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

"It doesn’t matter if you’ve got great people doing communications. If the prime minister changes his mind 10 times a day, and then calls up the media and contradicts his own policy, day after day after day, you’re going to have communications disasters."

As an example, he says Boris Johnson was warned by his head of communications, Lee Cain, not to pick a fight with Marcus Rashford over school meals. But Johnson ignored that advice, and had to back down twice.

Zarah Sultana MP takes part in this Cummings interview via video link! At 14:10.

Surely the best human being to be involved.

yes, she is the best. as for the worst...

Were British weapons used to murder Tala (13), Rula (5), her big sister Yara (9), and hundreds of other Palestinians in Gaza in Israel's latest bombardment?

The Prime Minister couldn't answer this question at #PMQs today. Horrific. pic.twitter.com/XHn3FYUgHD

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) May 26, 2021

Live footage of Johnson reacting to today's revelations.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-57253967

Today on Normal Island we have a senior government advisor attempting to describe the Spiderman meme to an inquiry into 130,000 deathspic.twitter.com/KVMTSmYvYI

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 26, 2021

How. How are they like this.

HAHAHAHAHA pic.twitter.com/l68G7LiBfD

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) May 26, 2021

as thick as thieves these liars and knaves are!

On point:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/26/dominic-cummings-circus-indictment-governing-class-failures-uk

And today there was v, v slight increase in hospital admissions btw

How come there's no briefing campaign against Cummings? Does the govt think it will just blow over no matter what he says? Would have expected at least some anonymously sourced stories about how he once kissed an EU flag and vomited on a statue of Princess Diana.

because they treat him like the mad kid in the playground that the bullies leave alone in case he explodes. This all really kicked off after the last attempt to brief against him, after all.

It'll be forgotten by the this time next week, Tories will up to 50% in the opinion polls.

Cummings briefs against himself. Tories I've chatted to tonight agree that yeah it's mostly true but fuck him,it's self-servingly true. And lol nothing matters

it'll be forgotten by the weekend and at next PMQ's some loud voice from the backbenches will shout : Shut up Kieth! during some forensic questioning and the whole house will break down in uproarious laughter.

*government voice* oh thank god, a public inquiry https://t.co/Js6jBgWX3B

— RP Corp International Division (@RPCorpIntl) May 26, 2021

reaction to this (not on this thead) reminded me a little bit of #resistance types watching james comey give evidence to congress, lot of magical thinking going on.

Anybody but Boris would be 30 points ahead by now

What do #resistance types think will happen if Boris goes? It would be a shuffling the decks exercise, with a Tory in.

And this guy.

Remember a few days ago when it was announced Starmer was going on Piers Morgan’s show & everyone was like what a bad idea. pmsl https://t.co/L7MDDDHmu9

— peach ☭ (@peachlux_) May 26, 2021

I'm assuming coke

it’s just one sideshow_bob_steps_on_rake.gif after another with this hapless prick

starmer had a spoonful of nutmeg and felt a bit funny for half an hour at uni

One of the joys of having the McLibel office on a higher floor of my old block of flats may well have been its proximity to the basement, a well-known place to get sorted by the weekend and run into obnoxious media dudes doing same.

if hadn't done his brain in with coke, he'd be at least only 10 pts behind

And to think the only thing they could get Corbyn on was eating cold baked beans straight from the tin.

by the time Kieth is Corbyn's age he will be in an elderly care home

I could image Corbz with a flask of brewed psilocybin tea saying: time to get trippy lads, and don't worry I've brought some tinned beans for the comedown later. But not sniffing coke.

Ok, that’s the Daily Mail front page story sorted.

(Not really, not even the DM could ignore etc)

Haha omg this isn't even something from the Murdoch vaults. He literally handed this to them on schedule

Almost to spec

no flies on this lad

just stink lines coming off him

once you get over despising Kieth as a political enemy you can come around to the viewpoint that he's quite pitiful and sad. To quote Vonnegut: a more impressive man could be carved from a banana.

Again, the DM and the Tory party don’t want to depose KS as they can see an easy win.

They’ll keep the soft treatment until the day comes to eat him.

It will almost certainly involve Carrie Symonds flashing her wedding ring and in tears about John Worboys.

Chef's fucking kiss

Builders have arrived for the day & they’re talking about Dominic Cummings, if you were wondering about cut through.

— gabyhinsliff (@gabyhinsliff) May 27, 2021

please transcribe their conversation as you hear it phonetically

— Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) May 27, 2021

lol

just love no-nonsense real people, none of this latte sipping nonsense - just go into cafe and grunt "fucking coffee" and tell it like it is!

Keith's usual bumbling behaviour aside, it's once more a depressing state of affairs that "did u do a drug?" is seen as a hard hitting question here when in the fucking US both George W. Bush and Obama were like "yeah sure who cares".

such a predictable outcome, this sounds even more excruciatingly embarrassing than the Maybot wheat field moment.

I think this response to Hinsliff, from "Jolyon Bryce", is genuine.

And what’s their hot take- which direction is the cut through?

— Jolyon Bryce (@Jolyon5) May 27, 2021

Jolyon Bryce (Jolyon5)

... you really were the greatest sight
Stretching out on a summers day
Houston is calling me back to her

It’s so concerning and divisive to see @kimleadbeater posing with people today who are wearing t-shirts showing a fist and the palestinian flag superimposed over the entirety of the map of Israel. #BatleyAndSpenByElection pic.twitter.com/08acieQhes

— Matthew Firth (@MatthewPFirth) May 27, 2021

credit where it is due, Kim Leadbeater isn't all that bad after all!

wd sure hate 2 see division emerge over the issue

NEW – Westminster Voting Intention:

CON 44% (+6)
LAB 33% (-5)
LD 8% (-)
GRN 6% (+1)
SNP 4% (-1)
OTH 4% (-1)

1,041 respondents, 25-26 May '21. Changes w/ 27-29 April '21.https://t.co/WM9RnHBEIp pic.twitter.com/PgRkireJI6

— Survation. (@Survation) May 27, 2021

survation, who often seem much kinder to Labour than other pollsters - 21 pts behind!

one of the top comments on the Mail's piece on the Cummings evidence pic.twitter.com/GNsYSrBvWs

— Jonathan Fisher (@fishplums) May 26, 2021

when over 1000 people were dying a day they should have been doing a daily count of how many people the Tory govt were still keeping alive.

.. And taking credit for it

Arlene has hit twitter-libel paydirt. absolute scenes!