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

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.

It's vaccines yeah.

lol I see from the pics Piers Corbyn was there.

clubs aren't for ppl like me because I'm an old bastard and I sweat profusely in the heat and can't dance. But the beer garden sounds about the limits of my "freedom" without getting a panic attack. I feel like I'm never going to be comfortable anywhere where there are crowds again tbh.

What did you expect from the anti-Vaccines?

who'll be on telly at 5 given that boris is isolating?

BoJo on video link?

Johnson says he does not want to close nightclubs.

But they have to do the socially responsible thing, and use the Covid pass as a test of entry, he says.

By the end of September, when all over-18s will have had the chance to be vaccinated, proof of vaccination will be necessary for people to go to nightclubs and other places where large crowds gather, he says.

Indoor sports events? Shopping centres? Have to mention 'nightclubs' before those of course - the thing people over 50 least care about

So most of the people in hospital with COVID have been double vaccinated. Great.

Thanks to these retired people we can never retire

Speaking at today's anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine protest in Parliament Square, retired police officer Mark Sexton says if all Covid restrictions are not lifted and vaccinations are not ceased, citizens have a right to arrest ministers and MPs by force and set up common law courts. pic.twitter.com/kEyq8B94zV

— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) July 19, 2021

Bear in mind that they're very possibly in the more vulnerable groups, who didn't quite manage to be wiped out by earlier waves of infection despite the best efforts of Johnson et al.

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Ministers of Health do seem especially vulnerable to infection, true.

Got to say, the scientists don't sound too positive here but they've got their knighthoods to consider so they will carry right on standing shoulder to shoulder with Johnson.

So the guy whose girlfriend Johnson stole finally grows a backbone and asks some awkward questions, Johnson merely grins as if to say, "I stole your woman you little prick".

The Worst Person You Know Just Made etc

Former nurse and anti-vaccine activist Kate Shemirani says Covid vaccines are "bioweapons" and "surveilance systems" with an "electrical charge" that can transmit and receive signals from 5G towers. She adds people who have been vaccinated will likely die "within two years". pic.twitter.com/GrkCQQ3yEd

— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) July 19, 2021

why weren't we told?

these people are plants making anti-vaxxers look like clowns to distract from the real negative elements of the vaccines, right?

can't surveil me when im dead (in two years) wiseheadtap.gif

from frankie boyle’s set tonight

“kier starmer has all the authority of the tag in your shirt that says ‘do not tumble dry’”

“kier starmer has the perpetual look of a man who’s just been asked by a journalist if he’ll fuck her majesty the queen right now and isn’t sure which way he should answer”

“kier starmer’s the guy in the photo that came with the picture frame”

“his head’s so square he could use a bread tin for a motorcycle helmet”

“kier starmer looks so unmemorable that whenever he meets someone he has to adjust his tie to make sure he’s not looking in a mirror”

ah will he though

Cummings claims he had to stop Johnson going to see the Queen in person at the beginning of the pandemic, when staff in Number 10 were already falling ill. I reckon Starmer will want to go big on that one.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) July 19, 2021

giving the queen coronavirus would certainly fuck her immediately

Frankie Boyle doing relatively harmless ad hom attacks on Kieth without getting political. Yet him and his unfunny wanker mate Jupp spent a good part of one of his New World Order eps in 2019 denouncing Corbyn as an anti-Semite and even suggesting he was weak on austerity.

fuck the Queen to death and go out like a ledge.

I preferred it when Alexei Sayle highlighted that Kieth was a motherfucking member of the shady as fuck Trilateral Commission

“his head’s so square he could use a bread tin for a motorcycle helmet”

Good observation.

I think Calzino has a point too.

Frankie Boyle is also an unfunny wanker.

it's the hypocrisy of Boyle I can't stand. If your whole schtick is based on punching down for lolz and you're happy to accept payment to produce a column for The Sun every week then you don't really get to turn round and criticise the Government for right-wing policies.

yet New World Order was probably the wokiest thing on wokey wokerama BBC Woke last year

"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.

If your whole schtick is based on punching down for lolz

except it's not?!

it's true that i've seen him do some homophobic jokes in the past and that turned me against him for a long time. from what i can tell he's changed on that. but trust me i do understand feeling skeptical of him. i had no idea he had a column for the sun. that sucks too.

I enjoyed his "walking around Scotland a bit" series

He says, and writes, funny things but he isn't funny. Is my take on Frankie Boyle.

if doing mocking routines about people with down's syndrome and autism isn't punching down then I perhaps need punching down explaining to me. I know this is old stuff but it all adds to the broad perspective of what a deeply unpleasant wanker he is.

some might say that's all part of his edgy uncompromising schtick, yet he sidled up with all his melt comedy pals in the anti-Corbyn campaign. So ultimately he's quite establishment compliant and conservative underneath the act.

I think he was reasonably sympathetic to Corbz? Politically I think he is to the left of him!

yet New World Order was probably the wokiest thing on wokey wokerama BBC Woke last year

Attacking Corbyn with the right hand, having Tribune writers on with the left.

Isn't he an SNP supporter? Therefore he could be almost anywhere on the political spectrum.

I think this probably the most Corb- sympathetic op-ed the Guardian has ever published!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/19/frankie-boyle-jeremy-corbyn-elected-destroyed-murdoch

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your not going to tell me I imagined that NWO ep where he slated him as an anti-Semite and said he was soft on austerity? cos I did see it and have very good and long memory of useless ephemera like this!

I think he was reasonably sympathetic to Corbz? Politically I think he is to the left of him!

We've had this convo in a UK politics thread before but calz is right: Boyle circa 2019 was doing the same "oh labour is a shambles" shtick as everyone else and, while I always feel the need to give the disclaimer that it's not like there weren't good points to be made regarding anti-semitism in labour having David fucking Baddiel on and not questioning any of the received wisdom on it....is not that. Within that context "pfft they're not even that left wing" is an obvious bad faith move.

Without wanting to be Cap'n Save-a-Boyle kind of disagree - this is 2019 on the eve of the election and again pretty sympathetic to Corbyn, while acknowledging the doomed if noble nature of his leadership

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/07/frankie-boyle-election-countdown-praying-prorogue-next-parliament

I can accept that he may have vacillated and changed his mind on the topic but here, this isn't even the episode I saw but it's the same fucking bullshit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm72o3iJpKY

talk is cheap and worthless when you've already done your bit to undermine Corbyn imo

https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/standupcomedyarchive/files/2017/05/RedWedgeTour_PorkyPoetCartoon-768x1082.jpg

check out this garbage cartoon by Porky the Poet (aka Phil Jupitus) from the Red Wedge era when comedians rallied around Neil fuckin Kinnock!

NEW: In meeting with Labour staff, I’m told David Evans has said the party’s poor financial state is due to lost members and dealing with antisemitism cases. Reserves now down to one month’s payroll. Voluntary severance offered to all NEC-funded staff.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) July 20, 2021

time for that sickos "ha ha yes" picture

When someone in the entertainment world uses their platform - however big or small it is - to attack the best Labour candidate the UK had for 70+ years and the only hope to stop decades of a right wing tory elective dictatorship. Then fuck what the cunt writes anywhere to try and clarify his position or whatever imo

lol that cartoon is a marvel in every regard