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

she doesn't really believe in politics, she's of the opinion if there were no hard-left/hard-right and if moderate people like her could get a bigger audience to spout vacuous platitudes at about how everyone needs to be nicer to each, then everything would be grand.

Join the fucking Liberals then.

if Kieth blocks her she might stand as an independent and do quite well, or if they break the rules to let her stand she does poorly it's all on him again!

if you're not into politics maybe stay the fuck out of politics oh wait there's attention too

I don't think Kieth will want a dilettante candidate and probably the Batley + S CLP won't either. Whoever the people are encouraging her to run really haven't thought it over very well and it seems a bit "off" to me. Brabin was quite a strong brand in the sense she had high recognition in the area and is slick, but not too overly slick and projects that aura of competence that is important to some people and is basically likable by politician standards. And she only just squeaked it in the Brexit election. Now it's a post-Brexit/easing of lockdown/total Tory hegemony byelection it's easy to imagine a few of the voting blocs in the area who would vote Tory or fash over Leadbeater without a 2nd thought.

'Can you share what the Labour party stands for?' - @adilray

'I can't...They're confidential meetings' - @JonAshworth

Adil and @susannareid100 challenge the shadow Health Sec on Labour's layout policy meetings. pic.twitter.com/Ax42qcjzBM

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) May 19, 2021

what does your party stand for? absolutely nothing and it's none of your business anyway!

Activists have broken into a weapons factory in Leicester and temporarily halted production.

Hermes and Watchkeeper drones, produced in Leicester, tested on Palestine, sold to global war criminals, shut down by #PalestineAction. pic.twitter.com/u9GVF7qetV

— Palestine Action (@Pal_action) May 19, 2021

UK House price inflation is on fire...
UK average house prices increased by 10.2% over the year to March 2021,

— Shaun Richards (@notayesmansecon) May 19, 2021

Ace, we need a housing bubble

I was just one m'fking number away from being able to buy my first ever house on last night's euromillions.

god, Ashworth is such a fucking utterly disgusting human being if you saw someone glassing him in the head you'd be buying them a pint rather calling an ambulance

probably harsh, but I could probably think of at least a dozen tories who are demonstrably more likable than him.

To be fair, he is infinitesimally more likeable than his wife.

yeah, there always does seem to be an even lower rung on that ladder that leads down to infernal melt hell

Just despicable

Following numerous complaints about fast food delivery riders we conducted an operation in #tooting this afternoon with immigration enforcement.
In 90 mins we stopped
48 bikes.
2 were seized for no insurance
3 riders reported for offences
2 x arrests for immigration offences pic.twitter.com/nOOBMlY1Xl

— Roads&Transport MPS (@MPSRTPC) May 18, 2021

fucking horrible, boasting about harassing key workers on poverty wages as they do their difficult and unrewarding work.

That's a whole lot of cold pizzas that'll need reheating

What a bunch of cunts

assuming these complaints are real what kind of scum

taking the acab of it all for granted

Ace, we need a housing bubble

― Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Wonder if the economy as a whole will just overheat and crash in 2022. Don't know if anyone is writing about that.

it would have been just my luck that I'd have got that misplaced number in the right place last night and won £35 mil and after the Weimar hyperinflation I'd only be able to spend it all on pallets of rice and potatoes!

Did you win anything eg. couple of hundred quid?

£1,482.50

shouldn't moan really but I was so close to being one rich m'fcker!

I'd have shown up at one of your faps in my gold top hat!

You just won £1400 in one go ?!?

4 numbers and the two bonus numbers on euromillions and the odds of me ever getting that close to winning 35 mill, ever ever again in my lifetime are so astronomical there is probably little point ever playing it again!

YSI?

oh Tantalus... you did a job on me last night!

sorry anyway I'll stfu about it

xxp

I never stick to the same numbers so it was just shit luck really, boxedjoy. just use your FP privileges if I post about this again today!

a few weeks ago I thought I had won £5000 on a scratchcard and I was ECSTATIC and then the next morning I sobered up and realised that the two panels were part of two seperate games instead of one combined, the worst hangover I've ever had tbh

lol I did similar last year on a word scratch card, only I'd scratched the F and made it look like an E and I thought I had a grand + when I went to pick it up I was informed there was £3 on it!

I'm amazed that this story has gone this far.

A personal statement: pic.twitter.com/bNyetI043X

— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) May 19, 2021

he really is forensic when it comes to taking fuckers to the cleaners!

As others have noted, seems a classic case of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

I suppose it's quite logical to think that KS thinks his best chance of seeming interesting to the public is for them to suspect that he's been having an affair.

Nothing else has worked.

it won't really work for him, a whole lot of his image problem is the perception that he is slippery and duplicitous.

that only works for Conservative Party tories

it's harder to pass off as a conviction shagger when your in opposition

fuck that tory ERG clown calling for the Alexei DID to get pulled. He's the closest thing we have to a "national treasure" in these dark depressing days and one of the few people left in UK comedy who isn't either horribly melty or a Tory twat.

just because Offord has the votes of a largely Jewish constituency it doesn't give him a free pass as a posh white goy calling a Jewish man anti-Semitic, the prick.

Congratz anyway, cals

cheers Mark, when my life flashes before me when I'm dying in the gutter somewhere I will remember this blessed win!

Yet this is nowhere near nationalisation, but here we have left rhetoric of 'state control' being applied

When Trainline went public in 2019, the big worry was what would happen to its business if Jeremy Corbyn became prime minister and nationalised the railways. https://t.co/pB5Eu3hEmu

— Peter Thal Larsen (@peter_tl) May 20, 2021

That the message is so easy co-opt also says some uncomfortable things about that message in the first place .

Labour at its most radical has never been very radical, and the post 45 changes were easily accommodated by Tory governments until the monetarists took over

Yup, playing this game has been a disaster, and now we have Lab scrambling to compete with the right, but they'll never compete with this.

Priti Patel now attending immigration raids in person why? pic.twitter.com/DrqbwPCB2U

— Barbara (@BarbaraSutton15) May 20, 2021

that sounds like a challenge

It's not an immigration raid (as that wouldn't be the NCA, I think) but the video is still pretty unsettling.

'It's vital that we smash up these criminal gangs'

Home Secretary @PritiPatel joins the @NCA_UK on a raid as they make a significant arrest in the fight against people smuggling in the 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/rw5wGRyQmp

— Home Office (@ukhomeoffice) May 19, 2021