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

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.

The most important political event of today isn't Boris Johnson's speech; it's that short-term gas prices have shot up 40% in one day. And it's not even cold yet.

— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) October 6, 2021

luckily this has become such a big story that the BBC feels compelled to cover it

It's a cult.

"He was joyous, he was vibrant and he really brought some fun..."

The Spectator's @kateandrs says "it almost didn't matter what the content of the PM's speech was today"#Newsnight | @maitlis pic.twitter.com/aplVkZCGCe

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) October 6, 2021

Party before the abyss.

❄️ Laura Kuenssberg and Michael Gove had a dance-off and rap battle as one Tory MP sang Ice Ice Baby at karaoke last night

Kuenssberg’s BBC colleague Lewis Goodall then gave Dancing Queen his best shot — after quipping: “Have we got any Tory scum in the audience?”

— Dominic Penna (@DominicPenna) October 6, 2021

rap battle

The world's press versus our own press pic.twitter.com/g8WYbsRExK

— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) October 7, 2021

this is a weird art-muscle memory i guess, but the pics of tories having that party gave me a suddenly flashback to watching bits of a malcolm williamson opera on TV when i was a kid -- i guess it was a prom? -- where the rich folks are dancing and drinking in the foreground of end of the second act and a volcano erupts on the not-that-distant horizon. in the third act only one person is still alive…

(it's "the violins of st jacques" -- based on a novel by patrick leigh fermor -- and none of it seems to be on youtube: the internet is being but i'm guessing that the volcano was an imagined version on mt pelee in martinique, which exploded in 1902 and killed 30,000 ppl in the city of st pierre. just four survived, one of them a murderer imrprisoned in a deep dank horrible cell that the fire and lava and gases didn't reach) (part of the story is that there was plenty of warning of upcoming volcanic activity but the mayor suppressed it and wouldn;t klet the city be evacuated)

even as a kid i thought the opera's sfx were a bit feeble -- laughing at them may be why it stuck in my mind -- BUT as a grown-up the grimmer message is apparently what's yelling from the back of my poisoned brane

anyway

the only war is pyroclastic war

or this scene

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DLKGQSLVEhQ/W19Dfv0Nu2I/AAAAAAAAPd4/Jiy5Mm8-8p4MmCd3pbWXTV82OlezI58wACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/MV5BOWE3NThiNDAtNmQ5ZS00MjAwLTgyODYtZjdiOTIyMWQzNWYzL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUyODMyMw%2540%2540._V1_.jpg

No significant movement in this week's YouGov poll for The Times – we can presumably add mass pig culling to the long list of things the public is unmoved by

Fieldwork today and yesterday

CON 39 (nc)
LAB 31 (nc)
LD 9 (+1)
GREEN 9 (nc)
REF UK 4 (nc) pic.twitter.com/MPEY2GoEZZ

— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) October 7, 2021

There is movement in that there is some decrease in Tory support (as the blue line going down shows) but Lab are bleeding support to Greens and LDs so they won't capitalise.

We were told the latter would flock to Kieth.

if only he'd had dance off/rap session with Pippa Crerar. That tweet about Keunnsberg/Gove and all journo comments on it have been deleted apparently, it never happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNbJ45yyVcY

Just a Labour Party shadow minister agreeing with a radically right-wing think tank that rising wages would be awful.

Starmer's Labour is an absolute shamblespic.twitter.com/puiw9wg0St

— Another Angry Voice (@Angry_Voice) October 7, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBGF0q5XIAI3p0c?format=png&name=small

Jack is solid but I doubt this is true.

10. I spoke at Tory Party conference (Labour the week before) about child poverty and health inequality to a packed room of Tory MPs, donors, supporters who were FURIOUS about this cut. I don’t know why the Govt are pushing it when even their own party hate it from top to bottom.

— jack monroe (@BootstrapCook) October 6, 2021

I can sort of imagine it is, like they're "furious" but ultimately see themselves as very tangentially related to it like any other observer and also they are furious pretty much into they get to the bar after and then forget.

a rap battle is where i go to take my mind off

The Guardian continues deliberately to misrepresent the purchase of my office. They were for sale by an offshore company which we had nothing to do with. That was the vendor’s choice. I bought I repatriated it. No stamp duty was payable because it was a sale of a company.

— Cherie Blair (@CherieBlairQC) October 4, 2021

a bit of nuance from one of the grown ups - accidental tax evasion!

these people need liquidating and I say this completely seriously. I just hope I get to see the start of it in my lifetime.

E. coli warning as tap water in thousands of homes in Surrey and Kent could be contaminated, officials say https://t.co/hJhkvctTnN

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 8, 2021

"I don't see nationalisation there," Sir Keir says when asked about such a move, adding: "When it comes to common ownership I'm pragmatic about this. I do not agree with the argument that says we must be ideological."

simon hoggart had a pretty good rule about the vacuity of a statement, that if you take the opposite of something a politician says and can't imagine anyone ever saying it, the original statement is bullshit i.e. "I agree with the argument that says we must be ideological"

that's yer brokenshite deid

a thoroughly decent man, dedicated and effective in holding up his briefs and not showing his arse crack in public

James was a very gentle man who would always try to sort out your cases with kindness (unless you were relatives of Irish civilians massacred in cold blood).

or disabled or chronically ill people, he had no time for slackers

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has been on a visit to the Kellogg's factory and has told staff his nickname is 'Special K'.
"I've been dubbed Special K since I was born, K for Keir."

It'll be Cheerio(s) soon enough.

Kieth hole

PoliticsJoe causing chaos amongst the melts of twitter dot com

I didn't realise cunt was spelt with a k pic.twitter.com/luTzPA3Ela

— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) October 8, 2021

"I have not been called Special K since I was born"...

I can imagine Boris saying that, so...

Less than 2 hours turnaround from having to have the joke explained to him, to claiming it as his own. Absolutely forensic behaviour pic.twitter.com/xIq8bS3erQ

— Charles #StopTheShock (@charleswrites) October 8, 2021

how can he be so bad at trying to imitate a human being

*keir starmer voice*: "k for keir"

in the leafy suburbs of Surrey he was known as "The K-dog"

when no one pressed him to explain he added “k for kier”

Exclusive: Tory whips have invited Rosie Duffield to join the Conservative Party after she spoke out about the abuse she received over her views on transgender issues https://t.co/O0RQbh1BPr

— The Times (@thetimes) October 8, 2021

Not much to lose by taking them up on it, I guess.

K-hole.

(I know....)

this is worse that we thought https://t.co/Of2vQFlFBZ

— Frank Sobotka (@cymrurouge) October 8, 2021

oh lord!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ibSvOWAMg

Funnily enough

I wrote about the Kellogg’s strike. as with so many other recent labor fights, workers’ anger is fueled by having worked 12-16 hour shifts, seven days a week, and being rewarded for it with a company proposal to make future jobs worse https://t.co/Dy1mhhUu6l

— Alex Press (@alexnpress) October 7, 2021

awkward