Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

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".

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

I like to imagine these people boiling with rage reading Viz's 'Elton John's Dole Fiddles' strip

Lol! No getting point getting bitter because you haven't found any decent opportunities to fiddle the system yet, fiddling rules man. Like a previous millionaire boss I had whose smallest fiddle was paying himself and his wife minimum wage through the company and claim working tax credits.

it would be so refreshing to for once hear a Labour politician to talk about how small beer benefits fraud is in the scheme of things and how in many ways it is a symptom rather than a disease, unless you are talking about the crime gangs that have been exploiting the shit out of weaknesses in the Universal Credit system.

it's good

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two good fiddlers!

some old thread identifies "play by the rules" as a cameronism which seems right, though I can hear blair saying it. never not part of some punitive authoritarian selectively-belt-tightening bollocks on any issue, regardless of whether rule abiders are supposed to be the main point or a minor exception to it

I suppose the idea is to maintain working poverty wages and help convert the resultant despair of these workers into angry political capitol against the wrong targets. It definitely helps when Labour MP's use wearisome soundbites about what heroic people they are for playing by the rules.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ev-qIRSXcAEhDtW.png

strikes are wrong, let down by both sides, reckless and provocative manner etc

A snapshot of where we are at rn: There was a pic of a 50 odd year old nurse getting arrested at a peaceful covid safe protest by a cop with a blue lives matter badge.

Not only arrested but fined £10,000. I don't think the 1% pay rise will cover that.

All the story needs is Starmer saying a £10,000 fine is not enough, a custodial sentence would be more appropriate.

the absolute violence of this enforced “heroism”

(I typed that before seeing the above. christ)

(and of course no one would trust an obviously enthusiastic scab/grass like starmer with plans or hopes for industrial action)

in other news the official representatives of the biggest imperial project in history might have a racism problem

Lmao she destroyed him pic.twitter.com/MGuJ754ZJI

— a$hok kumar (@broseph_stalin) March 8, 2021

Looking for opposition wherever I can find it

would love to see Dr Shola forensically grilling Kieth on his BLM flip-flop and failed attempts at flag-fucking/nativist populism

look at how desperate this scum is to play the I’m being silenced card when he wants to silence someone

piers I mean

but we should literally grill starmer

this is absolutely fucking true as well

I’m at a point where I don’t even think putting colonial history on the curriculum will change things. These people know they did that shit and they’re proud of it https://t.co/4NpFcTjl1s

— Jason Okundaye (@jasebyjason) March 8, 2021

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take of the day from The Irish Times

I totally disagree about the 'insatiable desire to hear about and discuss news and stories' though. I think the numbers of genuine monarchists in the UK is a lot smaller than people outside the UK seem to think.

judging by our media (the only realistic way to see the UK from outside) it is true, though.

More's the pity.

yeah, I would love for just one paper to print an editorial like that here, feel like they could have done in the 90s but they wouldn't dare now.

Starmer would only demand the arrest of the editor.

I think it's great that some mildly amusing shitposting style piece in the mainstream Irish press might be strong enough induce a fatal stroke in Nicholas Witchell

I totally disagree about the 'insatiable desire to hear about and discuss news and stories' though. I think the numbers of genuine monarchists in the UK is a lot smaller than people outside the UK seem to think.

I think this is correct. The Queen disappeared for about six months and the only reason anyone talked about it was to speculate whether she was dead. Other than for a small subset of Telegraph readers, it mostly serves the same function as any other tabloid gossip at this stage.

Daily Mail have 25 fucking pages of this today and it's tge most popular paper in the UK

If Piers Morgan and the Daily Mail spent as much time covering Andrew’s actions as they do harassing Meghan Markle we’d find out if he could sweat fairly quickly #MeghanandHarryonOprah pic.twitter.com/YZlZcyafSk

— Gréagóir Ó Murchú 🤓 (@TheGregMurphy) March 8, 2021

lol Queen, 94,

the latest yougov polling returned 62% for a continued monarchy, that is pretty high even factoring in the blatant establishment bias. Most people might not care much for lilibet and her mutant offspring, but it's probably fair to say the people who want to see an end to the system are a minority for now.