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

The antisemitism Hetman

this is fine

“We are fighting an enemy that is different from us. Not open, but hiding. Not straightforward, but crafty. Not national, but international. It does not believe in working but speculates with money; it does not have its homeland, but feels it owns the whole world.”

Viktor Orbán pic.twitter.com/Th3QhuOEVT

— Visegrad 24 🇨🇿🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰 (@visegrad24) January 31, 2020

he may be a nazi but at least he didn't call israel racist or anything

Was that a particularly long question on Tipping Point?

Lol

There is little desire among voters to revisit the mistakes of the last traumatic year, writes @stephenkb. https://t.co/h0qtpPXTAT

— New Statesman (@NewStatesman) May 28, 2021

I kind of agree that resignations are meaningless bullshit, not reading the piece obviously

the Boris and the flat business - Johnson cleared of breaking ministerial code.... yawn... That reminds me I need to add some flour and onions to the shopping list

-PM 'unwisely' proceeded without understanding funding.
-CCHQ & Tory donor initially paid bill.
-PM found out about Tory donor funding when he read it in media.
-Didn't break ministerial code.
-'Ill-served' by officials.

lol some absolute gems from the Lord Geidt report

boris: too thick to understand that taking big handfuls of crisp hundos from donors for personal gain is against the ministerial code, but absolutely intellectually equipped to lead the country through a pandemic

oh well at least it has arrived at that time of the week when Marina Hyde completely annihilates him with some devastating word-play *again*

if you think about it, all of us have failed boris

And if we don't?

I think a lot about "who don't we save" in terms of guillotines

Today is the last day of @UKLabour’s Community Organising Unit, killed despite its promise and effectiveness by Keir Starmer and David Evans as part of their wanton self-destruction of the Labour Party. The deliberate march into irrelevance and oblivion continues.

— Joe Guinan (@joecguinan) May 28, 2021

kieth and his buddies literally make me want to fucking vomit. they really do despise everything that is good.

I just noticed the LibDem candidate in Batley is a producer on the famous show I've never heard of called Bargain Britain on Benefits!

anything that gives people the faintest glimmer of hope that something good can be achieved by Labour needs to be snuffed out immediately

I've seen it suggested that Kieth was all out to do in COU from the start and likely he had a deal with rotten Labour councillors to do it in - in return for support last year.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/02/starmers-war-on-grassroots-politics

Just burn it down

This is v good though for now the Tories are enjoying the better side of that equation. The losses in the South are not going to trouble them just yet. It could take a while (I won't say a decade because I think a 10% increase in house prices in a year is playing with fire and I really think Sunak's bubble will burst). But v good point that Tories don't do levelling up or equality (in the same way Lab can't do the state and racism). However, what really will help them is a divided opposition.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/28/policies-johnson-power-left-conservative-voters

This is (I think?) what I was trying to get at earlier in the thread. If Labour lost 2015/17/19/24/28 in the 90s by starting to ignore an at that point in time unimportant section of the electorate, then are the Conservatives doing the same thing now (and since...2014?) to future elections

I think its two cycles away at least, and there are other unknowns inbetween, but taking a section of the electorate for granted comes at a price eventually

that's where voter ID and other overt and subtle suppression techniques come in

That's not going to work in the white Southern areas that are being abandoned by the Tories, and what the piece I linked to discusses.

Obviously one thing not discussed is how the electoral path is being abandoned (a potential effect of Starmer's Labour) nationally and how the fight is migrating to more local levels.

I don't know if its too early to tell how pronounced the dampening effect of Starmer's time will be. As pointed out by Left upthread, the voters they're losing to the right currently are most likely outnumbered by the voters they're losing elsewhere - but this second group of lost voters don't seem to be drifting to any other party, as most of those look even more redundant

cuz they are

i am all for abandonment of party/electoral bullshit as long as that energy goes towards fighting for/against the right things

we're seeing a whole lot more divide & rule, seletive conditional inclusion/exclusion stuff being pushed to young white people, poor white people, middle class black & asian people, cis white women, non-muslims, non-black people, non-travellers, non-benefit claimants, property owners, different types of renters, different employment arrangements, citizenship statuses... which has had some success in all these cases whether or not it will ultimately pay off for the tories or any party. which almost seems beside the point as long as it keeps the system going

we're also seeing more pushback against all these things which is great

*selective

still waiting for britain abolition (not just breaking up the union) to become the standard "left"/anti-govt position. i can dream

"the dampening effect of Starmer"

enough about Jennifer Chapman you smutty minded young man ... sorry couldn't resist some HIGNYFY hilarity on such a nice sunny day.

have i ever mentioned how much i fucking hate britain

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from the very fucking platform that gave us the current PM. Seriously that smug melt cunt can go die in a ditch. Anything good that remains of the BBC is fuck all to do with him and his kind.

Bbc's creative output includes Mitchell and Webb, abolish the licence fee imo

BBC's creative output includes The Black and White Minstrel Show

Rare footage of the hignfy green room as they were chortling boris to power

https://i.imgur.com/8ubGFLt.gif

The Black and White Mitchell Show.

i don't know who david mitchell is but i hate him

i do know who david mitchell is and i hate him

one thing that Corbynism did was flush out people like Mitchell into showing their arses. Previously I just immensely disliked him but it turned to pure hatred in the Corbyn years.

I mean tbf he's shit at his alleged actual job so being a centrist cunt is just icing

His job appears to be appearing in a lot of interchangeable panel shows with the cream of British comedy talents.

Great moments in popular culture

Don't want to upset the in-laws now

He seems like a guy whose career hasn't really gone anywhere (the other guy even more so).

Feel like there’s a poll in the “how to be ___” landfill books that have been written by the arrant grifters and clowns of uk public discourse in the last decade

That’s re Webb tho his is how not to be, but still merits inclusion

Webb was at our Joel's graduation, i had to be firmly instructed not to heckle

that coming of age memoir about his gritty middle class upbringing that was the book of the week on R4 at the time. Probably the funniest material I've ever heard from him tbf. There was a bit where he has retelling a scrap with his Da or something that was such terrible writing it made me laugh out loud rather than ponder toxic masculinity or whatever the mediocre Cambridge prick was trying to do.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KXOs81u6L._SX318_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

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the particular strain of crypto-reactionary liberalism that dominates post-alt UK comedy seriously needs to be studied, it's an actual phenomenon which doesn't get identified nearly often enough. even the apparently apolitical stuff like fake-ironic outrage over "incorrect word usage" is insidious

the south park/family guy thing which is related but not identical gets called out all the time these days but this UK stuff still gets way too much of a pass probably because they're mates with everyone in media and they're all implicated. in fact the issues with comedy are the issues with the UK press, we could kill both with 1 stone

cancel culture? i think it would be a good idea