Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

Labour believes in human rights, most importantly the right to be nuked

Watched a bit of the Salmond hearing, not a patch on that parish council thing from last week.

NEW: @TheGreenParty defends decision to appoint white person to top role on Black, Asian & minority ethnic members committee. "The work to achieve racial justice is not just for people of colour to burden alone," @GreensofColour chair told me. https://t.co/k8hQGDv9vQ

— Nadine White (@Nadine_Writes) February 26, 2021

the Greens looking just as worthless on race politics as they do on class politics shocker

Green voters: children of shire Tories with a monthly donation to World Wildlife Fund.

British Gas are on strike today.

We are not on strike because we are looking for a pay rise. We are striking because we want legalised corporate bullying - fire and rehire - removed as a threat against us.

Please support our cause. #BritishGasStrike #FightFireWithFire 🔥

— Dan #BritishGasStrike (@ADan4AllSeasons) February 27, 2021

Just awful.

So now that the Supreme Court has established a precedent that it is legal to strip someone of their citizenship, where do we stop? The continual exhaustion of living a life that could, at any moment, be rendered illegal.

— Anindya Raychaudhuri (@DrAnindyaR) February 27, 2021

and lots of racist simps cheering on the effective dissolution of their own rights to UK citizenship just because it's being used against a non-white.

Strictly speaking, the Supreme Court hasn’t ruled on the substantive issue, even if the effect for Begum is the same in practice.

Though what it has done is establish the precedent that, if the government determines you are a ‘security risk’, you lose the right to a fair hearing in court.

lol nailed it guys https://t.co/A5CEGwZwD4

— Rory Scothorne (@shirkerism) February 27, 2021

the last leader of Scottish Labour announced

Mr Sarwar, who is the first minority ethnic leader of a major political party in the UK

lol major

Current Britain Elects / New Statesman (BE-NS) election forecast for the Scottish parliamentary elections:

SNP: 70 MSPs (+7)
Con: 24 (-7)
Lab: 19 (-5)
Grn: 10 (+4)
LDem: 6 (+1)

Seat probabilities here:https://t.co/uEj3q47OMe pic.twitter.com/5x2FLnZzkI

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) February 27, 2021

lol @ "major political party". Obviously nobody in Scotland gives much of a fuck about the Punch & Judy show.

Boris might have to consider sending the tanks in if that poll is in any way accurate.

what a pity those expensive water cannons he bought got sold for scrap

From now on I'm not going to be so beastly to Labour and am going to grow into a more nuanced poster and abandon the student politics. Expecting a leader of the Labour Party not to be a duplicitous anti-union conservative who campaigns for patriotism, landlordism, more shit low wage jobs and is in the pocket of property developers is just the purest form of narcissism.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/27/johnsons-poll-lead-over-labour-boosted-by-covid-vaccine-rollout

(Also, where do they find these health care professionals to elbow bump Johnson?)

In Wales it seems! I'd shun him and tell him get fucked but not everyone is like that and it doesn't necessarily mean they like Tories or Boris tbf but I know what you are saying.

The findings represent a reality check for Labour and Starmer, who managed to eliminate a huge Tory lead after taking over from Jeremy Corbyn last April.

except that isn't what happened at all

Dangerously close to admitting labour's poll woes can't be blamed on corbyn lol

Policies Rishi Sunak has borrowed from John McDonnell:

- Increasing corporation tax.
- National Infrastructure Bank.
- Treasury HQ in the North.
- Rewriting investment rules to end London bias.

— George Eaton (@georgeeaton) February 28, 2021

increase corporation tax to own the Labs

Government seeks to retain lockdown limits on protests https://t.co/d9IIN6MRvm

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) February 28, 2021

of course

this is what free speech means

Anyway today Policy Exchange has a report out on a single event at a Cambridge College about Churchill that says that (checks notes) speeches should have been vetted and opposing speakers should have been found. https://t.co/tohlSvHP5I

— Jim Dickinson (@jim_dickinson) February 28, 2021

all these right-wing think tanks are fretting that the universities are hot-beds of communist indoctornation and not producing enough *radical* young Conservative Future members. Cambridge did had some good form in the 30's and 40's!

"decolonisation" is the major target for right wing ire atm, apparently because it violates free speech? I couldn't make sense of the logic myself but thankfully twitter commenters clarified it for me - turns out it's anti-white

probably time to topple a few more statues. might need to talk to some of my friends in the republican terrorist underworld.

I'm not sure about the protest value of that Thatcher's decapitated head on a spike statue that looks more like Ludwig van B though.

maybe not but u gotta keep morale up

aye true, I just thought there must be thousands of art students who would have happily chipped in with something a bit better that that effort.

Dodds’ lines on tax and confidence will have resonated more with many backbenchers in the Conservative party than Sunak’s, says Kate Andrews

like shooting fish in a barrel

How many times this week will we hear the lie that the government has borrowed £300bn to pay for Covid? It hasn’t. It has issued debt, but then immediately repurchased it using new money created by the Bank of England. This debt has already been repaid in that case, for good.

— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) February 28, 2021

it sounds like Kieth is likely to whip Labour to vote with tory dregs against what was a Labour policy 14 months back. I'm psyched for all the nuance and grown-up takes on why this is actually a good thing.

Are Labour's "don't raise taxes during a recovery" crowd just trying some stupid triangulation, or do they genuinely think Roosevelt's New Deal was bad ?

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) March 1, 2021

Starmer seems to have an obsession with presenting Labour as a party of fiscal competence and yet then takes an economically bad and highly unpopular stance on corporation tax that aligns him with the deficit hawks of the tory party.

lol get fucked

Oldknow v Evans outcome: ex-staffer's bid to force Labour to identify leakers of internal report fails. Judge said Oldknow's application “smacks of a fishing expedition”.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) March 1, 2021

You really do love to see it

Oldknow's QC says Labour ought to pay its costs or they ought to be reserved – but judge orders Oldknow to pay Labour's costs.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) March 1, 2021

heh! that'll cost her a penny or two!

Judge said Oldknow's application “smacks of a fishing expedition”

lool!

Lol owned

Oldknow toldno

cheers, yeah

her husband against some pretty stiff competition is the worst person in the current shadow cabinet imo, such a ghastly creep - yep even more loathsome than reeves and babs.

and his fucking Enoch Powell hairstyle is so stylish

the literal translation of the surname Oldknow from its Olde English form is Old Hillock.

Emilie Owned-Now

— Magic Money Tree 🌳 (@charlottor) March 1, 2021

Net approval:

Boris Johnson: 10% (+9)
Keir Starmer: 0% (-14)

Via @DeltapollUK - Feb 26
Changes w Jan 23 pic.twitter.com/5kwyNwnuYB

— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) March 1, 2021

Currently playing Mobb Deep's The Start of Your Ending

It doesn't help that lots of previous Labour voters are nodding in agreement at attacks on him by the likes of The Telegraph and The Spectator. They don't even have to make any shit up about him - he's created his own downfall.

starmer gives off very strong Theresa may vibes

yep, only she wasn't as wooden as him, especially at PMQs and for periods she probably looked quite strong by the carefully picked clips that went out on the bbc and sky.