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

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.

Would Jo Cox have lost in 2019? Would she have joined Change UK?

Those areas are still in the constituency though?

As for her being the only local, isn't the heavy woollen NazBol guy a local too?

They posted good numbers last time, could be a factor again this time. Tories marginal favourites at bookies

yeah the heavy woollen NazBol was supposed to be declaring whether he is running or not this weekend, not got much of a grip on the heavy woollen grapevine and still looking for news on this. If he doesn't run then a likely outright defeat will become an absolute crushing defeat.

he is more just a str8 up nazi like TR is this fellow. That 6/4 the bookies are offering on Labour seems a bit stingy. I was thinking they would be at least 5/2. It's a much different demographic to Hartlepool but a lot of Asian voters are pissed off with Kieth and abstaining on Labour and I think this is a significant social media phenomena and not just me saying it cos I hate the fucker. And all the usual stuff: the Vaccine Success, Towns Funds, Labour's policy black hole - will make it a much more bruising defeat than the bookies odds suggest.

I thought he was UKIP + NHS?

Hartlepool was an inevitability and already baked in, but losing Batley feels way more damaging (even though Conservatives had it in 90s and many West Yorks seats ebb and flow more than being pure red wall)

My guess is that they're getting it from both ends, Hartlepooled on the one end and enthusiasm decline on the other?

yeah NazBol probably about right, but Halloran goes in quite heavy on the more Naz stuff like the grooming gangs etc. lol he's in protected mode on twitter, so still can't see if he's declared or not. I think abstention will do some heavy damage to Labour in Batley. And the Tories will have a strong ground game, Labour are practically insolvent and Kieth has alienated a lot of people who would previously have volunteered for them. In 2019 Tory campaigners were like ants in my neck of the woods. I expect the same in Batley.

It's an amazing reversal of fortunes, because it was only a few years ago Labour had the biggest membership of a political party in Europe and the Tories were being very coy about how many members they had left.

they might desist on dirty tricks because of the Jo Cox factor, but they will be telling people on the doorsteps she's an amateur with zero political experience, that much is guaranteed.

Damn those tory lies lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENmlIUrUcAo9GBX?format=jpg&name=large

real charmer is this Halloran

well legion of fans are I mean

it's easy to see where their votes will be shifting to

in 2019 he launched his election campaign at a Luddite memorial, he's a NazLud.

haven't heard "bring back the birch" for decades

I've only heard it from publishers in ref to Julie

I feel bad for this can candidate tbh and the whole thing is so tacky and manipulative and shameless I'm really at a loss!

Feels like a new low and I wonder how much lower they can sink