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

Next relaunch: Families Come Together

The Aristocats!

"Keir is ultimately the manager of the football team"

He isn't.

Stong Island where I got 'em whylin,
That's the reason they're claiming that I'm violent

"Keir is ultimately the director of the railway, so he decides where trains should run to"

"Keir is ultimately the manager of the biscuit factory, so he decides whether Garibaldis are prioritised"

"Keir is ultimately the foreman of the refuse collection truck team, so he decides which bins to collect in which order"

"Too black. Too stong.
Too black. Too stong."

and so on. And so forth.

lots of PLP wankers like Kieth who dubiously identify as social-democrats absolutely despise all the democratic processes of the party, unless they've got the power to do a stitch up on the candidates and levers of power and alienate or expel any members that disagree with them. Sometimes I think Corbyn would been better off being an anti-democratic/Stalinist/horrible boss type wanker like Kieth.

More of a stongman figure?

stong message here

stongo hulkington!

the stong with the luminous nose

and I will sing to you
my stongfellow serenade

Lab: Stonger 4evah

The country:

Collapsed ceilings, mice and mould: Appalling conditions uncovered across an entire housing estate of nearly 500 homes

Read more on @DanielHewittITV's investigation: https://t.co/cDc0FVwn1n pic.twitter.com/by7rGQA8og

— ITV News (@itvnews) June 16, 2021

Metropolitan elites, they should try owning a semi-detached in Hartlepool.

Poots gone!

such a normal party

classic poots

Poots: The lime in the coconut

As Edwin can tell you the world was created in 7 days, but trying to keep this collection of bampots happy is more difficult, so 21 days as leader is maybe not so bad.

Amazing win for the Lib Dems.

Tories there for the taking is it?

General election 2017: Chesham and Amersham

Conservative Cheryl Gillan 33,514 60.7 +1.6
Labour Nina Dluzewska 11,374 20.6 +7.9
Liberal Democrats Peter Jones 7,179 13.0 +4.0
Green Alan Booth 1,660
UKIP David Meacock 1,525

this time Labour finished in 4th place and lost their deposit

I saw people scoffing at piss-diamond accounts for suggesting it was going to be close, which is understandable after 2019. But it looks like they weren't kidding this time. lol when is the last time a Labour candidate lost their deposit?

This is Labour's worst ever result in a by-election. pic.twitter.com/SpUkHFgnUD

— Forward to Victory (@asharchist) June 18, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4Jmv-lXoAMRL_N?format=png&name=small

Did this get much coverage compared to Batley? I didn't even realize there was a by-election in Chesham

Media only interested in proles in flat caps with ferrets who've voted Labour their entire lives voting Tory tbf.

I think the commentariat presumed because the LibDems are led by a diaphanous nothing that even LibDem voters doubt the existence of that they were now incapable of getting Tory protest votes at byelections. Or as Paul Mason would have it: The Progressive Alliance lol!

the new Tory candidate pissed off the locals because they were pro HS2 unlike the previous long serving incumbent Cheryl Gillan

but yes let's pretend a load of protest votes from Tory nimbies is a progressive alliance eh paul 🤡🤡🤡

Starmer is really incredible. He has managed a strategy that appeals to absolutely no one.

It's some kind of achievement.

the party of Graun hacks and property developers

Just to throw this into the ring: afaik, Chesham & Amersham result comes on back of strong campaign against development, esp HS2. Obvs HS2 far from perfect but much of opposition to it far, far worse. Hard to move Britain away from the car without it.

— James B (@piercepenniless) June 18, 2021

Damn what was the last seat to change hands after the incumbent's death?

Nimbyism is a force even Tories can't fuck with

And while this kind of thing in the tweet below is nonsense it does throw up the whole vaccine bounce excuse for Labour's failures in Hartlepool and at council elections.

What we know so far is there is likely not a vaccine bounce in Remain seats, but there may be one in Leave seats. The next by-election can be used to measure further whether that hypothesis is correct

— Charlie Mansell (@charliemansell) June 18, 2021

it's almost like they are commenting on some parallel fantasy world, copium is one hell of a drug.

@jamiemannersRIP @TreborRhurbarb Labour won just 622 votes in the Chesham & Amersham by-election. But every one of those people formed a band.

— Casmilus (@Casmilus) June 18, 2021

Damn what was the last seat to change hands after the incumbent's death?

― nashwan, Friday, 18 June 2021 08:57 (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't think its that unusual, particularly when the incumbent was a local "face" and the new candidate doesn't have the same recognition factor.

pic.twitter.com/JYsI2UZol8

— KateMcK (@TheKateMcK) June 17, 2021

The Tory line is I think that this sort of thing happens all the time, incumbents are regularly given a kicking when it's a by-election because the actual government isn't in danger of changing - it serves them well to reframe this as what didn't happen in Hartlepool, because they consider Labour more of a threat than the Lib Dems (though still not much I suspect).

He can't even appeal to the very people he was elected to appeal to.

— epiplexis (@epiplexis_) June 18, 2021

Sort of. Maybe so when he was campaigning to be leader but he hasn't spent any time courting that constituency since. Maybe he thought that not being Corbyn and wearing a suit would be enough. It's clearly not.

I think he thought getting some lukewarm approval from the bbc and the right-wing press would shield him as well, it hasn't and even lots of disengaged people have noticed he's a cunt.

Howard Beckett pulls out of Unite general secretary race and endorses Steve Turner

:-(

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey demolishes a “blue wall” with a small orange hammer to represent his party’s victory in Conservative seat Chesham and Amersham pic.twitter.com/o4tqjhwNZe

— Joseph Cassidy (@josephdcassidy) June 18, 2021

I guess you could just about call that a hammer.

Nice repurposing of signs that used to say "Also here"

Kieth Hammer

is this going to be the start of another lib dem surge news cycle? Guess we haven't had one in a while.

🤔🤔🤔

Obv early days, but there's a possible English future coming into view now: Lib Dems & Greens as parties of the suburbs/commuter towns/hipster enclaves; Tories a coalition of shires & post-industrial towns; Labour the party of cities.

— John Harris (@johnharris1969) June 18, 2021

ha, without fucking fail