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

Payne's deleted his tweet and apologised for the error.

I read Rentoul as saying it was 'effectively' a Tory seat and a Labour gain and Payne having heard this line so often he thought it was literally a Tory seat since 2019, but idk.

Bless. This is the happiest he’s been since the night of the riots. pic.twitter.com/jk7BI3yobw

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) July 2, 2021

lol I heard a report on the news that Kieth kept repeating "LABOUR IS BACK!" to all questions.

I read Rentoul as saying it was 'effectively' a Tory seat and a Labour gain and Payne having heard this line so often he thought it was literally a Tory seat since 2019, but idk.p

I think this is someway true, but its more that there's no clear demarcation between 'effectively' and 'literally', and they're rolled into one

This has LJ energy.

I really, really want Labour to win the next general election so we can continue our unavoidable decline at a 5 degree rather than 45 degree trajectory. This sounds like a joke but I sincerely mean it

— Abi Wilkinson (@AbiWilks) July 2, 2021

I don't care about decline. I want this wealthy nation to feed all of its people not another party who exclude Muslims so that white racists can fuck about voting for them should their dear house prices take a tumble or they happen to be 'fed up'.

to be grown-up you've got get with the realpolitik and turn a blind eye to ethnic minorities getting slurred and thrown under a bus and accept eternal austerity, then we can get the Tories out!

we're certainly on course for 5 degrees with Mandelson's Labour.

it would have really gone down really well if one of his ten pledges in the leadership election had been "rehabilitate the career of Mando and bring him in as an de facto chief advisor". Fuck me, imagine it!

Not sure that ‘Labour will consistently make things worse, just slower’ is intended as a ringing endorsement or the limits of anyone’s ambition.

I still think that position is giving way too much credit to Starmer Labour.

on a longer winning streak than Italy by now https://t.co/Jee4qlWGtn pic.twitter.com/gM3xSnfAIX

— PolProf Wariotifo (@wariotifo) July 2, 2021

it looks like Diane knew! I once heard Vine on R4 unironically refer to her ugly little spud of a hubbie as an alpha-male... maybe on planet of the gnomes, hun.

Jack Sprat and wife to divroce.

Im sure she knows the other rumours about Gove too, including the one that's culminated in this

Wow

I assume that’s what she was referring to, which is pretty lousy imo.

Considering that Gove thinks he should be allowed to take class A drugs without facing the consequences that poor people do, I think every dirty secret he has should be exposed

Depends how you define ‘dirty secret’ in this situation tho.

Okay, how about this kind of hypocrisy then

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/feb/18/anti-gay-book-gove-row

To be clear, my problem is with Gove and his nauseating sanctimony and despicable rhetoric, not anything he's done, including coke and men

Coke and cock?

Not to mention his libellous shit about Corbyn being some kind of terrorist. Gove being continually in government from 2010 is a failure of the state.

It is, but Abbott wasn’t attacking him for hypocrisy.

I don't think she attacked him at all, but you're not suggesting she was engaging in homophobia, are you surely? She intimated that Tories like Vine making a big deal about extra-marital affairs should look to the adultery in their own marriage.

that rumour from 2016 about a Gove affair with Dom seems off the mark, it was obv their amazing branes that fucked each other senseless

🚨 | NEW: Number 10 has refused to say whether Michael Gove has broken any social distancing rules, and there are questions over his living arrangements during the lockdowns

Via @Telegraph

— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) July 2, 2021

Look, at this stage, I just want Gove to be destroyed, the man is a blight on public life

I think teachers have a much greater hatred of Gove than even junior doctors have of Jeremy Cunt, so QED he'd have been a bigger danger to the NHS than Saj.

https://t.co/caNAONYMgV pic.twitter.com/PkH0yfr2Lw

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) July 2, 2021

I won £2.70 on euromillions tonight yaaaay!

get in

Sarah Vine bullied a friend of mine to a breakdown, so screw her.

this proposed rare policy announcement by Reeves, the "Buy British" plan, sounds very business focused and probably not as good as the similar one by Corbz, but it isn't half boiling the piss of the FBPE crowd so fair play!

ANGELA Rayner has been accused of hypocrisy after calling out Matt Hancock over his affair — while keeping quiet on the nature of her relationship with a married MP.

if it's the Starmer office dishing the dirt on Rayner to the Sun that would be a bit rich and will be widely reported as Labour Party hypocrisy. lol fuck all these people tbh.

"England will move into a period without legal restrictions where the public will have to exercise "personal responsibility" including on face masks, the housing secretary has said."

meanwhile:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/18487/production/_119236499_covid-in-uk-4jul21-nc.png

I figure if there is going to be a really bad new mutation of the virus in the next year, it's bound to occur on plague island. It sounds like Javid has ruled out Dido Harding for the NHS chief executive post, but the bad news is he is still Sajid Javid.

Saw that crook Jenrick being interviewed earlier saying he wouldn't be wearing a mask after July 19th.

leaving it up to individual choice isn’t really how this stuff works, is it??

“driving while drunk will now be at the discretion of individuals and a question of personal responsibility”

dont give them ideas

Personal responsibility ---> variant outbreak DEATH ---> blame shift on to public right?

I'm sure they've done polling and research that shows the Great British Public are absolutely primed to blame 'other people' for any upsurge.

I just noticed that the horrible bigoted idiot Tory MP (Lee Anderson) who is boycotting the England side for taking the knee. Well he was that Labour MP who defected to the tories in 2018 over Corbz. He's got loads of previous: young offenders should be sent to forced labour camps/that faked encounter with a constituent filmed by Crick/investigated for anti-Semitism to name a few.

Beware of media/political false narratives that anyone concerned about 19th July opening is 'pro-lockdown'. The govt, has conveniently framed policy as 'lockdown' vs 'open-up', when many countries have kept people safe without needing long-term restrictions.🧵

— Deepti Gurdasani (@dgurdasani1) July 5, 2021

(xp) In deepest UDM country.

Unintelligent Dance Music?

It's my favourite kind of dance music.

The Union of Democratic Mineworkers, great bunch of lads.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/new-documents-reveal-true-extent-miners-cooperation-thatcher-a7851386.html

I remember them well but couldn't resist a cheap joke.

And what about ventilation? Ventilation doesn't restrict anyone. If the govt so wants life to return to normal, why not invest in ventilation that would make it possible for people to be in workplaces, and children to be in schools in a safer way, and allow schools to stay open.

What would this look like in practice, in a country with almost no air conditioning? I haven’t seen much detail on this but it would be genuinely interesting if someone has worked through the practicality of safely ventilating all work and study space.

the great thing about taking personal responsibility is that a lot of the precautions to prevent the spread of the virus involve not giving it to other people - so in effect the public will be free to decide from July 19 if they're safeguarding strangers. should go great.

can't wait to see how this goes for the retail and hospitality sectors. I can imagine some businesses maintaining a masks-on policy for all customers entering the premises, but no support for the people on the shop floor tasked with driving compliance.