https://t.co/8tjwxvuHea pic.twitter.com/VApmFM0f5B— Your Mum says Black Lives Matter (@judeinlondon2) June 17, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
Right now I bet you Alistair Campbell is telling everyone who will listen that you wouldn't have caught a senior minister not knowing the name of an England footballer in his day.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
Mandelson
― Ivan Scampo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 12:35 (three years ago) link
What is Gazza?
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 12:47 (three years ago) link
Matt Hancock demonstrating the part of his 2m social distancing rule that says 'stand as close as possible and pat them on the shoulder'. pic.twitter.com/2eMimLmzsU— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) June 17, 2020
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link
Mandellson probably thought people still wore rosettes and brought rattlers to football matches in the 90's
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
get his (car's) arse
Bois Johnson in car crash at Parliament. Just now. Security drives into back of his car as Kurdish protester runs into road. pic.twitter.com/k1kCplzyZ5— Steve Bray #HoldThemToAccount (@snb19692) June 17, 2020
― nashwan, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 13:58 (three years ago) link
LOL Keystone Cops
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
Go Kurd Team
― bring wayne shorter to the slaughter (Matt #2), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 14:05 (three years ago) link
"Failing to stop at the scene of an accident involving injury or damage is an offence which carries a maximum penalty of 6 months imprisonment. If you are charged with failing to stop after an accident you should seek legal advice as soon as possible."
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
Cops are such tools
― Ivan Scampo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/17/private-rents-england-record-high-coronavirus-lockdown?
thisisfine.jpg
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
this is why i'm staying in Hull
― Ivan Scampo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
Might have to live there...one day
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
Oh and:
BREAKING Cecil Rhodes statue will be taken down at Oxford's Oriel College #RhodesMustFall #RhodesWillFall— Camilla Tominey (@CamillaTominey) June 17, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
Honestly surprised by that given orielβs rep.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
wow! you'll be able to see the piss boiling from satellite pics.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
Will Labour keep to its 2019 election campaign pledge of free broadband for all?βI was sceptical in that campaignβ says MP Stella Creasy βThere are ways we can deal with the pricingβ#Politics Live https://t.co/QXHpQBgJgq pic.twitter.com/Jw2ghpiXtG— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) June 17, 2020
Stella didn't approve of the free broadband policy under Corbyn and seems to think there was any inequality in terms of access to it, pre-Rona, another fucking clueless melt.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
*wasn't*
just admit that you let factionalism distort what was a very good policy by your party leader, rather than talking a load of convoluted crap to cover your embarrassment.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
lol just turned om r4 and the first thing i heard was the unmistakable voice of Matthew Parris saying "Rhodes was a bit of a rascal"
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
A rascal without a statue to him, read it and weep, Parris.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
i don't understand how that is even a question now given that labour can't really do anything until at least 2024
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
^ re free broadband
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
I know, nothing of what the very conservative and cautious leader of the opposition nor any of their MP's says publicly has any significance, I just keep forgetting. Any ideas of offering anything radically different to what we currently have to the electorate is an exercise in futility..
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
it's a quite a pertinent question because she publicly dismissed the free broadband policy of Corbyn's during an election campaign, but is now saying it is a good policy.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
but here is me feigning outrage that a hypocritical melt tosser like her doesn't seem to have any kind of moral consistency or ideological beliefs underpinning her "politics".
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
it's easy media money to just get the new shadow cabinet to distance from the previous one by saying their ideas are bad and they should feel bad
― nashwan, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
she didn't make it into the current shadow cabinet through recently having a child I think, but she would have been odds on in there otherwise. probably a stalking horse for RLB's education brief going by the way she has been undermined by Reeves recently.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
It is factional bullshit to some extent - it nearly always is - but offering free broadband on pre-existing networks to deprived parents with school age children during a school-closing pandemic is not the same policy as building a national broadband network and offering it to everyone in the country for free.
Why she couldn't just say that instead of spinning out multiple rhetorical contortions is beyond me.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
because she's a melt is the simple answer. Oh right the universalism of nationalised broadband was bad then was it? lol!
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
sorry if I'm being rude Matt, but she's Tory slime to the core imo
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
that was a brilliant policy idea and making out you could oppose it previously because there wasn't a global pandemic is just nonsense.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
broadband inequality existed long before the Rona, she's a fucking wanker and I can't take anything she says in good faith, like about 90% of Labour MP's.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
π§πππ π‘ππͺπ¦Also on the #peston team tonight is Labour MP and Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence @jessphillips, a left-winger who can also cut inside and play a more central role if needed#Peston | πΊ @itv | π» @itvpeston | πππ©π ππ§ ππ¬π°π±π£π pic.twitter.com/TmneuNivVI— Peston (@itvpeston) June 17, 2020
I'm not watching Peston rn, but now apparently now Jess Phillips can talk freely over RLB's education brief. She will be gone by autumn.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
βI want the children to go back to school now.β @JessPhillips tells @Peston the government should have been planning for schools to reopen from the moment they closed. #Peston pic.twitter.com/giPYoF6olh— Peston (@itvpeston) June 17, 2020
jess phillips being a moron on pesto retweeted by Labour Press just to diminish RLB a little bit more.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
we are still on around 200 deaths a day and this mumsnet karen is partly blaming the schools without being very specific on the govt's failures, and she is deemed better to speak on this than RLB. Fuck this party.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
βTaking the kneeβ began in 2016 with American athletes refusing to stand for US national anthem. They were protesting police brutality and racism. But @DominicRaab thinks it comes from Game of Thrones!!! https://t.co/9spuAqWSQV— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) June 18, 2020
― scampos mentis (gyac), Thursday, 18 June 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
we always knew this tory cabinet is made up of the absolute dregs of their party, but they can still occasionally take you by surprise by plumbing new depths of stupidity.
― calzino, Thursday, 18 June 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link
wow
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 18 June 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
That's not even the most stupid - it's entry level now.
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link
That's genuinely bizarre about Raab.
I agree that Creasy has turned out bad. I think I actually voted for her in the 2015 Deputy Leadership contest or something.
Apart from anything else it's dire that Phillips is billed as 'a left-winger who can cut inside'.
I agree about the awfulness of these people and their disdain for RLB, a person with vastly more value and integrity.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
I watched a Novara Media debate between two factions of Momentum. It became somewhat bitter.
Two factions of an organization that has little influence on Labour, which has little influence on the UK.
I suppose it was Borges on the Falklands all over again.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:06 (three years ago) link
Was Jess Phillips invited on to talk about schools or was she just invited on to be Jess Phillips and ended up talking about schools? She's not really a message discipline kind of person.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link
she's starts going into a beef she has with her local school on television, that is certainly not message discipline. She needs to ditch politics and get her own C5 Speak To the Manager show or something because she is terrible at this game.
― calzino, Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:11 (three years ago) link
Does Pesto ever describe his guests as 'right-wingers'? Guess I'll never know.
― nashwan, Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:13 (three years ago) link
It is good that JP ran for Labour leader and was humiliated and rubbish.
Nashwan is correct that leftists are described as such, right-wingers are viewed as normal.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:13 (three years ago) link
I don't think he's being stupid, he's signalling that it isn't something important enough for him to bother with. Same with Hancock yesterday although he at least has other very important things to worry about right now.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
see also "who even are you?", "I hadn't heard of Marcus Rashford campaign", etc etc
― stet, Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:52 (three years ago) link
I can certainly believe Hancock is stupid, Raab's 'error' seems deliberate to me.
― Rapsputin (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 June 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link