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

Unfortunately none of that is going to happen because the Queen...is going to die!

Just what's needed to bring the country together. The Queen dying, that is.

she is going to be put down like a sick doggie, with a fatal dose of cocaine and morphine str8 into the neck. But unfortunately not until Gary Barlow has finished his set.

Brian May busting out the Red Special as she's lowered into her grave, commemorated on a tea towel near you soon

I do like the idea of a big party with a Wicker Man at the end.

"I Like a party that ends with a film"

"Film?"

Quality sketchwriting tbfttc

A friend's son, 10, plays in a Herefordshire boys' football league. If anyone shouts 'man on!' the ref blows his whistle and gives a free kick. They are told they must say 'person on'.

— Quentin Letts (@thequentinletts) June 2, 2021

a bit of a classic of the Letts pretend this is real genre!

A lot of people are doubting the accuracy of this but we're a football club and can confirm that this happens with our youth teams. They've also banned the phrase "throw-in" because it sounds a bit like "throne" and upsets Irish republicans. You really couldn't make it up.

— Streatham Rovers Football Club (@StreathamRovers) June 2, 2021

In an era of politics obsessed with “relatability”, Starmer despising his middle name puts him firmly in man-of-the-people territory. Almost everyone hates theirs. Me on Keir Rodney Starmer: https://t.co/8XpGtmsEVU

— Helen Pidd (@helenpidd) June 2, 2021

he's not gonna shag you

no wait

must have been some priceless bantz at his posh school.. I just called Kieth a plonker... the gag of the season lads

KRS-None

“My middle name is soooo embarrassing haha” is one of those strained cultural tropes you often encounter with people who are desperate for things to substitute for personality so this checks out

Spot the difference. pic.twitter.com/rz9vqCxCEe

— Mukhtar (@Mukhtar_iam) June 2, 2021

Labour are so skint they can't even afford individualised starmerbot accounts.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/02/uk-stamp-duty-holiday-extension-prompts-rise-in-mortgage-demand

The eviction ban has now been lifted.

Precarious workers, people of colour, migrants and other working class people in rent debt are being left to fend for themselves. Just to protect landlord profits.

We’ll resist evictions on the streets.

1/

Pic @CitizensAdvice in Jan '21 pic.twitter.com/qKcBWVdlJB

— London Renters Union (@LDNRentersUnion) June 2, 2021

The material in Calzino's tweet is so dire - even if there were only one of those tweets and it was real, it would be unbearable!

"I'll hear nothing else's on the matter" !?!?

they did this before with the forensic thing did they not

The Mail is EXTREMELY horny for Rishi

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9645071/Action-man-Rishi-Publicity-hungry-Chancellor-dons-army-fatigues-visit-Catterick-Garrison.html

Warming for the Daily Mail but also warning for the phrase "<Sunak> looked every inch the statesman in his combat trousers and white t-shirt "

counterpoint: calling him "Action Man" and using the phrase "every inch" is a subtle piss-take

Every inch is not that many in sunak’s case tbf

lol xp

Labour are so skint they can't even afford individualised starmerbot accounts.

It's possibly even weirder than that. The Metcalfe tweet is, unfortunately, real, the 'Flora Gibson FBPE' one is a copy and paste from an account with an AI-generated avatar. It's definitely a bot but unlikely to be a Labour one as the bulk of the recent tweets are about Israeli war crimes or boosting cryptocurrencies, neither of which the Labour leadership is particularly interested in.

I'd guess it's designed to copy semi-popular tweets with a view to marketing Dogecoin but the idea that FBPE / Starmer fans are seen as particularly susceptible to overhyped scams is probably a solid one.

they've worked out that it will be like selling candy to a baby with gullible fucks like Paul Mason!

You are the original and the best John, don't worry about the competition.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) June 3, 2021

I must say, the increasingly fashionable spectacle of city-dwelling graduates vaguely involved in the media generalising about senior citizens in often deprived, neglected post-industrial places is quite a thing

— John Harris (@johnharris1969) June 3, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2-5atmX0AQPR3L?format=jpg&name=large

that Hedges post was succinct .. and funny!

Ignoring all the other laughable stuff about that Harris tweet, I suspect what he actually means by "generalising about" is "reading and interpreting statistics", as it's all based on the Ben Walker New Statesman piece. From what I've seen, people have generally been making interesting comments based on material and demographic analysis, which indirectly I supposed discredits Harris' whole oeuvre.

yes he's trying to kick back against them voting demographic stats, because it means his whole oeuvre - to put it very politely - is fraudulent.

the guy has been a fraud from the day he plopped out. I once made a fair but harsh comment about a terribly myopic bullshit piece he wrote on UK special education and my main takeaway was that this prick is barely a human being.

from his response I mean, as well as the really dubious shite he wrote

I wish at some point on his various safaris he'd got beaten up very badly

“We’ve got students who are breaking into school because they want to be in school so much.”

Labour’s @peterkyle says the government is not “matching the ambition” young people have for themselves. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/J3EOl5tUNT

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) June 3, 2021

lol what a classic tory wanker, he hates teachers and knows fuck all about children.

some solid Brass Eye content as well

obv these kids that vaulted the steel fence had an impromptu o level geography sesh

Have I missed some choice Harris content?

the northern safari pioneer, without a trace of irony complained about educated posh people commenting on interesting 2019 GE voting data.

"I must say, the increasingly fashionable spectacle of city-dwelling graduates vaguely involved in the media generalising about senior citizens in often deprived, neglected post-industrial places is quite a thing"

and duly got ripped for it of course

Oh right, LOL, that was him! Amazing.

because the data revealed that a much greater % of low wage working people voted Labour in 2019 + it's in fact retired pensioners giving us tory landslide victories, counter to frequent media narratives of w/c ppl breaking Tory. It's troubling his thoughts for some mysterious reason

like someone already pointed out, no wonder Kier's genius strategy of targeting retiree tory voters with slogans like Jobs Jobs Jobs isn't really cutting it.

(xp) Tough if you've been living a lie. Mind you, he's getting paid enough for it.

Pensioners basically scuppered Scottish independence too, shitloads of the selfish greedy grasping auld cunts thought their pensions would go down - honestly.

I think the only way Corbyn + McD could have won over the selfish old cunts would be to promise more foodbanks, massive benefit cuts and triple lock on state pensions until every last young person is dead!

Ignoring all the other laughable stuff about that Harris tweet, I suspect what he actually means by "generalising about" is "reading and interpreting statistics", as it's all based on the Ben Walker New Statesman piece. From what I've seen, people have generally been making interesting comments based on material and demographic analysis, which indirectly I supposed discredits Harris' whole oeuvre.

― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 3 June 2021 21:19 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i mean harris is horrible and but he is especially susceptible to believing his own ventriloquistic vox pops because: a) he is incredibly stupid and doesn't understand the basic premise of how qualitative work can be used as evidence and b) he clearly has a very fraught and self-loathing/self-satisfied relationship to 'class.'

I've seen people having discussions about how the left could win over this demographic, like radical state funded social care reforms that isn't an inheritance tax on wealth etc. If you were dealing with rational people it might work but the Tories could be bold enough to get away with fudging some diluted version again. And if these bastards get an inkling that young people might be getting policy offers as good as they had it, then that's what they will always vote against.

xp

I can't get over that image of Harris at Select, taking on the persona of a Mancunian lout because of the hypnotic power of Oasis.

i have been wondering a bit lately about what journalists are taught as there seems to be a fairly endemic problem of understanding how to interpret information. anything that reports the findings from 'a study' in the guardian for instance seems invariably to misinterpret the findings and translate them into something that the study couldn't possibly claim based on its data/method (and upon inspection, the studies almost never do make the claims theguardian makes for them). This seems to be particularly uh *problematic* in the area of news reporting and my guess is that its rooted in absolute disregard for critical thinking. My guess is that this stuff is taught in journalism classes but that its shaken out of you as soon as you arrive for your internship by some 'forget what they taught you!' asshole and the endpoint is harris or cadwalladr.

This assumes they’ve taken journalism classes. Harris, for example, did PPE at Oxford. Cadwalladr also went to Oxford but idk whether she has formal journalistic qualifications subsequent to that.

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 46% (+3)
LAB: 30% (+1)
GRN: 9% (+1)
LDEM: 6% (-2)
REFUK: 2% (-1)

via @YouGov, 02 - 03 Jun
Chgs. w/ 28 Mayhttps://t.co/qQE6NGf5D9

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) June 4, 2021