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

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!

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/NINTCHDBPICT000650192328.jpg?w=1125

these two lovebirds will be celebrating their big win accordingly tonight i hear

some absolutely wretched replies to Kim Leadbeater for doing a photo op for a Palestine charity fundraiser. Respect to her for not deleting it yet tbf.

Secret Barrister is a cunt. Good on Burnham.

This deserves a serious response so I have decided to set out my side of things in the thread which follows ... https://t.co/4xJYdDjTOF

— Andy Burnham (@AndyBurnhamGM) May 27, 2021

are all Barristers such complete cunts. I'd deffo try and keep it a secret if I was one.

let's just say the entry path doesn't exactly encourage diversity

apart from when Kieth shattered the glass ceiling, but I guess he's quite an exceptional man - the tenement block kid from Surrey who could not be stopped!

Burnham is correct to call the conduct of the QC disgraceful, lawyers are understandably touchy if they think politicians are calling judges, deciding on points of law, disgraceful.

Burnham's thread was v good and even-handed. He gave a full account for his first remark.

Not a single mention that the current General Secretary of the Labour Party was heavily involved in this disaster. 🤔 https://t.co/VOmUnrAwel

— Agree to disagree 🍊 🍊 🍊 (@StefGotBooted) May 28, 2021

Evans involved in such blatant corruption, cronyism and incompetence, which incidentally are the only things Kieth ever attacks the Tories for. No wonder he can never successfully land a blow on them.

Burnham's comments were emotionally understandable but fundamentally wrong and i don't think it's out of bounds for lawyers to pick him up on them, tbh.

He criticised the case being dropped 'on a technicality', called the process disgraceful and asked why it wasn't 'left to a jury to decide'. That would correctly be interpreted as interference with judicial independence if / when the government does it. A jury doesn't decide whether something is or isn't a crime and he's on much stronger ground arguing for lying to a public enquiry to be explicitly made illegal in the future.

The BBC’s reporting that Labour fast-tracked the Batley and Spen by-election because they couldn’t afford to run a longer campaign over the summer, which doesn’t bode well for their finances more broadly.

xp

even though I'm legally clueless I'm going to contrive to agree cos I can't abide Burnham and always get the feeling he gets high on himself when on the grandstand, regardless of how right or wrong he is.

lol what an utterly desperate admission to make, almost a cry for help. It was only last year they were celebrating the return of some Blairite era donors, with short arms + deep pockets it seems.

xps i've known several people (and known of so many more) who either don't vote or don't vote labour due to the fuckery of their local councils, in croydon and throughout the country- i'm pretty sure this is a way bigger group than those who stopped doing so because labour got too woke or whatever. if i actually believed the party's ordinary people guff was about more than obfuscating their own (e.g. property) interests i'd suggest that this would be a better place to start than trying to win over the EDL

Otm

100%

I was speaking to someone from Croydon Council about two years ago and they were saying they'd had to reduce the number of welfare checks on at-risk children because they'd run out of money, and were being asked to look at other essential services to reduce.

has Kieth ever praised The Preston Model and the recent race successes of it ? has he fuck - he doesn't even think there is a problem

https://insidecroydon.com/2021/05/21/leaders-office-forced-labour-mayors-to-pull-out-of-meeting/

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lol nothing matters

You could argue that even more than their economics or pandering to racism, autocracy is the hallmark of Blairite Labour

damn stalinist centrists

even if one party hegemony for decades and we all die lol is the cost, the whole rotten edifice needs burning down to the ground and something new and distinctly different built on top of it.

That's basically my conclusion, it's a drain on the energy and dreams of anybody opposed to our slow death by capitalism