Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

Not even close to an opposition. Pathetic.

Burnham is just as bad as Kieth for being a soft melty shite cross-party bro towards bent Tory ministers who get caught bang-to-rights at it. It's almost like they consider corruption all part of the game.

it's weird i thought Kieth was big on prosecuting people

Suspect he is going softly softly because Labour’s complicit in this due to their inaction and he knows it. It’s that Rentoul tweet about “I hope there’s no inquiry, we don’t need to blame people for this” but as policy.

🐦[Sir Keir Starmer on his football strategy - "I’m a midfield player in the middle of the pitch, I like to think I’m a box-to-box player which means across the whole pitch" #ridge🕸
— Rob Powell (@robpowellnews) February 21, 2021🕸]🐦

Doesn't get that "box to box" and "across the pitch" are not the same thing.

Darren Anderton was a super player, barring injuries

Hes Eric Dier, would have passed off as ok in a successful outfit when everything was working around him and given a tailored role, but put him in the boss man seat and not only does he fuck it and everything around him but his own reactions show his utter unsuitability for the actual profession and he absolutely should be executed

Sorry that turned out more about dier in the end

nobody wants to see government ministers held to account for criminal corruption

I'm assuming this is the No. 1 story on all news outlets? Or are Meghan, Harry and Phil still hogging the limelight?

Anderton was great when he wasn’t injured but how often was that? Starmer was distinguished as a lawyer but absolutely flatlining as leader, hence Anderton.

Doesn't get that "box to box" and "across the pitch" are not the same thing.

It's almost like he hasn't a clue about football but he thinks it'll go down well with the proles.

He plays five a said everybody's box to box ffs

I play just behind the front one in five-a-side.

Kieth the diaphanous midfielder that tries to use his powers of invisibility to prevent managers and fans alike from realising how fucking shit he is.

One of the problems with focus groups is that people say a lot of "common-sense" stuff about bi-partisanship that in reality has very little effect on their actual voting behaviour https://t.co/YbbZpKmB0F

— Jack Saundrs ❤🖤 (@jack_saundrs) February 21, 2021

The moment the shitpost left went mainstream. https://t.co/peabqW4VYv

— Michael S (@ScanlanWithAnA) February 21, 2021

Welcome to the Resistance, Wales

Current drugs laws don’t work. Gangs, Class As, violence, deaths. The status quo has failed.
It’s time for reform.
Time for cannabis decriminalisation.
Time for devolution of the criminal justice system.
Time for substances to be treated as a health issue. https://t.co/9nkbMWkvW7

— Leanne Wood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@LeanneWood) February 21, 2021

what the fuck does this ridiculous pretender even know about drug gangs? he probably thinks they sniff glue and smoke lsd therefore should be banged up for 10 years.

it's not really about drugs is it it's about the necessity for state violence against certain types of people, something no sensible moderate can ever question

Kier Starmer's Hardest Drug Gangs: some kid smoking a bifta with a can of cider in the park

on the subject of drugs remember when labour made fucking mushrooms class A. remember the whole cannabis fiasco. nothing has changed and this guy seems more spooked by potential outrage already than brown was by actual outrage

but all that is secondary to the need to work backwards to justify current and future levels of surveillance and harassment of specific communities

Every time I see an old edition of "Have I got news for you" it looks like the good old days...

idgi the good old days of oh that rascal boris what a buffoon - wouldn't it be jokes to make him mayor ??

No pubs for Easter is the briefing tonight, but all schools on March 8.

did anyone tell the corona virus? it might have different plans?

You'd hope for something, I dunno, cleverer than "all schools", really, wouldn't you?

(Not withstanding that schools are already open).

Xpost to Left

What I mean is that although there was crap things, there was that sense that things could actually get better.

Sometimes, anyway.

When I see old hignfy I think “these ppl are the reason everything got so bad”

I mean I don’t ever see old or new hignfy but if I did

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/4/24/1429890434539/5f88a18f-b20b-4a88-8ec7-65ab41ce647b-620x372.jpeg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=0b60efbefd7d4eab84e8e136b8b79802

we thought things could only get better. but this was a fantasy

Exactly.

And now, we doubt they will.

the nostalgia is a really tempting dead end

I used to work with someone who would sing "I got a feeling tonight is going to be a fucking shit night" when that Black Eyed Peas song would come on the radio. He was singing Kieth's Anthem!

The government will simply follow the data which by coincidence is telling them to do what they want to do anyway

When I see old hignfy I think “these ppl are the reason everything got so bad”

― jammy mcnullity (wins), Monday, 22 February 2021 08:45 (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflag

except of course i don't ever see old hignfy except maybe in my nightmares

i see the news wires are buzzing with this story:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/fresh-evidence-prompts-calls-probe-anti-labour-dark-money-groups/

"Fresh evidence prompts calls for probe into anti-Labour 'dark money' groups

Exclusive: Electoral Commission urged to investigate potential coordination between ‘near identical’ campaigns that spent heavily on attack ads without declaring any donations"

For some reason Nick Ferrari says there’s no flag behind Starmer when he addresses the country unlike Tories. “No no that’s wrong actually,” Starmer says

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) February 22, 2021

hahah

thinky_face_emoji

Vaccines Minister now on #BBCBreakfast saying
“On 8 March which is 3 weeks after the middle of April where we will have offered the vaccine to all over 50s we will see schools reopening”

He said the same on #SkyNews@piersmorgan your country needs you! pic.twitter.com/66TGhrFV0I

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) February 22, 2021

that vaccine minister plan in full

https://media1.giphy.com/media/U7y8XyKuIcYiEeFiFD/200_d.gif

Firm grasp of his brief

Good morning

MarkRobla, 34, placed the carved plaster head on a pike on top of the plinth at St Peter's Hill green at 4am on Sunday, February 21.
https://t.co/BwogvCB46Y

— DPAC Sheffield (@DPACSheffield) February 22, 2021

Turner Prize material imo

'Do you tap dance for the Tories?': Caller challenges Keir Starmer for saying Health Secretary Matt Hancock doesn't need to resign over his delay to publish Covid contracts.#CallKeir | @Keir_Starmer | @NickFerrariLBC pic.twitter.com/U8LnWOLhvJ

— LBC (@LBC) February 22, 2021

dying at this one

this sight of this hapless ham puppet is increasingly upsetting

'everyone hates me so we're probably getting it about right'

they should start making him go to their focus groups and allowing undecided voters to verbally abuse him directly, that might help them get an endorsement from the sun in 2032

Kieth meets his public

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k-P9QVutBk

https://i.imgur.com/7oGCO9z.gif

look, under corbyn, we pleased some of the people most of the time

that was the old politics, and it failed for us in a major way in 2019

now, under my leadership, we're taking a bold step forward

now, we please none of the people all of the time