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

“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

xp

yes!

Alexei Sayle is obviously 100 per cent correct that the right/technocrat end of the Labour Party are some of the world’s most horrible people - at least Tories kind of revel in their assholism instead of gaslighting the Left about who they are.

My pet theory of Red Wall is that all those places had sharp-suit Labour councils who used consultancy language to strip away essential assistance and services from people who could no longer abide it, because this crap started before austerity. Also Brexit. I don’t think the Left, who all opposed austerity/PFI/empty suits is to blame for any of it.

I think that's exactly right. And stir in some complacent quasi-corrupt machine politics that comes from semi-permanent control of civil apparatus.

it's my understanding as well, I've definitely picked up over the years, anecdotally at least, with nothing concrete to back this up really, but this is what people think, that local Labour councils are often racked with corruption and incompetence. there's also things like people not understanding which council are responsible for things though, where I live the borough council is Labour but the county is Conservative, and people are always bashing the Labour council for not fixing the potholes in the roads (which are really bad tbf), but that's the County Council's responsibility.

but when people think their local council is failing them, it's not surprising they transfer that to the party as a whole, and think maybe the Tories will help them. I'm not a fan of Lisa Nandy but I think she was onto something at one point.

https://amp.ft.com/content/1e93fab0-916e-4697-be8a-af02bde94411?

CON (+5)
LAB (-3)

Basically if the problem assumed human form it would be David Evans.

Labour has not enjoyed a poll bounce in the immediate aftermath of its party conference despite the government being blamed by most of its own voters over the fuel shortage crisis.

The party’s leader signalled that it is again serious about winning power and taking on the Tories

getting conflicting reports on the Labour conference on the Graun site. Today's Observer editorial is so blinkered and full of shit that you'd be fair to suspect it was written by Philip Collins. It even suggests Kieth is more interested in getting into power than in party factionalism, lol show me the evidence.

.. He thinks they are the same thing?

i don't think that's true personally

his short term ambition to shrink the party to a billionaire donor backed model with the party's right in control of his successor is going to plan. But he's also set up his own demise by prioritising factionalism over popular policies.

Liz Truss tells today's Sunday Times: "I am neither surprised, nor not surprised, by anything that happens."

as an amateur fool I've always been jealous of Liz!

I can't even remember myself, but some say the Labour '96 conference projected more of a coherent alternative to Toryism, despite how wretched and evil the project became.

xpost to plax(ico) nor do I tbc

Haha ok good!

Looks like dril's "a cop in every household by 2025" prediction is looking shaky this morning.

Just so so painful to watch

"You're an Eton millionaire who doesn't care about disabled people."

Jacob Rees-Mogg is confronted by Dominic Hutchins who says that he had to prove he had cerebral palsy to claim benefits. pic.twitter.com/JtNq1BDbqO

— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) October 4, 2021

Good piece on care workers.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society-and-culture/worked-to-the-edge-inside-the-care-industry-health-report

Best Enid Blyton book yet https://t.co/deFHvi3VdE

— Jim Caris (@jimcaris) October 4, 2021

lool!

Sir Iain was overheard saying he was ready to confront “four incoherent morons” with a traffic cone.

Maybe.

Is this the most plausible route back to power for Labour? (i) sectoral wage rises —> (ii) rising inflation (costs passed on to consumers) —> (iii) interest rate rises —> (iv) falling house prices (landlordism becomes unprofitable) —> (v) breakup of Tory electoral coalition?

— Chris Brooke (@chrisbrooke) October 5, 2021

Lol that the hopes of the Labour fall on landlordism being unprofitable

I'm sure Starmer won't allow that to happen.

Yeah responses have written off Starmer. People are looking at 2025 onwards.

British politics is just a perpetual cycle of civil society and the media absolutely slating a party for coming up with a solution to a problem they hadn’t even considered, followed by the government, institutions or companies with power realising they need to solve that problem https://t.co/1u8pTLZBzZ

— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) September 8, 2021

There’s a certain schadenfreude in watching this insulting, hydraulic view of migration - a tap you turn on and off - disintegrate in real time https://t.co/KvwZ6J3Muc

— Will Davies (@davies_will) October 4, 2021

the lesson that should be learned from yesterday: use traffic cones as weapons of political violence and you'll end up getting compared to Mair and likely end up doing hard time for Stewdent Grant antics.

the next election will be a lower turnout than 2001 and a reduced majority Tory gov. Can't see any other outcome no matter what happens re: inflation, housing market, food shortages etc

"Look at me incoherent morons, I'm a giant witch"

Ok

It couldn’t be more symbolic that Sir John Chilcot died on the day that the big BBC documentary on Tony Blair was airedhttps://t.co/hTlTUQOkG0

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) October 5, 2021

the same when Blair dies on the the day a Chilcot Inquiry documentary is aired.

Adonis will have his worn out sock at the ready for the Blair hagiography documentary.

i mean i think adonis is kind of correct there, tho i perhaps read the symbolism differently and more darkly

I don't think he probably intended it as a "lol u are dead and was wrong, fool" post. But that's the only way I can interpret it coming from him. He makes it sound like "on the say big BBC doc on Blair is aired" = the day Blair regime was exonerated of all charges of colluding in war crimes and illegal war.

Yeah I think I read it more darkly given his past tweeting.

Tomorrow 4.4 million households, with 5.1m adults and 3.5m children, will see their incomes fall by £1,000 overnight. For 1 million households that will mean an immediate loss of over 10% of their income as we take the basic rate of benefits to its lowest level since 1990

— Torsten Bell (@TorstenBell) October 5, 2021

the real long 90's is here, the nasty one that doesn't involve endless chuntering about britpop!

Min wage rising today, making a nonsense of Labour's 10 quid min wage promise. Starmer has fucked it again.

the party of +58p ph

I bet the Tories get a conference boost in the polling as well, despite everything.

What a wanker.

Great dynamism in Boris speech - whatever you think of his politics, this is the speech of the leader who currently dominates the scene

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) October 6, 2021

His previous books include 5 Days in May, acclaimed as ‘a West Wing-style thriller’ about the formation of the Cameron–Clegg coalition

it's just another season of the West Wing to Baron Adonis

he started his political career as an SDP councillor, that says it all.