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

but you might have to sup it by candle-light.

Merrily chatting away on a far right radio station to a man who published neo-nazi conspiracy theories days before the 2019 general election . Nandy is the lowest of the low. https://t.co/VPwbroeryc

— Simon Vessey (@Simon_Vessey) September 5, 2021

a "cheeky" Nandy says she'd go door-knocking for a Labour candidate who'd stand against Corbyn. lol good luck with that one lads!

Bring it on.

love watching the big grown-up brains on Twitter demanding Labour run a candidate against Crmbwyn at the next election

that is how serious the right-wing of the Labour Party are about getting into power, they'd happily lose a precious seat for a symbolic fuck you to the left of the party with no benefits for either side.

worked out great for them eventually when they did it in the 80s

both they and the left are in a worse position now though so if they're going down anyway they might as well do as much damage as possible to their most hated people while they still can

Keir Starmer
@Keir_Starmer
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We're all delighted to have you back, Nadia.

Seriously creepy slimeball boss vibes here seeing as he sacked her for voting against a bill that decriminalised torture and murder by armed forces, after his office leaked the story to guido fawkes.

"Now that you're out of 'jail' "......

(starts singing "Care of Cell 44" by The Zombies)

As #GreatBritishRailways marks a new era for our railways, we've put retired Pacer trains to new uses serving Northern communities:

🏥A family support centre at a hospital
🍳A kitchen for a mental health charity
📚A new classroom for kids

The last one was delivered yesterday👇 pic.twitter.com/HacZLwmrJX

— Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) September 6, 2021

you can endlessly malign evil Tory Bastards for all sorts of reasons, but one thing you can't level at them is that they lack a sense of humour.

All of these are much more suitable than "train carrying passengers between major population centres"

but yeah, 'classroom for kids' lol real Arthur Lowe in The Bed Sitting Room hours

Did Hornby railway sets 40 years ago include Pacer trains?

They seem to stir an old fond memory in me and I wonder if that's why.

Or maybe the name just reminds me of Pacer mints.

they are a good means of transport if you are the kind of person who likes to feel a strong physical connection with every vibration transmitted from the railway track and find suspension is an unnecessary luxury that deprives you of that pleasure. I think they might be a bit triggering for a mental health charity to use tbh!

"Yeah, sling 'em a train there, tell them it's a hospital..."

tbf he did promise 40 new hospitals

they were only supposed to have a 20 year lifespan on the tracks over 40 years ago, nobody could have predicted this bright shiny hi-tech future where they are eventually to be used as affordable homes and classrooms.

Think a few of the Essex plotlands shacks started life as train carriages so this must be a prime buy-to-let opportunity for canny landlords.

PM announces that from next year, the UK will have *three* income taxes:
regular income tax 20-45%
national insurance 2-12%
health and social care levy 1.25%

Sorry @OTS_UK

— Hugo Gye (@HugoGye) September 7, 2021

put this on the side of a bus

paid for by national insurance hikes at a higher % for low earners, many of whom are carers, facilities workers and so on, so not only do low income workers pay a higher % to health & social care, it's effectively a wage cut for those working in the sectorhttps://t.co/deIeKQ8XGy

— Kate Flood (@KateFlood) September 7, 2021

That Shapps tweet is so where we are going

he made it nigh on impossible for a lot of Mancunians to live there, but he also made a lot of property developers very wealthy, so it's impossible to say if he's bad or not https://t.co/rfWVzr5WSp

— Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever) September 7, 2021

If I have calculated this right, excluding employer contributions to pensions and appretiship levy, the marginal tax rate for a basic rate taxpaying graduate is now basically 50%

CALCS BELOW

— Chris Giles (@ChrisGiles_) September 8, 2021

Leave it mate it’s not worth it https://t.co/eE0gNKyDsV pic.twitter.com/41ESNSG8Li

— Marcus Barnett (@marcusbarnett_) September 7, 2021