Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 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'?

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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.

Now deleted

Why King...why...

Lol

Labour have suspended local election campaigning after Prince Philip's death

— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) April 9, 2021

Unclear whether not campaigning is going to hurt or help them at this point.

There it is

Prince Philip's death to be marked with 8 days of mourning but no public holiday https://t.co/BY5e7vpXWV pic.twitter.com/Jx1KHdIjoh

— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) April 9, 2021

those Prince Phillip tributes from Kieth, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Nadia Whittome are all fucking nauseating. I bet he'll withdraw the whip from any MP's that don't post some fulsome drivel.

keep on digging him up and killing him again until we get a fucking day off

— joe (@spinningjoe) April 9, 2021

8 days of on-the-job mourning sounds about right

wtf does 8 days of mourning entail

Eight days of mourning means that his body will lie in state, and Loose Women be off the air, until the 17th.

Losing a loved one, as so many families have this past year, is always heartbreaking. My thoughts are with Prince Philip’s family and all who loved him.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 9, 2021

8 days? For that useless old fucker? Pretty sure the Queen Mother didn't get 8 days of mourning.

That's actually kinda ok as these things go, linking covid to this shit.

Heads up to those who haven't heard yet: deliveroo drivers are on strike, might be a good idea to opt for something else if you want your Prince Philip Mourning Feast delivered.

My condolences on the loss of your pointless figurehead.

everyone in this thread is weeping, and that is a useful thing to post

In 2015 someone took the audio from the BBC’s coverage of a parade in North Korea and dubbed it over footage of a royal birthday parade outside Buckingham Palace. pic.twitter.com/l5d9njmFPv

— Laurie Charles (@TheStuffOfMemes) April 9, 2021

careful there calz, I made a joke about north korea on twitter yesterday and someone set that genocide-apologist tankie cunt l*uis alld*y on me.

such a fun guy!

you mean user L-

A question about responses to the deaths of public figures:

If the current UK PM had perished of Covid-19 in 2020, how would you have reacted, eg on ILX?

xp ha! is that the same person! maybe this isn't the right thread for a 1000-word rant about the horrors I and my family have personally seen / experienced from the CCP.

xp 8 days' uncontrollable mirth

It’s transparent AOC & ‘the squad’ are the means by which they want to keep people invested in the current system. She’s not a socialist - she’s a capitalist imperialist with some social democratic tendencies (which she’ll likely drop) & it’s dishonest to portray her otherwise.

— Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) December 23, 2020

this is a very instructive deep-dive

not entirely sure that our esteemed unright comrade and *llday are the same person but