Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 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

by "deep dive" you mean "saying absolutely nothing of consequence in three twitter posts"?

no i'm the one doing a deep-dive!

oh right.

anyway I don't think it's the same person, I remember talking to L on here about how stupid it is that some on the left rush to become stans of authoritative regimes, of which this is the prime example on twitter.

seems a lot more in the vein of the ostrander comics,

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?

lol at abandoned post remnant at the start of that

I'm not louis allday. those posts above are true enough given certain definitions but the kind of socialism he prefers is less of a break from social-democratic-capitalist-imperialism than he wants us to believe. he blocked me on twitter some time ago, possibly for calling the CCP capitalist or something

I'm not louis allday.

left isn't anywhere near to being a tankie wtf

strident does not automatically mean "loves the Chinese government"

https://media.s-bol.com/J6Z7ZGw90XKK/550x718.jpg

commiserations on having to experience the dry run for the queen’s death

luckily we have our left-leaning daily newspaper over here to remind us that “Phil the Greek” was universally loved for being a cheeky fellow.

Im not louis allday im louis for the 8-4 shift

I mean just look at this

Billboards in London showing pictures of Prince Philip. Christ. pic.twitter.com/SeLaMHzaVf

— REDDEAN (@MarxistDean) April 9, 2021

pure dystopia

no i'm the one doing a deep-dive!

― imago, Saturday, 10 April 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Better luck next time.

xps

tankie is thrown around way too freely these days so here's a useful guide

tankies: louis allday, xi jinping, vladimir putin, henry kissinger

not tankies: me, AOC, chinese maoists, donald trump (maybe)

polling time!

I can report there are no Royal tributes in the Kurdish food shops on Green Lanes, at least not as yet.

itt: tankie policing

More blank than tank

there is this gold-standard flag-fucker down the road from me with a big union jack hoisted to a proper fucking flag pole of the type you'd see on govt buildings or outside an embassy, none of this b+q shit! I was passing earlier and noticed it isn't even at half mast. I might attempt a citizen's arrest on them later.

All the bus stops with electronic advertising hoardings in Glasgow town centre this morning had a Phil memorial notice. I genuinely have no idea how people here feel about the 'Duke of Edinburgh', but it seemed a bit arselicking to me.

I don't think they're any fonder of him in Edinburgh!

Good job there won't be any fans at Celtic Park today for the minute's silence.

Jookie Embra, RIP Big Man

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 45% (+4)
LAB: 36% (-1)
LDEM: 6% (-)
GRN: 4% (-1)

via @OpiniumResearch, 08 - 09 Apr
Chgs. w/ 26 Mar

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) April 10, 2021

Might start watching Line of Duty, like my fellow leftists

Greetings, fellow leftists

that psycho rogue armed cop in season 3 who drinks still mineral water in the pub, bullies his subordinates and executes a suspect cause he felt like it - well yeah Kieth would have definitely had his back!

TBF he had a troubled past.

aye it was a tough and troubling existence growing up a devout socialist in the tory heartlands of Surrey and attending a middling to above average posh grammar school with Norman Cook!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyrISqXW8AIZlUo?format=jpg&name=medium

at least Kieth's "vapid response" game is progressive. By the time the Queen kicks the bucket he'll in be in there at least an hour before the Tories with a gushing boilerplate obit.

"TBF he had a troubled past."

I think the first ep of season 3 is as far as I've got so far, will finish off that season at some point.

Can't see Queenie popping off before about 2027 myself, by which time Starmer will be a footnote anyway most likely.

Better not, Line of Duty's on at 2100