Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

I hope you're not downplaying the problem of non-existent anti-Semites on the Left?

no, that's even worse than inferring they are a huge national SS unit of evil cultists who don't even understand the finer points of Pacific Rim

How it started How it’s going pic.twitter.com/568WEdij1v

— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) March 5, 2021

tbf if it was Ashworth the BBC wouldn't let on then we aren't really missing much anyway

lol, it's student politics to complain about bbc bias said the adults

it's really slack of me. I worked in the Windhill area of Bradford for years and must passed through that junction (albeit as a half asleep passenger) literally thousands of times.

lol meant for Guess The City thread

Sue Cook's name on that list above really confirms its Accidental Partridge character.

Bill Oddie is a bit lower down the list

lol, was thinking exactly the same

I was delighted to nominate Cuba’s internationalist doctors for the Nobel Peace Prize.https://t.co/oUID4HHoId

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) March 6, 2021

Cuba.

it's Jermy Righton, amirite?

I have been puzzling over why none of the commentariat has called this budget out for what it is: an austerity budget. Let me first justify why its an austerity budget. 2010 austerity had two aspects. The first was shrinking the state: a large squeeze in public spending 1/13

— simon wren-lewis (@sjwrenlewis) March 5, 2021

GMB British Gas strikers take 28th day of action @GMB_union #StopTheBritishGasFire https://t.co/tL9Y7eUyXS pic.twitter.com/fqGJf3eFqL

— UnionNewsUK (@Union_NewsUK) March 6, 2021

one of the big austerity hawks of the previous cabinet, Phil Hammond, was advising caution (from the comfort of his top job in an investment bank) when they were feeding out the corporation tax rise stuff, which was just really flying a kite and setting an easy trap for Kieth to fall for. I've not heard him complaining much since because the budget in the cold light of day doesn't really differ that much from what he'd have done. They've changed the messaging a bit, although Theresa May declared "austerity is over" twice iirc.

Farage no longer Reform leader, presumably going to focus more on being the Little English Limbaugh

Safe in the hands of the next London Mayor, Laurence Fox

they could probably do with just one more completely frivolous candidate entering the fray, just to split the negligible "anti-woke" statue humping vote a little bit more.

Negligible?

last time I looked Khan had a 20 odd point lead.

i got a brian rose leaflet through my door the other day. had no idea who he was. picture has him wearing a red tie and pocket square, very labour. apparently he’s launched kickstarters to fund a covid denialism website and a series of “accelerate your business” videos which are basically pyramid schemes. how the fuck are people like this not only 1) not in jail but 2) running for mayor?? this guy might as well have a flashing sign strapped to his head that says CON ARTIST

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ekm41JrWkAALe0q.jpg

lool!

Ohhh you meant in London, okay yes

He looks like the spiv who used to leaflet my block offering to buy ‘old gold’ that people might have languishing in a ‘draw’. Best of all, he had a yute sidekick in a tracksuit who looked like seriously rough trade.

he's got a strong "unlicensed body building supplements" energy about him

looks like a peter serafinowicz character.

didn't realise there was an election until I got a shaun bailey leaflet, which is just fascinating in how cagey it is about which party it's from

pretty sure he was the baddie in Line of Duty last night

https://cdn-0.enacademic.com/pictures/enwiki/87/Warrior_Issue_20_Page_01_Front_Cover.jpg

"the man with no time for crime"

nothing worse than a supposed crim who is a bit too busy for any law-breaking

The Queen is to address the nation in a televised speech at 5pm today https://t.co/0ucEvTOPUh

— Manchester News MEN (@MENnewsdesk) March 7, 2021

"are you ready to laugh?"

A tsunami of national grief to follow... Looool!

o fuck

It’s Commonwealth Day, usual message I think.

It’s a prerecorded commonwealth day thing unfortunately

ffs I need a win right now

- Jurgen Klopp

The text of this "Commonwealth message" will be pored over line by line and played backwards for hidden meaning by left twitter

and everything she's wearing and everything in the background

Lot of people trying to bigtime the queen by proudly announcing that they'll be watching a boring football match instead

ffs I need a win right now

― calzino, Sunday, 7 March 2021 15:36 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

- Jurgen Klopp

― fuck this for a game of soldiers (Matt #2), Sunday, 7 March 2021 15:38 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Usually when struggling at home theyd take a couple of cheap wins against minnows away but thats drying up too

I mean what are we expecting from Meghan in this interview anyway? "yeah big Phil said he asked them to chase Diana down the tunnel, and Andy said to me he doesn't even like pizza"

commiserations and congratulations to Anas Sarwar pic.twitter.com/2tkucHjEhA

— Kieran Hurley (@kieran_hurley) March 7, 2021

What are the Jags then, chopped liver?

when he's talking to Jags fans he says I support my legs and my legs support me!

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/why-britain-needs-a-democratic-revolution

"the millions who work hard, play by the rules, but struggle to get by"

I always bristle at this kind of speak from left wing Labour MP's. It always sounds just one step away from "but not those lazy benefit bludging fuckers".

There are many resentments for people who have paid into the system their whole lives, paid their mortgages off and are voting Tory no matter what.

Kieth needs to seize the day and retriangulate his patriotism again, perhaps there always was a "progressive republicanism" element to his pro-monarchy stance towards a bunch of ugly inbred racists - the matriarch of which he said "speaks for the whole country".