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

People are disengaged is it

https://amp.theguardian.com/global/2021/jun/05/kim-leadbeater-on-running-for-her-sister-jo-coxs-seat-i-know-this-is-what-she-would-want-me-to-be-doing?

Astonishingly, Leadbeater, who has always shied away from the limelight..

hmmm

when she tried to suggest "the hard left" are like the yin to Mair's yang, not in this particular interview but on Look North it just sounded as horribly dumb as what any typical Labour Right MP would say. I think she does overplay the outsider/political ingenue card way too much.

Brendan Bracken, who founded the modern Financial Times (whose London HQ is Bracken House) set up a summer school at the age of 54 and pretended to be a disobedient 16yr old boy with a premature aging condition, to satisfy his fetish for being caned https://t.co/YF6Ccl2Fsd

— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) June 6, 2021

not kink shaming here, just laughing at the lengths this lad went to get his bottom smacked and the English public school system lol.

oh it seems he went to a Christian Brothers school in Ireland at one point, well that explains a lot.

from skimming his wiki it seems during the Irish War of Independence he tried to pass himself off as an Aussie and was very shady and secretive about his Irish Republican roots en-route to his peerage and becoming a British establishment figure. A shrink would have had some fun with this lad.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3MEtdyWEAEgMML?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3MEtS3XEAAuGgV?format=jpg&name=large

two Asian candidates blocked from the shortlist in Batley and Spen and the Muslim community already hates Kieth for his cowardly, mealy mouthed response to recent bombing of Palestinian civilians. If you've got a spare grand, buy some money by wacking it all on the Tory candidate.

just looking at the latest odds, 2/5 Cons + Labour have drifted out to 2/1 now.

so now a week after Dom attempts some real opposition and Kieth contrives a prime time tearful confession on the Moran Show designed to humanise him with some messy details of an impromptu doggy bbq - ppl still prefer real Tories to this blubbering phoney with suuuch an embarrassing middle name lol. Never even watched it tbh!

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 44% (+4)
LAB: 35% (-2)
GRN: 7% (+2)
LDEM: 6% (-2)

via @IpsosMORI, 28 May - 03 Jun
Chgs. w/ 22 Apr

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) June 7, 2021

CONs: 44%
Liberal Alliance: 48%

— Stephen (@StephenofLondon) June 7, 2021

lol

Be nastier Isn, we are watching you.

Truly pathetic man pic.twitter.com/EVjvZbkpyB

— Metal Bizkit Rising (@allforthanookie) June 6, 2021

xp that thread has the whole wonderful rainbow of bad takes

How you think that labour are liberal is beyond me. They’re pro Islam.

Number of Islamic countries with women’s, lgbt rights and diversity?

— Chris Sheppard (@EndeavourFP) June 7, 2021

in the culture war field of operations, Kieth is considered a woke warrior for the time he took the knee. Then in Asian communities he's considered a reactionary Islamophobic prick. lol way to triangulate, boy!

That's right.

https://i.imgur.com/53v7Rh8.jpg

Today @SheffCityRegion leaders voted to start negotiating a partnership with private operators, leaving them in charge in the process.

Rather than heeding the advice & concerns of local bus users, they also failed to start the investigation into public control. /n https://t.co/69YBYJbO4E

— Matthew Topham 🌹🐝 (@mjhtopham) June 7, 2021

Dan Jarvis shockingly reveals he is a Tory.

The Times is reporting that COVID restrictions will be in place for at least another two weeks beyond the 21st of June.

the full list of Batley & Spen candidates went out yesterday, Halloran of the HWP isn't running but the delightful Anne Marie Waters from The For Britain Movement is! Labour haven't a chance, that'll be 5-6k votes going to the Tory candidate, and then counting the abstainers it's going to be a heavy defeat imo.

Bastadi says Galloway is going down a storm in the Asian community in Batley + S. I knew this grifter would be exploiting the recent Gaza atrocities for support but I thought they'd all just tell him to fuck off!

In the modern world the pace of change is unrelenting and sometimes there is the need to stop, for a moment, & take stock of who we are. The 2012 opening ceremony did that for me. This letter by Gareth Southgate does the same. This is who we are. https://t.co/WFcZay4Qis

— Eddie Marsan (@eddiemarsan) June 9, 2021

when you see folk like Eddie for whom the 2012 Opening Ceremony isn't an evocation of cringe but something quite deeply stirring and inspirational, there is the need to stop for a moment and wonder if the stupid ugly simp is actually real.

lol

southgate letter bangs tho tbf

yes yes even with all the queen and country stuff

Some people don't shag flags, they make love to them

I'm refusing to read a letter by someone who looks like a Tory voter on principle.

(xp) Now that sentence "bangs".

what Southgate does with his flag behind closed doors shouldn't be the subject of an open letter imo

strong "we are going over the top tomorrow, lads" vibes in that pic Southgate has used. The guy is a prize prick and I'm going to strongly support every side against England, even if I go through a wormhole back in time I'm going to support the fucking Nazis and fascist Italy against Britain!

Imagine going on about the military and racial justice in the same letter and thinking this 'bangs'.

(xp) Oh alright then.

"there's more that unites us with racist scum than divides us"

Gareth chiding some hooligans for chanting no surrender when they should be chanting god save the queen is it?

That letter is pure 'things can only get better'. The works is burning, Gareth!

*world lol.

We do pageantry so well in Britain

Bloody hell Gareth you'll be praising the lads for how well they queue before walking out onto the pitch next

pageantry, bootlicking, preserves: Britain's growth industries

The newsletter is out. It's an alternative view on The Atlantic's much-praised Boris Johnson profile 👇

'Stuffed with Turkish Delight: How The Atlantic fell for the liar Boris Johnson's White Witch grift' https://t.co/bThs8n3l5I pic.twitter.com/aIuY3nk0tK

— Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) June 8, 2021

^ cleansing if you read any of that dismal Atlantic piece

McTague presents us Johnson as “people’s tribune… channelling a cry of anger”

what an absolute pumper!

It's a really fun and ruthless deconstruction of the bad West Wing fanfic by McTague. I would never bother reading the piece but it's fun seeing it taken to the cleaners.

and skimming over the disgraceful Zaghari-Ratcliffe incident and omitting the profligate corruption/cronyism of garden bridge isn't fucking journalism of any stripe.

'I don't support that, we should always respect the Queen.'

Plans by Oxford University students to remove a portrait of the Queen due to concerns about colonialism have been branded 'divisive' by Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham.

the great white hope of the soft-left would so love a threesome with Gareth and his flag.

Removing a portrait of the Queen a very poor substitute for removing the Queen tbh.

ceci n'est pas une reine

Got to start somewhere! xp

The picture's placement dates all the way back to 2013. Makes you want to put your Emeli Sande shellac on the gramophone and cry over Nick Skelton's showjumping gold all over again.

IT'S MAH HISTORY

THE HISTORY OF MAH PEOPLE

Southgate:

For many of that younger generation, your notion of Englishness is quite different from my own. I understand that, too.

I understand that on this island, we have a desire to protect our values and traditions — as we should — but that shouldn’t come at the expense of introspection and progress.

England is not an island.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/John_Bull-_Are_these_my_Islands_or_yours%3F_%283269532486%29.jpg

some good old John Bull arrogance from Gareth

If England crash and burn in the euros there'll be a place on the shadow front bench for Southgate lol

shadow minister for moist flags