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

"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

Tribune has just passed 20,000 subscribers.

Can’t thank you all enough for helping us to reach that landmark in socialist publishing.

We don’t have to accept a media designed to project the opinions of the powerful. We can build our own.

— 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.

Weird the amount of times he went up to deprived northern communities and only ever bumped into racist pensioners and never into anyone with the UC concerns pic.twitter.com/rWneSCLmpn

— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) September 13, 2021

Growing up in public, growing up in public
Growing up in public, growing up in public with your pants down

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.

LOL @ the SNP winning 11 more seats, not really fitting the UK media narrative there.

Boris Johnson has backed Priti Patel over allegations she met two airline executives and a billionaire Tory donor to discuss Covid-19 travel rules without Home Office officials present – a third breach of the ministerial code https://t.co/IiLXxszeEm

— The Times (@thetimes) September 14, 2021

The ministerial code is for little people, obviously.

Rishi Sunak will be hoping he doesn't fall foul of it in that case.

You’ve sunk to new lows there.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_QwvdWXMAAy4CV?format=png&name=900x900

Just catching up..

Yes 2021 when jack asses hang on to my every tweet but can’t decipher sarcasm & humor, and can’t read. Go away dumbo https://t.co/U95TwMEAM9

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 14, 2021

the day Nicki Minaj DESTROYED Kieth, Piers Moron and Keunssberg

And the PM

Tower Hamlets Council have voted 2-1 to put a shopping mall full of High St chains at the heart of Brick Lane, when a great alternative plan existed to help local businesses and people. Targeted destruction of arguably the most important Asian community outside Asia, for starters

— Justin Sherin (@wychstreet) September 14, 2021

it's bad and the owner of the truman brewery is bad but the "shopping mall" stuff seems OTT

Newsnight now discussing Nicki Minaj in typical po-faced style, they are completely out of their depth here.

The cowards wouldn't play the audio clip, just said "she said Boris was great"

Lol

it's bad and the owner of the truman brewery is bad but the "shopping mall" stuff seems OTT

― conrad, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Hope so.

lol wait so is nicki now doing the 'i was just joking haha oh my god i really got you guys good' thing??

I mean, kind of? but if you haven't been through her feed today then go take a look / listen, it's been fun.

one day when I am editor of newsnight I will get Nicki to present the whole thing in her British voice.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/14/bring-in-measures-soon-or-risk-7000-daily-covid-cases-sage-warns

"Modelling in September last year was instrumental in Sage calling for an urgent “circuit breaker” to prevent cases from soaring, though other projections have under- or over-estimated how fast the epidemic was growing. In the summer, the experts expected cases to reach 100,000 a day but infections fell sharply in July before picking up again."

That we got a third of that isn't reflected upon.

We're currently on a third of that - it peaked at 2/3 (but the weekly average was about 50k)

The whole article is confusingly written imo.

But newly published modelling from experts on the Sage advisory committee warn the government not to wait too long, with cases, hospitalisations and deaths all higher than a year ago despite the success of the vaccination programme.

Are the experts warning the government or does the modelling warn the government? If it’s the latter, the grammar doesn’t seem to make sense.

If cases, hospitalisations and deaths are higher than pre vaccine then this is a qualified kind of success

Conrad, I hope, that we can still walk down the Brick Lane place !!