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

I'm seeing some people suggesting Sharon Graham might be winning the vote count for next Unite gen-sec. I don't know much about any of the candidates other than Coyne is an evil Murdoch plant and hah hah fuck him if he loses.

they are taking a position where the tories could totally outflank them by offering some completely inadequate/derisory £3 a week rise or something, then Kieth can come with a £3.25 pledge. This is how opposition works now.

lol apparently Coyne has finished in third place in Unite gen-sec election.

Murdoch and the Labour right got thumped pic.twitter.com/aCZRM5TO7q

— Simon Vessey (@Simon_Vessey) August 25, 2021

Kieth Starmer, Luke Akehurst, John Rentoul... your boy took one hell of a beating. It's actually quite sad so many members voted for this Murdoch lapdog tbh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9oZ22aX0AAQ3eq?format=jpg&name=large

u loves to see it

If there’s one thing the Labour right have got going for them, it’s that they’re good at winning elections.

One more time:

coming soon . . . pic.twitter.com/N29YIUfuRz

— Oliver Eagleton (@EagletonOliver) August 25, 2021

No thank you

The Kieth Project.. coming to an end soon

I was speaking to my brother last week, who hated Corbyn so much he started voting SNP, and he thinks Starmer is a complete disaster too.

b-but he's a former crusading human rights lawyer and a top bloke.

You know Tom D's brother?

(waah waah waah....)

My @guardianopinion column on the SNP deal with the Greens. https://t.co/1RxDAlV3ka

— Dani Garavelli (@DaniGaravelli1) August 26, 2021

extremely funny that food shortages are now a pretty normal thing on british shelves and the tories are just getting away with it lmao

— 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 (@PerthshireMags) August 25, 2021

It's win-win tbf, MPs across the parties are complicit and will keep their heads down, FBPE types just want to smugly pat themselves on the back for being "right" and ignore all the variations of Brexit that could've prevented this that they helped to stymie

It's a great British compromise

hey lets photoshop some "YOU DID THIS YOU THICK BASTARDS" signs onto a pic of empty supermarket shelves and get 63k RTs and not reflect for one second on how destroying Corbynism was always more important than preventing a hard-right gov and hard brexit.

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 37% (-7)
LAB: 34% (+3)
LDEM: 14% (+2)
GRN: 5% (+1)
REFUK: 2% (+1)

via @KantarPublic, 19 - 23 Aug
Chgs. w/ Jul

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) August 26, 2021

The alpaca killing policy works!

well it surely can't be a result of Kieth touring the provinces to absolute indifference. Maybe in future just make him as invisible as Ed Davey and then perhaps occasionally come out with the odd pro animal extermination statement.

He should be demanding that all of Pen Farthing's dogs and cats are incinerated alive at next PMQs, then ten points ahead!

It's win-win tbf, MPs across the parties are complicit and will keep their heads down, FBPE types just want to smugly pat themselves on the back for being "right" and ignore all the variations of Brexit that could've prevented this that they helped to stymie

It's a great British compromise

― pings and noodles (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 August 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Don't know if anybody wins if the situation deteriorates further (I've only seen the odd empty shelf btw)

This was an excellent piece on the whole thing where it's a combo of Covid, Brexit but ultimately the wreck that is the Labour market.

"The story of Britain’s empty shelves, like that of its unpicked strawberries and unprocessed chickens, is the story of how migration combined with a weakly regulated labour market and hugely powerful retailers have allowed some goods and services to become unsustainably cheap. The system shaved money off our shopping bills but it wasn’t resilient. Remain voters are right to say Brexit helped to cause the current crisis, but wrong to say everything was fine without it. Brexit voters are right to say migration helped suppress driver pay, but as the Netherlands shows, Brexit wasn’t the only way to resolve it."

As always, ⁦@sarahoconnor_⁩ @FT a must-read https://t.co/HLRc0r16Pe

— Diane Coyle (@DianeCoyle1859) August 24, 2021

The Kabul airport is the most tightly controlled taliban area in Afghanistan. If Isis can operate there as appears they have, recognise this situation isn’t as simple as Twitter has taught you…the head of security for the taliban has strong links to Isis-K for starters … https://t.co/724mtlreNR

— stellacreasy (@stellacreasy) August 26, 2021

yeah even though the Taliban and ISIS are mortal enemies who have been at war with each for years, Stella is doubling down on the conspiracy theory bs.

How many Chris Ryan books does one man need? pic.twitter.com/RCw4v4BJl0

— Broken Keir Hardie (@BrokenHardie) August 27, 2021

lol the state of Kieth's focus group curated bookshelf, it looks like the British Legion charity bookshelf in my local chippy

didn't see him as a Hardt and Negri fan tbh

Any other leader would be Bravo Two Zero points ahead in the polls

— keith boxall QC (@garethjm) August 27, 2021

if it isn't focus grouped and Kieth really is like the average divvy in the pub man, albeit one who can forensically look at law documents with his laser barrister eye. Maybe they should have tried to push this side of his persona a bit harder, lol. I'd suggest adding the main John Gielgud biography and summat by Malcom Gluck and a big A4 folder that has "The Euston Manifesto" printed down its spine to add some *brains* to the SAS brawn!

if there is ever a leadership challenge he might slip in Wheen's Karl Marx book in between McNabb and Ryan.

Greens voting on the deal today.

Idk why Andrew Neil is so negative because this all sounds based af pic.twitter.com/Xlwq4hmjIl

— Patrick McAllister🌱 (@PatDBMcAllister) August 28, 2021

christ .. if only these tree-hugging quakers were a bunch of marxist extremists!

There is a main stage slot called 'Labour In Power', which is a nod to *that* @SadiqKhan conference speech, in which the London Mayor used the word power 38 times

and Kieth has blocked Burnham from having a speech at the upcoming conference in case he looks comparatively more leaderly than him.

by that logic surely block everybody

🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Around 30 councils have refused to take any Afghan refugees who have arrived in the UK after fleeing the Talibanhttps://t.co/DJ4wPtEpce

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 27, 2021

Send every fucking councillor complicit in these decisions to live in Afghanistan imo

Bet half of these are Lab

yeah probably more than half if anything

Big hearted Britain.

The Andrew Neil piece is typical of the sort of scare pieces and hatchet jobs the Telegraph has been running on the SNP for a while now - I know his is in the Mail but bear with me. In my work, the only news websites we have access to are, for some reason, the Telegraph and CNN International, so I've been reading the Telegraph a lot and they are absolutely obsessed with Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP and the break up of the Union. The obvious reason being that the London media is stuffed full of hideous right wing Scottish Unionist cunts like Neil and Fraser Nelson and Iain Martin and so on and so on.

https://t.co/0KK3QWa0fW

— donna respirator (@AliceAvizandum) August 29, 2021

Brexit apparently caused a great deal of chaos with the mail over here. I had a cd waiting in limbo for almost a month despite it actually having come from germany. Trying to make sure it got delivered I got told that this was pretty widespread and a lot of people had been contacting the An post customer service people to complain about things not appearing when they should have done.

Well well… look at what we have here: @Keir_Starmer posing with @socialist_app and @IanBFAWU. Following Starmer’s reasoning, he too should be auto-excluded. My solution? Exclude Starmer and keep Socialist Appeal and Ian Hodson in the party. pic.twitter.com/UpQSqrwjQS

— PolProf MacStarmer (@1984Marxist) August 29, 2021

omg the left-purging terror apparatus Kieth has turned loose on the party will now be coming after him!

Avert your eyes, footage of Michael Gove dancing vmic lurks within

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/29/merry-michael-gove-seen-dancing-alone-in-aberdeen-nightclub

BREAKING: Geronimo the alpaca: Police arrive at condemned animal's farm.

Uniformed officers could be seen speaking to three people dressed in blue overalls, masks and goggles outside the farm in Wickwar

What in God's Green Goodness Are We Up To In Gloucestershire?

shoot the bastard shoot the bastard

I want the Carrie Johnson tears to flow like alpaca blood!

or maybe she wants it executed as well

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/voices/michael-gove-dancing-video-night-out-b1911651.html?

"Writing about politics for a living often involves wondering what on earth you are doing with your life."

No to the subscribe button so I can continue reading this shit.

I like the idea that a gossip piece about a government minister on a night out is "writing about politics"

No wait, I don't like the idea, it's moronic

Amazing picture from @TomWrenPhoto pic.twitter.com/9rhO3ziOTp

— Ross McCafferty (@RossMcCaff) August 31, 2021

Good salty tone from Jim Waterson

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/31/ministers-struggle-to-find-people-to-interview-paul-dacre-for-ofcom-job

What’s an extra £1.09 an hour really worth?

If you work 35 hours a week it’s another £38.

Which means more food on the table, new school shoes for the kids, or being able to pay that electricity bill. pic.twitter.com/oEtgYecuF4

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) August 31, 2021

Labour's use of social media is really killing it, nice mix of condescension with an offer of slightly improved poverty wages.. so inspiring!

new Kieth pledge: No barefooted schoolchildren under a Labour govt

"To either cut down on beer or the kids school gear.."

With Labour, you can have both!