"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1f9EoiXsAAzOxm?format=jpg&name=900x900

that Progress re-brand in full.

stuff that Kieth says is so painfully meaningless and empty that even the quotation marks are trying to disown it.

“People forget within 30 seconds what you’ve said to them on the doorstep. But they’ll remember your attitude, and how respectful you were” @peterkyle saying how we need to make a positive impression of Labour at #ProgBrit2021

— Progressive Britain (@ProgressOnline) May 16, 2021

Labour 2023 campaign slogan “I’m Wearing A Tie And Called You Ma’am”

I think the main reason for him falling out with Rayner was her fashion individualism and what the neighbours might think of it.

More respect for bigots, we're gonna need a bigger racism dial

Ensuring the next manifesto will be dead on arrival

It is exceptionally badass that so many MPs and the commentariat (not Sienna herself) absolutely approve of Starmer openly lying to the people who made him leader, then intentionally screwing them over. I think it’s very clarifying about their views, priorities and principles. pic.twitter.com/0joigzlkuv

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) May 16, 2021

Means tested UBI for racists

Stella C really is proposing some kind of means tested pork barrel UBI..lol unfuckingbelievable !

Those who don't learn from the manifestos of the past are doomed to repeat them

Or not.

im also leaning toward 'or not'

it looks like McD is up to here with Kieth rn

kieth’s child poverty policy appears to be based on this satirical tube poster from last year?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CC_lWIDDLHD/

just waiting for a hero to step up, who was born to reduce poor kids and homelessness by 12.7 %

Burnham's a total cock and using the same tactics as Kieth, as in presenting a self-serving fabricated version of recent Labour history that insults your intelligence if you have been involved with the party and closely followed events as they did occur.

him boasting that he'd have held the Red Wall seats is such cute narcissism though!

yes the john lewis men are all vying for the top spots

Starmer said he would spend the summer on the road, but that it would be not “just half-day visits but going for two or more days to a particular place”.

don't worry Kieth i'm sure she'll let you back in the house eventually

another good weekend for him since Shaggersgate. Yesterday McD was denouncing him as a conman and Alexei Sayle dismissed him as "little shitbag" to uproarious applause. Inject this into my arms!

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"The QC in The SUV" doesn't quite have the same ring to it as The Lincoln Lawyer

"going for two or more days to a particular place”

unfortunately like with the MayBot, prolonged exposure to the public (in particular places!) is not really the answer to Kieth's woes and just adds to them.

Andrew Marr has suggested he may soon leave the BBC as he has a “desperate urge to come out of the closet” with his political views

amazingly not from a fake joke headlines bot and from today's Torygraph.

Who knew Marr was an ecosocialist?

just remembering that time he just went short of physically attacking Shami Chakrabarti on live television, that was a glimpse of the nasty little Tory aggro-weasel he really is.

He’s probably a basic liberal or considers himself as such but a) gets annoyed if women are smarter than him and b) an Obs writer of some note once told me he did something ruthless and unprofessional to someone he considered competition in the office, only wish I could remember exactly what that was.

Coming out as a Scottish Nationalist.

I don't think he has a strong handle on what his views are but likes the idea that he has some views that might make him of interest to anybody

Whenever Marr is mentioned that clip with Chomsky where Chomsky stumps him and has him lost for words is wheeled out.

Its misleading editing. Marr isn't stumped for words at all, and continues on blithely, unaware of what Chomsky just said. There's nothing there

I think Suzy's right about Marr.

He actually did use to write quite intelligent books - 25+ years ago; I suspect that his thought has coarsened over time.

That's not quite true but yes cutting it at the moment of hesitation does amplify it
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that's fine, we're in the post-truth era and ppl's headcanon of the encounter is now the correct version

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I see latest hard left MP being taken to task on Twitter for supporting an end to the bombing of Palestine is...Wes Streeting.

Keir Starmer is in talks over a Graham Taylor-style fly on the wall documentary about live as leader of the opposition

isn't there a more humane way they can put him out of his misery?

(1)Labour was once fiercely against the "cruel" Means Test : This is the 1935 manifesto, when the party recovered from the 1931 disaster (when Labour's right wing crashed the party with a benefit slashing attack), adding 102 MP's, setting course for victory at the next election pic.twitter.com/RNazWeplJA

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) May 18, 2021

Stella Creasy just part of that tradition of the Labour Right that is in complete opposition to any idea of universality and ultimately despises poor people despite all weaselly bullshit they talk.

Keir Starmer is in talks over a Graham Taylor-style fly on the wall documentary about live as leader of the opposition

This will provide ample fodder for the Accidental Partridge twitter account.

Marr : Suspect GB News have been in touch with him.

Just read a Ben Houchen piece advocating for a Green Industrial Revolution. Quite frustrating to see the Tories shamelessly pilfer Labour policies while the Labour Party itself abandons them in favour of a Graham Taylor style fly-on-the-wall documentary

— Ellie Mae O'Hagan (@elliemaeohagan) May 18, 2021

Surely KS and his own staff couldn't consider this "Graham Taylor style"? I mean, they do realise that that video was widely considered to make GT look an idiot?

(Leave aside here the fact that GT was rather rehabilitated later.)

The Tories will put in inadequate versions of socialist Lab policy while Lab go back to optics and means testing.

yeah tbf on Graham Taylor he was probably much more actively anti-racist than Kieth will ever be.

I assume the Graham Taylor reference is an obvious clue that this is fake news

In the age of numerous entire seasons of 'All Or Nothing' fly-ons and the 2017 doc following the Corbyn-sceptic MPs it's an odd reference.

Basically why are they doing this now?

lol not to be citation needed but where did you find that info, calz?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a445fbaa-b7ac-11eb-9a91-c8c89595f50e?shareToken=be2152d35204485147d3a7a32b775889

it's in todays Times

I don't think the Graham Taylor ref came from Starmer's office though

The Tories will put in inadequate versions of socialist Lab policy while Lab go back to optics and means testing.

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This, imo, is the real Long Corbyn effect. Just hilarious that its leading to the death of the Labour Party because they're too chickenshit to take advantage of the cultural shift.

I look forward to some Graun writers acknowledging the real Long Corbynism and how chickenshit Labour decided to kill the party rather than campaign on popular Corbyn policies... well perhaps by about 2031

The unit of time for how long it takes to realise the Gulf War was not just a mistake but a craven and foolish bid for power at the expense of millions of lives and decades of regional instability could be hereafter known as "1 Graun"

Been reading bits of Pankaj Mishra's Bland Fanatics, it's horribly otm about q lot of this stuff, horribly because of the feeling of powerlessness to snap these idiots out of it