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

Nice Father's Day meal out with my brothers, ruined. pic.twitter.com/2Hv5eMXlwl

— Tommy Corbyn (@TommyCorbyn) June 20, 2021

lol! Jez's bantz game is second to none these days!

Bad move by Rayner. Because when Kieth is gone she'll find it much harder to fool whatever left-wing members are left this time if she's fancying a shot at the leadership.

That tweet Suzy links really is superb.

There are amusing old pictures of JC, and there are excellent 'Corbyn Photobomb' tweets, and many touching pictures of JC, but this is something else.

https://www.businessinsider.com/keir-starmer-labour-leadership-challenge-batley-spen-2021-6?

Some of his more optimistic critics in the party believe Starmer may not even contest such a challenge.

"You get the impression that Keir doesn't want the job anymore," a Labour MP critical of Starmer told Insider.

"It's possible the communications
team departures are a presage of that. Why carry on busting your balls when you know your boss has lost his mojo and is unlikely to be PM.

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Premature to speculate like this but Keith's quietism really allows for this kind of thing.

they know they've lost Batley + Spen and Kieth is a dud-man walking. They are preparing early for his resignation I reckon.

A lost deposit is a disaster for Labour in a place where they lost 7000 votes from 2019.

Funny you should say that, today of all days. pic.twitter.com/ew2tg97QRe

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) June 21, 2021

I think Bush has hit rock bottom here. Lots of people were posting parody bylines with roughly the same words last week!

He's dire.

Ok what I want to know is . . . how come John Harris never found this fella on his northern safaris pic.twitter.com/xPRYdD9ig2

— Stephen Smith (@SteveNickSmith) June 21, 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/22/labour-leader-keir-starmer-axes-chief-aide-jenny-chapman

lol

omit kier-starmer- and replace it with mrs-starmer- and then the url tells the real story!

Awful to see this from a Labour mayor. There was no consultation around this and projects and workers on the ground are outraged by this decision. Sex workers are not disposable and shouldn’t be treated like this. https://t.co/NOIIG1p0R5

— Labour4decrim (@labour4decrim) June 22, 2021

looks like Brabin is going to another of the very socially conservative and bad Labour mayors.

"my" Labour MP is one of the agitators behind regressive anti-sex worker legislation in the name of feminism, assume these peeps are one step over from Terfism too tbh

this mayor gig was exceptionally good timing for her, doesn't help her cause against former constituents who say she is a typical career pol!

Always been a big authoritarian cop streak in the PLP just like all full time pols

"my" Labour MP is one of the agitators behind regressive anti-sex worker legislation in the name of feminism, assume these peeps are one step over from Terfism too tbh

Lotta overlap, yes.

is anyone with any prominence in the party not appalling on this issue? everyone i've ever heard of has been afaict regardless of faction

terf/telf tendencies almost guaranteed here & another major appeal of this politics is it lets you do border control / ethnic cleansing in a way that sounds righteous & PC to people who might generally be expected to be wary of explicit calls for such things. it also lets you frame opposition to state violence against women as anti-feminist which is quite a trick

telf is never going to catch on is it, i keep trying

Telf me on a Sunday, please

yeah telf is the correct term for 99% of what gets described as terf behaviour (I'm as guilty as anyone) but if there's one thing I've learned it's that fighting missuse of a term is always a losing battle

Fuck Lucy Powell

Important report out today from Education Select Committee and chair @halfon4harlowMP https://t.co/hZcQFfQzLK

— Lucy Powell MP (@LucyMPowell) June 22, 2021

Instead of making the points about education cuts over the last 11 years her wing is trying to make capital out of this racism, as calz said above, no difference between the right of Labour and the Tories.

This whole narrative is despicable.

Die Tories sichern die Volksgemeinschaft

🚨 | NEW: The government is urging children to sing this song on June 25

pic.twitter.com/Sq8ZUUgvYf

— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) June 22, 2021

Labour too since this kind of fashy (en)forced monoculture is clearly their preferred political terrain regardless its electoral prospects for them at this point (they still don’t get enough blame for their role in nurturing this neofascism esp in the late new labour era, probably because it mostly benefited other parties then). but they’re not ashamed to be white and they’re more open about it than they were ever willing to be when they still seemed to vaguely care about trying to please everyone in their then-coalition

That's surely a hi-larious Twitter parody?

I thought it was, people I take seriously are treating it as if it’s real though. if it’s a bit it’s not funny

This One Britain One Nation shite is apparently based out of Bradford. Here's the LEA advertising last year's event. Does anyone know where this came from?https://t.co/SXRXt5L0xZ

— libcom.org (@libcomorg) June 22, 2021

idk. regardless tories and labour are fascist

Since when are Twitter parodies funny?

that vid isn't a parody believe it or not, it was put out by the Uk govt's "Union Unit" team

kill me

We're encouraging schools across the UK to celebrate One Britain One Nation Day on 25 June, when children can learn about our shared values of tolerance, kindness, pride and respect.#OBONDAY21 @1Britain1Nation

For more information:https://t.co/y7PQblUeDN

— Department for Education (@educationgovuk) June 21, 2021

Ludicrous.

fwiw, Scottish schools break up for summer on the 24th.

Some Union.

if blood and soil + vague liberal platitudes + pretending to like gays this month colours isn’t june 2021 britain in a nutshell

england at least

This is anecdotal and I wouldn't necessarily say my school is representative but despite a (in places) static, fusty curriculum I feel like I'm teaching entirely new texts this year - and it's because the discourse is changing from underneath us. Conversations about race, gender and sexuality are charged and informed in ways I've not really experienced before. Shit like this isn't pressed on us from the top and I genuinely think kids would laugh it out of the classroom. It's so fucking good to see and hear.

That sounds a bit wide-eyed and preachy but there has been a definite shift post-lockdown(s).

(xxp) ... and Wales I suppose, because I can't imagine them trying to pull this stunt in Northern Ireland, which is part of France anyway.

England into the last 16 without a goal conceded. We still believe… #ENG

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) June 22, 2021

Kieth... the Jordan Pickford of human rights lawyers

Starmer reassured that it's possible to be crushingly dull and anonymous and still succeed.

England played conservatively so of course he has to praise them

my kids still call Pickford "Spongebob"

they haven't thought enough about Starmer to have a nickname for him lol

patrick starmer

"We still believe ..."

How dire is this?

ENG are a tournament favourite. "We still believe ..." is the kind of thing you might wistfully say when eg SCO are heading out of the tournament at half-time but you "still believe" there's a chance.

You don't say it about a tournament favourite playing tediously, not conceding a goal and topping the group.

Utter berk!

Its the kind of thing you wistfully say before a by-election in Batley

also Kieth followed that up with his customary + totally played out to fucking death by now "I might be biased..." (as an Arsenal fan, just in case if you didn't know I was one by now) tweet no 972. Jez used to post about being a Gooner occasionally, but not in such a tediously grasping and overdone manner.

Having an SEN child really does have it’s challenges but I am REAPING THE REWARDS now they’re making the normie kids sing about One Britain. Good luck getting the big guy to sing anything that isn’t from Moana or Frozen.

— 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊 𝕻𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖕 (@papasombra) June 23, 2021

BREAKING: police officer Benjamin Monk has been found guilty of the manslaughter of former footballer Dalian Atkinson #c4news. pic.twitter.com/SedyOWHKy2

— Darshna Soni (@darshnasoni) June 23, 2021