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

The trusty “Webster’s dictionary” gambit beloved of high school word-padders everywhere

I just want a nationality that isn't Kieth's

It really is Iain Duncan Smith all over again.

Starmer says ‘family and work’ are 'the two sources of what I believe to be right and good'

some have pointed out it's an old Vichy slogan. The Vichy used to issue special awards to *decent* married French woman who birthed 10+ bairns. In the world he paints single people, childless people, the disabled, carers etc.. are just not pulling their weight and have no respectable place in society.

Everything Starmer does is with the impeded confidence of a man who knows in three years about four-fifths of the UK press will be calling him a paedophile enabler. There's a certain dogged glory to the fact he can even get through speeches as his will to live visibly drains.

— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) September 29, 2021

people will just lie about anything won’t they?

Thing is costing everything was playing their fucking game in the first place. Look at the US rn - it's just an excuse not to do anything.

He's going Full Heaney. You never go Full Heaney. pic.twitter.com/xwnEK7fYLI

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 29, 2021

i'm just spitballing, god forgive me, but i feel confident that the enormous majority of people who get exercised about whether Labour's policies are costed are people who will never vote Labour anyway

Has any Starmer spokesperson even been arsed to pump out some "this is what non-nationalisation common ownership means". It's apparently "a world apart", but this other world is a complete mystery https://t.co/TXNJPw6al1

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) September 29, 2021

no explanation or pressing to explain the distinction between Common Ownership and Nationalisation he meant - just using words like they don't mean a thing

on the other hand i'm never sure if the kind of pablum in Kieth's speech is

a) the kind of pablum his people believe in
b) the kind of pablum they think voters believe in, but they use it to try and achieve their pathetically small vision of managed slightly less nasty charity capitalism
c) the kind of pablum they think voters believe in and they use it because they believe in nothing except self-advancement
d) some other shit combination of those 3 plus god knows what

no explanation or pressing to explain the distinction between Common Ownership and Nationalisation he meant - just using words like they don't mean a thing

You can definitely argue that ‘common ownership’ could mean a co-op situation where workers, rather than the government, own the industries. I think Nandy has made a move in that direction in the past. The reluctance to clarify is presumably because Starmer doesn’t believe in that version either.

he's certainly not arguing about the philosophical differences between different ways of removing capitalist bosses

never trust a cunt who conflates "work" with "wage slavery" basically

'we will not nationalise' (blurts some clever crack about common ownership)

"Fuel crisis: three more UK energy firms go bust, as government mobilises reserve tanker fleet and army"

How disgusting KS is.

The trusty “Webster’s dictionary” gambit beloved of high school word-padders everywhere

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Brilliant Tracer!

Had a surreal experience this morning when the hotel I was in was evacuated and I found myself sitting in another with a bunch of lobby journalists (Paul Waugh, Patrick Maguire). They were going on about how shit ‘the party’ was. https://t.co/74o7G9b8kf

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) September 29, 2021

Watching the BBC news tonight, LK's coverage of the Starmer speech is the most transparently agenda-setting propaganda I've seen, even from her, then a series of brexitland vox pops from Durley fucking North, jfc burn the country down.

This is fucking grim pic.twitter.com/NWL0UjJyVn

— Politics of NV (@politicsofnv) September 29, 2021

Brutal assessment.

So much more he could've said. The row over pay, the disgusting inversion of the BLM slogan, promising more cops to protect women the moment a cop is sentenced for the murder of one. The disaffiliation of a founding union from Labour (did it happen under Kinnock?)

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/29/keir-starmer-support-politician-national-mood?

I mean.

This is fucking grim pic.twitter.com/NWL0UjJyVn

— Politics of NV (@politicsofnv) September 29, 2021

Sorry sym lol just didn't see that tweet load in time..

just heard the ludicrous ham trying to blame "overpromising" in the manifesto and anti-Semitism, that Jermy Crobwyn etc.. as the factors behind 2019's defeat rather than properly cop for his cack-handed brexit policy. Say what you like about Jermy but he was good at talking to real people on the level and LISTENING to them.

6 and 9 points behind in two of the latest polls during a national fuel crisis with people feighting to the death on petrol station forecourts

But what you've got to understand is that when surveyed lots of these people hadn't yet heard Keir talk about how machine learning can cater for individual work styles https://t.co/Qs5iVyBjZd

— Alex Niven (@Alex_Niven) September 30, 2021

This headline from The Sun is something else.

the fact that the s*n of all places is publishing this is not nothing -- now is the time to make the abolitionist argument, not just by yelling 'abolish the police' which still sounds like nonsense to most people, but by meticulously building our case against policing https://t.co/bBLZ4TP42N

— Sita Balani (@sitainshort) September 30, 2021

Very heavy caveat around The Sun’s suggestion that the police need reasonable grounds to stop and search you.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/27/met-police-increased-use-of-section-60-stop-and-search-during-lockdown

It’s good that they’re highlighting this, though. The majority of stop and searches are not done with ‘reasonable suspicion’, they’re recorded as voluntary iirc, as people don’t know they have the right to refuse.

And as so many videos/testimonies show, the police are expert at escalating any situation to 'reasonable suspicion' through any act of non-compliance

65% of the public supports raising the minimum wage to £15/hr, according to a new poll by
@Survation
and
@Autonomy_UK

bad news for Starmer, most people don't believe a reasonable minimum wage is an "insensible policy"

Not the people who matter

they could learn some useful lessons from 2017 i. if they were remotely interested in improving people's lives ii. and they hadn't completely expunged 2017 from their memories.

Starmer is too right-wing even for Harriet Harman.

Keir Starmer defended Cressida Dick on @GMB this morning https://t.co/jFgmJVuL0R

— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) September 30, 2021

I think he's still committed to what he saw as his DPP remit to protect CD from public scrutiny/accountability (again) at any cost. What a fucking fraudulent cop loving coward.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/30/breaking-promises-keir-starmer-power-new-labour-political-strategists

I don’t know how much of a ‘soft left’ there is in the PLP these days but Jones is probably correct that their heads are on the block next.

Starmer’s crew are briefing the press that they want Miliband gone ASAP.

He is progressive on the issues that matter to all of us though:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/09/30/next-james-bond-should-woman-says-sir-keir-starmer/

Ed seems quite popular, something Starmer never will be. I mean could you imagine Kieth doing a radio 2 slot and it going down very well with the public.

he's so cringeworthy and condescending. It reminds me of him at that hustings when he clapped with a patronising "well done" because RLB answered a piss easy pub quiz football question correctly.

I heard the thing about a female bond but thought he'd demanded a female BOD

https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/uploads/raw-1347357284.jpg

LOL

“My favourite Bond? I’d have to say the bond between family and nation, forged in the smithy of hard work and fair play."

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 30, 2021

"Basildon Bond BOOM BOOM!!!"

paging matt DC
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165101861521

"successful"

The @Conservatives lead increases by 1 point after the Labour Party Conference despite a successful speech by Keir Starmer.

The latest numbers for the @OpiniumResearch/@ObserverUK poll.

Con 39% (-1)
Lab 35% (-2)
Lib Dem 8% (+1)
Green 6% (NC) pic.twitter.com/3qRkP3CSvD

— Opinium (@OpiniumResearch) October 2, 2021

they would have been at least +3 if they had locked Kieth in a chained box in the basement for the entire conference

what measure are they using for a successful speech?

sorry comrade I missed your air quotes

he reckons it wasn't a long speech but went on longer because of all the standing ovations(!!!), but the word counters say it was much longer than previous ones.

Didn’t these same people criticise Jeremy Corbyn as giving ‘Castroesque’ conference speeches even though these were much shorter?

Remember when you suggested that making sex workers into facilitators of crime and therefore increasing police interaction would keep us safer? https://t.co/b0tYnUXgr4

— Em (@grumpyhooker) October 2, 2021