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

The DUP, for instance.

My comfort read
The 2017 and 2019 Labour party manifestos; never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never.

David Peace of Ossett - Huddersfield Town fan and not a melt!

of the course the Graun headline is "old Labour manifestos because 2017 + 19 never happened ... cunts!

lol Tweets very much in prose character

it's from a Graun "what you reading" type q+a and that last answer gives me the impression he isn't a fan of Kieth.

I've forgiven him for the time he diplomatically said " a draw would be a good result" when he was plugging his L66d6 Utd book!

lol that's a big forgive, before the days wehn Bielsa made them socially acceptable

Damned Utd still possibly as close as we'll ever get to a great football novel

oh it's really great, the film adaptation though was mediocre dross.

This is an excellent interview, such a bunch of weird cunts to concentrate on the Lab manifesto line.

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/30/david-peace-my-comfort-read-old-labour-party-manifestos?

I'll need to read the Akutagawa story sometime.

old = 2-4 years ago .. fucking wankers

tbh i think putting "old labour manifestos" in the headline is more good than bad: it's the "open for a surprise" type of headline, it reads a bit quirky, you click and read, you encounter a bunch of chewy names to open yr brane in unexpected directions (few of whom wd word in the same way: maybe auberon lol), and the final line is a zinger to clap back at some ppl's assumptions

tbh also i shd write up my grand thesis of the problem of headlines in the age of twitter clickbait, bcz the despised act of substitution -- headline content cynically erasing article content -- is simulteously a genuine phenomenon (which sub editors shd be much more bothered by) and a function of the agency not of authors* and not of sub-editors**, but of readers en masse declining to be coaxed by accurate headlines that don't need subsequent correction but only by those which rage-troll or pander to assumption-dopamine or somehow seem worth five mins of yr reading time bcz wonky enough to puzzle productively (the last is very easy to get wrong)

*all dead, as foucault teaches us
**underacknowledged legislators who are also underpaid under pressure overworked and lamost always almost out of time

page furniture is of course partially shaped by management ideology but it's also shaped just by panic abt falling revenues and diminishing clicks and how to turn these round

same double-shaping applies to how the question "what do ppl want to read" gets answered

"tbh i think putting "old labour manifestos" in the headline is more good than bad: it's the "open for a surprise" type of headline"

Yet to work with Chiles

chiles is also good not bad

You have gone too far (again)

as a frothing at the mouth brainwashed cultist I interpreted it as the habitual 2017 erasure thing that the graun often does!

Learned from that interview that there's a book abt UK govt mishandling of the corona crisis out already, fast work!

but erasure only works if ppl don't click through (if you do then you read what peace actually means): if the aim is "non-click-thru" then "old labour manifestos" is being deployed to function as a turn-off -- which means that the sub editor secretly believes that "recent labour manifestos" is more interesting (to them personally or to the imagined readers)

either way it inverts the most hostile point being made in this thread

(this isn't so much a gotcha as me digging further into the puzzling professional dilemmas of click-bait headlining: which of various contradictory unthinking reactions are you attempting to stimulate?)

Damned Utd still possibly as close as we'll ever get to a great football novel

― i wish i had cuck feet (Noodle Vague), Friday, 30 July 2021 10:59 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

JL Carr wants a word

aye, good point. I guess erasure would have been dropping the pie(a)ce or putting some off-putting headline that makes him sound like a dull responder.

lol, reading Labour manifestos does probably sound dull to normal folk, but this is the book section.

Craig Murray, the former ambassador to Uzbekistan, is due to start prison time imminently after judges ruled his blog coverage of Salmond's trial could identify four complainers.

blimey. These days you get arrested and thrown in jail for being an annoying dickhead!

I was pleased & proud to provide a personal testimonial in court for Apsana. I did so because in my opinion this young woman has displayed an integrity, sincerity & dedication to upholding what is right, all the time I have known her. She is an excellent MP and a superb socialist https://t.co/d6zAROdK06

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) July 30, 2021

it sounds like someone did a horrible job on her there, it's way beyond just merely very stressful to have endure shit like this based on malicious false accusations. It can almost kill you.

Tensions between the MP and the council I think. Very nasty.

The one left-wing Tower Hamlets councillor I know of was celebrating this decision.

Honestly just when you think the Labour Party can't sink any lower you find find out that Apsana Begum's abusive ex-husband was on the housing subcommittee of the council that was suing her for housing fraud.

— Agree to disagree 🍊 🍊 🍊 (@StefGotBooted) July 30, 2021

ah I see

something similar happened to my mum decades ago, after she had told a neighbour who worked in a benefits office to fuck off

Local government, full of wankers.

Damned Utd still possibly as close as we'll ever get to a great football novel

― i wish i had cuck feet (Noodle Vague), Friday, July 30, 2021 3:59 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i liked red or dead

pic.twitter.com/vvcibNMjfF

— PolProf Wariotifo (@wariotifo) July 30, 2021

Kieth has finally earned his place on the Wall of Salmon

Sir Keir Starmer is trying to persuade wealthy donors, including the founder of the outsourcing company Capita, to donate money in an effort to repair the Labour Party’s finances as staff threaten strike action.

The Labour leader has spoken to a member of the Sainsbury family and to a billionaire property developer as staff at the party HQ face redundancy.

Others who are being asked for donations include an heiress to the Tetra Pak fortune, the granddaughter of the founder of River Island, and the former executive chairman of Capita.

lol the beetroot faced desperado doing erotic table dancing for rich people that don't a flying fuck about a Labour Party that is never going to get elected

He could do some butter adverts

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7j-n-pXsAkvr9B?format=png&name=small

the wretched man is said to be a millionaire, and has at least an £80k salary. I'd imagine he's much more financially solvent than the Labour Party is, yet....

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/30/mps-enjoy-free-tickets-worth-100k-during-covid-large-event-pilots

Wallace, the defence secretary, was one of 10 MPs who took advantage of corporate hospitality worth £3,547 from Gibraltar-based Entain, the owner of Ladbrokes, to watch England play in the Euros at Wembley.

Jonathan Reynolds, the shadow work and pensions secretary, took the same £3,547 package from Entain

it's time to start seriously talking about gulags and summary executions again

again?

with more genuinely psychotic and murderous hatred this time!

According to shadow minister for domestic abuse and safeguarding, the expectation of solidarity to a victim of domestic abuse is divisive. https://t.co/2YmUgizoNQ

— Holly (@holski_beat) July 31, 2021

Babs had to be shamed into expressing empathy with a colleague who was a victim of domestic abuse and malicious reporting, which I guess wouldn't have been necessary if Begum was white and one of her right-wing transphobic Karen buddies.

Thanks to the team @AdmiralSlots on King Street today for a great visit. Pleased to hear about how gambling safely and responsibly is an absolute priority for the staff. Regulars often pop in to socialise and have a cuppa ☕️ 🎰 pic.twitter.com/AMSNTx4AoF

— Emma Lewell-Buck MP (@EmmaLewellBuck) July 30, 2021

Labour MP Emma Lewell-Buck from a poverty stricken NE constituency is very much the personification of Starmerism if there is anything it stands for.

lol how the fuck is that not a parody

obviously no potholes where she's from

https://i.postimg.cc/zBQjvJvh/9-B082-B4-E-4-AE2-439-D-B5-FA-ADA1-EBF932-D5.jpg

if you wander into one of them places you might be thinking there is a hole in your wallet. I just find it hilarious how a Labour MP would think it is perfectly ok to brazenly shill for the gambling lobby and not expect it to be taken as damaging to their rep and lol ..integrity. That reply above sure is dumb. Yeah cos outside the "metropolitan elite" zones we are way more tolerant of corrupt greedy politicians lining their fucking pockets with betting lobby handouts.

Gonna experiment with spirit of justice on the iPad, it’s like a quid

Dismissing the opinions of vast swathes of the electorate because of their geographical location maybe not the best way to win voters over, did she not get the memo?

Oops

Another bun in the oven I see, is he in double figures yet?

https://t.co/eVa6lgdhVl pic.twitter.com/haGBzREQ5u

— keewa (@keewa) July 31, 2021

[even vomit emoticon fails me here]