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

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

41 hours is a few hours in the context of 1344 hours (8 weeks)

definitely the kind of thing you say when you're in the right

Ken Stongmer everyone

People shouldn't have to 'travel to Switzerland to end their lives' urges Sir Ken Starmerhttp://t.co/Ac4BrJuYLL pic.twitter.com/pCOo41tC4g

— HuffPost UK (@HuffPostUK) August 30, 2015

you can be in favour of euthanasia and not phrase it like that kieth

finally some policy ideas that don't make me want to kill mys- wait

just go cycling in Holborn near Kieth's house after he's had a few, much cheaper option than paying big euthanasia to finish you off.

Sir Ken Wanker

we have a question from the randos:

if bobby sands would have lived and recovered, would he have been able to serve as MP? or would he be in prison still? or both?

He would have been MP and still in prison. As a member of the IRA he wouldn't have sat in the British parliament even if he were not incarcerated.

The British government made a law that prisoners serving sentences of a year or more couldn't run for parliament to prevent further hunger strikers from running for office

And Jeffrey Archer

Another month of nothing

@BritainElects
15h
Westminster voting intention:
CON: 43% (+2)
LAB: 32% (-3)

Kieth is drastically needing some kind of bounce, but not another cyclist bouncing off the bonnet of his SUV please Lord.

🤪 pic.twitter.com/1NFNGAuwDL

— Labour Accelerationists (@LabourAccel) July 13, 2021

triple-bracket man Hodges has decided to shit his pants today

Many players and many fans want some sort of anti-racism statement at the start of games. Many fans do not back taking a knee. So we simply need a new anti-racist symbol that people can unite behind. Not one imported from the states, but one everyone can have ownership of.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) July 14, 2021

after four years he still hasn't deleted this

CN: n-word

This exchange tells you all you need to know about Dan Hodges. pic.twitter.com/O4hTvbqGoG

— Marcus feat. Dusty (@marcusjdl) July 14, 2021

What about this...? https://t.co/tfWOjZYxen pic.twitter.com/EGdGQH9QQ3

— Dr Fuck (@df69696969) July 14, 2021

the accolades are pouring in:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starmera
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starmerella

don’t know what this means, but it sounds fitting somehow:

Starmera is often associated with necrotic lesions in cacti.

some brutal polls dropping this week, it's a stark contrast with the ruddy faced necrotic lesion excitedly jumping about + babbling Labour Is Back after the *massive* win and the Tories having a brief Hancock related wobble.

the waters closed up around hancock like a prophecy long foretold

See, the tories don't want to déposé Starmer or cause that to happen. So, they threw Batley/Spen so he didn't have to fight a leadership challenge which he would probably lose. They don't want that. And they have enough majority to toss one.

They did run a very anonymous identikit ex-councillor type candidate, but maybe they thought his experience would impress people more than all that "I'm a local person for local people" parochialism, it nearly did.

I can't even remember his name, it was the Leadbeater and Galloway show.

48,553 new cases and 63 deaths today. And this is before people starting steaming into pubs and clubs and full capacity events like Silverstone in the name of Freedom next week.

I'm sorry to have to announce that our friend @DawnHFoster has passed away at home suddenly, aged 34. An elegant writer and eloquent commentator, Dawn effortlessly mastered a media mainstream loath to admit outsider perspectives.

— K Biswas (@BizK1) July 15, 2021

what???

oh no

I didn’t realise she had a serious illness. God that’s terrible.

OMG RIP ;_;

Fucking hell

That’s really sad. She was often posting about her sudden blackouts and hospital trips and I was fearing the worst.

Dawn Foster wrote one of the truest paragraphs in the guardian’s history and was then fired. I’m not normally one for etching things into stone but I’d make an exception for this. pic.twitter.com/IDrzB8tr8p

— 🇨🇭stabilized wretchedness 🇨🇭 (@sensiblehuman96) July 15, 2021

I often used to think what a nightmare it was when my son had a few epileptic seizures in a single week. She often took pics of injuries suffered in her frequent seizures and I thought this is someone dealing with a lot of problems but is always funny and taking all the lying scumbags in politics to the cleaners with her devastating wit. She was a one-off true maverick and is a big loss:(

The article that got her the sack from The Guardian is no.2 on the most viewed comments pieces rn

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree