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

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.

pic.twitter.com/nVNO8cd1d7

— 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

Thank goodness the slick Mandelsonian comms operation is back

Labour have been in touch now to say there was an error in earlier briefing, and their target is to cut emissions by considerably above 70% https://t.co/N0b1J9Us9P

— AndrewSparrow (@AndrewSparrow) August 9, 2021

The article that got her the sack from The Guardian is no.2 on the most viewed comments pieces rn

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree🕸

🐦[❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 pic.twitter.com/7zqT0A2gJj🕸
— luke prokop (@lukeprokop_6) July 19, 2021🕸]🐦

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl-predators-prokop-announcement-1.6108113🕸

very cool moment

Bugfuck thing I forgot about the previous administration #543: Trump autographing giant portraits of murder victims held up by their families at an anti-immigration presser in 2018.

🐦[As Biden delivers a speech at the White House today on crime, I was reminded of the time Trump did that and autographed photos of murder victims -- low key one of the most bizarre political moments of the last five years. https://t.co/0Sp9NK4SEH🕸
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 22, 2021🕸]🐦

🐦[Trump holds up an autographed photo of a murder victim, quips that the man is "Tom Selleck, except better looking." pic.twitter.com/8iOsdCT4xo🕸
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 22, 2018🕸]🐦

🐦[put them back together or else pic.twitter.com/fd1qS4XxU6🕸
— Rob N Roll (@thegallowboob) July 25, 2021🕸]🐦

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🕸

🐦[Read between the lines Zach
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) August 1, 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🕸]🐦

They are carving "Keir Starmer -- Alpaca Harmer" into a rock right now. They are very excited about this re launch.

— Chris Williams (@Chris_A_W) August 11, 2021

it's a shame it isn't a llama

I heard the alpaca has got some dirt on Kieth just like that meddling dog he incinerated

First it was zoos, now he's singling out individual animals, I think there's a story here

he got a taste for summary executions at the night courts

The alpaca should die but Kieth has to fight it barehanded

In fact I promise to vote Labour in perpetuity if Starmer wrestles an alpaca, why is this coward not reaching out to red wall voters like me?

it has been pointed out that even William Hague is less socially conservative and reactionary than Kieth and his wretched shadow cabinet.

Would it make any difference if I told you that the alpaca can chair a meeting, or draft a minute, or stay calm in an interview? Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they’re vital.

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) August 11, 2021

discourse currently an insult even to entry-lever shitposters tbh

waiting for Kieth's u turn when he finds out alpaca isn't an offshoot of al qaeda

Keir Starmer with the hair of Geronimo the Alpaca. pic.twitter.com/XXRhTwjiDO

— FMHoP (@visualsatire) August 11, 2021

I'm sorry for taking dis course Mark.. but I lolled!

Do expect this to increase as the pandemic ends, but by how much is the question

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/12/scrapped-covid-rules-bring-fewer-than-20-of-uk-city-workers-back-to-the-office

The end of the sandwich economy and commuting for many is extremely welcome.

Misleading URL there, disappointed it's actually 20%.

they love it in the seaside towns