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

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!

Nicki please continue to treat the scum media with the contempt they deserve

https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/2021/09/16/labour-nothing-to-say-on-racial-justice/

Well-placed sources told The Voice that Battersea MP Marsha de Cordova, who resigned as the party’s shadow equalities minister earlier this week, had grown increasingly frustrated with senior advisers to the party leader.
Friends say Starmer’s inner cabal sidelined her efforts to develop plans for a new law to tackle racial injustice.

Associates of the Battersea MP claim that the party failed to put her on a single ‘media round’ during 17 months in the job, and that she was offered just five minutes speaking time at Labour’s annual conference, which takes place next week.

It’ll be interesting to see the reaction to Andy Burnham coming out against the vaccine mandate for care home staff.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/512TxothDpL.jpg

a hard-hitting exposé of the nhs and the foster care system, probably.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace:

“What’s great about Nadine Dorries is she produces culture that people buy and actually want to see rather than some of the more crackpot schemes we’ve seen being funded in the past by taxpayers’ money.”

Tell me you know fuck all about culture without etc etc

never forget that the immortal classic Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer sold over 33 million copies

Sounds like he’s talking about Test and Trace.

It’s a genuinely odd choice, tbh. Other than the cheap points made by Ben Wallace, who no doubt has a full set of Dilly Court first editions under glass at home, I’m not sure what the angle is with appointing her.

I don’t expect the Tories to value culture for its own sake but I’d still have thought they might want someone competent in charge of the sector when they’re trying to get people back into city centres.

Amy Lamé can do that!

It's governing by culture war which means incoherence and unexpected outcomes xp

Lest we forget Sajid Javid was once Culture Secretary. They've stopped short of giving the job to the Downing Street cat... but only just.

Lest we forget Sajid Javid was once Culture Secretary. They've stopped short of giving the job to the Downing Street cat... but only just.

Double post. Takes me back to the good old days.

Snowflakes are a real ruthless lot.

when you are culture secretary pic.twitter.com/CP1IUFB9L8

— jewish space laser (@goulcher) September 16, 2021

You almost have to admire her for leaving this one up

Some Conservative posters have been daubed with swass stickers - hard to believe any decent person would vote for Corbyns Jew hating mob https://t.co/GqC1FlWgnG

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) June 6, 2017

Don't know why ppl are complaining tbh

Stop these left-wing snowflakes from dumbing down panto, won't someone think of Les Dennis?

How exactly do you dumb down panto?

#Reshuffle I was offered Gavin Williamson’s job but wasn’t willing to accept a demotion… pic.twitter.com/J0bI2L0Abc

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) September 15, 2021

epic

What'd I tell you, promised the Culture Secretary post but Dorries got instead, he must be furious.

i can haz a culchur wore

The English language has lost all meaning.

Fascinated as to why the Corbyn-era outriders are committed to the (false) criticism of Starmer re: policy announcements that would reflect badly on the Corbyn era if it were true rather than the demonstrable one that reflects *well* on the Corbyn era. https://t.co/MV8RBpujss

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) September 16, 2021