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

yeah from the details in that one a horrible lying fucker like him could say it wasn't Corbyn who blocked him from taking the Mishcon de Reya gig - he turned it down, but it wouldn't be a very convincing lie!

Genuinely in awe at how onside the media are in this whole "scandal", loyally turning it into the red herring issue of second jobs and inadequate pay of 80k, Michael Crick digging up John Smith's legal work from 1983, it's really formidable how bought and sold our lobby journos are.

I know... John Smith eh? what a gotcha!

michael crick adding john smith to his big spreadsheet of ppl who are basically memebers of militant

"memebers is what i call them"
— bob marley

In the 1940s and 1950s, it was still common to suggest that MPs’ pay might be variable, in order to compensate for the cost of being a member while maintaining members in their original social classes. J.F.S. Ross in Parliamentary Representation (1948), for example, argued that ‘a working-class member, used to making ends meet on a few pounds a week’ could manage on less than ‘a professional or business man used to some degree of comfort and obliged to maintain a fairly high standard of appearances.’

Corbyn stopped Starmer taking a second job doing high-paid consultancy work for law firm Mishcon de Reya in 2017, several key figures from the Corbyn leadership have confirmed to me.

Starmer argued he should be free to take up the role, but Corbyn decided "absolutely no." >>>

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) November 10, 2021

Starmer's office had argued there was nothing to worry about in him taking the job, because the Mishcon training academy, which he would be advising, was "really cool."

lol

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/10/find-out-how-much-your-mp-earns-on-top-of-their-salary

I note with interest that my MP "The Lamster" earned £70k+ on various engagements, admittedly none of them shilling for fossil fuel companies. Who knew LBC paid so well? "The Corbster" earned nothing extra at all, fwiw.

all my MP has to declare is two tickets in the FA lounge at some grassroots football event and five VIP passes for the Tramlines music festival, and this is a Tory.

I’m not a fan of Lammy but I don’t particularly think a call in radio show where members of the public can ask an MP anything is bad as a second job. Especially if your own MP is in the West Indies.

worth noting that the person starms is defending thinks that he, a gentile, should not be allowed to be married to his wife, who is jewish https://t.co/8eGSixto4d

— pez (@periuspb) November 10, 2021

This is Professor Nigel Biggar, CBE, in clerical vestments, from the pulpit, using the genocide of Native Americans and Australian peoples to justify Asking Questions about immigration. pic.twitter.com/6YMWb0JhXT

— David Andress (@ProfDaveAndress) November 11, 2021

egged on by "Immigrants ruined Rome" cvnt Boris

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FD8XgM7XoAoi521?format=jpg&name=medium

for a while earlier I thought maybe even he wouldn't be enough of a craven little grasping lying piece of shit to attempt this and was going to sensibly stick to "no comment".

This was a Kelvin Knox joke, the best bit of the joke being the implicit fact you'd be commemorating nazi soldiers, reborn seemingly for real. https://t.co/Ggh1av720n pic.twitter.com/ccN9kWr2Do

— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) November 11, 2021

an FBPE killing off satire with a tribute to those brave lads of the 6th army who fell by the banks of the Volga to protect us from communism!

Alex Nunns' latest thread tonight is showing more evidence of the timeline of the Kieth office's 2017 hissy fit when Corbyn blocked him from the lucrative Mishcon de Reya job. Cue lots of "why u helping the tories?" replies from people who spent years smearing Corbyn on the daily. This isn't even a smear, it's just another pointless own goal by an inveterate liar who seems more inclined to dishonesty than some of the worst tories.

the funniest bit is where Starmer's office is pleading that it is "just a limited role of a few hours a month" lool

"awwwwww and look at all that money!!! "

Wrong fucking choice.

Horrific that Durham University is offering training to students who want to be sex workers part-time. Sex work is degrading, dangerous and exploitative. Uni should have nothing to do with it https://t.co/BpuVdaLTmN

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) November 12, 2021

ladies and gentlemen .. the *progressive* wing of the party of labour

"work is degrading, dangerous and exploitative"

^^^

she's right tho!

first time Labour have broken 40% since Corbyn was in charge. https://t.co/2oA3tLbq5a

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) November 12, 2021

I miss those days when Corbyn was polling 40+ points and people on Newsnight or knobhead US lib interlopers on here would insist he was "10 pts behind"

Lol, it's very easy for me.

If this keeps up some people will really need to think about how they could back down from fundamental opposition to the opposition https://t.co/43RM1UNHKk

— Alex Harrowell (@yorksranter) November 12, 2021

If inflation, corruption, any number of crises are coming down the line this Labour don't have the policies or any skills to get ppl out of it, chump.

and looking even more dodgy on austerity, civil liberties etc - I'd rather shear my balls off with a stihlsaw and eat them than vote for these corrupt racist scumbags

Yeah this doesn't even touch on any number of rights this lot are awful on. A guy like Alex obviously doesn't give enough of a shit about that, but even on his level of 'please fix the economy, sir' they won't be good.

harrowell's routinely fine on all those things tbf, and has always been good on e.g. blairite dishonesty as a fact and a long-term problem. given which (and given also that my response when i read it was "lol fuck off alex"), i'm thinking think this is mostly a harrumph abt aggro anti-starmerism not being much of a politics *in itself* -- and no one engaging in doing much to fashion (or even locate) a more concrete alternative currently. (he himself got badly burned in anti-blair liberalism round 2010, by not taking quick enough account of how much the orange book arseholes were hollowing out the principled kennedy anti-war lib stance etc)

speaking of which:

And on that topic, an explanation from today’s FT of why 92 of those legislators for life are hereditary peers. (“He” is the Marquess of Salisbury, then leader of the Conservative peers.) pic.twitter.com/Y54Cf79oQv

— George Peretz QC (@GeorgePeretzQC) November 13, 2021

"i'm thinking think this is mostly a harrumph abt aggro anti-starmerism not being much of a politics *in itself* -- and no one engaging in doing much to fashion (or even locate) a more concrete alternative currently."

From what I can tell it's a mixture of leaving Lab, organising with the union or Acorn but also despair and anger at the chance missed, which will take a long time to go away, if ever.

Ultimately this wound will grow the closer Starmer gets to power, which is a prospect given that the Tories don't have a plan for the stuff that needs a plan.

The "Yorkshire Ranter" is saying just because of a push poll showing Starmer ahead for the first time, which suspiciously looks like the right-wing press giving notice to/roughing up Boris a bit - then they should blindly consider getting behind "the team" regardless of what they think of their political direction. People don't despise Kieth because he's not 20 points ahead, if he was they'd hate him even more!

i am fond of the ranter, who has been an excellent way-off-mainstream supplier of undeluded fact and useful analysis for many years -- which is i guess why i'm prepared to spot him a mulligan on how this tweet reads (which is badly)

his blog seems a bit more thoughtful than the moniker suggests, but that tweet is bollox!

the way Kieth's campaign office alienated and monstered Asian voters in Batley + Spen is some stored resentment that will come back and bite him hard there in the next GE + in other similar constituencies and is not something that will show up on a poll commissioned with a hidden agenda by the DM. And I know what response I'd get if I suggested forgiveness from former Labour voters who abstained or voted for grifter George.

there's a reply from flying rodent who has probably the highest hitrate of any of these twitter guys imo that is right which is, well starmer has done everything he can to slander the left drive us out of the party that seems like a reasonable justification to continue to withhold support.

this seems a fairly justified position imo

Alex seems clever enough to know that if he explicitly comes out with that hackneyed paternalist patter that poor, marginalised self-interest groups that have suffered under a decade of Tory rule owe some weird masochistic occult loyalty to the Labour Party - no matter how shit they are. Then he'll get completely arseholed on twitter. But he's sent post anyway!

You can't really go there without explaining how potentially better than what we already have is a repeat of 2010 but this time with a LabDem coalition and the "nothing good is possible/sensible few minor adjustments" regime that would come with that.

i dunno i think she should do a fit for work assessment https://t.co/Yw4fCPSwpn

— soviet night witch (@leechwaifu) November 14, 2021

current waiting list she'll be dead before she gets near one

she's already dead, they are going to real fake it until the centenary year has passed

It’s just pure selfishness, we’re right in the bank holiday dead zone as well

they've suspended Universal Credit payments/demanding it all back from people who didn't provide a selfie of themselves by their front door. It's only reasonable that the same rules apply to her benefits.

Hate to break it to you but they are not planning a bank holiday for when they do the reveal

the most hardworking monarch in England has passed. A bank holiday wouldn't be appropriate, a national festival of labour day where everyone works for free for a day would be a far more fitting tribute.

Hard to say the NHS is working.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/14/patients-are-dying-from-being-stuck-in-ambulances-outside-ae-report?

recently when my son was having an epileptic seizure a well-meaning neighbour called an ambulance. When he was in a safe post-ictal state I told her to cancel it because it wasn't a bad one. She mustn't have cancelled it because it turned up 4 hours later! This morning on R4 there was some of that disingenuous faux concerned crap about how hard it is to reform the NHS because it is a religion in this country. You can't point at how much has been cut from the budget post 2010 because "in *real terms* the funding of it has actually risen blah blah... "

Labour won't do it, that's for sure

nick robinson had an uncharacteristically critical report on the tories' record on the NHS, playing back tape of cameron saying his campaign "could be summed up in three letters: N, H, S" and then immediately cutting funding once in power, reporting on people dying because ambulances took 5 hours etc

Jack Monroe got in a lot of trouble for suggesting that he stopped giving a shit about the NHS once his disabled son died.