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

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

I've read that Bush sentence five times now and...I got nothing

i see the comments are going thru the first thing i thought: where the fuck are Bush's workings?

we don't need all 200, we know you just made that up, how about just 12 of the big policy announcements under Starmer?

Boris Johnson is to announce the return of imperial weights and measures, making it legal for market stalls, shops and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system post-Brexit https://t.co/ysDIKAX4md

— The Times (@thetimes) September 16, 2021

Anyone not just replying 'well said' to that Bush tweet is wasting bandwidth

There's and episode of The Thick of It where Nerys Hughes plays a member of the public invited to give a speech at conference, who turns out to be weirdly obsessed with the metric martyrs. One of the truer-ringing bits of that show

Be interesting to see if Ash votes for them.

Cancelled my Labour membership for a variety of reasons, but honestly, the politics of the present leadership being completely fucking boring is prime amongst them.

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) September 16, 2021

It's not great phrasing. The politics of the leadership are harmful.

It's perfect that the 'edging away from the pub bore' line for the Times article is "Pubs will also be allowed to sell pints in glass printed with the crown stamp that was prohibited by EU directives. The single market rule..."

The Bush line seems fairly straightforward - Corbynites are claiming that there were no Starmer policies and lots of Corbyn policies, which would be bad for Corbyn because policies are bad. They should agree with me that there were some Corbyn policies but far more Starmer policies, which would be good for Corbyn because policies are bad. I am very smart.

There is also this:

I’m exactly as Jewish as SKB is (which is to say, through one grandparent, and not brought up remotely in the faith or the culture), and I would feel deeply uncomfortable taking the community/identity stances he’s taken in the last few years.

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 16, 2021

Yougov has the Tories gaining six points from last week from other parties. Lab stuck on 35%.

Keith will need to kill more Alpacas.

just needs to slow down on the policies - the electorate is feeling quite overwhelmed by the vast numbers of them rn

lol Bush used to seem quite erudite and witty, then his brain broke.

he's such a humourless supercilious prick these days he'll never admit that he wrote something incredibly stupid. HOW DARE YOU MOCK MY GODZILLA MOVIE POST YOU UNWORTHY PLEB! As has already been said, it's quite odd he's doubled down on this because he's not even a genuine Kieth supporter anyway, other than for him being anyone but Corbyn. He lost me when he started expressing his frothing admiration/bizarre fandom for fucking David Cameron.

I mean, they're publicly available, and seeing as there are so few of them, it shouldn't take you long to count them yourself, right? Come on, think it through. (In your own time, I'm muting you, obvs!)

lol still at it last night. No well paid journalist should ever be put in the invidious position of providing evidence for one of their claims ... now go away pleb.