Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

even when Truss can be bothered attending meetings, she's rarely *all there* anyway

Can't believe a government led by Boris Johnson isn't doing anything about violence against women

If Zarah Sultana was leader Labour would be 20 points ahead pic.twitter.com/GpB5qtCHMM

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) March 15, 2021

Westminster bridge is blocked there might be some traffic delays! pic.twitter.com/4q3s4ZKwzp

— JEDWARD (@planetjedward) March 15, 2021

Prince Andrew needs to be locked up! @RoyalFamily

— JEDWARD (@planetjedward) March 14, 2021

"We strained at the leash to get things going," one cabinet minister admits. "I was aggressively for that - but I have learned that it is better to go slow."

A Metropolitan Police officer, who was involved in the search operation to find Sarah Everard, has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct for sharing an “inappropriate graphic” with colleagues: https://t.co/OfEzhDJElG

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) March 15, 2021

Cressida Dick's part in the Jean Charles de Menezes affair seems to have been completely forgotten btw.

and Starmer at DPP in not prosecuting the officers involved in shooting someone through the head 7 times for the capital crime of using public transport and not looking white enough.

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anyway it's not nice to keep bringing up Kieth's appalling record at CPS before his appalling record in Corbyn's cabinet or his appalling record as LOTO. The local elections are coming up. VOTE LABOUR

Horrendous shit-show

In December Julie Burchill accused me of worshipping a paedophile and called me an Islamist.

After legal action, she has apologised in full for these falsehoods, for playing into “Islamophobic tropes” and making “racist and misogynist” comments about my appearance and sex life. https://t.co/7scZBelq5w

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) March 16, 2021

*Nobody* should be writing nonsense like this by now, and certainly not the BBC's political editor. https://t.co/XquXoT4wXC pic.twitter.com/B4v0mDLFHm

— Jonathan Portes (@jdportes) March 15, 2021

I'm impressed by Jedward. (Don't know their music. Think they made music.)

Burchill's apology is surprisingly full. It's quite interesting that Sarkar successfully went to law - that can't be easy to do. Technical, wearisome, expensive, risky. But she succeeded in this case.

Actually there have been a couple of cases of people using libel laws against right-wing commentators and The Mail and easily winning legal costs back + compensation and an apology.

Don’t really know who you are @Keir_Starmer but get it together your actions are kinda pointless!

— JEDWARD (@planetjedward) March 15, 2021

Best yet.

don't really know who you are Kieth but get it together your approval rating is kinda pointless

at this stage lab leadership seems to be just conning melts by promising them they are conning red wall voters instead

10 year prison sentences for defacing statues of murdering slave-traders is absurd and totally wrong.

Today I will be voting against the #PoliceCrackdownBill

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) March 16, 2021

Time to see how kieth is doing with the red wall people is it?

Mike Hill (Labour, Hartlepool) has resigned as a Member of Parliament.

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) March 16, 2021

Only kept it last time because the brexit party didn't stand down, for some reason.

If anyone is interested, Lab had 15000 and con has 11000 roughly. pic.twitter.com/8CuRKXZ11O

— Matt (@BirnieMatthew) March 16, 2021

I think I can guess how this one's going to play out.

They didn't stand down because that approach nationwide ended up giving the Tories 30-odd seats and a strong majority. I was surprised this wasn't one of them.

didn't they elect a teenager in a monkey costume as their mayor a few years back?

maybe the tory candidate last time out was a vocal remainer? seems unlikely.

I suspect it was mostly down to Richard Tice's ego.

those days of Mandy getting a whopping 17000+ majority from the monkey-hangers will soon be as long forgotten as Hartlepool FC are as a regular L1 fixture.

20 years ago, almost to the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7p8hfaVz6E

Labour sources tipping Dr Paul Williams, former Stockon South MP and current candidate for Cleveland police and crime commissioner, as likeliest bet to win selection https://t.co/AhZawHePbQ

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) March 16, 2021

lol

Can't they just nominate a cardboard cutout of Churchill fucking a flag?

it looks like Dr Paul is mates with ennobled sex pest Woodcock, another ex-Labour with a failed anonymity bid in court after sexual harassment accusations.

Lab might win.

6th govt gain at a by-election since the war coming up pic.twitter.com/YMj2ou3pAq

— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) March 16, 2021

how can you deduce which war he's referring to?

since it's Rentoul it could be the War of the Spanish Succession, or the Pelopenesian War, take your pick really

Give it Cranney rest of the season

Cromborne was so bad voters are still booing him 12 months after Kieth has taken the stage

You joke but that is 100% the approach lab leadership are gonna take when elections go bad for them.

they'll be still saying it was Corbyn's toxic legacy that finished him off years from now if he lasts that long, because they are not going to admit how very very wrong they were about what a sharp operator the foremsic QC is!

some of them still go along with the idea that Brown tanked the international banking system, i've got no illusions about how long Jermy will be an excuse for

We can't afford to feed the poor and yet

On Nuclear Weapons ☢️

Britain will lift the cap on the number of warheads it can stockpile, from 180 to 260

— The Times (@thetimes) March 16, 2021

Disgusting.

The #PoliceCrackdown Bill is an assault on the right to protest. We will not be silenced speaking out. pic.twitter.com/dPaoBPh0yk

— Apsana Begum MP (@ApsanaBegumMP) March 16, 2021

uh lol?

EXCL by @PippaCrerar - Tory chiefs 'pull plug' on funding for Shaun Bailey’s London mayor campaignhttps://t.co/8Gcxzam3eQ

— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) March 16, 2021

brain feels foggy, scrambled and sick tbh, what are we truly up against

even a diseased regime that considers talking up an extra 80 US nukes added to the arsenal and one new aircraft carrier and some spurious talk about military AI bollox = "scientific superpower" is realistic enough to know the limits of Shaun Bailey.

Was just treated to James Cleverley saying nuke-ular over and over again on Newsnight. The dumb prick.

Just popping in here to SHOUT"FOR FUCK'S SAKE" at the top of my Internet lungs

^sent down for 6 years, was v sad

Sorry, was that too annoying?

Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has fallen below Boris Johnson's for the first time since May 2020 - when Starmer had just taken over and the government was enjoying its COVID bounce

Starmer 👍31% 👎49% (net -18)
Johnson 👍41% 👎52% (net -11)https://t.co/BdEjlgRMdm pic.twitter.com/XJM9FKbhEL

— YouGov (@YouGov) March 17, 2021

lol Minus fucking 18 now!! "it's an outlier is that poll and the vaccine bounce" Remember when L666s Utd started on -15 and still got to the Wembley playoff final (and got beaten by Doncaster Rovers). It sucks a bit having a quivering establishment marionette like Kieth who somehow contrives to be almost as *unpopular* as Jezza was

ARIA will not be covered under FOI

I asked Dominic Cummings if he considered eugenics a science and does it need more research?

He seemed to pivot quite quickly.

Find out who what he said @CommonsSTC👇🏾 pic.twitter.com/MxyjtGFqxf

— Dawn Butler MP✊🏾💙 (@DawnButlerBrent) March 17, 2021