are desperate and should be judged accordingly.

I wonder what proportion of these buildings are in metropolitan areas and student towns who stubbornly persist in voting Labour anyway...

I still can't get over his voice, he sounds like a bona fide muppet. Its definitely not a practical joke?

I didn't have anyting against him before but this is completely untenable if true