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

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

lmao

worth saying this is not the joined-up plan Labour were proposing. lots of conditions on it - must have zero income! - and it leaves it up to ISPs to identify claimants and does not mandate they pass on the savings

that doesn't sound like broadband that is communist enough.

I wouldn't even need the speed you get with a fiber-optic internet connection, but still get annoyed at how they've been prioritising burying the stuff everywhere in the posh side of the area - the closest it has got to the council estate is a little end sticking out of the tarmac next to a telegraph pole.

Education secretary Gavin Williamson said in an interview that he has met Marcus Rashford. But... his team later said he actually met the rugby sports star Maro Itoje, not Rashford. 🥴👀 https://t.co/jzS8QUeqo0 pic.twitter.com/AXyFvSu9vn

— Nadine White (@Nadine_Writes) September 8, 2021

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 35% (+1)
CON: 33% (-5)
LDEM: 10% (+2)

via @YouGov
Chgs. w/ 03 Sep

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 9, 2021

Kieth is finally killing something that isn't an alpaca! It might be those 200 policies that have been announced under his leadership finally cutting through. I actually heard some shadow cabinet wasteman on R4 this morning claiming that there has been over 200 policy announcements since he took over. Next non-existent policy announcement should be: Kill Jeff Minter

pollsters doing push polls and acting as pressure groups etc but it will be interesting to see if the collapse in tory support has barely transferred to Labour at all in other polls as well.

a glimmer of hope for Starmer office model for victory. A repeat of 2005 i.e. an apathetic public with a very low turnout, with an unpopular leader. Only it isn't going to happen.

I’ll save you the search. This is why Rosie Duffield is trending again: pic.twitter.com/8PdhyjVETY

— max (@maxibolivar_) September 10, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-_rMwRXMAIHh9q?format=jpg&name=medium

coming soon ... HGV drivers learning on the job

Good piece that ties in to this week's announcements, or the lack of Tory economic thinking.

https://stianstian.medium.com/the-strange-death-of-tory-economic-thinking-2339433aed00

Footage of their only meeting.

On 10 July 2018, a modest Court 17 crowd watched a second round junior #Wimbledon match between @emmaraducanu and @leylahfernandez 🌟

Little did any of them know what was to come...#USOpen pic.twitter.com/xshJVQs4BX

— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) September 11, 2021

Sorry wrong thread

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— Ronan Burtenshaw (@ronanburtenshaw) September 11, 2021

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 38% (-2)
LAB: 38% (+3)
LDEM: 8% (+1)
GRN: 6% (-)

via @OpiniumResearch, 09 - 11 Sep

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 11, 2021

this new Imperious Kieth era is going to be so exciting

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/blogs/ec_mrppoll_20210913.html

the polling is looking predictably grim for Labour despite some gains in this appropriately titled regression poll that was done after the NI + tax rises. But at least two fucking appalling Ians, the Duncan-Smith one and the Murray one currently look set to lose their seats.