Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

Probably most importantly, the press barons never forgave Major for it.

Final closure of virtually all remaining coalmines around the same time was also massively unpopular at the time, but doesn't get remembered at all by Serious Pundits

It was, but that was late 1992 (or the protests were) - I don't really feel that it was a big causal factor in May 1997.

Every photo he looks creepy af pic.twitter.com/aCydfVDlpY

— K 🦋 🌸 (@stealmoonshine) April 7, 2021

three word horror story: starmer gaetz sleepover

I can't believe his campaign office would consider that a good pic to put out there!

"Do you want to see some puppies?" That can't have been released by the Labour Party surely?

some of the comments are suggesting it was! Maybe they are thinking it never did Hancock any harm getting filmed looking like a leering creepazoid with a semi!

Tony or Matt?

giving off Salmond ice cream girl vibes xxxp

is kieth a known drinker? he's looking a bit red cheeked these days.

I’ve been in Hartlepool helping get MPs out campaigning, listening to people on the doorstep. Let me know what day you are coming to do some canvassing and for how long x

— Stephanie Peacock (@Steph_Peacock) April 7, 2021

Labour MP on MP action here. Would like to see more of this stuff spilling out into the open, tbh.

And of course she utterly ignores the substance in Trickett's article, just for a cheap snipe

so the loyalists/drug dealer gangs are kicking off in the 6 counties. the unionist establishment isn't exactly helping matters. arlene posted on twitter that a mob firebombing a bus (with the driver in it) was taking away the focus from "the real criminals" the shinners, because nobody being charged over the heavily-attended and covid protocol defying funeral of bobby storey last year is the purported rationale behind this rioting. that along with brexit and arlene foster helping to create an economic united ireland

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/northern-ireland-bus-hijacked-and-set-on-fire-as-disorder-continues-1.4531437

that shit from Arlene this morning about the funeral kicking all this off is absolutely barmy!

"is kieth a known drinker? he's looking a bit red cheeked these days."

his face looks really puffy and bloated and has aged a lot in the last couple of years - I'm no oil painting myself and am only judging here because it's the ham with a bad plan. But going by his current rate of aging he will look older than Corbyn within 2.7 years. I heard he had a remarkably well observed portrait made in 2019 that captured the rotten essence of his hollow decayed soul so well he had it locked it in his attic, where it get's more handsome and vital looking every day!

Spot the difference pic.twitter.com/2nrnSG7T2B

— Ben 🟨🟥 (@Ben_Jolly_9) April 7, 2021

the ham with a bad plan

Amusing!!

simply masterful tweet from arlene last night

This is not protest. This is vandalism and attempted murder. These actions do not represent unionism or loyalism. They are an embarrassment to Northern Ireland and only serve to take the focus off the real law breakers in Sinn Fein.
My thoughts are with the bus driver. https://t.co/2JRcOb6s8C

— Arlene Foster #WeWillMeetAgain (@DUPleader) April 7, 2021

8 year anniversary of the glorious day Thatcher died

i had to look up an obtuse facebook 'on this day' message ("there go the tv schedules") this morning which turned out to be thatcher's death.

Going all-in on ASBOs again.

Our analysis showing appalling rises in antisocial behaviour in @DailyMirror.@UKLabour’s plan is to put more police on our streets & support communities with a Victims’ Law.

Action is needed-under the Conservatives criminals have never had it so good.https://t.co/4e34tHbB94

— Nick Thomas-Symonds MP (@NickTorfaen) April 8, 2021

Nearly 1.2m people had seen abandoned or burnt-out cars in their areas, according to the survey, 3.7m (8%) had suffered from noisy neighbours or “loud parties” and six million (13%) had spotted yobs being drunk or rowdy in public.

....almost seven million (14%) experienced teens hanging round on streets

2.4m (6%) had seen the best minds of their generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix

Please don’t make light of the fact that nearly 3% of the population has seen an abandoned car, this is serious.

1.4% had seen things you people wouldn't believe...

How many of the 14% are the teens in question

Spiderman meme but its teens

better than them being at home on computers playing violent mind destroying video games

a fucking abysmal dying days of Blairism tribute act - is that all these cunts have got? Can't wait to see them wiped out in the local elections.

still miss those cute little miniature bottles of free milk. I wonder if social media had been in existence in the late 80's would I be sharing memes of breakdancing dogs pissing on Sir Anthony Eden's grave .. probably not! Lots of young people born after 1990 seem to despise Thatcher even more than some of us old bastards that lived through Thatcherism. Pure fucking evil, but still I feel like I probably had it easier than people who grew up under the late-Blairism to the current stage of her project. At least there was still actually stuff left to dismantle and sell back in the 70's-80-s and to get social housing you didn't have to go on a 10 year waiting list.

How many of that 3% thought it was 'beautiful'?

xposts

Lads, we're going to have to decolonise without the help of Times columnists 😞 pic.twitter.com/AO10IT0SN8

— Nicholas Guyatt (@NicholasGuyatt) April 8, 2021

5.6m (12%) had come across a burnt-out motorcycle in the street, no wheels, no seat, just a charred metal skeleton, obviously stolen and dumped by a gang of teenage wild boys.

those tenement kids are out of control - I saw an abandoned bird table the other day.

There was an abandoned, burnt out car in the big tesco in Cherry Hinton for a few weeks, guess 30% of people in Cambridge would have seen it.

4% met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

🐦[Lads, we’re going to have to decolonise without the help of Times columnists 😞 pic.twitter.com/AO10IT0SN8🕸
— Nicholas Guyatt (@NicholasGuyatt) April 8, 2021🕸]🐦

> ....almost seven million (14%) experienced teens hanging round on streets lived near a school

over 20% have seen the sky over the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Kieth died yesterday in his last car crash

Over 30% have seen some things that a woman ain't s'posed to see but less than 7% have been undressed by kings

The numerous ILX responses (above) to that % survey on what people have seen have been outstanding.

English people reading the news about Northern Ireland pic.twitter.com/NoIUi1G3mv

— Conor (@Erne_Kid) April 8, 2021

Wdn't say the community lacks leadership tbf, quite the opposite

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— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 9, 2021

The real king

down with private privates

That was liquid Corbyn.

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Why King...why...