Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

if he wasn't such a horrible prick all this window dressing would be meaningless, but know only saddest melts are going to defend this useless flop

Michael Howard vibes, tbh. He's never going to be as successful as May.

know!

starmer gives off very strong Theresa may vibes

these bloody Tories from working class backgrounds eh?

Michael Howard vibes, tbh. He's never going to be as successful as May.

Howard was nowhere near as bad, this fool mght even be worse than Iain Duncan Smith.

"this quite shite man is here to stay and he's turning up the volume!"

just as I was reading lots of fun shitposting about Starmer's latest tanking in the approval ratings in very prescient fashion, siegfried's funeral march came on the radio.

incredibly bizarre version of common sense moderation being so doggedly pursued by this opposition, apparently frozen from around the end of the brown era- it has no mass appeal, it's been abandoned by most other sensibles for over half a decade- it's like a populism for no one. with charisma he couldn't sell it

immigration mug revival was expected but the unreconstructed austerian stuff is just baffling, most tories figured out years ago that people were sick of hearing this stuff

xp
Der Stärmer

yeah the tories have worked all you have to do is keeping saying austerity is over whilst continuing with austerity. Starmer is so fucking thick his lame shadow chancellor is still trying to make the case for fiscal prudence whilst 24 people watch the livestream!

there is a much wider awareness of how inadequate UC is now that more people are applying for it and I saw some polling the other day that showed the shifting attitudes towards the UK benefits system (most people think it doesn't pay enough now after previously thinking it was too generous a decade ago)

Apparently Labour/Unite's costs that Emilie Oldknow has to pay for her proceedings over the leaked report will be in excess of £80k, plus whatever her own side cost (maybe £120k total).

That's an expensive tantrum to have about the revelation of allegedly abusive messages.

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) March 1, 2021

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 42% (+3)
LAB: 34% (+1)
LDEM: 7% (-2)
GRN: 6% (-1)

via @Survation, 23 - 25 Feb
Chgs. w/ 06 Febhttps://t.co/4R9x9FLSAz

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) March 1, 2021

are ya winnin, son?

fucking pitiful

Labour would back a gradual increase in corporation tax across this parliament, the shadow chancellor has indicated after a week of criticism over the party’s assertion that tax rises should be off the table.

what a moribund party they are. just desperately flailing about over a frayed roped bridge over the abyss of irrelevance.

Tristram Hunt's entire career is a series of people asking "How did that happen?" and then realising his dad is a life-peer and he was in Footlights at Cambridge. https://t.co/CLm5G5Z7Ka

— David Andress (@ProfDaveAndress) March 1, 2021

a very short thread on the rapid rise without a trace of ability nor experience of Tristam Hunt. If he wasn't a Footlights alumni and a son of a life peer he'd be lucky to get a job as an apprentice cheese cutter, yet Labour parachuted him into Stoke in 2010 and made him a shadow minister. He reminds of a true posh version of kieth tbh!

Repeated requests from @UKLabour, unions and others to vaccinate teachers before schools fully reopen fell on deaf ears.

If teachers now fall ill and there are class closures, Tory Ministers will be to blame for causing yet further disruption & chaos to our children’s education. pic.twitter.com/jStKFnhoq6

— Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP (@TanDhesi) March 1, 2021

On that topic, I’m told by several friends who are teachers that they are applying for their vaccinations, putting ‘social care’ as their job, then when they get to the testing centre and are asked for their work ID they just show their teacher ID card thing and get given the jab. Given that they are kind of doing it anyway it’s so mad that they don’t just say ‘yeah crack on teachers’ publicly

By testing centre I mean ‘hospital’

the disabled +16 transport escort I know has had her jab. As have all the teachers I have spoke to at the autism school my son goes to. Just from my own experience I'd imagine it hasn't been as easy for many teacher's/assistants in mainstream education to get in there as early, but yeah there should have been some urgent messaging to encourage this sort of thing happening more in the last few weeks.

lol even Kirth Sturmer has been asking for teaching staff to be vaccinated for weeks now.

How it started How it's going pic.twitter.com/qYUCDE3m7J

— Sam ✌️ (@sammisam147) March 1, 2021

“We also welcome that the Court has ordered Emilie Oldknow (and others) to pay Unite’s legal costs for the making of those submissions, making clear reference to the importance of Unite’s intervention given that Labour was not offering effective opposition to the Oldknow and others application.”

A party led by a former QC forensically trying to lose a court case and abjectly failing on the same the day the leader's approval rating tanks to -2 and they fall 8 pts behind in the polling... plus nobody I know got killed in South Central L.A. ....

on the same day a repulsive trainer (possibly inspired by Kieth) is banned from racing for sitting on a dead horse

There's a racehorse killed almost every day. Apparently it's only an issue if you sit on them and get caught.

I care much more for the dignity of a poor dead racehorse than the Labour Party though! But anyway I thought it was a vile thing to do for a posed picture.

I seem to recall other trainers getting annoyed with some added sexism about Jenny Pitman getting quite emotional and saying she didn't want a hair harmed on any of her beautiful horses in the GN and some of them saying: is she implying the rest of us don't gaf if our horses break their leg and have to be shot? I think if a trainer has any love and respect for their horses they wouldn't take a pic like George Elliot did.

Aye it was horrible, I'm just throwing an extra tuppence of fuck you to the industry. xp

yeah it's a fucking ruthless and cruel game.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvdpZlkXMAAATuE?format=jpg&name=large

Polly in full comical ali mode it seems

ah yes, the old ‘play dead’ strategy that voters love to see

Yes, the public are going to adore Labour’s opportunistic alliance with a load of very rightwing Tory backwoodsmen MPs to protect pandemic profiteers, that’s why Labour and Starmer’s polling is soaring https://t.co/gpqVjEBApQ

— Stephen Smith (@SteveNickSmith) March 2, 2021

it's hilarious seeing some of these deluded fuckwits trying to put some shine on a self-owned Labour defeat. And that old "it gets passed onto consumers" speak is parroted straight from right-wing think tanks and Kate Andrews.

sir corpse starmer, the stiff with the quiff

https://uncyclopedia.ca/w/images/6/6c/KeirStarmer01.jpg

The QC who erm... drinks pee

The odd thing is that a cursory review of polling data from the past year suggests that, barring an odd short-lived blip, the Tories have hovered a point or two either side of 40% more or less throughout. If the gap has widened it is not through any bounce in their popularity. https://t.co/U6jCGrmNCz

— barney farmer (@barneyfarmer) March 2, 2021

lol if the vaccine bounce hasn't had full effect on the national polling yet then Kieth is really in deep shit.

THREAD

I've been interviewing large businesses about tax for @Demos research, supported by the Joffe Trust (@AlexJacobs16).

So far I've heard almost no opposition to a significant Corporation Tax rise (to 25%) brought in gradually over time.

1/

— Ben Glover (@bengglover) March 2, 2021

Labour's stance on corporation tax is unpopular with business leaders and voters it seems.

Tensions running high at Liverpool Labour's group meeting now after that mayoral shortlist announcement

I'm told by multiple sources that the group is currently discussing a possible vote of no confidence in the party

— Liam Thorp 💙 (@LiamThorpECHO) March 2, 2021

Group members have now been told to turn their cameras on to stop people telling me what’s going on

— Liam Thorp 💙 (@LiamThorpECHO) March 2, 2021

Going well.

hmm.. which one do you vote for?!

just flip a coin lads

"three's a crowd, two is a shortlist"

from chairman Kieth's little red book

Told some councillors so angry they are considering backing the Independent candidate Stephen Yip

Liverpool Labour is not a happy place right now

— Liam Thorp 💙 (@LiamThorpECHO) March 2, 2021

“When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don’t look at the electorate and ask them: ‘What were you thinking?’” pic.twitter.com/330jVLFqku

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) March 2, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvgRM8yXMAELAmY?format=jpg&name=medium

Starmer whilst Director of Public Prosecutions desperately wanting a vulnerable autistic man to be extradited and banged up in the US prison system, but then furious because "May the Merciful" overrides him. I missed this one when I was digging into what a horrible piece of shit he was at the DPP.

ffs the poor lad was only an area 51 enthusiast

It'd make a cool movie

which ever way they might decide to conclude this movie the bad guys win

Yep, yep, mhmmm yep.

I remember Alan Johnson also being one of the main baddies in the early and latter days of the McKinnon case. Just a bunch of psychopathic sadists are this lot.

Only the good stuff, mind

#AccidentalPartridge pic.twitter.com/1XSk4YR1S4

— Accidental Partridge (@AccidentalP) March 2, 2021