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

"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!

you have another go at not being like Dunty for a day

I don't really care who Chris Deerin is, or what his take on the news is, though? The Scottish Greens aren't shitting themselves, they're dragging the SNP leftward, and they're also not the English Green Party, of progressive alliance fame.

calzino correctly read the tweet and you incorrectly read his post

“They” = the commeltariat as represented in this case by Chris Deerin

“It” = a progressive alliance inc Scottish Greens

He is not saying Scottish Greens are shitting themselves about the Scottish Greens, that would make no sense

Okay, that's my fault for assuming he was talking about things happening, not about people talking about things happening.

I'll let you off this time seeing as though I was pished and very impolite last night! But come on, at least 90% of posting on here is about how illiberal and anti-progressive the UK commentariat is. The Green party is still riven with melts, transphobes, ecofash arseholes and hypocrites, but yes, I do understand in this case the Scottish Greens have a had a progressive influence in a PR system and was referring to the NS prick.

The Scottish Greens are further left than Labour were in 2015-2019. Glad they've been able -- via Blair-era devolution lol -- to get some left-wing politics in.

This could be significant.

Yeah, you've a fair point in all a lot of that - I'm just getting performatively arsey about confusing the two parties as part of fitting in up here. In five years when I get stopped at the border, I want to have a body of social media to prove that I have been sufficiently radicalised!

scottish green guy on ch4 news last night had a troughton and daleks poster behind him. that's all i know.

obv an eco-fascist then, who favours the Dalek Holocaust final solution!

This is pretty detailed, and it goes into NZ politics as well.

While we wait for the final text of the #PossibleSNPGreenDeal, which I expect to tweet a lot about this afternoon, mute as required, there’s still some confusion about what form of cooperation is being discussed. Unless something has radically changed, it’s the New Zealand model.

— James Mackenzie (@mrjamesmack) August 20, 2021

How to prove you haven’t read Adam Smith without saying you haven’t read Adam Smith 😂 https://t.co/1Cv2fvd1C4

— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) August 21, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9dsG5PXEAMCKxl?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

this latest low-budget Bruce Willis movie looks really shit

hahahahahahaha

"we" did, did we paul???????

i have literally never heard anyone of any persuasion even attempt to make that argument, much less assume it as given

quelle difference?

his mind went a long time ago, somewhere between Stoya come to athens/shitting in a fountain/KS will advance the class struggle

I don't think even if a bad-take specialist like Freedland was having a very bad day he'd come up with such specious nonsense, but in Paul's mind this was apparently consensus in recent times.

Gonna wait until Von Schleicher weighs in on this

if someone made a fake Guardian byline that read: Right-wing populism is not very palatable to most, but at least for now it is a firewall against full-blown fascism. I would believe it was real tbh!

It would be more real if you swapped out "fascism" for "Corbynism"

yeah, that was often what they actually meant

I'm looking forward to Kieth's position on penal slave labour.

He's forensically aware that a lot of red wall lads are into it

Kieth is asking for guarantees that no food products shall be packed by Ian Huntley or Roy Whiting and extended sentences for lazy, unproductive prison slaves.

Labour members are now being purged for any contact, no matter how tenuous, with a body before it was actually proscribed. Not sure how far back this stretches but on that basis I had better publicly confess & hand myself in for show trial. Has nobody read Koestler in Party HQ? https://t.co/LWcdiGdEXg

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) August 23, 2021

For whatever good it does there’s a “Defend The Left” petition against these purges:

http://chng.it/wH9zvzWQPw

Signed.

Also, did anyone read the Sirin Kale interview with Apsana Begum where the writer spent about a third of the piece asking AB why someone on £30k a year felt entitled to social housing, and why once she became an MP on £80k she didn’t relinquish her flat? Pernicious stuff, leading to bullshit on social media about council tenants being ‘subsidised’ by the taxpayer (we are not, the build costs of my home were met decades ago by the rents paid by tenants).

people on 30k+ living in social housing would only be a problem if you despise any elements of universalism, which is supposed be the paternalist position that Tories take - like council houses are a form of social welfare reserved for riff raff, a petri dish for scum! The main problem is selfish wankers or parasitical landlords buying up/depleting social housing stock at discount prices for easy money.

Frank Dobson lived a few blocks away from my flat, in a very nice council flat, until his death. I didn’t begrudge him the tenancy for one second.

i've said for years and years social housing didn't used to be about "low pay", it was a public good and a public right and time was when most people in council houses were working ffs

big council estates where i grew up were built for miners and there families aiui

I normally like whatever Sirin writes but her line of questioning about the council flat really enraged me. Mulight contact the CiF eds tomorrow to see if they’ll publish a rebuttal, since Apsana Begum ran and was elected on a manifesto to extend social housing to more people.

there is an old guy who lives around the corner from me who started out living in his council house with his parents when it was built in 1954 and then he bought it in the 80's. I quite like him tbh and refrain from going on rants about how Thatcher's right to buy coupled with both main parties hatred of anything good has atomised communities and made this country a hellhole!