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

Got a bit of a technical query! Does anyone know a resource to find out how much government grants to particular councils have changed? Particularly post Labour.

that is an interesting question. I seem to recall under May that bankrupt Tory-run Northamptonshire council received a very "cheeky" bailout and that seemed like an outrageous pork barrel handout at the time. Now every time I pass through Batley I'm looking up to see if money is getting dropped from helicopters.

i think lbhf had a note on their website or in the recent council tax leaflet about the change in theirs.

"54% real terms cut in 10 years"

The sage report snuck out tonight seems all kinds of bad news, especially if you haven’t had the second (or any) jab

After reports from @guardian that no.10 blocked @PHE_uk release of B.1.617.2 schools data, @PHE_uk has now released their technical report on variants at 11pm on a Saturday - this still doesn't seem to have data on schools (!), but what it does have looks seriously worrying. 🧵

— Deepti Gurdasani (@dgurdasani1) May 22, 2021

Fair chance 21st June is delayed by a month?

Hancock on the news this morning saying it's nothing to worry about (if you've had two jabs). which makes me worry.

this is an absolute disgrace, and a measure of the man.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/23/anger-as-starmer-intervenes-to-back-closures-at-popular-primrose-hill

Cop first, ask forensic questions later

lol, even a former barrister in his constituency is saying Kieth is a clueless cunt!

does he just want be hated by absolutely everyone? Even some of the worst right-wing Labour know which side to take in constituency matters, if not out of common decency out of career self-preservation. I think he needs help tbh.

MPs

the more people hate you the more right you are doing iirc

im afraid i dont make the rules

why are you booing me? i’m forensic

he does the turning the racism dial thing but forgets to keep looking back at the audience reaction

Kieth after stepping on the third consecutive rake in a row: " that .... that is dignity"

I can only hope that people go to Primrose Hill and rip down those gates.

im really struggling with the latest iteration of 'who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?' re the "revelation" that herd immunity was the governments initial strategy when everyone has known this all along based on them repeatedly telling us so at the time

how is this the sunday times splash?

the shock revelation that a scientifically illiterate, dangerous and irresponsible idea was announced to 16m viewers on live tv, but shit we all just forgot about it cos we smoke to much weed.

in a shocking development no one could have predicted, mr yaxley-fuckface has shown up for the israel solidarity rally in london

I saw a vid where one of the EDL thugs *accidentally* does a seig heil, then remembers where he is.

whole lot of "extremism on both sides" from the usual on social media

i'm seeing some condemnation of their racism and islamophobia from the moderate racists/islamophobes but it's a sign of how fucked things are that their antisemitism doesn't even seem to register to people, not even many anti-racist types - because they're "pro-israel" which is all that matters

you could call it churchillian antisemitism, it's so embedded in the UK mainstream it might as well be invisible

Cummings is now about 50 tweets into trying to distance himself from 2020 gov policy over the last few days

1/ Covid… Summary evidence on lockdowns. For UK political pundits obsessed with spreading nonsense on Sweden/lockdowns, cf. SW econ did a bit WORSE than Denmark which locked down, AND far more deaths in Sweden: https://t.co/A9TV9oRGHU

— Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) May 17, 2021

I could have sworn he was quoted as saying something like (in Feb'20): we'll protect the economy and too bad if some old people die.

Cummings has the most unreadable writing style - hectoring, pedantic and unfocused. I gave up on that after about five tweets and switched to the L33 R!gby Foundation tweet below it for the lols. That's just the way it is when you're Galaxy Brain #1 though I guess.

I would like a condensed version of that thread that is all muckraking and without Cummings science info 4 u

I'd like to see an untroubled by libel laws Dom blog where he only writes on it after half a bottle of vodka and a few grams of mephedrone.

Hmm.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/23/jo-cox-sister-labour-candidate-batley-and-spen-byelection-kim-leadbeater

I see they've written off Batley then. is the heavy woollen nazi Halloran standing? not seen owt yet.

yeah i was just reading that, its pretty grim. its like they're just crafting the polly toynbee apologia rather than the campaign

tbf on Kim she isn't like most Labour politicians - she talks empty platitudinous drivel all of the time rather than in the 70-80% range!

I saw one not very *fact-checked* comment that she has admitted voting Tory in the past, wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was true though.

Wahoooo! Go Kim. https://t.co/SW5eGjomcr

— Brendan Cox (@MrBrendanCox) May 23, 2021

critical support from someone who got sacked from Oxfam for a series of sexual assaults

Batley is an area that needs serious political solutions and not opportunistic morons or bullshit slogans that don't mean shit.

this is something that has on a local level, been driving me insane for years tbh. Jo Cox was a legitimate concernist and an ambitious Labour MP of the right of the party who sadly got murdered. But still was a complete waste of fucking space. it's like when I heard Wes has contracted cancer. I felt genuinely very sad to hear that news, but still think politically he is a complete fucking waste of space. But christ I really wouldn't wish death on anyone - well actually might actually need to track that back a bit but y'know

like as if Kieth would put a dilettante candidate up against a solid Tory motherfucker.. just because he loves grassroots candidates and that is how is how he always rolls ..yeah not cynical at all.

cynical and desperate

I think those two words perfectly sum it up yeah

Sending love and strength to the family and friends of #LeeRigby whose lives were changed forever on this day #NeverForget https://t.co/Rhqp54riK7

— Kim Leadbeater (@KimLeadbeater7) May 22, 2021

she doesn't do politics

Once on Look North she was suggesting her sister would still be alive if all these left-wing extremists didn't keep goading fascists into being even bigger fascists. She really is thick as pigshit, but happy for the work.

sorry I'm a bit radged atm and trying to fit 5 years worth of rants into one short series of shit chainposting before I get 51'ed!

Kim Leadbeater is local pic.twitter.com/AgQupzc5Ui

— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) May 23, 2021

I'm still puzzling over this one!

No Dewsbury Moor, Ouzellwell or Chickenley estates no cred tbf. Listing most of the middle class parts is why Kieth likes you so much!

sorry I meant to say middle class WHITE parts

these are all new areas to Rentoul of course, his idea of "local" stretches back to when the Roman armies left

Blimey, she's lived in a lot of places.

Anyway, seems a soft touch candidate, "vote for the victims sister or you are a swine"

None of this is a crit of Kim, clearly she's distressed still.

But. Wholly opportunistic for Starmer, so if she loses its not his fault.