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

the callous contempt for young people on display here is just depressing. They've borne the brunt of Covid job losses and sacrificed nearly 18 months of the prime of their lives to look out for others (mostly) more vulnerable than themselves https://t.co/zDQxKc9q4p pic.twitter.com/gA2p4tHu9v

— tom (@malaiseforever) July 16, 2021

so Kieth's new campaigning tactic is doing televised focus groups with ignorant gammon bastards that will never vote for him and sit there grinning like a cunt while they slag off young people.

https://twitter.com/juliablunck1

^ should b

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The labour party will only win again when its lead by someone who thinks talking about the labour party is boring

yeah reminding people who aren't going to vote for them how shit they are whilst simultaneously telling great swathes of 2019 voters to fuck off is a great tactic. But how about making some popular policy offers that might improve people's lives rather than talking about the fucking Labour Party.

Well, just when you think Starmer will never try some new tactic

It’s the penitential quality of Keir’s fortnightly rebrands that I really dig. The absence of light in his eyes, the suppressed horror of his body language, and his almost involuntary commitment to a single message: we’re shit and we don’t deserve your vote … yet. pic.twitter.com/ncBASh6aAQ

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) July 16, 2021

Zacky claims to have last voted Labour in 1997.

Could this be him standing for the Tories just three years later? pic.twitter.com/NoSH7fugeC

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) July 16, 2021

Some cunt who last voted Labour in 1997? Tell him to keep on voting Tory and go fuck himself.

I wish I could just be wryly amused by how utterly fucking useless Kieth is in terms of electioneering strategy, but also the cunt needs doing in. But also he's made it so I don't care anymore, so he's pretty good at what he does really.

Javid has it, which means a load more of them will have too. Can’t wait for full-house PMQs this week.

I know they all caught it before and it didn't teach them shit but still lmao

i've just been recycling newspapers from the first time it swept through the cabinet. "Coronavirus Strikes At The Heart Of Government", "Britain's Testing Shambles" etc. it's a year later and...

If you made this shit up no-one would believe you.

I know a guy who can cover for him if needs be, probably knows the ropes already or at least one or two of them

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article24546724.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/1_Matt-Hancock-pictured-kissing-Gina-Coladangelo.jpg

Can't believe they've managed to give Hancock the satisfaction of thinking he did a good job, even if only in comparison

Hancock had it the first time round. or claimed to.

there's video footage of him having it tbf

i hate it here pic.twitter.com/wqa5c2R1pI

— pez (@periuspb) July 17, 2021

Farage given his own daily show on GB News to punish us for not watching.

Katie Hopkins just been booted off some Aussie show, maybe she's waiting in the wings too

more 'if we don't do this now then when?' talk on radio news this morning. all these people would fail the marshmallow test.

Labour is a party “in which all the forces pressing towards the future are mortgaged absolutely to the past and have the life drained from them in useless, secondary struggle”. - Tom Nairn, always apt

— Paul O’Connell (@pmpoc) July 18, 2021

First item on Radio 4 news: Tony Blair, making a weekly rare intervention with his opinions on pandemic management.

He wants the PM not to isolate but to be at work. This shows TB's dire judgment, as much else has done.

they've already said they'll be at work but testing daily.

Johnson has had it before and is double jabbed.

They’ve U-turned & said they will isolate after all

A farcical shambles but they'll get away with it, as always.

Probably too late for a u-turn on Freedom (For Covid) Day unfortunately, wonder how they'll sell the subsequent lockdown to the great unwashed?

Photos of rammed clubs, sorrowful shaking of the head that cash-strapped landlords didn’t act “responsibly” and demand vaccine passports at venue doors, long lens shots of parks, basically anything that blames it on other, common-sense-lacking, non-Tory-voting, parts of the GBP

Stealth national lockdown done using 50m individual pings

Labour MP for Westminster North and shadow minister for DWP.

There’s always an Ayn Rand quote.. pic.twitter.com/DW8thOhAa6

— Karen Buck (@KarenPBuckMP) July 18, 2021

In the absence of Keith

In the absence of leadership from the Government …

If you’re travelling on public transport in GM tomorrow, please wear a mask out of consideration for others 🙏🏻

We do things differently here and that means looking out for each other and not buying the “Freedom Day” rhetoric. https://t.co/6OYJt9lnHw

— Andy Burnham (@AndyBurnhamGM) July 18, 2021

So much going on that requires an opposition and Kieth is too busy doing purges of lefty fringe groups within the membership so he can look taller than 5"3 to the right wing press. I hope the little fucking cunt dies... painfully.

the sad thing is that there isn't really anything odd or jarring about the shadow DWP posting a Rand meme, it's Starmer Labour.

We thank you all for your feedback regarding an intention to ring the Cathedral bells tomorrow marking “Freedom Day”.

We apologise sincerely for the insensitivity of this plan and for any upset cause.

The bells will not ring tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/jiILf7na2G

— Chester Cathedral (@ChesterCath) July 18, 2021

I don't know, funeral bells might have been apt.

That reminds me, is the Festival of Brexit still on or did it happen already?

I'm still waiting for my 50p coin

did you guys seriously go through with that whole brexit thing? dang.

I thought that Karen Buck tweet was a dig at massive Rand fanboy The Saj but it appears to have… landed badly.

lol that is unfortunate for her, if it was Zarah Sultana or RLB posting the same then people would have twigged it was humour. But melts have to be more careful!

it's amusing to me and possibly quite indicative of where Labour are at that 99% of people assumed she was probably a genuine right-libertarianism leaning Rand fan. All she had to post was "it was a pop at Saj you humourless fuckers" but she just seemed to have left it awkwardly hanging there!

Ironically enough, Ayn Rand would have been drummed out of the Labour Party for opposing military adventurism.

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) July 19, 2021

So what's it like out there today? Has everyone abandoned the mask-wearing?

Most places I had to go this morning (café, bank) are still doing masks.

"Freedom Day is just the latest in a long list of slogans not backed up by policy."

Kieth is now the official leader of the opposition against himself.

Actual strong uptick in ppl wearing masks on the streets here!

Went to post office and sainsburys, both fully masked up, customers as well as staff.

Good to see tbh, restrictions were already weak

"We're all drinking again, no social distancing, this is what life is about"

Clubbers in Leeds counted down the second to return to the dancefloor, after Covid restrictions in England eased overnighthttps://t.co/s9iPUpJBNC pic.twitter.com/lVDFhtxlXK

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 19, 2021

going to see Frankie Boyle at Soho Theatre tonight. i will report back.

I scootered past Motion nightclub on my lunch break, just as their reopening party was kicking off.

On one hand it was great to hear music blaring out on a sunny Monday afternoon, but peering past the gate and seeing so many unmasked kids in such close proximity has definitely made me rethink my plans for the next few weeks.

Sticking to the 'old man pub' beer gardens for the forseeable future as I have a feeling here in Bristol things are going to get baaaad.

Seems to be some fairly large anti-lockdown protest around Westminster today. I understand that these people are fuckwits, but what exactly are they protesting now? Vaccines, maybe? God help us if there's ever some Fukushima-level radiation breach in the UK, these bellends would be 'doing their own research' even as the flesh is stripped from their scalps.