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

lol he was a former CoE priest before coming out, would love to hear his thought for the day on nice cuddly benevolent right-wing dictators!

One more

He’s not stopping today pic.twitter.com/7DVLiTXwTA

— Kam Sandhu (@_kayayem) August 1, 2021

The hits keep coming.

in case of deletion pic.twitter.com/wRWfISeakb

— Charlie (@vampiretraums) August 1, 2021

pic.twitter.com/vsZZ1W6hRs

— 🕷️🕸️Scotland's Hidden Perverse🕸️🕷️ (@Patricipacion) August 1, 2021

is he difft from chris leslie

going with no for mental convenience, comments are closed

Chris Leslie was always too busy with his commitments towards the debt recovery industry to ever be shilling for the gambling lobbies, go start another party you bloody snob!

this is the kind of thing that gets you sacked from the Graun eventually

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/02/political-class-fault-british-politics-guy-who-did-this

at least there is some friendly advice for Kieth in there, albeit in a voice of despair that knows that it is talking to a brick.

Yes.

I saw one comment "you didn't mention Cameron and how he's to blame etc" which is both right and completely missing the point

it just proves what utter rubbish she was talking ;p

this is the kind of thing that gets you sacked from the Graun eventually

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/02/political-class-fault-british-politics-guy-who-did-this

― i wish i had cuck feet (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 August 2021 08:21 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I think only when there's a credible, looming threat of an alternative

Piers is a tit.

That is all. https://t.co/J3hFyWOEme

— Tommy Corbyn (@TommyCorbyn) July 31, 2021

a bit tasteless to sport with an obviously damaged mind idk

https://imgur.com/pj8B0O8

Fucking hell this is grim. Also that third paragraph is crucial in showing Mark Neocleous' point that the discretionary powers present throughout legal system are fundamental to its ability to perform its violences.https://t.co/LkG1SSLnMq https://t.co/TDQrUO33Xi pic.twitter.com/yCa2gW5Ygy

— Oluwatayo Adewole (@naijaprince21) August 3, 2021

ok so the order or whatever is showing its hand again and it would be nice if we had something robust enough to exploit this or to make this kind of relation obvious to people in general so that some collective movement - that is against or outside or not in presupposition of the necessity of the forces deploying this violence and the ways in which they are deploying it and their justifications for doing so - has secure enough foundations to win trust of people to engage with even in light of very real risks of incarceration and criminal records and interpersonal violence. this is hard to imagine even achieving its own stability considering the other tendencies but there is something there that hasn't been forclosed just yet, they're really trying. rioting or terrorism or something that would be called something like that to justify its extermination maybe. but it seems to be an almost closed loop

i know i was critical of elements of the corbyn movement for what felt like cynically-uncritical deployment of the police and other contestable categories in its rhetoric- i don't think this worked in the way it was supposed to work but that specific formation was crushed even given these big concessions, and look what happens when you don't take that stuff for granted. but i don't want to do that because then they get to close the loop

"Focusing on middle class not (undeserving) poor" -Deborah Mattinson's 2015 advice to then-Labour Leader Harriet Harman. Deborah Mattinson is now Keir Starmer's Director of Strategy. pic.twitter.com/TTPo4oMAM4

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) August 4, 2021

Kieth's current strategy director was quoting the 1834 poor law to Harriet Harman not so long back.

From one of the RTs on that tweet was this good take. Doesn't much matter now.

100000% agree. That was what was different about 2017 too- it felt alive.

— Tom Munday (@tommundaycs) August 5, 2021

Cunt.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-condemned-after-laughing-24698098

Con +5

Hospitalisations are beginning to decrease slightly in the last couple of days. Wonder if it will shoot up again when schools come back.

But for now this is good tbh.

Tom Watson, the former Labour MP who was one of parliament’s most virulent campaigners for gambling reform, has joined the world’s largest online betting company as an adviser.

Flutter Entertainment, which owns Paddy Power, Betfair and SkyBet, said it would pay Watson a retainer, understood to be less than £100,000, to advise it on tackling problem gambling.

change the system from within it *taps poker hat*

less than £100,000

Are we supposed to be impressed at how little money he's doing this for, or how much?

£99,999 and a one half pence is less than a hundred grand tbf

the gambling lobbies have loads of tories in their pockets as well but they seem to prefer current/former Labour MPs to shill for them - cos they are the good guys.

and of course Brown/Blair are gods to the gambling lobbies because they created the wild west of 18 bookie shops on every high street and all the rest of the deregulation that made them much richer than they would have been. cunts

We are delighted to announce that @tom_watson has been appointed as Honorary Professor here at SPIR!

With his frontline political experience, we can't wait for him to join our us - where he'll advise students on our BPP and Dissertation modules.

More:https://t.co/AeRMpjNHia pic.twitter.com/DvPIo841Gw

— Nottingham Politics (@NottsPolitics) August 6, 2021

Since stepping down from front line politics at the 2019 general election he has become Chair of UK Music and President of Counter Culture LLM.

During his tenures as an Honorary Professor, he will be sharing his experience as a frontline politician with undergraduates on our second year British Party Politics module and giving advice to both undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation students.

yet another gig for the ugly wasteman whose only notable achievements are undermining party leaders and taking big wads of cash from Max Mosley.

oh yeah he bust open the case on that imaginary parliamentary paedo network as well

It's easy to mock but imaginary paedos is an important issue to the voters

such an accomplished hustler could pass on some of his grifting knowledge to the students

Being Chair of UK Music meant that he was the one sending out the statement of thanks for the insurance scheme that Rishi has begrudgingly cracked open his wallet for this week.

“I am extremely grateful for the time and effort that Rishi Sunak, Oliver Dowden and their teams of ministers and officials have put into finding a working solution to a complex problem of market failure.”

Starmer may yet be worrying about this able young pretender sizing up his turf!

Funny how the left are still moving in their small ways within Lab.

This is a really crucial column. https://t.co/hDh6neXgTo

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) August 7, 2021

it was sickening to hear about the Starmer op waiting at the courtroom to announce a by-election and then looking shocked and disappointed that the stitch-up didn't stand up in court.

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— Jäger von Heinrich Kramer (@jaegervonkramer) August 7, 2021

Does Watson have any academic qualifications?

"Honorary Professor".

If the line about nannies didn’t give it away this makes it painfully obvious that the real issue is the 7% all have telegraph columns pic.twitter.com/IyqXcTLnLR

— Tom Hunter (@OneLifeStand87) August 7, 2021

Tom was at uni with me, he was student union president but i assume he got his degree at some point

wasn't one of his parents a Labour MP or a councillor? If so that might explain a lot.

Seriously worried about how this autumn combo - rising energy bills and Universal Credit cut - will play out. We’ve crunched our numbers and it’s troubling. (THREAD-->)https://t.co/FjPpvxboWJ

— James Plunkett (@jamestplunkett) August 6, 2021

Huge congratulations to the traders, organisers, and the Latin American community in Tottenham, who fought so hard for this victory ✊🏽

It’s crucial that the community plan is now implemented. Our cities & towns must be remade for the people, not greedy property developers. https://t.co/Gpkrg4fbly

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) August 7, 2021

i have to say i assumed this was a council stitch-up well lost a long time ago so well done the latin village for sticking to their guns

also this is very belated and may have been registered upthread but u *have* to salute nick cohen's go-4-broke boldness for starting a column with the sentence "tucker carlson isn't much to look at" right under a photo of… nick cohen

There's some shitty new high rise development directly across the street from there, guess the developers thought it'd be waved through as a result.

xpost

last time i was reading up on it -- admittedly more than a year ago and very much iirc -- the new council in haringey, who had successfully kicked out the previous leadership (a very compromised centrist faction), had then (nevertheless and of course it seemed inevitably) simply signed off themselves on shutting the latin city down (just like the precedecessors)?

That's great and amazing news.

Klassic Kieth

What an absolute joke of a party:

“Labour has said Johnson’s pledge to cut UK carbon emissions by 68% by 2030 compared with 1990 levels is inadequate and that the target should be 70% as a minimum.” https://t.co/0jwcc5FIAz

— Ed (@emcnally96) August 9, 2021

you might think it could be a misleading quote or even a parody, but no this is real.

"OK, I'll settle for 69% but no less!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCiaWE9w9h0