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

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 !!

An incredible fact from @stephenkb - since GE19 Labour announced *200* policies, *excluding* Covid related ones.

More than any opposition *ever* at this point in the election cycle.

Pretty clear the problem isn't a lack of policies - they have far too many - but a comms issue.

— Josh (@JMagosh) September 14, 2021

when you count every inconsequential Labour press release as a policy then the numbers are looking good.

Four corrections to each policy you announce counts as five policies in total.

I wonder if Stephen also counted Kieth's Alpaca announcement as a policy

please do not forget to cover the important news

NICKI STANS HAVE BRENDANNED LAURA K!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/1w415udTNU

— aaЯjan (@aarjanistan) September 14, 2021

Jenrick and Williamson gone

76 different rule changes, for which there can be no explanation beyond it being an anti-democratic stitch-up to empower a bunch of incompetent shits who everyone rightly hates. https://t.co/HRPZyiJGXh

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) September 15, 2021

76 rule changes. Probationary periods for new members and it sounds like they won't be letting old members who left in 2020 to re-join when there is a leadership election.

Congrats to whoever got the Independent to publish Gove’s student speeches with a view to nixing his chance of replacing Patel, she’s staying in post.

Nadine Dorries, the health minister, and Nadhim Zahawi, the vaccine deployment minister, have gone in to Downing Street.

Zahawi has been tipped as the next party chair.

lol Dorries

I was amazed to read Pippa Crerar posting that Truss got a promotion to foreign sec in aid of "getting his biggest rival out of the country". I had no idea she's looked on as a serious contender these days, lol.

i mean "serious" is a big word

dorries is new culture(wars) secretary

why does Gordon Brown have such a bone for the Union?

Son of the manse.

dorries is new culture(wars) secretary

― koogs, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 bookmarkflaglink

I believe she has written a novel.

Hi @NICKIMINAJ, I'm a journalist working for BBC News. I was just wondering if you might be up for a short interview/chat with us tomorrow? Let me know 😊

— Daniel Wittenberg (@DannyWittenberg) September 15, 2021

xp

maybe try about 20 novels, mostly it seems twee historical sagas set in the good old days!