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

They don't care much for the two party system in Honiton, they'll vote for any nice young clean cut looking chap, as long as he doesn't cuss or smoke weed.

And is sound on the jam and cream question

lol!

I like this though is Batley similar to Hartlepool? The differences would explain why, despite Lab's vote being similarly suppressed, it still retained the seat.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/09/labour-red-wall-working-class-brexit-conservatives

The end of the piece is pissing in the wind. I'll be surprised if Lab break 30% at the next election.

The 'vote for us and we'll keep your hospital open, vote for them and we'll close it' approach from the Tories can work pretty much anywhere.

If Lab re-made the country from 45-70s the Tories have chipped away at that ever since.

New Lab never stopped it and now it's pretty much dead. Other movements will have to take its place.

xp I think that will have some limited success in the long-term because it's about running the NHS down.

The game is about preparing for climate change so off-shoring detention centres and the like. More jobs via jails, detaining anyone who opposes or even protests.

The phenomenon of a working-class red wall is an ideological concoction that benefits Labour’s enemies. It makes little sociological or psephological sense today, and the fragment of the past it reflects is one of Tory working classes. Yet this group has come to define how Labour thinks of the working class.

it's come to define the deluded and bigoted shite Labour talks which is convenient for bigoted right-wing Labour MP's, but I don't think the party is remotely interested in appealing to whatever is the working classes now because that involves effort and invokes the wrath of right-wing press barons who they live to serve. No magic money tree, take your 1.8 % pay rise and be grateful for it scumbag. You've nowhere else to go.

now that Mandelson is Kieth's de facto chief political adviser the decline that Corbyn and McD turned around will hasten at a much faster rate. There won't be any "populist" policy offers, just more empty slogans, more dogwhistle racism and they'll be praying for the forlorn hope that Tory support craters worse than it did in '97 by some fucking occult magic. I think that is about as sophisticated as their planning is.

Roll on...Black Weekday

I think you mean Marxist Weekday

when the next Black Weekday comes : " it was a delayed knock on effect of the 08/09 financial crisis caused by an imprudent freespending Labour govt... oh yeah and the rona"

Incredible. pic.twitter.com/O1IkLLNB7r

— Dave (@MediocreDave) July 9, 2021

lol, I saw that and presumed it was a parody. If success is measured in how many different political parties you can be a member of in the space of a few months the lad is a true winner.

I hope you're getting paid comms consultants' rates for this @alexhern pic.twitter.com/1dMw73P8Ay

— Dan Hancox (@danhancox) July 9, 2021

such a shameless plagiarist should be 20 points ahead

At work we’re getting a little freaked out about the probability that a shitload of staff are gonna go down during our busy time in a few weeks when we will get a load of temp workers in to help, all of whom will be young & unvaccinated. We have managed to stay open for the whole of the pandemic without any outbreaks but the increasing prevalence + transmissibility of delta is making it feel almost inevitable. Given how insane the workload is in the summer it would be kind of a disaster to lose even a few people for 10 days & more importantly we want to protect the welfare of staff so we are racking our brains trying to think if there’s anything we can do that we’re not doing - we will keep our mask & social distancing &c in place and ask ppl to test but idk not feeling great about things

lol & I just remembered what this ramble was apropos - in light of all this I was thinking this morning “I guess I’ll have to reinstall that dumb app I deleted from my phone” & immediately they announce they are going to make it even more useless ffs (will prob still get it)

Our work has sent out a very carefully worded memo amounting to “the govt might be relaxing everything but we’re fucking not, we don’t want you getting it and not being able to work. Stay home”

Imperialism alive and well in Holborn. pic.twitter.com/MK7F9n4y3j

— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) July 9, 2021

I love the way the little shit goes full Maybot under the slightest pressure to answer a question properly, but really I genuinely wish death on him. Corbyn's most fatal mistake was letting this weaselly little scumbag back into his shadow cabinet when he resigned. He was a plant from the start. The only completely out of sight hypothetical here is "under a Kier Starmer govt" lol

"This position is illegal. The U.K. signed up to a Good Friday Agreement where they agreed to remain neutral."

^^^

and this

An armed siege? A terrorist munitions factory? No, just the Police breaking into our studio building in Haggerston on Friday 25th June because there is a sculpture on the roof that Priti Patel doesn’t like. pic.twitter.com/4p8X1GD2fs

— Damien Meade (@Damien_Meade) July 4, 2021

what the fuck

"really I genuinely wish death on him"

Glad that Calzino is carrying the fire.

the sheer amount of officers entering that building is staggering

blue and black flag on the back of the helmet looks like a custom DIY job

There is a real sense the Prime Minister has fractured trust in Northern Ireland.

He needs to be honest, and show the responsibility this moment demands.

I went to Northern Ireland to listen and to call for serious, practical solutions.https://t.co/GMefCzVxtf

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) July 10, 2021

"last night I went on national television and declared myself a solidly pro-Unionist politician and now I want to listen to people..."

I reckon this fucking clown could be as helpful to the peace process in NI as he and his People's Vote comrades were to Labour in Dec '19.

Just some of the lives Javid will not give a shit about.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/11/their-childhood-has-been-stolen-calls-for-action-to-tackle-long-covid

semi-reverse on masks seems to be underway, polling has apparently spooked them

Before this tournament I hadn’t heard of Phillips, Saka, Rice & Sancho, and it was thought Sterling, Shaw & Kane were past their best. Our defence of Maguire, Stones & Walker were said to be vulnerable. All of them & others like Grealish, Pickford, Foden have been immense #proud

— Lucy Powell MP (@LucyMPowell) July 11, 2021

even Kieth will be shaking his head at that

Better to stay quiet and let people think you're stupid

it was also amusing seeing rugger boy Ed Davey referring to it as the "Grand Final", but the amount of wrongness there from Powell will take some beating

It was thought that Sterling was past his best?

He's 26!

And Shaw's younger than Sterling I think?

Shaw did have that horrible double-fracture but that could have been a career finisher but Lucy was clearly in bullshit pol mode and deserves to be mercilessly clowned here

She's the one who'd be best-placed to step down for a Burnham parachute ;)

Natalie Elphicke MP one of the first out with the 'Rashford maybe stop being so distracted by what shit cunts we are next time' type self-owns

loyal tory, strongly pro-hostile environment, strongly opposed to feeding children

This is the sex offender's wife?

Natalie Cecilia Elphicke OBE (née Ross; born 5 November 1970)[1] is a British Conservative Party politician and finance lawyer. At the 2019 general election, she was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover, succeeding her husband Charlie, who was forced to stand down after sexually assaulting two women.[2][3]

Elphicke specialises in housing finance and conservative policy development. She was the author of the 2010 report Housing People; Financing Housing for the conservative think-tank Policy Exchange.[4] She is active in the Conservative Party, leading the Conservative Policy Forum when it was launched in 2011.[5] She is the chief executive officer of the privately funded Housing and Finance Institute set up by the Cameron–Clegg coalition, following a review she wrote with Keith House.[6] Since 2016, she has been a non-executive director of the Student Loans Company, and chair of its Audit and Risk Committee. She was also an independent member of the Audit and Risk Committee at the Department for Education from 2016 to 2019. Elphicke is a Freeman of the City of London.[3]

The people of Dover love their Elphickes.

the fackin bow guns of england mate

The nerve of this cunt

The Tories wanted a 'culture war'

Now they've about to discover this country has a culture of kindness, decency, tolerance - and standing up to bullies - which they'll never defeat #CoalitionofKindness

👇👇👇 https://t.co/qnKxjqBpxD

— Liam Byrne (@liambyrnemp) July 12, 2021

a Labour MP with his track record wouldn't be out of place in UKIP

In many ways the shite-talking Labour MPs who spew out bullshit platitudes as well as pure racism are much worse than tories

If Jonny Bairstow or Jos Buttler publicly accused the Home Secretary of overseeing a paedophile ring, just because she disagreed with them over some piece of legislation, should they be able to continue to play for England?

— Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) July 13, 2021

Lolico is back!

lmao

you think the crown for "most deranged poster" has passed to someone else, then BAM! Lolico does it again

This week I've written about the impending cut to people's Universal Credit in the UK, and why I don't think we should do it. https://t.co/NwwZbxjiLg pic.twitter.com/yKhDfREiu4

— Sarah O'Connor (@sarahoconnor_) July 13, 2021

Quick scan of that looks on the money

Imagine, if you will, being a single adult living on £330 a month, which you're probably paying a portion of towards the rent that UC doesn't cover in full, plus your bills including the internet access that you need to run your UC account and to carry out a viable job search in 2021. Imagine you hadn't been unemployed before April last year and you're just finding out that the 410 pounds a month you're currently unable to live on as the debt mounts up is a bonus

the same newly elected Labour MP who said people voted Labour for hope not hate also said there is no magic money tree. If they don't offer hope for people struggling on UC then I would describe their brand as despair more than hope, and that's without going into the endemic racism and bigotry of the party.

Times journalist turned up 41 hours early for his vaccine appointment. Complained about not being seen. Wrote a piece about it. Insanity.

I was seen when I insisted on speaking to a supervisor

NHS Lothian said I shouldn't have had to insist

You don't maximise uptake by turning people away at the door of vaccine drop in centres within hours of their due date

— Mark McLaughlin (@mark_mclaughlin) July 13, 2021