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

https://skwawkbox.org/2021/07/22/exclusive-labour-takes-back-former-staffer-from-labourleaks-report-who-called-abbott-repulsive-and-sent-video-of-corbyn-as-hitler/

completely normal party that offers the only alternative to Toryism

it's nice to see while they are moaning about having to lay off loads of staff because Corbyn broke the party, yet they can still afford to bring back a racist prick. That sends out a clear message of what kind of party they are.

Stewart Lee is still good and funny imo, we're all allowed tired and emotional missteps

― imago, Thursday, 22 July 2021 bookmarkflaglink

the chimamanda essay is essential reading but this part just absolutely nails everything that is wrong with this generation pic.twitter.com/5wW1pn3SlJ

— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) June 17, 2021

I'd love to have 3000 followers. I'd have to tweet so much more though, not worth it.

Around 10 yes and 25 no for me, pride swells within me as a result

the chimamanda essay is essential reading but this part just absolutely nails everything that is wrong with this generation
— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) June 17, 2021

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, July 22, 2021 1:50 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

jfc did you really have to remind me of that stupid fucking nonsense?

Oh look at me I've got two former friends who dared to disagree with me about trans stuff, let me extrapolate their tastes, personalities and habits to every other person who dares to disagree with me, she can fuck right off.

Some better news

Breaking, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, has lost the libel case brought by a Syrian teenager over accusations Lennon made against him

— James Doleman (@jamesdoleman) July 22, 2021

Who's gonna pay the 100,000 for him then? I mean, hopefully nobody and he goes to jail, but he has some rich friends.

Well his GB News show starts next week so.

Alright no this has not happened just yet.

he should hold out for some bbc gigs, he can be Melanie Phillips stand-in on Moral Maze when she's unwell!

The text in "the chimamanda essay" aren't from the actual essay, they're from some other unfunny thing that you need to be very online to recognise, my congratulation to CaAL on avoiding that brain cancer.

thanks I still hate it and anything else in this genre of texts

Always have a residual paranoia that I'd be the ottolenghi cookbook guy if I was straight

It does describe almost every straight guy I know in London almost eerily

its only funny when tom d knows what its about

jfc did you really have to remind me of that stupid fucking nonsense?

― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 July 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Blame LJ

(xp) amen to that, brother.

"They could make a joke about the Werner Herzog penguin documentary"

^^^

quite a flipp-ant remark imo

Dawn Butler has been booted out of parliament for refusing to take back her reasonable assertion that Boris has repeatedly lied to the country. Respect ..Dawn and fuck 'em all!

love Dawn

Breaking:

Courageous Labour MP @DawnButlerBrent has just been told to leave the Chamber by Deputy Speaker for raising my film which public have sent to 27 MILLION VIEWS in protest at Prime Ministers rampant lying in Parliament & calling PM a lier

Thank you for your courage Dawn pic.twitter.com/9tmEQpOdO3

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) July 22, 2021

that deputy speaker is such a ghoul, string the lot of 'em up.

Starmer will be furious... with Dawn Butler.

Cases are down -8k today, be interesting to see if this is a trend going forward?

Dawn is a parliamentary colleague she served briefly with me when I chaired the children schools & families committee she isn’t Dennis Skinner.

— Barry Sheerman MP (@BarrySheerman) July 22, 2021

I'm sure Dawn will be quite relieved to be informed she isn't an 89 year old white man

"Dawn isn't a lefty but she's alright for one of them" don't send post Barry

ha, busted

Dennis Skinner: "a great friend and comrade"

Dawn Butler: "a colleague"

🤔

— Kieth Starmer is a spycop (@BP_Cena) July 22, 2021

I am a very serious Adele fan when will she launch her next album I feel in desperate need of her voice.

— Barry Sheerman MP (@BarrySheerman) July 22, 2021

we all know if jess phillips had said this you'd have spaffed yourself into a cloud of bats

— Earth's Hottest Man (@coprespecter420) July 22, 2021

nearly choked on my coffee after seeing this reply to Rentaghoul. It is so blatant the way that black or asian MPs who have the temerity to speak up in Parliament get treated differently to white MPs. If that would have been Babs getting booted yesterday they'd have been encouraging her to mount a leadership challenge.

booming thread here:

The government gave some staff in the NHS a pay rise yesterday, and then said that the cost must come out of existing NHS budgets. It refused a pay rise to the police. It’s as if they’re saying there is a shortage of money. There isn’t. A thread’s needed to explain that…..

— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) July 23, 2021

if there was a genuine opposition they'd be explaining real grown up economics to the population and have a vision of a country where nurses get paid properly and public services get adequate funding. What we have instead is the situation where a braindead Labour MP can use the May's magic money tree line and this is pretty much the direction the party is going in.

they've reverted back to the 2010 mode of opposition where they are too scared to even challenge that fatuous nonsense that they spent too much and were in some way responsible for a global financial crisis and hence need to prove how *fiscally responsible* they can be.

Weird they refused a pay rise for the police tbh.

This is far worse than 2010. The messaging is weird and confusing.

oh yeah it's much more incoherent and all over the bloody place than it was during Ed's leadership.

At least Ed was kinda likeable.

Also they are spending way more time dealing with the membership when most ppl don't really care about that, so it's energy misspent. But they have even less ideas than 2010 so they are regressing even further.

I thought "message discipline" was supposed to be one of the stronger points of the Labour Right, since Mandelson became Kieth's de facto chief political adviser it seems to have got even worse.

agree it's weird the Tories haven't started throwing money at the pigs yet

also, do Labour right policy wonks

a) not understand how government spending works
b) understand it but think it doesn't play well with red wall thickoes
c) understand it but are ideologically committed to neolib economics
d) understand it but think the big bucks are to be made from neolib sponsors
e) something darker stupider and more nihilistic probably involving pwning the Trots?

Kieth: Labour need to stop talking to themselves.

then commits to endless purging and self-flagellating focus groups where he apologises to tory gammons for Labour not being racist enough for them

agree it's weird the Tories haven't started throwing money at the pigs yet

prob waiting for them to become enough of a mess that they can pitch a privatized vigilante force instead

maybe more to the point who is the economics guru in Kieth's cabal? at least Brown and EMil had economic thoughts albeit bad ones

Would've thought it would Dodds, but her turn at Shadow chancellor was obviously difficult given the circumstances. She appears to be more of a background guru than senior politician anyway.

before she got pumped she always seemed to be attacking the tories in a bad and unconvincing way, like for their "cavalier spending" and such + she was repeating that line about New Labour spending too much. But we all know Reeves is a much more stronger conviction austerity hawk

maybe so? I've never thought of her as offering any coherent theory tbh. i feel like the failure to think through and foreground Green New Deal has been the biggest political catastrophe Kieth has wrought, he'll fuck about with any stupid Radio 4 soundbite of the week rather than lay out a solid electoral offer that they can gather voters around and use to present themselves as recognisably different to the last 40 years worth of government

I don't think they even want to offer anything because that involves doing politics, which is hard work and makes you unpopular with the bbc and the right wing press. They just want to steady the ship (i.e get shut of anyone to the left of Dawn Butler) and sit it out until the electorate turns against the tories. Not being in power isn't so bad when you get an £80k salary and still plenty of opportunities for grift.

Looking forward to the howls of derision on this from the maxed out credit card Household Britain cartel

The government gave some staff in the NHS a pay rise yesterday, and then said that the cost must come out of existing NHS budgets. It refused a pay rise to the police. It’s as if they’re saying there is a shortage of money. There isn’t. A thread’s needed to explain that…..

— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) July 23, 2021

lol didn't mean to embed it again

CON 38% -6
LAB 34% +3
LD 9% +1
GRN 8% +2

latest yougov poll shows the dual benefits of Kieth going into self-isolation and his internet connection shitting out.

"as battle looms over tax rises"

🤔🤔🤔

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