Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

lol!

its publication The Crisis of Democracy, which describes the strong popular interest in politics during the 1970s as an "excess of democracy"

The Trilateral Commission] was concerned with trying to induce what they called "more moderation in democracy"—turn people back to passivity and obedience so they don't put so many constraints on state power

great bunch of lads etc...

is this the real appeal of the blair years then

I'm impressed.

Sorry, but I don’t think they’re going to make a ‘Billy Elliot’ type film out of your Winchester College, Oxford, Hedge Fund, marry billionaire daughter story mate. Get on with the job. https://t.co/372cfrKdck

— Ken Clarke (@MrKennethClarke) February 13, 2021

that is one huge door

Hardly real ken tho

(xp) And one miniscule Chancellor.

Oh, are you talking abut the first photo?

parody Ken, obvs, he would never

xp

the second one, not the one in the slums of Hampshire where he had to hustle on the mean streets just to eat!

It's probably someone else's door, one of his servants maybe.

dudes Rishi is barely taller than Priti tbf

I like the way this gormless cunt still seems to think mentioning star wars all the time is very cute and somehow adds to the perception that he's a bit of a character

Why does Boris Johnson still feel the need to do that fucking elbow greeting (in lieu of shaking hands)? Why can't he just nod "Hello" in a socially distanced way? That this is almost always in hospital settings boils my piss.

Because he's a cunt is the usual answer

Yes, that.

i do love post-early-crisis perseverant elbow dabs, but i am not your ppl and agree- what an insufferable d-bag.

Wow. From Tom Kibasi, one of the architects of Keir Starmer's leadership campaign:

"If Starmer were to depart as leader tomorrow, he would not leave a trace of a meaningful political project in his wake"

The current strategy is a "journey to nowhere"https://t.co/zxJVkaXBch

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) February 16, 2021

if this is what they're willing to say in public you have to wonder what's being said behind closed doors

nothing helpful or constructive, one can safely assume

I think even those that knew has a lame dog melt and a trojan horse for the Right still had no idea how fucking inept a leader he would be!

The fact that Starmer received more votes in 2020 than Corbyn polled in either 2015 or 2016 showed that the Labour membership recognised a different approach was needed.

From that Kabasi piece. Starmer got 275,780 votes in the 2020 LLC. Corbyn got 313,209 vs Owen Smith.

Yes, that did not seem likely to me.

tbh i don't think Kibasi is moaning about Kieth's failure to announce any *leftish* policies

policies? apparently there is a *blitz* of them coming this week, not seen jack shit of them yet.

i think this seems mostly like an opportunity for kibasi to cement in the public eye his own importance (as a king maker here) while in reality since leaving ippr he is not nearly as prominent as he was

"I helped elect the Labour leader"

yeah that was a real tough job with a lame as fuck labour membership that was already melting faster than the Antarctic glaciers.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/feb/16/proposed-free-speech-law-will-make-english-universities-liable-for-breaches

further strategising from the frontlines of the culture war

I did find it odd that Tom Kibasi left the IPPR. I have never quite grasped his motivation - unless it was simply a personal matter.

prince philip in hospital 'as a precaution', reports the bbc

hopefully nailing him into a steel coffin as a precaution against him rising from the grave as a vengeful lich

"as a precaution they've had to castrate his alien lizard reproductive organ to stop him breeding with himself"

Early indications from the treating team that he is suffering from the medical phenomenon known as "broken heart syndrome" following the death of his lover, Captain Tom Moore. A grim time for our nation. https://t.co/2htwIrQ6op

— Professor Piss Shitty (@doctor___fuck) February 17, 2021

I don't know much about Prince Philip but an odd thing is - many people who presumably don't usually find him hugely sympathetic or interesting seem to watch THE CROWN where he is a major dynamic protagonist?

I think THE CROWN might well be a good idea and well made (I have seen just one episode), but to me it's a bit of a stumbling block that I have spent most of my life thinking that most of the people in it (ie Royals) are not inherently very interesting, intelligent or insightful people, let alone the system they uphold.

I despise and feel absolute contempt for them to the point I'd happily watch a live show of them really getting liquidised by high explosives, but still I soon got over that same hurdle and have quite enjoyed most seasons of The Crown. It isn't that is particularly brilliant or anything but feels like a massive improvement on the usual unwatchable netflix garbage.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EucP-IKWQAEi6L-?format=jpg&name=small

Viz knows what is really going down

This is Bond villain level stuff! https://t.co/AuEQ6pifoK

— David Edgerton (@DEHEdgerton) February 17, 2021

austerity is over! well for the UK military–industrial complex it never really started.

missed the chance to call it Defence Extraordinary Research Projects

British Office-Facility of Armaments

Oh and I suppose he got that job entirely on his merits pic.twitter.com/2Zuvt52e8B

— Rob Palk (@robpalkwriter) February 17, 2021

Voters are expected to have to show ID to vote by 2023 under a crackdown against alleged voter fraud.

Via @TheSun pic.twitter.com/NFSOkeXF5h

— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) February 17, 2021

Oh noes I don't a have a driving license nor a passport.. sorry about getting disenfranchised from parliamentary democracy, Kieth ;P

Kieth is doing a tedious content free speech rn that basically is : I do evolve but I don’t revolve, that was me all along - I just didn't say it before now!

"The Conservatives want to build back. But I don't want to go back... I want our country to go forward."

strong stuff from the self parodic joke of a politician who does speak fluent platitudinous drivel but will never get anyway near power because he's just a pretend tory.

lol it is a plagiarised McD speech

Is it? I was gonna say Sons Of Kemet!

How do you build back?

more like Sons Of Kermit.. amirite

Starmer: "People often ask me why I want this job. The answer is simple: to change people’s lives. When I see an injustice, I want to put it right." Similar to line from leadership election about not walking by when he sees an injustice.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) February 18, 2021

like banging up people and throwing away the key for minor benefit fraud, like collaborating with the police to cover up the de Menezes shooting, like congratulating the Night Courts on what a cracking job of administering instant justice they are doing during the London riots. I seriously hope this clown dies very soon.

People often ask me why I want this job.

No-one does this.