Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

there are umpteen reasons to ignore this nonsense, probably enough reasons to convince yourself it doesn't define the Labour Party. but if the battle to win the Party becomes as remote and difficult as the battle to win voters then where's the point? even Camus would've told Sisyphus to drop this rock

https://t.co/Zk1ptnqsgg pic.twitter.com/bxT1fPkz37

— Professor Piss Shitty (@doctor___fuck) February 11, 2021

I lolled!

Well.

Jacob Rees-Mogg rambles on about weetabix with hot milk, and loving nannies marmalade, it’s then quite fitting that someone mutters “Such a c*nt”

Well they’re not lying are they... pic.twitter.com/ui6fru5jDB

— Nigel-la! Soooouuuttthh 🏳️‍🌈 (@nothing_human) February 11, 2021

Kind of admire how JRM gives you the real soul of the Tory party raw and uncut

whenever they put him out there I just think it looks like "yes, we can do absolutely anything we like now, and we will never answer for it"

It's good that Tory voters are clear about what they're voting for, no excuses, that's what you want

is it though? I guess it's better to know who the British people really are, but can't help feeling it was in some way a good thing that they used to at least be embarrassed about it.

I think the lunch being naked is a good thing, but understandably not for our collective mental health. I don't think mystification or shyness or dishonesty are a positive tho, that's what led us here

Same applies to the Labour Right being forced to crawl into the daylight and own their true values

I don't know, if the result is the whole political class being openly evil and the public accepting and being ok with that, where do we go from there? Shaming people into not being evil might not have worked in the past, but what's the alternative.

Hopefully enough people becoming angry about the choices on offer to them and demanding a genuine change. Which, yeah, you may say I'm a dreamer etc

JR-M makes me feel like I'm being trolled in real life.

Yeah, there are moments where I do wish someone would pipe up in parliament that if we're just talking about fish being happy about being British or some other unfunny shite we might as well stop having it altogether. The disdain for democracy is so obvious.

Westminster Voting Intention:

CON: 39% (-1)
LAB: 33% (-5)
LDM: 9% (+2)
GRN: 7% (+2)
SNP: 5% (+1)

Via @Survation, 5-6 Feb
Changes w/ 12-13 Jan.

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) February 12, 2021

It doesn't look like Kier is on the road to being 20 pts ahead to me.

Fuck, that’s not even margin of error is it? Everyone knew the vaccine bounce would fuck them and they’ve failed to make their mark.

Flag-waving going well, I see.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Et924qrWYAAE3ZN?format=png&name=large

Boris Johnson / Keir Starmer

Net Rating: -3% (+12) / 3% (-5)

nice to have a conservative flag-fucker with no policy offers who is edging towards being as unpopular as Corbyn was without even getting vilified in the national media every day!

Been looking at the tables to see where this drop has come from.

Interestingly, CON lead amongst men actually decreased from 6% to 2% but among women, went from a LAB 2% lead to a CON 10% lead 😮 https://t.co/8r2BiFF4hX

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) February 12, 2021

This'll be a useful indicator of how media smearing of Corbyn actually had p much fuck all effect then.

hang on to your hats folks, apparently there is going to be a policy blitz next week!

no actual policies, he just likes the word "blitz". knees up mother brown.

Who’s advising this prick? Some terrible pictures in this piece.

“I think the Tories will take the road back to business as usual. There are already signs of that: council tax hikes, universal credit, the public sector pay freeze.”

“There are huge numbers in the Tory party who absolutely believe in that model and want to go back to it.” pic.twitter.com/5kH33dWle4

— The Times (@thetimes) February 13, 2021

When pressed about a video where a younger Starmer boasts of having called for the abolition of the monarchy, he concedes that he was once a republican.

“That has never been a central part of my politics,” he says. “My politics has been about inequality.”

Fucking clown.

pic.twitter.com/priFJ1VitX

— DistortBot RESURRECTED (@DistortBot) February 13, 2021

The Survation poll apparently puts his favourability at +6 with BAME voters, having been +63 when he started.

That’s fine though. Who else are they going to vote for? Nothing to be concerned about.

the Labour Right are immune to learning from previous mistakes and aren't going to listen to nonsense naive lefty morality tales, when Kieth gets pumped it will be a personalised fail rather than a tactical one and the next leader will be an even bigger cunt than him.

i certainly hope nobody REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED Kieth because tbh he's a REDACTED REDACTED and he deserves to be REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED tbh i'd REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED the REDACTED myself

come into the real world, my loves

One of Sir Keir Starmer’s top aides, Carolyn Harris, invited a fraudster who swindled £45,000 by faking cancer to speak at a parliamentary event last month, The Times can reveal. https://t.co/xoE9QPzsGG

— The Times (@thetimes) February 13, 2021

more forensic opposition

Last month, the coroner highlighted 28 separate “problems” with the administration of the personal independence payment (PIP) system that helped cause the death of 27-year-old Philippa Day, from Nottingham.

The nine-day inquest uncovered multiple failings by both the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and its private sector contractor Capita in the 11 months that led up to Philippa’s death in October 2019.

the only two Labour MP's to even mention her death were Debbie Abrahams and Nadia Whittome, absolutely fuck all from the shadow minister ( Vicky Foxcroft) for disabled because criticising deadly benefit reforms is old politics.

People in red wall seats want all disabled people to die, so now Starmer does too.

From that Times interview
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuGsC5TXMAI7Qh0?format=jpg&name=900x900

Little bitterness there at Sally Rooney supporting Corbyn era labour eh

Keir Starmer or gangrene?

supporting the government or opposing

yes I agree with you Kieth, they are both indeed complete wankers!

If you're allowed to say 'both' to any question then you might as well say it to all of them and it invalidates the exercise.

When KS ran for leader in January 2020 or so, he would not have dared to praise Blair over JC.

Correct answer was "neither" but she fucked all of the other questions too so

I tell a lie, I'll give her Mantel and Cornwall

And Yonce I guess, tho that was a legit both

Howling at this detail from this article:

Prof Bowring said that there used to be “huge arguments” in the society about who was more working class, with Sir Keir insisting that he was on the grounds that “he played five-a-side football every weekend.”

I once had an argument with an arsehole social worker who was causing me problems and whom I accused of being terminally middle-class in a bad way and awfully judgemental to the point it affects her ability to do her job properly and her retort was: I'm not middle-class ... I go to Rugby League games!

Lol fair comeback

well compared to kier she was a Govan docker tbf!

Hearing that Keir Starmer (a member of the Trilateral comission) is bringing back Peter Mandelson, pictured here with another famous Trilateral Comission member. pic.twitter.com/7bHUPCDI79

— Trizzy Gillespie #BLM (@BlackXList) February 14, 2021

it doesn't get mentioned enough that Kieth (along with Rory Stewart lol) is a member of the shady and right wing authoritarian as fuck Rockefeller founded Trilateral Commission, that yes Epstein was also a member of!

or like someone just posted it definitely will get mentioned if this walking corpse is still Labour leader by the next election.

maybe Kieth will say they are just a bunch of mates he plays 5 a side with!

oh come on some of them were older than that