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

lol

Powerful speech from Barnsley MP and veteran Dan Jarvis, 'we tried to break the cycle of war, to give hope to women and girls, we tried to give Afghans a different life...the catastrophic failure of the international community and brutality of the Taliban has snatched that away'

it's quite rare anything this cunt says makes any sense, they should x-ray his brain to see if there is a crayon lodged in there. But nobody will challenge this nonsense because he "fought for the colours" and they'd get shouted down by all sides.

Increasing abstraction of things being fought for, from queen and country to the flag to... colours? Anyway, turns out that these colouts do run lol

We tried to break the cycle of war by um sending in the troops

breaking your cycle of migraines by drilling a hole in your skull

Theresa May appears to be criticising Johnson for not putting together an alliance of countries to occupy Afghanistan without help from the US.

breaking your cycle of migraines by drilling a hole in your skull

― calzino, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 13:52 (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

woo >> war

“Was our intelligence really so poor? Was our understanding of the Afghan government so weak? Was our knowledge on the ground so inadequate? Or did we just think we had to follow the United States and on a wing and a prayer it would be all right on the night?”

Theresa May as Principal Skinner

we are not crying you and them are crying

Johnson told the Commons events in Afghanistan had unfolded faster “than even the Taliban predicted”, but this had not caught the government “unawares”.

I'm glad that the mother of parliaments is back to explore all the possibilities of responding to the situation

cute URL

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/journalist-john-ware-defamed-by-labour-activist-on-jeremy-vine-show-judge-says

Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, the media officer for the Jewish Voice for Labour group, said: “The journalist who did that so-called investigation has a terrible record of Islamophobia, far-right politics, he’s been disciplined at – BBC has had to apologise.”

Vine attempted to defend his colleague, telling Wimborne-Idrissi to “hang on a minute” and “now I have to get him on”, adding: “…the idea you just take down the journalist now, that’s kinda desperate isn’t it?”

Possible defences include truth

Right, so that's Jessie Ware's father, I recognize him now.

Classic Wes

Britain is very fortunate to have soldiers like @TomTugendhat and Parliament is very lucky to have his wisdom and experience leading the Foreign Affairs Committee. Magnificent and moving speech during the Afghanistan debate.

— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) August 18, 2021

Tugendhat was NOT a soldier. He was a REMF. He was in the Adjutant General’s Corps. The admin branch. Paperpushers way back in HQ

— curiouscat (@curious_cat20) August 18, 2021

lots of mps huffing their own farts today. theresa may can gas away about the uk leading some bizarre get the old gang out of retirement for another occupation fantasy because it is completely inconsequential and the only people paying attention are mostly idiots with no brains (political correspondents)

Stella Creasy wins the golden dunce cap today for thinking “you have watches, we have time” is a Pashtun expression the Taliban used as a boast about how fast they are!

No word from Rory Stewart yet? In English or Dari?

wearily i drag myself to the posting space
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Rory was on radio 4 recently, sounding posh.

did you know he

"No word from Rory Stewart yet?"

the Lawrence of Arabia cosplayer has called Biden "continuity Trump" and like Kieth is very concerned about stability in the Middle East ... I stopped listening to the interview after 20 seconds.

the Lawrence of Arabia cosplayer has called Biden "continuity Trump"

hadn't pegged him as a trenchant ILX politics poster

What does he roleplay when you peg him

it's just dawned on me who keir starmer reminds me of: ALF

https://i.imgur.com/3OF2d1p.jpeg

It's a good point.

Alf has more gravitas

https://i.imgur.com/Yfqcycq.jpeg ?

A Loathsome Fool?

https://i.imgur.com/umC3HOI.gif

a prime minister in waiting

https://external-preview.redd.it/02wnwEPSCPKXFVzD9kt7GZOAlA15GnlGYrBZqJar3pg.jpg?auto=webp&s=fd6e4388de080083f47740934cf6d049b49d1956

feel like ALF is less inclined to do cheap racism for votes

he can fall off the chair at a meeting, drink a draught of beer a minute, he can lead a team of coppers through Wolverhampton town centre without getting recognised by one person. Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they’re vital.

Calz would stan if kieth ditched his dog- and alpaca-murdering policies in favour of eating cats

like Kieth, Alf was a plant and a traitor to his own species and wouldn't do the decent thing by eating the cat!

"Remember ALF, Bart? Well he's back, in purge form"

Mercer said he’s considering whether he wants to remain an MP. “Being in a Tory Party at the moment is like working for a really shit company where everyone takes the piss out of you and everyone running it hasn’t got a clue.”

The first and the second parts are unrelated here - wherever he goes, people will be taking the piss out of Johnny Mercer

He was truly sickened that the mass murder last week in his constituency was committed by a man not in uniform

https://www.thenational.wales/resources/images/12535126.jpg?display=1&htype=0&type=responsive-gallery

"Remember ALF, Bart? Well, he's back, in Gog form"

Zoe Williams review of Red Knight wasn't really getting into the spirit of the book. Who cares if it was a hatchet job badly written by a very partisan Tory donor billionaire. As long as there is picture of Alf on the sleeve and a chapter entitled "What a fucking cunt, eh?" then it deserves to be a bestseller.

it would have amazing bantz if it was simply titled "Kieth"

On the Scotland SNP/Green deal

- plans to deal with vacant and derelict land
- new tenants rights (A BIG ONE) including in relation to pets
- rent controls by 2025
- GRA reform Bill within the year
- conversion therapy ban
- more being done to tackle gender based violence
3/?

— Stephen Paton ☀️ (@stephenpaton134) August 20, 2021

this party is about to join the government of Scotland pic.twitter.com/j5mg6I0rwo

— Chris Deerin (@chrisdeerin) August 20, 2021

they like to chat a lot of shit about that joke refuted idea of a "progressive alliance" but then totally shit themselves if it shows any faint glimmers of progressiveness!

Do you want another go at that one?

no, not really

do you want to have another go at the shite you used to post when you were a People's Vote stan?

sorry quite on rn!

lol I took that tweet in the wrong way, in a *this party* is about ruin Scotland fashion

hang on a minute deerin is a blue tick who writes for New Statesman. I don't want to have another go at anything you supercilious prick!