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

Tom Williams thread was actual good content, thanks comrade

The Labour leader also said the by-election was 'a circus' that had attracted non-serious candidates

If I had just blocked two serious candidates from the shortlist and circumvented party rules to run a dilettante candidate in what a lot of people have dismissed as a distastefully exploitative move. Then I might have been mindful enough to inspect the shaky ground I'm standing on before running my fucking mouth off about "non-serious candidates" in the local press!

I mean when you put it like that

Very well observed, Calzino. Amusing that Kieth seems to referring to himself!

I'd imagine when the tories take their gloves off on the doorsteps they'll be saying do you want some dotty PE teacher who has decided to have a dabble in politics representing you in Parliament or a *serious* politician with x amount of years experience in local govt etc.. Kieth has made it quite easy for them because they don't even have to resort to smear tactics.

of course I would be sticking up for her here if she was a dotty marxist teacher with a history of union activism, but alas she's just another melt.

Voting intention amongst 18-24s:

LAB: 35%
GRN: 27%
CON: 21%
LD: 12%
SNP: 3%
REF: 1%

Via @YouGov, 9-10 June

— Stats for Lefties (@LeftieStats) June 11, 2021

Tom Williams thread was actual good content, thanks comrade

― Lage Lage Lage Shooting (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 10 June 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Lab are on course to lose another 50 seats at the next election so it's worth a look.

it might take more than a flaky showman like Burnham to undo the damage Kieth has done here with young voters, he's done a job on them.

"booing the knee" has to be one of the most Chris Morris-esque phrases to become part of the national conversation

https://i.imgur.com/y854GX8.png

also can't stop thinking of "disparaging the boot is a bootable offense" when all of this devolves into arguments about responses to responses to responses to whatever the original point was meant to be

Do I want to know what the hashtag in that cunt’s username means

apparently "Great Barrington Declaration"? yeah me neither

Nearly 10 minutes of various Finns laid out now

government at Trump levels of dog whistle fascism, fortunately the world-renowned UK press is here to hold them to account

apparently "Great Barrington Declaration"? yeah me neither

The Great Barrington Declaration, a statement written by three public health experts from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, encourages governments to lift lockdown restrictions on young and healthy people while focusing protection measures on the elderly. This would allow COVID-19 to spread in a population where it is less likely to be deadly, the authors state, encouraging widespread immunity that is not dependent on a vaccine.

I notice it doesn't mention they come from the Universities

The implicit “fuck young people” part of that declaration certainly seems like it’s in play now as the variant of (alleged) concern is being encouraged to circulate and the concomitant rise in hospitalisation is shrugged off as the necessary price of being able to have beverages inside slightly earlier

Yeah they are just delaying opening fully isn't it? Rather than restricting again. What's 100 deaths a day, when it was 10x that in winter quit crying snowflakes etc.

it must be genuinely depressing to want to be a journalist but live in the uk

Only in the sense that many of my ostensible colleagues are melts, TERFs, and Tories.

I fucking hate it because it was already a foregone conclusion that this would happen, that once indoor dining and drinking & all the rest came in cases would spread to the significant unvaccinated or part-vaccinated cohort, that this was basically the plan such as it was, and the fast-spreading delta variant that would make this worse was already known before the relaxation in May — but we have to hear about it constantly for a full month as though it’s news, and “we are looking at it” & either they will press on regardless or swerve at half past too late for the nth time and all of it is so wearing xxp

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3tc8uZWUAENfEn?format=jpg&name=900x900

le stopped clock

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3tc8uZWUAENfEn?format=jpg&name=900x900

Macron should realise that poking the brexiter ants next may be fun, but poking the sectarian hornets nest is ultimately much less fun.

It's pretty rich coming from France as well, but he's still completely correct!

(xp) No skin off his nose.

Well yeah he isn't going to get stung either way if course

it's already kicking off anyway because of the bodged Tory brexit, it's not like that insipid cunt is going to make much of a difference.

I applaud anyone saying Northern Ireland isn't part of the UK. Even if it is a wanker like Macron who is president of a country with multiple overseas territories and he's playing to a gallery of other wankers and desperately trying to remain relevant.

Northern Ireland is part of the UK. So he’s incorrect on that one.

you missed out "colonised" m8

I’m sorry about that.

It's the part of the UK behind a trade border is what he meant to say

oops, sorry for shit reading comprehension Treacle. It's been a hot day and I've had a few beers!

Kim Leadbeater doing an interview with The Sun today. Yes, that's how to "burst the Westminster bubble" and show a different path into politics. Talk to a right-wing shitrag that have done more to foment racist hatred than any neo-fascist organisation.

It's been far too long since the French have tried fucking up the Union. Welcome back, guys!

Macron: "32 = 1. TAL"

johnson/tories only very selectively decide when they care that NI is part of the UK so

As someone from Belfast I assume no Tory has or will ever give a shit about NI

Apologies for the “...as someone from (insert regional area here)”

just saying macron could be forgiven for arriving at the conclusion that NI is considered an addendum from the negotiating positions of the UK

No, no, agreed. NI has been considered a convenient addendum for a long time

even when the Tories desperately needed the DUP to prop them up in parliament and stop a minority Corbyn govt, there were scant rewards from being in the union and pulling them out of the shit. The confidence + supply deal NI got was a billion in staggered payments over 5 years that is still less than the public spending austerity cuts they've imposed on them since 2010, and since then we've seen how these mofos can print money when they need to. And then Boris (just as May would have) predictably stiffed them over the hard border issue in the brexit deal. They really dgaf about NI.

Northern Ireland is part of the UK.

Ireland, contra some actual academic writers, has never been part of Britain.

Also, contra Gareth Southgate, England is not an island.

As someone from Belfast I assume no Tory has or will ever give a shit about NI

OTM. Apart from some of the Scottish ones, of course.

Rashford is an outstanding comrade (despite that blot on his CV of accepting an MBE). But Southgate, what a smug self-important Tory windbag. I'm becoming a 1000% Croatian in a few hours, but obv fuck all their ugly Ustase revivalism that makes booing the knee look lightweight on the commitment to fascism front.

Yes, Croatia are horrible but...

dominic raab considers emmanuel macron's comments "offensive" some people are too sensitive

Macron also knows where the Channel is

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3wb2ujWUAAm0mq?format=jpg&name=900x900

he's brought some entertainment to dull as fuck G7 summit at least